Sporting Clube de Portugal, commonly known as Sporting CP or Sporting Lisbon, is known for its green-white colors in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. It plays its home matches at the Josรฉ Alvalade Stadium and, in addition to football, it also has teams in branches such as handball, swimming, futsal, athletics, billiards and table tennis.
The club president often emphasizes that the full name of the organization is Sporting CP; It is one of the three biggest football clubs in the country, along with Benfica and Porto.
Sporting CP enters the history of the league as champions 21 times; these championships were 1940โ41, 1943โ44, 1946โ47, 1947โ48, 1948โ49, 1950โ51, 1951โ52, 1952โ53, 1953โ54, 1957โ58, 1961โ62, 1965โ66, 1969โ70, 1973โ74, 1979โ80, 1981โ82, 1999โ00, 2001โ02, 2020โ21, 2023โ24 and Covers the 2024โ25 seasons.
The victory years of the club, which won the Taรงa de Portugal 18 times, were 1940โ41, 1944โ45, 1945โ46, 1947โ48, 1953โ54, 1962โ63, 1970โ71, 1972โ73, 1973โ74, They are 1977โ78, 1981โ82, 1994โ95, 2001โ02, 2006โ07, 2007โ08, 2014โ15, 2018โ19 and 2024โ25. He has also won the Taรงa da Liga four times (2017โ18, 2018โ19, 2020โ21, 2021โ22), the Supertaรงa Cรขndido de Oliveira nine times (1982, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2015, 2021) and won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup once in the 1963โ64 season.
Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo, two big names of Portuguese football, started their professional careers under the Sporting CP jersey. The matches played against the club's arch-rival, Benfica, are known as the Lisbon Derby and attract great attention in the city.
21 championship trophies won in the Primeira Liga are exhibited in the club museum in Lisbon. The Player of the Year award, known as the "Stromp Award" and given in memory of former player Francisco Stromp since 1992, continues to honor the most successful athletes every season.
