Sporting CP

This article is about the association football team. For other sections of the club, see Sporting CP (disambiguation).

Sporting CP
Full nameSporting Clube de Portugal
Nickname(s)
  • Leões (Lions)
  • Verde e brancos (Green and whites)
  • Sportinguistas (supporters)
Short nameSporting
Founded1 July 1906; 118 years ago (1906-07-01)[a]
GroundEstádio José Alvalade
Capacity50,095
PresidentFrederico Varandas
Head coachJoão Pereira
LeaguePrimeira Liga
2023–24Primeira Liga, 1st of 18 (champions)
Websitesporting.pt
Current season
Active sport sections of Sporting CP
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Water polo

Sporting Clube de Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈspɔɾtĩɡ ˈkluβɨ ðɨ puɾtuˈɣal]), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,[1][2][3][4][5] is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon. Having various sports departments and sporting disciplines,[6][7][8] it is best known for its men's professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.

Founded on 1 July 1906,[a] Sporting is one of the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal that have never been relegated from Primeira Liga, along with rivals Benfica and Porto. Sporting are nicknamed Leões (Lions), for the symbol used in the middle of the club's crest, and Verde e Brancos (Green and Whites), for the shirt colour that are in (horizontal) stripes. The club's anthem is called "A Marcha do Sporting" ("Sporting's March"),[10] its motto is Esforço, Dedicação, Devoção e Glória (Effort, Dedication, Devotion and Glory),[11] its supporters are called sportinguistas[12] and the club's mascot is called Jubas.[13] Sporting is the second largest sports club by membership in Portugal, with about 150,000[14] members, which makes it one of the world's largest.[15] It is also among the top three Portuguese sports clubs in number of non-affiliated fans.[16] Their home ground has been the Estádio José Alvalade, built in 2003, which replaced the previous one, built-in 1956. The club's indoor arena is the Pavilhão João Rocha multi-sports pavilion.[17] Its youth academy has helped produce footballers such as Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo.[18]

Sporting is the third most decorated Portuguese football team, with 55 major trophies. Domestically, they have won 20 League titles, 17 Taças de Portugal, a joint-record of 4 Campeonato de Portugal, 4 Taças da Liga and 9 Supertaças Cândido de Oliveira.[19] In Europe, they won the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup and were runners-up at the UEFA Cup in 2005 and at the Latin Cup in 1949. Sporting played in the first European Champions Cup match on 4 September 1955, by invitation,[20] and has participated in the most editions of UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League (36), a tournament in which they have the most matches played and the second most matches won,[21] and where they are ranked first in the all-time club ranking.[22]


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  1. ^ "Club History – The Badge". Sporting Clube de Portugal. 9 July 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021. with the Club largely being known a "Sporting Lisbon" abroad
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  3. ^ "Portuguese Primeira Liga: Sporting Lisbon crowned champions after Benfica loss". BBC Sport. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  4. ^ From Sporting Lisbon to Athletic Bilbao — why do we get foreign clubs' names wrong? Archived 7 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Michael Cox, The Athletic, 16 March 2023
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  6. ^ "Sporting, sinónimo de ecletismo". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 18 November 2008. Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  7. ^ "José Alvalade: acima do Sporting, só a ambição pelo ecletismo". Maisfutebol (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  8. ^ Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de (21 September 2019). "Frederico Varandas coloca Sporting no topo do ecletismo em Portugal". Frederico Varandas coloca Sporting no topo do ecletismo em Portugal (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  9. ^ A data da fundação dos clubes é mais um pretexto para as polémicas Archived 19 November 2023 at the Wayback Machine Sol (in Portuguese)
  10. ^ "O dia em que Maria José Valério cantou a Marcha do Sporting na redação de Record". www.record.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Esforço, dedicação, devoção, glória e eis... Figo". SAPO 24 (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  12. ^ "Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa". Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
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  14. ^ "Sporting tem quase 150 mil sócios | Abola.pt". Abola.pt (in Portuguese). 7 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Benfica e Sporting no top mundial quanto ao número de sócios". www.record.pt (in European Portuguese). Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  16. ^ Observador. "Quase metade dos portugueses é do Benfica. Porto e Sporting em segundo e terceiro lugar". Observador (in European Portuguese). Archived from the original on 15 August 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  17. ^ Curado, Paulo (21 June 2017). "A casa que José Roquete idealizou e Bruno de Carvalho concretizou". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 15 August 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  18. ^ Clapham, Alex (16 February 2018). "Inside the Sporting Portugal academy, where Ballon d'Or winners are made". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  19. ^ "Sporting Clube de Portugal UEFA Profile". UEFA. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  20. ^ "FK Partizan". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  21. ^ "All-time stats". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  22. ^ "All-time records 1971–2023" (PDF). UEFA. 19 September 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2023.