
Find the best Primeira Liga live streams of all of Sporting CP’s fixtures in the league this season below.
Find the best Primeira Liga live streams of all of Sporting CP’s fixtures in the league this season below.
Sporting Clube de Portugal is a professional Portuguese football club based in the city of Lisbon. Commonly referred to as Sporting CP or Sporting Lisbon by some, the club currently competes in the Primeira Liga, which is the top division in the Portuguese football pyramid. They are one of only three teams to have played every single season in the Primeira Liga, alongside Benfica and Porto, with whom they make up Portugal’s “big three”.
Sporting CP currently plays their home matches at the Estadio Jose Alvalade, which has been their home since 2003. Is is the club’s seventh different stadium in their history and replaced the only Jose Alvalade Stadium and was opened with a friendly against Manchester United in 2003 — a match which led to the Premier League side signing a young Cristiano Ronaldo. The Estadio Jose Alvalade has a maximum capacity of 50,095 supporters and is a 4-star UEFA stadium.
As a member of Portugal’s “big three”, it’s no surprise that Sporting CP have a huge number of major honours won through the years. Included in their list of major honours won are an impressive 19 Primeira Liga titles, which puts them third all-time in the number of top flight titles won in Portugal. Their most recent title came during the 2020/21 season. In addition, the club have also won a total of 17 Taca de Portugal finals, as well as four Taca da Liga trophies. Those successes have also led to them winning the Supertaca Candido de Oliveira nine times in their history, as well as winning a further four Campeonato de Portugals. Sporting CP have also won one European trophy in their history too, coming in the 1963/64 European Cup Winners’ Cup. They beat Hungarian side MTK Budapest 4-3 in the final.
Sporting CP was founded on 1 July 1906 and have had a number of successful periods over the course of their history. They won 16 of their 19 league titles between the 1940/41 and 1981/82 seasons, with the other two coming after significant breaks. They were forced to wait 18 years after winning the league in 1981/82 for their next title, as they broke their duck in the 1999/2000 campaign. After winning the title again in 2001/02, they endured another drought without the title, this time 19 years, which ended at the conclusion of the 2020/21 campaign.
The Sporting CP youth academy is renowned throughout Europe for producing players, having brought a number of full internationals through their system. They have nurtured talents such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Paulo Futre, Nani, Joao Moutinho, Simao, Ricardo Quaresma, Rui Patricio and William Carvalho. They have also had two players win the European Golden Boot in their history in Hector Yazalde and Mario Jardel, who each scored 46 and 42 goals in all competitions respectively. The most successful manager in the club’s history is Jozef Szabo, who led the club to three Primeira Liga titles, three Taca de Portugal cups and six Lisbon Championships across two spells as manager, whilst also winning a hugely impressive 75% of his matches in charge.