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Sporting Clube de Portugal
Sporting CP
Full name Sporting Clube de Portugal
Nickname(s) Sportinguistas
Leões (Lions)
Verde-e-Brancos (Green and White)
Short name Sporting
Founded 1 July 1906
Ground Estádio José Alvalade
(Capacity: 50,095)
Chairman Frederico Varandas
Manager Rúben Amorim
Current League Primeira Liga 
2022–23 Primeira Liga, 4th
Website Club home page
Sporting Clube 2022-23 homeSporting Clube 2022-23 awaySporting Clube 2022-23 third

Sporting Clube de Portugal, otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, simply as Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the 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 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. Their home ground has been the Estádio José Alvalade, built in 2003, which replaced the previous one, built in 1956. The club's anthem is called "A Marcha do Sporting" ("Sporting's March", written in 1955) and its supporters are called Sportinguistas. Sporting are the second largest sports club by membership in Portugal, with more than 160,000 members.

Sporting are the third most decorated Portuguese football team, with 54 major trophies. Domestically, they have won 19 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. Sporting played in 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 (32), a tournament in which they have the second most matches played and won, and where they are ranked 2nd in the all-time club ranking.

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 1 February 2023
No. Position Player
1 Flag of Spain GK Antonio Adán (3rd captain)
2 Flag of Brazil DF Matheus Reis
3 Flag of Netherlands DF Jerry St. Juste
4 Flag of Uruguay DF Sebastián Coates (captain)
5 Flag of Japan MF Hidemasa Morita
6 Flag of Greece MF Sotiris Alexandropoulos
10 Flag of England MF Marcus Edwards
11 Flag of Portugal MF Nuno Santos
12 Flag of Uruguay GK Franco Israel
13 Flag of Portugal DF Luís Neto (vice-captain)
15 Flag of Uruguay MF Manuel Ugarte
16 Flag of Portugal MF Rochinha
17 Flag of Portugal FW Francisco Trincão (on loan from Barcelona)
18 Flag of Ghana FW Abdul Fatawu Issahaku
19 Flag of Spain DF Héctor Bellerín
20 Flag of Portugal FW Paulinho
22 Flag of Portugal GK André Paulo
No. Position Player
23 Flag of Portugal MF Daniel Bragança
25 Flag of Portugal DF Gonçalo Inácio (5th captain)
26 Flag of Ivory Coast DF Ousmane Diomandé
28 Flag of Portugal MF Pedro Gonçalves
32 Flag of Argentina MF Mateo Tanlongo
33 Flag of Brazil FW Arthur Gomes
41 Flag of Brazil GK Diego Callai
46 Flag of Portugal DF Gonçalo Esteves
47 Flag of Portugal DF Ricardo Esgaio (4th captain)
71 Flag of Portugal DF Flávio Nazinho
73 Flag of Portugal DF Chico Lamba
77 Flag of Cape Verde FW Jovane Cabral
79 Flag of Portugal FW Youssef Chermiti
82 Flag of Portugal MF Mateus Fernandes
84 Flag of Portugal MF Dário Essugo
91 Flag of Portugal FW Rodrigo Ribeiro

Other players under contract[]

No. Position Player
92 Flag of Brazil MF Eduardo Henrique
Flag of Brazil FW Luiz Phellype

Out on loan[]

No. Position Player
Flag of Portugal DF Eduardo Quaresma (at 1899 Hoffenheim until 30 June 2023)
Flag of Spain DF José Marsà (at Sporting Gijón until 30 June 2023)
Flag of Spain DF Pedro Porro (at Tottenham Hotspur until 30 June 2023)
Flag of Portugal DF Rúben Vinagre (at Everton until 30 June 2023)
No. Position Player
Flag of Portugal DF Tiago Ilori (at Paços de Ferreira until 30 June 2023)
Flag of Ivory Coast MF Idrissa Doumbia (at Alanyaspor until 30 June 2023)
Flag of Portugal FW Rafael Camacho (at Aris until 30 June 2023)
Flag of Portugal FW Tiago Tomás (at VfB Stuttgart until 30 June 2023)

Honours[]

National[]

League[]

Winners (19): 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, 2020–21

Cups[]

Winners (17): 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, 2014–15, 2018–19
  • Taça da Liga
Winners (4): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
  • Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
Winners (9): 1982, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2021
Winners (4): 1922–23, 1933–34, 1935–36, 1937–38

European[]

Winners (1): 1963–64

External links[]

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Sporting CP
Sporting Clube de Portugal squad - 2023–24

Adán •  Matheus R. •  St. Juste •  Coates (c) •  Morita •  Sotiris •  10 Edwards •  11 N. Santos •  12 Israel •  13 Neto •  15 Ugarte •  16 Rochinha •  17 Trincão •  18 Fatawu •  19 Bellerín •  20 Paulinho •  22 A. Paulo •  23 Bragança •  24 Porro •  25 Inácio •  28 Pote •  32 Tanlongo •  33 Arthur •  41 Calai •  46 Esteves •  47 Esgaio •  63 Marsà •  71 Nazinho •  73 Lamba •  77 Jovane •  79 Chermiti •  82 Matheus F. •  84 Essugo •  91 Ribeiro • 

Manager:  Flag of Portugal Rúben Amorim
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