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107-402: The previous José Alvalade Stadium was opened on 10 June 1956. Plans by Sporting CP to modernize the club in the late 1990s coincided with the decision to award Portugal the right to host UEFA Euro 2004 , and the decision was made to build a new stadium, with construction beginning on 15 January 2001. The club's statutes dictated that the stadium would be called Estádio José Alvalade. It would be

214-408: A 1–0 home win against Boavista . At the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League group stage, Sporting made a comeback by finishing second on Group C after a 5–1 home loss to Ajax and 1–0 away loss to Borussia Dortmund, thereby reaching the knockout phase for only the second time since the 2008–09 season. Domestically, both the 2021 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira and the 2021–22 Taça da Liga were won by

321-634: A 2–2 draw at the Estádio das Antas , a replay match was held on 30 April 1996 at the Parc de Princes in Paris. Sporting won 3–0 with Sá Pinto scoring twice and Carlos Xavier scoring a stoppage time penalty. In the same 1995–96 season, Sporting also reached the Portuguese Cup Final but lost 3–1 to Benfica. Highlights of this period of time also include a 7–1 victory over arch-rivals Benfica at

428-634: A 4–0 victory over Salgueiros , ending an 18-year drought. In the following season, Sporting conquered the 2000 Super Cup but came third in the league . In the 2001–02 season, led by coach László Bölöni , Sporting conquered their 18th league title , the Portuguese Cup and the 2002 Portuguese Super Cup . On 21 June 2002, the club had opened its training facility , located in Alcochete , 30 km east of Lisbon. On 14 August 2002, Cristiano Ronaldo , then 17, played his first official match for

535-456: A 5–1 defeat against third division club Cruz Negra; inaugurated their first ground, known as " Sítio das Mouras " (the most advanced in Portugal at the time, equipped with showers, two tennis courts, an athletics track and a football field) on 4 July; and played the first derby of all time against local rivals S.L. Benfica (then known as Grupo Sport Lisboa ) on 1 December. As early as 1909,

642-497: A Regional Championship game that ended with only 43 minutes after the start, and later repeated (which FC Porto won) according to Porto FA decision. FPF came out with a decision to satisfy both clubs, expanding the championship to 10 teams (one more from Porto FA and another from Setúbal FA ) and annulling the result from the repetition match. With this decision, FC Porto lost the Regional title and finished in 3rd, Leixões SC became

749-518: A Sporting CP's senior team, in a UEFA Champions League qualifying round at home against Inter Milan . On 1 September 2002, in the Azores , Cristiano Ronaldo debuted as a senior player in official domestic competitions playing for Sporting CP B in a 2–1 away loss against Sport Clube Lusitânia and on 29 September he made his debut in the Primeira Liga, playing for Sporting CP's main team in

856-604: A classic of the Portuguese cinema, and in its remake of 2015 starring Miguel Guilherme . Sporting and Porto have decided a competition 13 times. The first final won by Sporting took place only in 1978, at the Estádio Nacional, for the Taça de Portugal . The dispute was decided in two matches, a 1–1 draw and a 2–1 victory in the tie-breaker. There would be three more finals in the same location. In 1994, Porto also won

963-552: A drought of titles. Despite defeating rivals Benfica 4–0 on aggregate to win the Portuguese Super Cup in 1987, Sporting fans had to wait until 1995 to see their team win some silverware after beating Marítimo 2–0 in the final of the 1995 Portuguese Cup . That victory granted Sporting a place in the following season's Portuguese Super Cup . After drawing 0–0 at the José Alvalade Stadium and securing

1070-415: A flare which eventually struck a Sporting fan in the chest, killing him instantly. Eight years later, on 3 May 2004, Geovanni 's winning goal for Benfica in the 87th minute at Alvalade caused a pitch invasion by Sporting fans. In November 2011, after a 1–0 loss to Benfica at the Estádio da Luz , Sporting supporters set fire to one of the stands of the stadium. Four years later, on 7 February 2015, during

1177-480: A futsal derby, members of No Name Boys, one of Benfica's unofficial supporters' groups, showed a banner saying "Very Light 96", in reference to the 1996 incident. The next day, during a football derby at Estádio José Alvalade, an official supporters' group of Sporting, Juve Leo, showed a banner with the inscription " Sigam o King " ("Follow the King"), in reference to Eusébio 's death a month before. Sporting has also

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1284-404: A management committee, headed by former President Sousa Cintra as acting president of the sports club, succeeded in returning some of the players who had left the club following the incident, namely Bruno Fernandes, Bas Dost and Rodrigo Battaglia. Frederico Varandas was elected president on 8 September 2018. Having replaced Jorge Jesus at the beginning of the 2018–19 season, José Peseiro

1391-424: A multimillion-euro debt relief – in contrast to their rivals. Carvalho's election brought Angolan investors to the club, most notably Álvaro Sobrinho , through Holdimo, which ultimately took possession of 20 million shares of Sporting's SAD through conversion of convertible debt . On 5 June 2015, it was released an audit that analyzed the management of Sporting in the past 20 years: it concluded that in 1994

1498-469: A new legal status only introduced in the 1990s). The club reached the semi-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup in 1974, but lost to eventual winners 1. FC Magdeburg of East Germany. English manager Malcolm Allison arrived at Sporting in 1981, and under his guidance the club won the domestic double (league title and Portuguese cup), in 1982. In the years between 1982 and 2000, Sporting suffered from

1605-430: A number of fans ranging from 1,100,000 to 2,700,000 in Portugal alone – which makes it the second or third most supported sports club in Portugal, depending on the study. Like the other two Portuguese Big Three sports clubs, Sporting CP has also a sizable number of foreign fans in other Portuguese-speaking countries beyond Portugal itself and supporters among the Portuguese expatriate community. The club's anthem

1712-438: A pacific pitch invasion of Estádio José Alvalade by the fans, as the club touched silverware for the first time in seven years. In June 2015, Jorge Jesus joined Sporting after Benfica opted not to renew his contract as coach of the club, signing a three-year contract. Presented as the new manager of the club on 1 July, the managerial change took the rivalry of both Lisbon clubs to new heights. Under Jesus' tenure, Sporting won

1819-487: A public limited sports company for its football department, which went public on the Lisbon Stock Exchange in that year at a price of 1,000 escudos (the equivalent of about five euros at the time) per share . In 2000 , Sporting, led by manager Augusto Inácio (a former Sporting player, who replaced Giuseppe Materazzi at the beginning of the season), won the league title on the last match day, with

1926-489: A quintet nicknamed "The Five Violins". With the violins' help, Sporting won seven league titles in eight seasons between 1947 and 1954, including a then unprecedented four in a row from 1950 to 1951 onwards. Fernando Peyroteo, the most known of "the violins", is considered one of the greatest Portuguese players of all time. Sporting and the Yugoslavian team Partizan both made history on 4 September 1955, as they played

2033-581: A real estate complex located around the stadium, overshot its estimate by 60%; such complex was almost entirely sold in the following years, many estates of which were sold below market prices. From 1995 to 2013, the club invested €261 million in the football team, however, with few sports and financial results. The audit criticized many football transfers in the 2000s, in which the club paid commissions well above market prices to player agents, and discovered that Sporting even had paid commissions without evidence of written contracts. The audit also concluded that

2140-622: A remarkable comeback at home, winning 5–0. In the semi-finals, Sporting eliminated Lyon , and in the end MTK Budapest, in a two-round final to win their first European title. The winning goal was scored by João Morais from a direct corner kick. Under the leadership of president João Rocha , the first project of club-company in Portugal was approved by Sporting CP's affiliated partners ( sócios ) in November 1973, and denominated "Society of Constructions and Planning" ( SCP, Sociedade de Construções e Planeamento ). The Portuguese government authorised

2247-487: A rivalry with Porto . Outside of the sports environment itself, the confrontation between Lions and Dragons represents a form of expression in sport, and in football in particular, of the political and regional differentiation between Lisbon and the North of Portugal. The confrontation captured the national imagination, having been remembered in the film O Leão da Estrela (1947) starring António Silva and Artur Agostinho ,

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2354-622: A source of contention and controversy for some sportinguistas because it does not conform with the official name of the sports club and its brand value . Regarding this issue, club supporters and officials have promoted awareness campaigns to raise people's awareness nationwide and internationally, and the club changed its official crest in 2001 with a focus on the name of the club and its words "Sporting" and "Portugal" in mind. Sporting CP's supporters or fans are called sportinguistas . The club has about 150,000 affiliated members (called sócios ) and research studies have suggested it has

2461-431: A total of 1,315 underground parking spaces, including 30 for disabled spectators. The new stadium official opening was on 6 August 2003 when Sporting played and beat Manchester United 3–1. Luís Filipe scored the first-ever goal at the new Estádio José Alvalade in that friendly win against Manchester United playing alongside Sporting Portugal's teammate Cristiano Ronaldo , then aged 18, who made his last appearance for

2568-630: A way match against SC Braga . Sporting have failed to win Primeira Liga again since 2002. On 6 August 2003, the new Sporting CP's stadium, the Estádio José Alvalade , was inaugurated. In the 2004–05 season , José Peseiro -led Sporting was leading the Primeira Liga and was trailing a remarkable journey in UEFA Cup . However, at the end of the season, the team eventually lost all the chances of winning any trophy that season:

2675-519: Is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon . Having various sports departments and sporting disciplines, 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, 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

2782-428: Is called Jubas, plural of the Portuguese word for mane , and is an anthropomorphic version of a lion wearing customized standard equipment and attire worn by the players of Sporting CP's main team. It also wears official Loja Verde (Sporting CP's official store) garment in both charity and promotional marketing initiatives. Founded on 1 July 1906, after two months during which the newly created sports club project

2889-502: Is considered to be one of the main reasons why Portuguese Football registers one of the worst attendance ratings in European Football's best championships, alongside the broadcast of almost all the games on television. In other sports, the rivalry between the big clubs is also considerable and it usually leads to arguments between the fans and players. Benfica is the club with most league, cup and league cup titles, as well as

2996-823: Is performed by a massed chorus of supporters on match day. Other popular songs include " Só Eu Sei " and " Curva Belíssima " popularized by organized Sporting CP's supporter's group Juventude Leonina , as well as " Dia de Jogo ", " Força Brutal " and " Voto Solene " sung by Sporting CP's-themed rock band Supporting . Throughout its history the club and its supporters established centres, branches and delegations ( núcleos, filiais e delegações ) of Sporting CP across Portugal and abroad. Among them, branches such as Sporting Clube de Tomar (branch number 1), Farense (branch number 2), Olhanense (branch number 4), Covilhã (branch number 8) and Campomaiorense (branch number 27), as well as delegations such as Lusitânia (delegation number 14), became noted autonomous sports clubs that reached

3103-474: Is shown like a crown on top of the shield. When the club was founded in 1906, its players wore white jerseys. On 25 October 1908, Sporting presented the first ten football shirts that would come to be known as the Stromp kit. The initiative came from founder Eduardo Quintela de Mendonça. The Stromp kit is split at the top, with the right half white and the left half painted green. It was named in honour of one of

3210-413: Is the "Sporting's March" (original official name: " A Marcha do Sporting "). It was written in 1955 by songwriters Eduardo Damas and Manuel Paião and originally sung by Portuguese singer Maria José Valério . Sporting CP created and uses its own ' You'll Never Walk Alone '-style song, through a Portuguese version of the classic song popularised by Frank Sinatra ' My Way ' called " O Mundo Sabe Que" that

3317-603: Is the second largest sports club by membership in Portugal, with about 150,000 members, which makes it one of the world's largest . It is also among the top three Portuguese sports clubs in number of non-affiliated fans . 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. Its youth academy has helped produce footballers such as Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo . Sporting

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3424-471: 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 . 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

3531-409: The 2008–09 season to the 2009–10 season the league was named Liga Sagres due to sponsorship from Sagres beer. In 2010, they renewed the sponsorship from Sagres, but also got the sponsorship from ZON Multimédia . The league was named Liga ZON Sagres until 2013–14 after the sponsorship agreement between Sagres, ZON (now NOS ) and the league ended. In 2015, the league was named Liga NOS until

3638-513: The 2018–19 Taça da Liga . The match took place in Braga, ending with a 3–1 victory on penalties, after a 1–1 draw in regular time. Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga ( Portuguese pronunciation: [pɾiˈmɐjɾɐ ˈliɣɐ] ), officially known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system . Organised and supervised by

3745-548: The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League . The stadium is one of the potential venues for the 2030 FIFA World Cup which Portugal will co-host along with Morocco and Spain. The following national team matches were held in the stadium. The Stadium is served by the Campo Grande station of the Lisbon Metro and a bus terminal served by several companies. The Segunda Circular , a major ring road of Lisbon, runs close by and

3852-416: The 2020–21 season. From 2021 to 2023, it was known Liga Portugal Bwin . Since 2023, it is called Liga Portugal Betclic . Since the 2014–15 season , there are 18 clubs in the Primeira Liga, up from 16 in the previous seasons. During the course of a season, each club plays all teams twice – once at their home stadium and once at their opponent's stadium – for a total of 34 games. At the end of each season,

3959-492: The Liga Portugal , it is contested by 18 teams since the 2014–15 season , with the three lowest-placed teams relegated to the Liga Portugal 2 and replaced by the top-three non-reserve teams from this division. Founded in 1934 as Campeonato da Liga da Primeira Divisão , it was named Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão from 1938 until 1999, when it was changed to its current naming. Over 70 teams have competed in

4066-548: The Portuguese Super Cup for the eighth time, against back-to-back champions Benfica. Despite a positive start, Sporting did not win any other trophy, finishing second in the Primeira Liga with 86 points, two points behind Benfica, despite breaking their own points record in the league. Following a trophyless season , Sporting won their first Taça da Liga on a penalty shoot-out against Vitória de Setúbal . However, on 15 May 2018, days after finishing third in

4173-571: The first European Champions Cup match on 4 September 1955, by invitation, 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, and where they are ranked first in the all-time club ranking . Sporting Clube de Portugal has its origins in June 1902, when a group of young men including Francisco da Ponte e Horta Gavazzo and his brother José Maria decided to create Sport Club de Belas . This club,

4280-419: The league , several players and coaches were attacked by around 50 ultra supporters of Sporting at the club's training ground (9 of them would be sentenced to at least a specified term of actual imprisonment after trial). Five days later, Sporting lost the Portuguese Cup final to Aves . About a month later, Bruno de Carvalho was dismissed by club members after a general assembly on 23 June. This followed

4387-518: The old José Alvalade Stadium on 14 December 1986. Sporting also reached the UEFA Cup semi-final in 1991, losing against Internazionale . Also, Barcelona and Real Madrid were both tied and defeated in Lisbon when playing against Sporting in the old UEFA Cup, in the 1986–87 and 1994–95 seasons, respectively. In 1998, Sporting had created the Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD ,

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4494-427: The rescissions of nine players: Bruno Fernandes , Daniel Podence , Rui Patricio , Rodrigo Battaglia , Rafael Leão , Rúben Ribeiro , Bas Dost , Gelson Martins and William Carvalho . Sporting would be later eligible for court-awarded compensation when the rescissions were declared illegal for those players who did not return to the club or were not sold by Sporting. In the period before scheduled elections,

4601-543: The 1994–95 edition; in 2001, valid for the 1999–2000 edition; and in 2007 and 2008 . In the first two finals, the matches were held over two legs in the fields of rivals, with tiebreakers in Paris (1996) and Coimbra (2001). In 2007 and 2008, under the format in force since 2001, the decisions took place in a single match held in Leiria and in the Algarve. Another decision between the two clubs took place in 2019, counting for

4708-405: The 2020–21 season, with no spectators allowed in Portugal due to COVID-19 restrictions , and after being eliminated from European competition by LASK Linz , Sporting won their third league cup and ended their 19-year period without winning the Portuguese league, with only one loss (against Benfica in the penultimate round and already as champions), securing their 19th Primeira Liga title after

4815-464: The 2023–24 season, Liga Portugal broke the record for stadium attendance in the last 12 years of Liga records, with an increase of more than 10% compared to the previous season. The total accumulated audience figures were 3,707,290 and 556,267 people, giving an average attendance of 12,115 and 1,818 spectators in the Primeira and Segunda Liga, respectively. It's also the highest in the last 33 years and

4922-733: The Austrian sports betting bwin was announced on 18 August 2005 amid questioning by the other gambling authorities in Portugal (the Santa Casa da Misericórdia and the Portuguese Casinos Association), who claimed to hold the exclusive rights to legal gambling games in Portuguese national territory. After holding the name Liga betandwin.com for the 2005–06 season , the name was changed to bwin LIGA in July 2006. From

5029-570: The Lions, securing the trophies against Braga and Benfica, respectively. In the 2021–22 Primeira Liga , Sporting finished second with the same 85 points as in the previous league campaign. In the 2023-24 league season, Sporting record signing Viktor Gyökeres helped propel the club to their 20th Primeira liga title, won on the fifth of May after Benfica 's 2–0 loss to Famalicão . For the 2022–2026 quadrennium, Frederico Varandas ' administration started works of building renovation and modernization of

5136-493: The Lisbon derby, also known as "the eternal derby", among other names. The local rivalry started in 1907 when eight Benfica players left for Sporting looking for better training conditions. The first derby was contested that year and ended with a 2–1 win for Sporting. One of Sporting's biggest defeats to Benfica, 7–2, happened at the original Estádio da Luz on 28 April 1948, as well as three 5–0 losses, in 1939, 1978 and 1986. The biggest Sporting win over Benfica, 7–1, occurred at

5243-527: The Portuguese champion. From 1938 to 1999, the name Campeonato Nacional da Primeira Divisão (National Championship of the First Division) or just Primeira Divisão (First Division), was used. Porto won the inaugural edition of the new league championship and successfully defended the title in the next season. In 1939–40 the tournament was expanded from eight to ten clubs, due to an administrative battle between Porto and Académico do Porto, regarding

5350-492: The Portuguese club on that same day. The stadium hosted five matches of UEFA Euro 2004, one of them being the semi-final between Portugal and the Netherlands , which Portugal won 2–1. In May 2005, the stadium was upgraded to 5-star stadium status by UEFA, the same month it hosted the 2005 UEFA Cup Final between Sporting and CSKA Moscow , which CSKA Moscow won 3–1. It hosted quarter-finals and semi-finals matches during

5457-434: The Primeira Liga, but only five have been crowned champions. Among them, the " Big Three " teams – Benfica (38 wins), Porto (30) and Sporting CP (20) – have won all but two Primeira Liga titles; the other winners are Belenenses ( 1945–46 ) and Boavista ( 2000–01 ). The Primeira Liga has increased its reputation in recent years, occupying the sixth place of UEFA 's national league ranking , as of 2021. It broke into

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5564-506: The Primeira Liga. However, a second expand (from 10 to 12) in the same season was decided, which allowed the club to participate. After the 1945–46 season, the qualifying system based on regional championships was abandoned and adopted a pyramid system, with relegations and promotions between the 3 tiers. The clubs in Primeira Divisão, Segunda Divisão and Terceira Divisão no longer had to play their district championships on

5671-417: The administrations from 1995 to 2013 intended to convert Sporting, a multi-sports club, exclusively into a football club – although they did not openly admitted so – which was being done gradually through the closure of other sport modalities. Moreover, the audit also pointed out evidence of mismanagement and conflicts of interest by several administrators. Considering the audit's results, club members approved

5778-471: The biggest stadiums in Portugal, with more than 50,000 seats. Other clubs, such as Vitória de Guimarães and Braga , also have good attendances. Académica de Coimbra , Vitória de Setúbal , Boavista , Belenenses , and Marítimo are historical clubs, with more than 30 top-flight seasons, from the biggest Portuguese cities, and have also many supporters. However, they do not have big attendances nowadays. Their stadiums have between 10,000 and 30,000 seats. In

5885-500: The brothers António , José and Francisco Stromp , the Gavazzo brothers, José Maria do Couto Valente da Ponte and José Ferreira Roquette. Two months later, on 1 July 1906, António Félix da Costa Júnior suggested the name Sporting Clube de Portugal , and since 1920 that is the club's foundation date. The year 1907 marked some "firsts" for the club, as Sporting played the first football match of their history on 3 February, ending in

5992-483: The club had their heaviest ever defeat against Porto , losing 10–1. Sporting, however, got their revenge a year later, when they humbled the same team with a 9–1 result. In 1941, under the guidance of Hungarian manager József Szabó , the club celebrated the first league title of their history. The football team had their height during the 1940s and 1950s. It was spearheaded by Fernando Peyroteo , José Travassos , Albano Pereira , Jesus Correia and Manuel Vasques , in

6099-440: The club had €55 million worth of real estate assets and an almost nonexistent debt; by 2013, real estate assets were almost nonexistent, and the club had amassed a €331 million debt. Their new stadium (completed in 2003) cost 74% more than what was expected when its construction started (€184 million against the planned €106 million), while their training facility cost 24% more, and the costs of Alvalade XXI neighbourhood,

6206-429: The club should be focused on the practising of sports instead. Some time later, José Gavazzo, José Alvalade and 17 other members left the club, with José Alvalade saying: "I'll go to my grandad and he'll give me money to make another club." As such, a new club, without a name, was founded on 8 May 1906, and on 26 May, it was named "Campo Grande Sporting Clube". The Viscount of Alvalade, whose money and land helped found

6313-422: The club's facilities. In December 2023, Sporting and its SAD had gone ahead with a financial restructuring started in 2019 on the grounds of earlier agreements with creditors jump-started by Bruno de Carvalho which included the renegotiation of bank debt, "extinguishing the debt originally belonging to Novo Banco, S.A. (with outstanding capital of 35,403,508.62 euros), with the exception of finance leases",

6420-496: The club's headquarters located in Francisco Gavazzo's home. For two years, the club developed an intense activity on several sports, namely football, tennis and fencing . The club also organized parties and picnics. Eventually, during one picnic, on 12 April 1906, discussions erupted, as some members defended that the club should only be focused on organizing picnics and social events, with another group defending that

6527-402: The club's main founders, Francisco Stromp , and it had white shorts, with the shorts changing to black in 1915. It stopped being used as the main jersey in 1928. On 6 November 1927, the horizontally striped green and white jerseys that Salazar Carreira, sportsman and sports manager linked to the club since 1912, had chosen for the club's rugby team in 1926 were worn by the football team for

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6634-411: The club's seventh stadium. The stadium is the center of a complex called Alvalade XXI , designed by Portuguese architect Tomás Taveira , which includes a mall called Alvaláxia with a 12-screen movie theater, a health club, the club's museum, a sports pavilion, a clinic, and an office building. The complex cost a total of €162 million, with the stadium accounting for almost €120 million. On the exterior,

6741-459: The club, was the first president of Sporting. José Alvalade, as one of the main founders and first club member ( sócio ), uttered on behalf of himself and his fellow co-founders: "We want this club to be a great club, as great as the greatest in Europe." Beyond José Holtreman Roquette (José Alvalade) and his grandfather Alfredo das Neves Holtreman (Viscount of Alvalade), among the founders were also

6848-480: The color green have always been present in prominence. Since its founding on the 1st July 1906, Sporting has already had five emblems, in addition to two commemorating crests for the fiftieth (1956) and the one hundredth years of existence (2006) of the club. Sporting CP radically changed its emblem in 2001 to convey a message of modernity, more geared towards the new technologies at the time. The current emblem presents an image with simplified framing while maintaining

6955-529: The company announced in a statement sent to the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM). A debt belonging to Millennium BCP was also settled. In addition, Sporting announced it would own 88 per cent of Sporting SAD from 15 February 2024 onwards, instead of the 83.90% it owned at the time. With the completion of the restructuring, the club said it intended to start a new strategic financial planning and secure

7062-416: The competition. These clubs dominate Portuguese football, and it has become typical for fans to support any of these teams as a "first club", with a local team probably coming afterwards, if at all. The "Big Three" have the highest average attendance ratings every season in Portugal, while many other teams, lacking support from the locals, have suffered from poor attendance. The lack of support for local teams

7169-401: The end of the season, the team eventually finished 2004–05 Primeira Liga in that place. Lastly, playing the 2005 UEFA Cup Final at their home ground , on 18 May, Sporting lost 1–3 against Russian side CSKA Moscow , after being 1–0 up at halftime. Domestically, Sporting had back-to-back wins in the Portuguese Cup in 2007 and 2008 (led by coach Paulo Bento ). Sporting also reached, for

7276-486: The entry of a minority investor in its Futebol, SAD. Since its formation, Sporting CP's motto is: "Effort, Dedication, Devotion and Glory" ( Esforço, Dedicação, Devoção e Glória ). The stylized rampant lion of the crest was taken by the Viscount of Alvalade from the heraldry of Dom Fernando de Castello-Branco, Mayor of Cascais and the main promoter of football at Sporting Club de Cascais (widely known at

7383-515: The establishment of the company and the issue of 2.5 million shares , with a nominal value of 100 escudos each. The club-company project with issuance of stock was hampered shortly after due to the events of the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and the subsequent Processo Revolucionário em Curso of 1975 (the creation of Sociedades Anónimas Desportivas ("Public limited sports companies") would be later available in Portugal through

7490-430: The expulsion of Godinho Lopes as an associate of the club in June 2015. Led by coach Leonardo Jardim in the 2013–14 season , Sporting finished second in the league , thus gaining direct access to the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League , their first Champions League presence in five years. In the 2014–15 season , Sporting won their 16th Portuguese Cup in dramatic fashion. The Lisbon side, led by Marco Silva , played

7597-427: The final against Braga , and after a disastrous start, found themselves losing 0–2 at half-time and playing with ten men after the sending-off of Cédric Soares . With the final seemingly lost, Islam Slimani gave some hope to the fans as he scored the 1–2 on the 83-minute. In stoppage time, Fredy Montero managed to equalize, forcing extra-time. Sporting ultimately won the match 3–1 on penalties. Celebrations ended in

7704-414: The final. It was the only time a Portuguese team side won a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup title. The team entered the competition defeating Atalanta in the qualifying round, then past Cypriot club APOEL in what was the biggest win in a single UEFA competitions game to date: 16–1, a record that still stands today. On the next round, they lost 4–1 to Manchester United at Old Trafford in the first hand, but made

7811-541: The first ancestor of Sporting, played just one match and at the end of the year's summer, disbanded. Two years later, the idea of creating a football club was revived, and this time, with the Gavazzo brothers joined by José Alvalade (José Holtreman Roquette) and José Stromp; a new club, the Campo Grande Football Club , was founded. They played their matches on the estate of the Viscount of Alvalade (Alfredo Holtreman) , José Alvalade's grandfather, with

7918-582: The first set-back had already happened on 26 January 2005 when Sporting was eliminated from Taça de Portugal after losing 7–6 on penalties against Benfica. Nevertheless, Sporting was able to reach the leadership of Primeira Liga, and on 5 May the team booked their second European final, after defeating Dutch team AZ in UEFA Cup. While awaiting the Final, on 14 May, Sporting lost its penultimate match in Primeira Liga against Benfica and dropped to third place. By

8025-460: The first time in a friendly match against Casa Pia , but after that the Stromp kit continued to be used. When Sporting's football team travelled to Brazil in July 1928, and after considering the weather conditions in that country, it was decided to wear the horizontally striped jerseys because they were lighter and tighter to the body. On their return, the Sporting's football team once again wore

8132-540: The first time, the knockout phase of UEFA Champions League , in the 2008–09 season , but were roundly defeated by Bayern Munich , with an aggregate loss of 12–1. This is widely regarded as one of the lowest points in the history of the club. The club almost reached another European final in 2012, but were dropped out of the competition by Athletic Bilbao , in the semi-finals of the 2011–12 Europa League . After years of financial mismanagement , Sporting had amassed debts exceeding €276 million by 2011. The results on

8239-446: The first-ever UEFA Champion Clubs' Cup match. Sporting player João Martins scored the first-ever goal of the competition, on the 14th minute. The match ended in a 3–3 draw. Sporting also inaugurated their new venue, José Alvalade Stadium , on 10 June 1956, which would be their home ground until 2003. In the 1960s, Sporting achieved continental success, winning the 1963–64 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup , defeating MTK Budapest of Hungary in

8346-615: The following sports were practised at the sports club: football, running and jumping (athletics), physical exercise (gymnastics), rope-wrestling, tennis, cricket and field hockey. The club also released their first report card on 31 March 1922, titled "Boletim do Sporting" (Sporting's Report), lending the foundation for the later called "Jornal do Sporting" , the official newspaper of the club, that still exists today. Sporting played their first Primeira Liga game (the 1st Division of Portuguese football) ever on 20 January 1935, winning 0–6 against Académica de Coimbra . A year later, in 1936,

8453-534: The fourth placed team and the Taça de Portugal cup winners. If the Taça de Portugal cup winners qualify for the UEFA Champions League through league placing, the berth is given to the fifth placed team. UEFA League Ranking as of the 2023–24 season: Since the beginning of the league, there are three clubs with an attendance much higher than the others: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP. They have also

8560-403: The green color in the shield and adding three horizontal white stripes that symbolize the club's shirt. Complemented with the words 'Sporting' and 'Portugal', now written in full, they emphasize the national dimension of the club and clarify its name internationally. A stylized rampant lion appears in golden color and the acronym "SCP", which stands for the club's name (Sporting Clube de Portugal),

8667-526: The latter club. This event became known as "Verão Quente" (Hot Summer). Later, on 14 May 1994, a memorable derby was played at the old José Alvalade Stadium, crowded to the top, as winning the derby could be a decisive step for Sporting in trying to regain the title, which by that time they had not won for 12 years. Sporting were considered the favourites, with a squad composed by Luís Figo , Paulo Sousa, Krasimir Balakov , Ivaylo Yordanov , Emílio Peixe , Stan Valckx and others; therefore, Benfica were seen as

8774-432: The main squad between the ages of 15 and 18. The centres were created and institutionalised in Sporting's 10th Club Statutes of 1984 and are characterised as being a group of sportinguistas who get together and organise themselves to promote, support, celebrate and publicise Sporting CP. Many of them are also involved in important recreational, social and sporting activities. The branches, more than 100 were founded around

8881-516: The most domestic titles (81) and overall titles won (83 or 84, if the Latin Cup is taken into account), including back-to-back European Cup trophies. Porto is the club with most Portuguese Super Cups and international titles won (7). Sporting CP holds the third place when it comes to the most league and cup titles. Benfica is the only Portuguese club to have won two consecutive European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, reaching ten European finals: seven European Cups and three UEFA Cup/Europa League, and

8988-437: The new regional champion, while Académico was 2nd place. All 3 teams qualified for 1939–40 Primeira Divisão. In the 1941–42 season, it was decided to expand the championship from eight to ten teams to admit Braga FA and Algarve FA champions (until this season only the top teams from Porto, Coimbra, Lisboa and Setúbal were admitted). Porto finished the regional championship in third place again, which did not grant entry into

9095-594: The only one to pass the 12,000 barrier since the 1990–91 season. This is due to the League's joint initiative with Continente “ É Para Cartão ” to bring families back to the stadiums. The slogan “ Football is You ” was a success, as this season many historic clubs in lower leagues managed to have much higher averages than several clubs in the Primeira Liga. The 2023–24 season saw the following average attendance by club: All Primeira Liga champions have come from either Lisbon or Porto . The all-time Primeira Liga table

9202-405: The original Estádio José Alvalade on 14 December 1986. Manuel Fernandes was particularly inspired and scored four goals; Mário Jorge two and Ralph Meade one; Wando scored for Benfica. Before the start of the 1993–94 season, Sousa Cintra , then president of Sporting, took advantage of Benfica's financial crisis by signing Paulo Sousa and Pacheco , who had terminated their contracts with

9309-408: The pitch were also negative, with Sporting finishing seventh in the 2012–13 Primeira Liga , their lowest ever finish. Managerial changes occurred within months or weeks apart: from November 2009 to May 2013, nine managers were contracted, with none of them lasting an entire season. In 2013, after pressure from club members, president Godinho Lopes resigned, and shortly afterwards, Bruno de Carvalho

9416-427: The roof support towers and access stairways, initially bright yellow, also repainted green. Although it eventually received a fifth star becoming a UEFA 5-star stadium , it was initially classified by UEFA as a 4-star stadium. The stadium – originally projected to hold only 40,000 spectators at any given time – has a capacity of 50,095 and was acoustically engineered as a venue for major concerts. The stadium has also

9523-525: The same season as they had been doing since the first seasons of the Liga. Below is a complete record of how many teams played in each season throughout the league's history; When the Portuguese League for Professional Football took control of the two nationwide leagues in 1999, it was renamed "Primeira Liga" (Premier League). "The Big Three" ( Portuguese : Os Três Grandes ) is a nickname for

9630-556: The stadium can be reached via the exit Estádio de Alvalade. There are several car parks around the stadium. It is a relatively short distance (3 km) from the Estádio da Luz , homeground of rivals S.L. Benfica . Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal ( European Portuguese pronunciation: [sɨˈpɔɾtĩ ˈkluβɨ ðɨ puɾtuˈɣal] ), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

9737-504: The stadium featured multicoloured tiles which were later removed. In 2021, Sporting CP, headed by club president Frederico Varandas , announced that it would change the colour of the seats in the multicoloured stands of Estádio José Alvalade to green (the main colour of the sports club). The colour change was completed in 2022. Originally the seats were arranged in a random-looking mosaic of mixed colours, however during its second decade of use these were all gradually changed to dark green, with

9844-411: 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"), its motto is Esforço, Dedicação, Devoção e Glória (Effort, Dedication, Devotion and Glory), its supporters are called sportinguistas and the club's mascot is called Jubas. Sporting

9951-465: The three most powerful sports clubs in Portugal. With the exception of Belenenses in 1945–46 and Boavista in 2000–01, only three clubs have won the Primeira Liga title – Benfica (38 times), Porto (30) and Sporting CP (20). These three clubs generally end up sharing the top three positions (thus, appearing more frequently in UEFA competitions) and are the only clubs to have played in every season of

10058-477: The tiebreaker 2–1. In 2000, Porto won the tiebreaker again 2–0. And, in the 2007–08 Taça de Portugal Sporting won in extra time 2–0. In the 2019, after eleven years, Sporting won once again , with a 2–2 draw after extra time, with Sporting winning the penalty shootout 4–3. Another four decisions between Porto and Sporting were for the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira. In 1996, in a tie-breaker valid for

10165-410: The time as Sporting Club da Parada). However, Castello-Branco demanded that the color used by the new sports club should not be blue, since that was already a color adopted by Sporting Club da Parada. To keep up with times, the club's emblem has been modernized throughout history and this led to the development of various crests consistent with the history of the club: in all of them, the rampant lion and

10272-475: The top five for the first time in the 2011–12 season , passing the French Ligue 1 , one of the historical "big five" European leagues, for the first time since 1990. The Primeira Liga also reached a world ranking of fourth according to IFFHS 's 2011 ranking. Before the Portuguese football reform of 1938, a competition on a round-basis was already being held – the Primeira Liga (Premier League) and

10379-540: The top level of Portuguese league systems in sports like football, rink hockey or basketball. Founded in 1920, Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques (branch number 6 until 1975 and later renamed as CD Maxaquene) was also a branch of Sporting CP in Mozambique, East Africa, and under this original name, Portuguese footballer Eusébio graduated as a footballer and played for the Mozambican club at both youth level and

10486-423: The traditional split jerseys known as the Stromp kit. However, on 5 October 1928, in a match against Benfica, whether it was because of the heavy rain that made them too heavy, or for some other reason, at half-time the players swapped their usual jerseys for the striped ones, thus establishing what is still the club's main kit today: green and white horizontally stripped jersey with black shorts. The club's mascot

10593-635: The two lowest placed teams are relegated to the Segunda Liga and the top two teams from Segunda Liga are promoted to the Primeira Liga. The top teams in Primeira Liga qualify for the UEFA Champions League , with the top two teams entering the group stage directly. The third placed team enters the playoffs for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League; if they fail to qualify, they enter the UEFA Europa League , along with

10700-405: The underdogs. However, Benfica defied the odds and won the match 6–3 and went on securing the league title weeks later, leaving Sporting empty-handed in one of the most dramatic seasons in their history. Two years later, the rivalry continued intense with a dramatic incident in the 1996 Portuguese Cup final , which Benfica won 3–1. After the latter scored the first goal, a supporter of the club lit

10807-472: The winners of that competition were named "League champions". Despite that, a Championship of Portugal in a knock-out cup format was the most popular and defined the Portuguese champion , although the winners of this competition no longer count as Portuguese football champions. Then, with the reform, a round-robin basis competition was implemented as the most important of the calendar and began defining

10914-451: The world, are sports clubs that have associated themselves with Sporting CP's core values, are managed as autonomous sports clubs and contribute to the expansion of Sporting CP. The delegations are sporting, recreational and cultural institutions that represent the interests of Sporting CP in the places where they are based and mobilise the ideals of the club in those same regions. Sporting's main rivals are Benfica, with both teams contesting

11021-502: Was elected president in a snap election. Carvalho intended to return success to the football team, while threatening to take Godinho Lopes to court, as well as to renegotiate the club's debt payment schedule with the banks involved, which eventually renegotiated the debt in very favourable conditions for Sporting CP in the following years as part of the club's financial restructuring started by Carvalho and finalized by Frederico Varandas ten years later. This allowed Sporting CP to get

11128-434: Was runner-up in one UEFA Cup. Apart from the big three, Braga won the last UEFA Intertoto Cup and was runner-up in one UEFA Europa League. S.C. Braga has finished runner-up once, third three times, and fourth twelve times during the last twenty seasons, not quite breaking into "The Big Three." Galp Energia acquired the naming rights to the league in 2002, titling the division SuperLiga GalpEnergia . A four-year deal with

11235-509: Was runner-up in two Intercontinental Cups. Porto is the only Portuguese club since 1987 to have won any international competition (excluding the UEFA Intertoto Cup), gathering a total of two European Cup/UEFA Champions Leagues, two UEFA Cup/Europa Leagues, one European Super Cup and two Intercontinental Cups and finished runner-up in one European Cup Winner's Cup and three UEFA Super Cups. Sporting won one European Cup Winner's Cup and

11342-403: Was sacked after a poor performance on the Primeira Liga. In March 2019, Sporting CP announced a loan negotiated with Apollo Global Management , based on the securitization of NOS ' television rights revenues. In March 2020, Ruben Amorim was appointed manager of Sporting CP for a managerial transfer worth €10 million (£8.65 million), becoming the third-most expensive manager ever . In

11449-509: Was temporarily called Campo Grande Sporting Club (after Campo Grande ), instead of its final official name, Sporting Clube de Portugal, which could be literally translated as “Sporting Club of Portugal”, the club is officially referred to by UEFA and FIFA as written in its official full name or as "Sporting CP", a shortened form of the name. The designation "Sporting Lisbon", a common way some foreign media and non-Portuguese speaking people use to refer to Sporting CP outside Portugal, has been

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