Sporting Clube de Portugal
Sporting Clube de Portugal, often only Sporting CP, often appearing in lists as SCP and primarily known in German-speaking countries as Sporting Lisbon, is a sports club was established in 1906 from the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. After the heraldic animal reference is made to the club often with lions (Portuguese Leões ). The club colors are green and white.
The football team of Sporting wearing their home games at Estádio José Alvalade made , which provides space for 52 327 spectators and was one of the venues for the 2004 European Football Championship. The greatest success of the team was winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1964 and the entry into the UEFA Cup final in 2005. The Lions also won 18 national championships and 15-time Portuguese Cup winners. Their traditional local rival Benfica.
- 3.1 Current squad 2013/14
- 3.2 Former Players 3.2.1 goalkeeper
- 3.2.2 Defense
- 3.2.3 midfielder
- 3.2.4 Forward
- 4.1 Achievements
General
The club is known for its excellent youth work on the football field and brought here produced many top players in the younger years. Among the internationally famous already belong Paulo Futre, Luís Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani, João Moutinho, Ricardo Quaresma, Simao Sabrosa, Miguel Veloso and.
Sporting Lisbon also holds the record for the highest victory that was ever achieved in a European Cup game. In 1964, Sporting defeated APOEL from Cyprus to 16:1. In the same match, the player Mascarenhas scored six goals and thus holds the record for most in a game of a European competition hit scored.
In addition to football, the association operates several other sports, including Handball, swimming, roller hockey and diving. However, after the football is especially athletics, the main focus of the club. In the past the association operation even other sports. So there was fencing, basketball, volleyball and cycling. In the 1950s and 1960s there was even a separate rally and motorcycle racing team.
Sporting is after FC Barcelona - based on titles won and trophies of all sports in which the club participates - the most successful sports team in Europe. In addition, the Club is the world's only one who has trained two world footballer Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The club has with the published weekly since 1921 Sporting the oldest sports club newspaper in Europe.
History
The club grew out of an initiative of a group of people who originally 1902 Club Sport Club de Belas and 1904 the Campo Grande Sporting Club founded. In 1906 these clubs joined together formally under the name Sporting Clube de Portugal.
The first game of Sporting was lost on February 3, 1907 against Cruz Negra and went with 1:5. In the first duel with the future permanent rivals Sport Lisboa, a predecessor organization of Benfica achieved a 2-1 win. In the season 1907/1908 the club was regional runner-up. 1910, the year when José Alvalade club president, was brought Sporting the champion in tennis, pole vault, shot put and long jump.
The first successes
The club won in 1912 and 1915, the Lisbon championship in football and the Portuguese Supercup " Cândido de Oliveira " with a 3-1 victory over SL Benfica. In the sport of cycling, the club won the 1912 prestigious race Lisboa- Porto, reached the third place in the Tour de France and second in the Tour of Spain.
In the era from 1920 Sporting won its first Portuguese Cup in a final against the club 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 win against rivals Benfica in 1928, in which the players move the jerseys at half-time against the new striped shirts, the latter advanced to the final official jerseys of the club. Green and white split jerseys that were used from 1908, are still used as a gala or Away jerseys.
1940 - 1960
With the mythical green-white- striped jerseys of SCP won in the 1940s and 1950s 18 Football Championship titles and four cup wins.
José Travassos Sporting 1955 was the first player of Portugal, who was appointed in an Europe aground selection and selection against the UK in Belfast.
On 10 July 1956, the Estádio José Alvalade in Campo Grande was inaugurated. In the years 1957 and 1958 the Athlete Manuel Faria won the New Year's Eve Marathon in Sao Paulo.
From 1960
In 1964 the club in football the greatest success to date by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup against the Hungarian football club MTK Budapest. After a 3-3 draw in Brussels Heysel Stadium a replay had to be applied. The SCP won this in Bosuilstadion of Antwerp by a directly transformed by João Morais corner kick after 20 minutes 1-0. On the way to the final SCP achieved with 16:1 against APOEL Nicosia from Cyprus to this day the highest victory in a European Cup match and won 1:4 after a first-leg defeat to Manchester United at home still 5-0. In the semifinals, a playoff was necessary according to the results of 1-0 and 0-0 against Olympique Lyon.
1971 committed the club to Argentine football player Héctor Yazalde from bonarenser suburban club CA Independiente. Already in the 1973/74 season Yazalde scored 46 goals in 30 games and thus holds today the European record of most goals in a season.
In athletics, the club with 215 national and 89 international titles nationally and internationally very successful. Carlos Lopes won at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles the gold medal in the marathon and was the first Portuguese Olympic champion.
The best professional cyclists Portugal Joaquim Agostinho also belonged to the club. He took part in the 13 - times Tour de France and finished second in the 1978 and 1979 third place.
In roller hockey Sporting a time was the best club in the world In 1977 he won the European Champions Cup in 1981, 1985 and 1991, three European Cups Cup Winners' Cup and 1984 the CERS Cup.
Even the most successful Portuguese billiards player Jorge Theriaga part of the club.
Presence
The association has around 100,000 members (2006), making it one of the largest in Europe.
In 2004 the newly built stadium Estádio José Alvalade a semi-final match of the 2004 European Championship was held in 2005 and lost the final of the UEFA Cup against CSKA Moscow.
In the 2008 /09 season the club made it to the Champions League first knockout round in which the enemy was Bayern Munich. There were two significant defeats ( 0:5 in the home game and 1:7 in Munich). 2011/12 penetrated Sporting Lisbon to the semi-finals of the Europa League before, after they finished earlier in the group stage first place ahead of Lazio, FC Zurich and FC Vaslui and then the Polish representatives Legia Warsaw ( Round of ), favorites and later English champions Manchester City ( second round ) and the Ukrainian club Metalist Kharkiv ( quarterfinals ) eliminated. In the semifinals, Sporting was eliminated despite a 2-1 first leg victory almost against Athletic Bilbao, with the return leg extension has been missed by three minutes ( Score: 1:3).
Teamcrest
The club crest of Sporting Lisbon has always showed a lion. However, the logo changed a few times over the years.
1913 - 1930
1930 - 1945
1945 - 2001
Since 2001
Anniversary Coat of Arms
2006 100th anniversary
Football Division
Current squad 2013/14
Former Players
Goalkeeper
- Portugal Joaquim Carvalho
- Portugal Vítor Damas
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Tomislav Ivković
- Portugal Ricardo Pereira
- Portugal Miguel Graça
- Germany Timo Hildebrand ( without insert)
- Luxembourg Ceejay Correia
Defender
- Marco Aurélio Portugal
- Portugal Beto
- Brazil André Cruz
- Portugal Eurico Gomes
- Portugal Manuel Pedro Gomes
- Portugal Augusto Inácio
- Portugal Rui Jorge
- Portugal José Leal
- Portugal João Morais
- Brazil César Luís Prates
- Portugal Hilário Rosário
- Argentina Facundo Quiroga
Midfielder
- Bulgaria Krassimir Balakov
- Portugal Pedro Barbosa
- Portugal Oceano da Cruz
- Portugal Luís Figo
- Portugal Manuel Marques
- Portugal Fernando Mendes
- Portugal João Moutinho
- Nani Portugal
- Portugal Ricardo Quaresma
- Brazil Fábio Rochemback
- Portugal Simão
- Portugal Paulo Sousa
- Chile Rodrigo Tello
- Portugal Miguel Veloso
- Portugal Hugo Viana
- Portugal Jose Vidigal
- Bulgaria Ivaylo Yordanov
Striker
- Argentina Alberto Acosta
- Portugal Albano
- Portugal Jorge Cadete
- Jesus Correia Portugal
- Portugal Chico Faria
- Portugal Ernesto Figueiredo
- Mário Jardel Brazil
- Portugal Rui Jordão
- Salif Keita Mali
- Portugal Mascarenhas
- Portugal Fernando Peyroteo
- Portugal João Pinto
- Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo
- Portugal Ricardo Sá Pinto
- Portugal José Travassos
- Portugal Manuel Vasques
- Argentina Héctor Yazalde
Achievements
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1964
- Portuguese champions: ( 18x) 1941, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1982, 2000, 2002
- Master of Portugal: (4x ) 1923, 1934, 1936, 1938
- Portuguese Cup Winners: ( 15x) 1941, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1954, 1963, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2008
- Portuguese Super Cup Winner: ( 7x) 1982, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008
- Portuguese Copa da Honra: ( 29x) 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: ( 19x) 1915, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947
- Portuguese van Reserves: ( 42x ) 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
- Intertoto Cup: Group Winner 1968
- Copa Ibérica: 2000
- UEFA Cup: Finalist 2005
- Coupe Latine: Finalist 1949
Museum
Sporting Club Portugal has a collection of more than 16,000 cups and trophies in the José Alvalade stadium in Lisbon.
Athletics
Achievements
- Olympic Games (Los Angeles ) - 1984 Carlos Lopes - Gold Medal Marathon
- Rui Silva - Gold medal 1500 m
- Carlos Calado - bronze medal long jump
- Francis Obikwelu - Silver Medal 100 m
Badminton
In Badminton Sporting in 1958 and 1959 Portuguese team champion.
Basketball
The basketball section of the club was founded in 1927 by Acácio Campos. In times of financial problems of the overall association was dissolved in 1995, after the members of the association spoke out in favor of maintaining prefer the handball section. The basketball players of Sporting won 1954-1982 seven times the national championship five times and the Cup.
Among the well-known players on Mário Albuquerque, at the Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques earned his spurs, and in 1974 the club joined. He is widely regarded as the best Portuguese basketball player of all time. He scored ten times in a row the most points in the Portuguese championship. Rui Pinheiros, also from Sporting Lourenço Marques, is also among the representatives to the 1980 ending the Golden Age of Sporting- ballers.
Among the coaches earned under other Adriano Baganha, master trainer in 1981 and later coach, attention.
- Cup of Portugal: 1954, 1956, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1981 and 1982.
- Cup of Portugal: 1955, 1975.1979, 1978, 1980.
Handball
The handball players were long with 17 tracks record holder for indoor handball, before FC Porto overtook them in 2013 with the 18th success. With 14 Cup victories Sporting 's record holder of the competition. In the EHF Challenge Cup 2009/10 the first international triumph of a Portuguese handball team succeeded at all. In the EHF Challenge Cup 2011/12 we again reached the semi-finals.
- Cup of Portugal (Hall ): 1952, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986 and 2000
- Cup of Portugal (Hall ): 1972, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012 and 2013
- Cup of Portugal (field): 1961, 1965 and 1966
- EHF Challenge Cup winner: 2010
Roller Hockey
Roller hockey was added to the program at Sporting in 1924 and was able to after a break in 1936 establish definitively. Since then arrive next seven national championships and four Cup victories and five hits in European Wettbenwerben. The most significant success was the victory in the European Cup of Champions in 1977, where Sporting defeated in the finals CD Villanova from Spain with 6:0 and 6:3.
- European Cup of Champions: 1970.
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1981, 1985, 1991.
- CERS Cup: 1984.
- Master of Portugal: 1939, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1988.
- Cup of Portugal: 1976, 1977, 1984, 1990.
Other well-known athletes
- Joaquim Agostinho, cycling