Ninety
St. Gallen
UEL Qualifying
Show score
2 - 1
Full time
Benfica
St. Gallen vs Benfica: match report
St. Gallen hosted Benfica at Kybunpark on Thursday 23 July 2026, in the UEL Qualifying (round 2). Luca Pairetto is the referee.
Result and scorers
St. Gallen 2-1 Benfica. Goals: Aliou Baldé 37' for St. Gallen; Rafa Silva 44' for Benfica; Tom Gaal 80' for St. Gallen.
Key moments (contains the result)
- 30' Yellow card: Lukas Görtler (St. Gallen)
- 37' Goal: Aliou Baldé (St. Gallen) 1-0
- 44' Goal: Rafa Silva (Benfica) 1-1
- 62' Yellow card: Jozo Stanic (St. Gallen)
- 64' Yellow card: Vangelis Pavlidis (Benfica)
- 80' Goal: Tom Gaal (St. Gallen) 2-1
- 90'+4' Yellow card: Tom Gaal (St. Gallen)
Match stats (contains the result)
| 38.6% | Possession | 61.4% |
| 17 | Shots | 14 |
| 6 | Shots on target | 4 |
| 6 | Corners | 5 |
| 15 | Fouls | 13 |
| 1 | Offsides | 0 |
| 3 | Saves | 4 |
| 3 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0 |
Line-ups
St. Gallen 3-5-2
Coach: Enrico Maaßen
- 1 Lawrence Ati-Zigi GK
- 26 Tom Gaal DEF
- 4 Jozo Stanic DEF
- 36 Chima Okoroji DEF
- 28 Hugo Vandermersch FWD
- 16 Lukas Görtler MID
- 10 Lukas Daschner MID
- 11 Carlo Boukhalfa MID
- 64 Mihailo Stevanovic MID
- 7 Christian Witzig FWD
- 14 Aliou Baldé FWD
Bench
- 20 Leon Frokaj MID
- 9 Andrin Hunziker FWD
- 31 Diego Besio FWD
- 74 Joel Ruiz DEF
- 25 Lukas Watkowiak GK
- 68 Mostafa Heydari DEF
- 23 Betim Fazliji MID
- 63 Corsin Konietzke MID
- 47 Enoch Owusu MID
Benfica 4-2-3-1
Coach: Marco Silva
- 1 Anatoliy Trubin GK
- 6 Alexander Bah DEF
- 2 Clément Lenglet DEF
- 4 António Silva DEF
- 26 Samuel Dahl DEF
- 16 Manu Silva MID
- 13 Jakub Kaminski MID
- 73 Miguel Figueiredo MID
- 10 Georgiy Sudakov MID
- 27 Rafa Silva MID
- 14 Vangelis Pavlidis FWD
Bench
- 5 Enzo Barrenechea MID
- 47 Tiago Gouveia MID
- 9 Franjo Ivanovic FWD
- 84 João Rego FWD
- 24 Samuel Soares GK
- 17 Amar Dedic DEF
- 58 Daniel Banjaqui DEF
- 94 Rui Silva DEF
- 44 Tomás Araújo DEF
- 77 Gonçalo Moreira MID
- 62 José Neto MID
- 72 Anísio Cabral FWD