Benfica Stars Fund

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Benfica Stars Fund
Company typeInvestment Funds
ISIN PTYEVLIM0004
IndustryAssociation football
Founded30 September 2009 (2009-09-30)
Defunct30 September 2014 (2014-09-30)
HeadquartersPortugal

Benfica Stars Fund was a football investment fund belonging to Portuguese club Benfica's SAD, a public limited sports company responsible for the financial management of the club's professional football team.

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The fund was set up by ESAF – Espírito Santo Fundos de Investimento Mobiliário SA on 30 September 2009. At first the fund had 8,000,000 unit each with €5 each.

History

Benfica Stars Fund was the fourth investment fund of Portuguese football, after First Portuguese Football Players Funds in the 2000s. Moreover, Benfica was the last of the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal to set-up an investment fund. The club sold part of the economic rights of 12 players to the fund, in exchange for cash. If Benfica sold the players, Benfica would give back a percentage of transfer fees received to the fund. In October 2009, S.L. Benfica SAD invested €6 million to the fund, accounted for 15% of total units. [1] The club then sold more players to the fund, made the subscription, in turn became an injection of asset instead of cash.

After the sale of David Luiz in January and Fábio Coentrão in summer 2011, the fund acquired five players from Benfica instead of keeping cash for €6.135 million.

As an asset, the rights were amortized proportionally according to the length of contract (between players and club). Moreover, the fund also bore the admission fee related to player transaction, tax arose, agent fee and FIFA solidarity mechanism (5% of transfer fee distributed to youth clubs) proportionality to the ownership ratio. Thus, to make the fund profitable, the club had to sell the player above the fee that the fund acquired. The club had to ask the fund if the club had to sell the player below the reference price of the fund. [2]

On 31 July 2014, Benfica SAD (which owned 15%) completed the acquisition of Benfica Stars Fund by spending around €28.9 million for 85% (decreased from €34 million in 2009), purchasing the remaining economic rights of nine players (with a valuation of €5,079,437), as well as €21,704,300 deposits and future receivable from bonus clauses. [3] [4]

Investments

DatePlayersNationalityPercentagePriceDeparted dateDeparted teamDeparted revenue (adj.)
30 September 2009 David Luiz Brazil25%€4.5M [5] 31 January 2011 Flag of England.svg Chelsea
30 September 2009 Rúben Amorim Portugal50%€1.5M8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
30 September 2009 David Simão Portugal25%€0.375M31 July 2013 Flag of Portugal.svg Arouca
30 September 2009 Ángel Di María Argentina20%€4.4M29 June 2010 Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid
30 September 2009 Javi García Spain20%€3.4M31 August 2012 Flag of England.svg Manchester City
30 September 2009 Roderick Miranda Portugal25%€2.0M31 July 2013 Flag of Portugal.svg Rio Ave Undisclosed [11]
30 September 2009 Nélson Oliveira Portugal25%€2.0M8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
30 September 2009 Leandro Pimenta Portugal25%€0.375M31 July 2013 Flag of Portugal.svg Gil Vicente Undisclosed [12]
30 September 2009 José Shaffer Argentina40%€1.4M27 September 2012 Bought back (Released)
30 September 2009 Urreta Uruguay20%€1.2M8 September 2014 Bought back (Released)Lump sum [3]
30 September 2009 Miguel Vítor Portugal25%€0.5M30 June 2013 Released €0 [15]
30 September 2009 Ishmael Yartey Ghana25%€0.375M19 July 2012 Flag of France.svg Sochaux
10 February 2010 Óscar Cardozo Paraguay20%€4.0M4 August 2014 Flag of Turkey.svg Trabzonspor
10 February 2010 Fábio Coentrão Portugal20%€3.0M5 July 2011 Flag of Spain.svg Real Madrid
10 February 2010 Felipe Menezes Brazil30%€1.5M31 July 2013 Flag of Brazil.svg Palmeiras
10 February 2010 Rafik Halliche Algeria20%€0.4M23 August 2010 Flag of England.svg Fulham [19]
10 February 2010 Maxi Pereira Uruguay30%8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
20 June 2010 Airton Brazil40%€3.0M [22] 8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
20 June 2010 Alan Kardec Brazil50%€3.0M1 May 2014 Flag of Brazil.svg São Paulo
30 September 2011 Bruno César Brazil15%€1.035M [24] 21 January 2013 Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Al Ahli
30 September 2011 Franco Jara Argentina10%€0.6M8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
30 September 2011 Nicolás Gaitán Argentina15%€2.025M8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
30 September 2011 Ezequiel Garay Argentina10%€1.175M25 June 2014 Flag of Russia.svg Zenit Saint Petersburg
30 September 2011 Nolito Spain20%€1.3M31 July 2013 Flag of Spain.svg Celta de Vigo
28 June 2013 Rodrigo Spain24%€3.6M31 January 2014 Flag of Spain.svg Valencia
28 June 2013 André Gomes Portugal20%€0.8M31 January 2014 Flag of Spain.svg Valencia
28 June 2013 Filip Đuričić Serbia20%€2.0M8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
28 June 2013 Miralem Sulejmani Serbia25%€1.25M8 September 2014 Bought back Lump sum [3]
Total€52.06M€45,783,148 + undisclosed

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  2. ↑ "Comunicado" [Announcement](PDF). CMVM (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. 3 May 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Comunicado" [Announcement](PDF). CMVM (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. 8 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Águias resgatam jogadores ao Benfica Stars Fund por 29 milhões" [Eagles rescue players from Benfica Stars Fund for €29 million] (in Portuguese). Record. 8 September 2014. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
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