Sporting Clube de Portugal
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| Full name | Sporting Clube de Portugal | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Leões (Lions) Verde e Brancos (Green and Whites) Viscondes (Viscounts) |
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| Founded | 1 July 1906 | |||
| Ground | Estádio José Alvalade (Capacity: 50,080) |
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| Chairman |  José Eduardo Bettencourt |
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| Manager | Paulo Bento |
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| League | Liga Sagres | |||
| 2008-09 | Liga Sagres, 2nd | |||
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Sporting Clube de Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈspɔɾtĩɡ ˈklub(ɨ) dɨ puɾtuˈɡaɫ]), also known as Sporting CP, Sporting, and often referred to mistakenly in the English speaking world as Sporting Lisbon, is a Portuguese sports club based in Portugal's capital city of Lisbon. The club is particularly renowned for its football department. With more than 97,000 registered club members,[1] Sporting is one of the most successful and popular sports clubs in Portugal and in Europe, being the second club in Europe holding more European and domestic titles in all sports [2], next to FC Barcelona. Its teams, athletes and supporters are often nicknamed Leões (English: The Lions).
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[edit] History
The club's foundation was instigated by José Roquette (José de Alvalade), with the financial support of his grandfather, Alfredo Augusto das Neves Holtreman (better known as Visconde de Alvalade). Visconde de Alvalade was the first President of Sporting Clube de Portugal. The club was established in 1902 as Sport Club de Belas, which became Campo Grande Sporting Club in 1904, and took its definitive name of Sporting Clube de Portugal on the 1 July 1906.
[edit] Name
Within Portugal, the Sporting Clube de Portugal is often referred to simply as "Sporting". Outside Portugal, the most commonly used designation for the club is "Sporting Lisbon". In the past, the club has attempted (unsuccessfully) to shed this name, particularly through ex-president Sousa Cintra and his staff, in an effort to become known abroad by its correct name. Despite this, the non-Portuguese media still uses Sporting Lisbon (or equivalent) due to precedent and to avoid confusion with other clubs such as Sporting Clube de Braga, Sporting Clube da Covilhã, Sporting Clube de Farense and Sporting de Gijón, instead of using a more accurate name like Sporting Portugal.
[edit] Organization
Sporting is a multisports club, composed by many different competitive departments, including football, futsal, athletics and handball, among others. The football department is the largest in terms of budget and popularity. The other sports departments of the club (the ranks of which include Olympic winners and World Champions) are managed by specialized professionals according to each sport's specificity and have their own decision-making bodies.
[edit] Football
Football is the most popular sport in Portugal and the Portuguese Liga is the most important sports championship, where the top teams earn a place in the most demanding and profitable European football competitions - the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The club's football team has won 18 national championship titles, 15 national cups and the former Cup Winners' Cup in 1964. Unfortunately, in the late 2000s, Sporting has failed to win a championship but consistently obtaining a 2nd place behind FC Porto and ahead of SL Benfica.
Sporting has been a major contender in the Portuguese Liga since its inception. The club's football department has developed an increasingly professionalized profile which operates in an increasingly competitive environment in both Portugal and Europe. In 1998, the football department of the club was reorganized into a company and issued stock on the market. Since then, Sporting - Sociedade Desportiva de Futebol, S.A.D., is a publicly traded company which is listed on the Euronext Lisbon stock exchange.
[edit] Facilities
[edit] Stadium
Sporting boasts a new stadium, Estádio José Alvalade, built for the UEFA Euro 2004 championship. Sporting also has a world-class football training facility (Academia Sporting in Alcochete), which accommodated Portugal during the Euro 2004 competition, and has helped to produce some of the best Portuguese players, such as Luís Figo, Nani, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Ricardo Quaresma, among many others.
The stadium was designed by Tomás Taveira and was classified by UEFA as a 5-star stadium, enabling it to host finals of major UEFA events. This stadium - originally projected to hold only 40,000 spectators at any given time - has a capacity of 50,080 and was acoustically engineered as a venue for major concerts. Its official opening was on 6 August 2003 when Sporting played and beat Manchester United 3-1. It also hosted the 2005 UEFA Cup final between Sporting and CSKA Moscow, which CSKA Moscow won 3-1.
The stadium was also one of the stadia that hosted matches during the Euro 2004. There were five games played in Estádio José Alvalade, one of them being the semi-final between Portugal and the Netherlands, which Portugal won 2-1.
[edit] Sporting's youth academy
Famous for its football youth academy system which features a range of well-equipped facilities and is one of the most renowned in the world, Sporting has continuously developed many world class footballers. Some of its most notable home-bred footballers include João Moutinho, Miguel Veloso, Yannick Djaló, Bruno Pereirinha, Rui Patrício, Adrien Silva, Daniel Carriço, and Marco Caneira in the current squad, Paulo Futre (retired), Luís Figo (retired), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Nani (Manchester United), and Luís Boa Morte (West Ham United). The long list of valuable players who developed their skills in the youth academy of the club include other noted footballers such as Dani Carvalho (retired), who played for AFC Ajax, former FC Barcelona and FC Porto player Ricardo Quaresma (who joined Internazionale in 2008, Simão (Atlético Madrid), Hugo Viana (Valencia CF) and Miguel (Valencia CF, although he only played for the youth squads, before moving to Estrela da Amadora). Sporting's youth academy was considered by Luiz Felipe Scolari (former Portugal national coach) and José Pekerman (former Argentina national coach) as one of the best sports academies in the world. It was also the home training ground for the Portuguese national football team during Euro 2004. A great number of European clubs choose the Sporting's Academia for training in the off-season.
The Academy (known as the Academia de Alcochete) has been renamed Sporting/Puma Academy (Academia Sporting/Puma) to reflect the sponsoring and naming contract signed by the club and the sports brand Puma in 2006; the contract will last until 2012.
[edit] Honours
- Winners: (18) 1940–41 1943–44 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1957–58 1961–62 1965–66 1969–70 1973–74 1979–80 1981–82 1999–2000 2001–02
- Winners: (19) 1922–23 1933–34 1935–36 1937–38 1940–41 1944–45 1945–46 1947–48 1953–54 1962–63 1970–71 1972–73 1973–74 1977–78 1981–82 1994–95 2001–02 2006–07 2007–08
- Winners: (7) 1982 1987 1995 2000 2002 2007 2008
- Winners: (1) 1963-64
- Runners-up: (1) 2004-05
[edit] Current squad
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Players with double Nationality
[edit] Squad changes for 2009/10
In
- André Marques - Vitória de Setúbal, loan return
Matías Fernández - Villareal, €3.635.000- Carlos Saleiro - Académica, loan return
Total spending: ▼ €3.635.000
Out
Main squad
Derlei - Free Agent, end of contract
Previously on loan players
- Tiago Pinto - ?, end of contract (previously on loan at Trofense)
- Zezinando - Released, end of contract (previously on loan at Real Massamá)
- Celestino - Belenenses, end of contract (previously on loan at Estrela da Amadora)
- João Martins - Sporting de Braga, end of contract (previously on loan at Atlético)
- Bruno Matias - Fátima, end of contract (previously on loan)
Luis Paéz - Released, end of contract (previously on loan at Fátima)
Total gain: ▲
Yet to be solved
Out/Out on loan
Vladimir Stojković- Victor Golas
- Ronny
- Michael Santos
- Paulo Renato
- André Martins
- Diogo Amado
- Fábio Paím
- Celsinho
Romagnoli- Wilson Eduardo
- Rui Fonte
- Rodrigo Tiuí
Milan Purović
[edit] Out on loan
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[edit] Club records
See Sporting Clube de Portugal records and statistics.
[edit] Other sports
Like many Portuguese sports clubs, Sporting fields teams and supports athletes in many events other than football, among them athletics (members include world-class athlete Carlos Lopes, Olympic Marathon Gold Medal in Los Angeles 84, Rui Silva, Naide Gomes and Francis Obikwelu), swimming, handball, table tennis, beach soccer, and futsal. Sporting's athletics department and the futsal team are especially notable. Sporting's futsal has won the league for 7 times out of 16 FPF sponsored tournaments.
Sporting Clube de Portugal's active sports departments besides the football department include:
[edit] Archery
- Various types, adding up, amounts to more than 50 national titles and 2 European titles
[edit] Athletics
- There are various titles in this sport but in the major ones, Sporting has almost 300 national titles and more than 30 European titles (1 time European champion)
[edit] Billiards
- 36 individual national titles
- 15 doubles national titles
- 2 individual Cups of Portugal
- 4 doubles Cups of Portugal
+ 100 titles in various types of billiards (Feminine, etc.)
[edit] Boxing
- There are various types because of the age and weight but adding up the major titles, Sporting has more than 100 national titles.
[edit] Chess
- 14 national titles and more than 20 in other variances of chess.
[edit] Full contact karate
- 14 national titles
- 1 Intercontinenatal Championship
- 3 European Champion
- 1 World Champion
[edit] Futsal
- 7 League titles
- 2 Cups of Portugal
- 1 National Cup (extinct)
- 3 Portuguese Super Cups
[edit] Gymnastics
- Sporting has more than 150 national titles, in the various types of gymnastics and 11 European titles.
[edit] Handball
- 19 times National Champions: 2 Elite Division titles and 17 League titles
- 12 Cups of Portugal
- 2 Portuguese Super Cups
[edit] Shooting
- 18 individual titles
- 12 team titles
+ 50 other variances titles
[edit] Swimming
- There are various competitions, in general Sporting has more than 150 national titles and 3 European titles
[edit] Table tennis
- + 50 League titles (11 in a row record)
- 3 Portuguese/Spanish vs American Competition
- 3 times Bronze Medal in European Championships
[edit] Taekwondo
- In taekwondo, Sporting has performed almost like Boxing but adding up, Sporting has more than 50 national titles.
[edit] Weight-lifting
- 16 national titles
[edit] Chairmen
- Alfredo Augusto das Neves Holtreman
- João Rocha
- Sousa Cintra
- José Roquette
- Pedro Santana Lopes
- António Dias da Cunha
- Filipe Soares Franco
- José Eduardo Bettencourt (current chairman)
[edit] Supporters
Being one of the most popular teams in Portugal, Sporting Clube de Portugal is among the Portuguese clubs with more house clubs (houses that represent the club in a particular region in Portugal or outside the country), Sporting has more than 200 official houses and more than 90,000 club members.
Organised fan groups:
- Juventude Leonina - The biggest and oldest supporters group in Portugal founded by the sons of a former Sporting president in 1976, having more than 3,000 members.
- Directivo Ultras XXI - Formed by a former leader of Juve Leo regarding an internal problem that is now healed. One of the biggest supporters group in Portugal with almost 2,000 members.
- Torcida Verde - Second oldest supporters group of Sporting, formed in 1984, Torcida Verde is very well known because of their demonstrations against alleged corruption in Portuguese football and by supporting the less visible sports of Sporting.
[edit] References
- ^ (Portuguese) Pedro Jorge da Cunha - Finanças do futebol, 5th May 2006 - Maisfutebol
- ^ (Portuguese) - [1] - Sporting C.P. Web Site
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sporting Clube de Portugal |
- Official website:
- Official site (Portuguese)
- Official Himn (Portuguese)
- Official supporters websites:
- Other unofficial websites:
- Detailed up-to-date Sporting news (in English)
- Portal Sporting (Portuguese)
- Fórum SCP The independent internet forum community of Sporting Lisbon (Portuguese)
- Wiki Fórum SCP Everything you always wanted to know about Sporting
- Portuguesefutebol.com Portuguese football in English
- PSNL Soccer Get Current Info on Sporting in English
- Tudo sobre Sporting (Portuguese)
- Fan site (Portuguese)
- Sporting Clube de Portugal Database
- Polish page fans Sporting Clube de Portugal
