Sporting Lisbon

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Sporting Lisbon
Sporting Lisbon.svg
Basic data
Surname Sporting Clube de Portugal
Seat Lisbon , Portugal
founding July 1, 1906
Colours green white
Members 160,028 (August 2, 2017)
president Francisco Varandas
Website sporting.pt
First soccer team
Head coach Ruben Amorim
Venue Estádio José Alvalade XXI
Places 50,095
league Primeira League
2019/20 4th Place
home
Away

Sporting Clube de Portugal , often just called Sporting CP , known in German-speaking countries as Sporting Lisbon and often listed as SCP , is a sports club from the Portuguese capital Lisbon, founded in 1906 . After the heraldic animal , the club is often referred to as lions ( Portuguese Leões ). The club colors are green and white.

The Sporting football team plays its home games at Estádio José Alvalade , which has space for 50,095 spectators and was one of the venues for the 2004 European Football Championship . The team's greatest successes were winning the 1964 European Cup Winners' Cup and making it to the 2005 UEFA Cup final in their own stadium. The Lions also won 18 national championships and the Portuguese Cup 17 times , making them one of the three most successful clubs in Portugal. Their traditional local rival is Benfica Lisbon . The club is known for its excellent youth work, which includes players like Ballon d'Or winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Luís Figo, as well as João Moutinho , Paulo Futre and Rui Patrício . At the 2016 European Football Championship , where the Portuguese became European champions , eleven of the 23 players came from the ranks of Sporting. The club's most expensive sale for its own youth player was 40 million euros in August 2016 when João Mário moved to Inter Milan .

The commercial management of the professional football department is in the hands of the listed stock corporation Sporting Clube de Portugal Futebol SAD . The controversial businessman Álvaro Sobrinho is the largest single shareholder with 29.9%.

General

The club is known for its excellent youth work in the football sector and has produced many top players in the younger years. The internationally famous ones include Paulo Futre , Luís Figo , Cristiano Ronaldo , Nani , João Moutinho , Ricardo Quaresma , Miguel Veloso and Simão . Sporting is the only club in the world whose youth work has produced more than one world footballer: Figo and Ronaldo.

Sporting also holds the record for the biggest win ever in a European Cup game. In 1964, Sporting APOEL defeated Nicosia of Cyprus 16-1. In the same match, the player Mascarenhas scored six goals, the record for the highest number of goals scored in a game in a European competition.

In addition to soccer, the club also operates various other sports, including a. Handball , swimming , roller hockey and diving . But after football, athletics is the main focus of the club. There were other sports in the past. Fencing, basketball, volleyball and cycling were practiced; in the 1950s and 1960s there was even its own rally and motorcycle racing team. After FC Barcelona , Sporting is the most successful sports team in Europe in terms of titles and trophies won in all sports in which the club participates.

With the weekly Sporting, published since 1921, the club owns the oldest sports club newspaper in Europe.

history

Beginnings

The club emerged from an initiative of a group of people who originally founded the Klub Sport Club de Belas in 1902 and the Campo Grande Sporting Club in 1904 . In 1906 these clubs officially merged under the name Sporting Clube de Portugal .

Sporting's first game was on February 3, 1907 against Cruz Negra and lost 5-1. In the first duel with future long-term rivals Sport Lisboa , a predecessor club of Benfica , a 2-1 victory was achieved. In the 1907/1908 season the club was regional runner-up. In 1910, the year José Alvalade became club president, Sporting won the championship title in tennis , pole vault , shot put and long jump .

First successes

The club won in 1912 and 1915 the Lisbon championship in football and the Portuguese Super Cup " Cândido de Oliveira " with a 3-1 victory over SL Benfica . In the sport of cycling , the club won the prestigious Lisboa - Porto race in 1912 , took third place in the Tour de France and second place in the Tour of Spain.

In the 1920 era, Sporting won its first Portuguese championship in a final against Académica Coimbra .

In 1922 the rugby department was opened. In 1926 the green and white striped jerseys were worn for the first time. After a 1928 win against rivals Benfica, in which the players swapped shirts for the new striped shirts at halftime, the latter became the club's official shirts for good. Green and white split jerseys, which were used from 1908, are still used as gala or away jerseys.

1940-1960

With the green and white striped jerseys, the SCP won 18 football championship titles and four cup victories in the 1940s and 1950s.

Sporting's José Travassos was the first Portuguese player to be nominated for a European selection in 1955 and played against Great Britain's selection in Belfast .

On June 10, 1956, the Estádio José Alvalade in the Freguesia Lumiar was inaugurated. 1956 and 1957 the runner won Manuel Faria to on New Year held Saint Silvester Road Race in São Paulo .

From 1960

In 1964, the club achieved its greatest success in football by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup against the Hungarian football club MTK Budapest . After a 3: 3 in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels , a replay had to be scheduled. The SCP won this in the Bosuil Stadium in Antwerp with a corner kick directly converted by João Morais after 20 minutes 1-0. On the way to the final, SCP scored 16: 1 against APOEL Nicosia from Cyprus, the highest win to date in a European Cup game and won 5: 0 after a 1: 4 first leg defeat against Manchester United at home. In the semifinals, after results of 1: 1 and 0: 0 against Olympique Lyon, a playoff was necessary, which ended in the Stadium Metropolitano de Madrid with 1: 0 for Sporting.

In 1971, the club signed the Argentine soccer player Héctor Yazalde from the Bonaren suburban club CA Independiente . In the 1973/74 season, Yazalde scored 46 goals in 30 games and still holds the European record for most goals in one season.

In athletics , the club is very successful both nationally and internationally with 215 national and 89 international titles. Carlos Lopes won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , making it the first Portuguese Olympic champion.

The best professional cyclist in Portugal Joaquim Agostinho was also part of the club. He took part in the Tour de France 13 times and finished third in 1978 and 1979.

In roller hockey , Sporting was the best club in the world for a while and won the European Cup Winners 'Cup in 1977, three European Cup Winners' Cups in 1981, 1985 and 1991 and the CERS Cup in 1984.

The most successful Portuguese billiards player Jorge Theriaga also belongs to the club.

present

Exterior view of the José Alvalade Stadium

The association is one with 179,900 members (as of March 15, 2019) to the most members sports clubs in the world .

In 2004 built stadium José Alvalade a semi-final game was the 2004 European Cup place and 2005 - against CSKA Moscow lost - UEFA Cup final .

In the 2008/09 season, the club made it to the Champions League round of 16, in which FC Bayern Munich were opponents. There were two clear defeats (0: 5 at home and 1: 7 in Munich). In 2011/12, Sporting Lisbon made it to the semi-finals of the Europa League after taking first place in the group stage ahead of Lazio Rome , FC Zurich and FC Vaslui and then the Polish representative Legia Warsaw (round of 16), favorites and later English champions Manchester City (round of 16) and the Ukrainian club Metalist Kharkiv (quarter-finals) eliminated. In the semifinals, Sporting were narrowly eliminated from Athletic Bilbao despite a 2-1 first leg win , with overtime being missed by three minutes in the second leg (final score: 1: 3).

On January 27, 2018, the team won the league cup called Taça da Liga for the first time . Sporting beat Vitória Setúbal 5-4 on penalties .

Due to the 1: 2 defeat against CS Maritimo on the last day of the 2017/18 season, Sporting missed the Champions League qualification and will have to compete in the Europa League next season. In the following week, this led to around 50 masked men storming the Sporting training grounds, including injuring the head of the player Bas Dost . This resulted in great unrest within the club, which is why several players canceled their contracts and left the club. The trainer Jorge Jesus also quit his job.

Bruno de Carvalho was temporarily arrested in November 2018 . De Carvalho was President of Sporting until June 2018 and is said to have ordered the attack on the players by an ultra group out of displeasure about the missed Champions League qualification.

Club crest

The club crest of Sporting Lisbon has always shown a lion . However, the logo changed a few times over the years.

  • 1907-1913

  • 1913-1930

  • 1930-1945

  • 1945-2001

  • since 2001

Anniversary coat of arms

  • 1956
    50th anniversary

  • 2006
    100th anniversary

Football department

Squad 2019/20

As of December 7, 2019

No. Nat. Surname birthday in the team since Contract until
goal
01 BrazilBrazil Renan Ribeiro 03/23/1990 2019 2023
30th ItalyItaly Emiliano Viviano December 01, 1985 2018 2021
81 PortugalPortugal Luís Maximiano 01/05/1999 2018 2023
Defense
03 PortugalPortugal Tiago Ilori 02/26/1993 2019 2024
04th UruguayUruguay Sebastián Coates 07.10.1990 2017 2022
13 North MacedoniaNorth Macedonia Stefan Ristovski 02/12/1992 2018 2022
14th PortugalPortugal Luís Neto May 26, 1988 2019 2022
19th FranceFrance Valentin Rosier 08/19/1996 2019 2024
22nd FranceFrance Jérémy Mathieu October 29, 1983 2017 2020
26th ColombiaColombia Cristian Borja 02/18/1993 2019 2024
midfield
05 BrazilBrazil Eduardo Henrique 05/17/1995 2019 2024
07th PortugalPortugal Rafael Camacho 05/22/2000 2019 2024
08th PortugalPortugal Bruno Fernandes (C)Captain of the crew 09/08/1994 2017 2023
09 ArgentinaArgentina Marcos Acuña 10/28/1991 2017 2023
16 ArgentinaArgentina Rodrigo Battaglia 07/12/1991 2017 2023
27 PortugalPortugal Miguel Luís 02/27/1999 2018 2023
37 BrazilBrazil Helix 08/28/1997 2018 2023
98 Ivory CoastIvory Coast Idrissa Doumbia 04/14/1998 2019 2024
Storm
10 ArgentinaArgentina Luciano Vietto 05.12.1993 2019 2024
18th BrazilBrazil Fernando 03/01/1999 2019 2020
20th EcuadorEcuador Gonzalo Plata 11/01/2000 2019 2024
21st SpainSpain Jesé 02/26/1993 2019 2020
29 BrazilBrazil Luiz Phellype 09/27/1993 2019 2023
77 Cape VerdeCape Verde Jovane Cabral 06/14/1998 2018 2023
89 Congo Democratic RepublicDemocratic Republic of Congo Yannick Bolasie 05/24/1989 2019 2020
SloveniaSlovenia Andraž Šporar 02/27/1994 2020 2025

Trainer

Term of office Nat. Trainer
1955-1956 ArgentinaArgentina ItalyItaly Alejandro Scopelli
1956-1959 PortugalPortugal Enrique Fernández
1959-1961 PortugalPortugal lfredo gonzalez
1968-1972 PortugalPortugal Fernando Vaz
1972-1974 PortugalPortugal Mario Lino
1974-1975 ChileChile Fernando Riera
1975-1976 PortugalPortugal Juca
1976-1977 EnglandEngland Jimmy Hagan
1978-1979 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Milorad Pavic
1983-1984 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jozef Vengloš
1984-1985 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg John Toshack
1990-1992 PortugalPortugal Marinho Peres
1992-1994 EnglandEngland Bobby Robson
1994-1996 PortugalPortugal Carlos Queiroz
1996 BelgiumBelgium Robert Waseige
2001-2003 HungaryHungary László Bölöni
2003-2004 PortugalPortugal Fernando Santos
2004-2006 PortugalPortugal José Peseiro
2006-2010 PortugalPortugal Paulo Bento
2012-2013 BelgiumBelgium Franky Vercauteren
2013-2014 PortugalPortugal Leonardo Jardim
2014-2015 PortugalPortugal Marco Silva
2015-2018 PortugalPortugal Jorge Jesus
2018 PortugalPortugal José Peseiro
2018-2019 NetherlandsNetherlands Marcel Keizer
2019 PortugalPortugal Leonel Pontes
2019-2020 PortugalPortugal Silas
2020– PortugalPortugal Ruben Amorim

Former players

goalkeeper
Defender
midfield player
striker

successes

  • European Cup Winner : 1964
  • Portuguese champion : (22 ×) 1923, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1941 , 1944 , 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1982, 2000 , 2002
  • Portuguese Cup Winner : (17 ×) 1941 , 1945, 1946, 1948, 1954, 1963, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2019
  • Portuguese Supercup winner : (8 ×) 1982 , 1987 , 1995 , 2000 , 2002 , 2007 , 2008 , 2015
  • Portuguese League Cup Winner : (2 ×) 2018, 2019
  • Portuguese Copa da Honra: (29 ×) 1915, 1916, 1917, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949 , 1950, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1971, 1985, 1991, 1992
  • Portuguese van Lisbon: (19 ×) 1915, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947
  • Portuguese van Reserves: (42 ×) 1912, 1917, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994

museum

Sporting Club de Portugal has an exhibition with more than 16,000 cups and trophies in the Estádio José Alvalade XXI in Lisbon .

athletics

successes

badminton

In badminton, Sporting was Portuguese team champion in 1958 and 1959.

basketball

The club's basketball department was founded in 1927 by Acácio Campos. In times of financial problems for the club as a whole, it was dissolved in 1995 after the members of the club agreed to keep the handball department . The Sporting basketball players won the national championship seven times and the cup five times between 1954 and 1982.

One of the well-known players is Mário Albuquerque , who earned his first spurs at Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques and joined the club in 1974. He is widely considered to be the best Portuguese basketball player of all time. He scored the most points in the Portuguese championship ten times in a row. Rui Pinheiros , also from Sporting Lourenço Marques, is also one of the representatives of the golden era of sporting basketball players, which lasted until the 1980s.

Among the coaches, Adriano Baganha , master coach from 1981 and later national coach, deserves attention.

successes

  • Portuguese champion: 1954, 1956, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1981 and 1982
  • Portuguese Cup Winner: 1955, 1975, 1979, 1978, 1980

Women's soccer

Sporting founded its women's football section in 1991, which was closed again in August 1995 after four years. In 2016 the club returned to women's football and immediately took over the dominance in all national competitions, both in the professional and junior areas.

successes

Handball

The handball players were after a dominant until the mid-1980s long time record champions with 17 titles in the hall before the FC Porto overtook them in 2013 with the 18th success. Twelve years after Sporting's last title. Sporting was only able to win the championship again in 2017, but then defend the title the following year. Sporting is the record holder of the cup competition with 15 wins. The EHF Challenge Cup 2009/10 was the first ever international triumph for a Portuguese handball team. The EHF Challenge Cup 2016/17 could be won again.

successes
  • Portuguese champion (field) : 1961, 1965, 1966
  • Portuguese Champion (Halle): 1952, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2001, 2017, 2018
  • Portuguese Cup Winner: 1972, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Portuguese Super Cup winner: 1998, 2002, 2013
  • EHF Challenge Cup : 2010, 2017

Roller hockey

Roller hockey was first included in the Sporting program in 1924 and, after an interruption in 1936, was able to establish itself for good. Since then, in addition to seven national championships and four cup wins, he has also had five successes in European competitions. The most significant success was the victory in the European Champions' Cup of 1977, where Sporting defeated CD Villanova from Spain 6-0 and 6-3 in the finals .

successes

Other well-known athletes

Subsidiaries

There are 187 official branch clubs of Sporting Lisbon in Portugal and around the world (as of December 2014). In addition to the branch associations in Portugal, associations have also sprung up in former Portuguese colonies , for example in Africa and Asia. For example, the Mozambican record champions CD Maxaquene emerged from the Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques , the home club Eusébios , while the Sporting Clube de Goa is now a major club in the Indian I-League . Portuguese emigrants have also set up branch associations all over the world. In Germany, for example, the Sporting Clube de Hamburgo has been a branch club in Hamburg since 1979 .

Examples of Sporting Lisbon-inspired clubs and official branch clubs

Web links

Commons : Sporting Lisbon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sporting.pt: Sporting CP atinge 160,000 socios
  2. ↑ Stock exchange profile of the Sporting Clube de Portugal Futebol SAD at the Reuters news agency , accessed on May 2, 2017
  3. ↑ Álvaro Sobrinho dono de 29.9% das ações da SAD do Sporting Journal Económico of December 12, 2016. (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Sporting Wiki: 1907/08 (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Match report from January 27, 2018. In: kicker.de. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .
  6. ↑ kicker, Nürnberg, Germany: Masked men attack Sporting - Dost injured his head . In: kicker . ( kicker.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  7. ↑ kicker, Nürnberg, Germany: Sporting Lisbon is threatened with disintegration . In: kicker . ( kicker.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  8. ↑ kicker, Nürnberg, Germany: Mihajlovic takes over the crisis club Sporting . In: kicker . ( kicker.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Did the Portugal boss have his stars beaten up by ultras? In: image. November 19, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
  10. ↑ https://www.weltfussball.de/teams/fc-porto/2019/2/
  11. ↑ Categoria: Basquetebol WikiSporting (accessed November 14, 2012)
  12. ↑ Sporting CP dare to dream big. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , August 31, 2018, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Sporting Lisbon are EHF Challenge Cup winners 2017. In: handball-planet.com. Handball Planet, May 29, 2017, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Register of branch clubs on the official Sporting Lisbon website, accessed on December 26, 2014