Final proposal for revision of the statutes provides for the limit of three consecutive terms for the presidents of the social bodies and the remuneration of the members of the board.
Benfica members approved on Saturday the final proposal for revision of the statutes, which provides for the limit of three consecutive terms for the presidents of the social bodies and the remuneration of the members of the Sports Club board.
In the last session of the Extraordinary General Assembly for statutory review, the 8,241 associates who attended the light pavilion enabled the new statutes, with a favorable vote of 91%, above the minimum percentage of 75% stipulated for approval.
Expressed at the polls, between 09:30 and 22:30 on Saturday, the vote of the ‘incarnated’ partners imposes for the first time the limit of three mandates in a row, four years each, to exercise the positions of chairman of the Board, the General Assembly, the Fiscal Council and the Commission of Remuneration, a new body.
The president of the board must be “at least 15 years uninterrupted as an effective partner and 35 years of age”, while, in the previous version, he had to account for “uninterrupted 25 years as an effective partner”, determines the proposal approved today.
Another of the news of the statutes approved today is the remuneration of the members of the board, in a “fixed and variable overall amount”. The setting of the amount becomes the competence of the Commission of Compensation that will be elected in conjunction with the other social bodies.
According to, associates with one and five years affiliated are three votes, when before they were entitled to one, partners with five to 10 years of affiliation are 10, above the five they had, partners with 10 to 25 years maintain the 20 votes and associates over 25 keep 50, while the club houses lose their right to the 50 votes they had.
The club’s new statutes also determine that corresponding partners will move on to staff, with the reduction of seniority to 50%.
The proposal voted on Saturday resulted from a consensus achieved in August 2024 among three global proposals to review the statutes, the board, the Benfica and the Statute Commission movement.
The document began to be discussed in September 2024 at an extraordinary general meeting before being approved in general and specialty in the October and December sessions.
