

Some time later, José Gavazzo, José Alvalade and 17 other members left the club, with the latter saying, "I am going to have with me my grandfather and he will give me the money to make another club." As such, a new club, Sporting Clube de Portugal, was founded. Eventually, during one picnic, on 12 April 1906, discussions erupted, as some members defended that the club should only be focused on organizing picnics and social events, with another group defending that the club should be focused on the practising of sports instead. The club also organized parties and picnics.

Alfredo Holtreman, Viscount of Alvalade was the first President, sponsor and protector of Sporting.įor two years, the club developed an intense activity on several sports, namely football, tennis and fencing. José Alvalade borrowed money from his grandfather in order to found Sporting. They played their matches on the estate of the Viscount of Alvalade (Alfredo Holtreman), José Alvalade's grandfather, with the club's headquarters located in Francisco Gavazzo's home. Two years later, the idea of creating a football club was revived, and this time, with the Gavazzo brothers joined by José Alvalade (José Holtreman Roquette) and José Stromp: a new club, the Campo Grande Football Club, was founded. This club, the first ancestor of Sporting, played just one match and at the end of the year's summer, disbanded. Sporting Clube de Portugal has its origins in June 1902, when young men Francisco da Ponte, Horta Gavazzo and his brother José Maria decided to create Sport Club de Belas. 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. In Europe, they won the 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup and were runners-up at the UEFA Cup in 2005. 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. Sporting are the third most decorated Portuguese football team, with 54 major trophies. The club's indoor arena is the Pavilhão João Rocha multi-sports pavilion. Their home ground has been the Estádio José Alvalade, built in 2003, which replaced the previous one, built-in 1956. It is also among the top three Portuguese sports clubs in number of non-affiliated fans. Sporting is the second largest sports club by membership in Portugal, with more than 160,000 paying members, and the sixth in the world. The club's anthem is called "A Marcha do Sporting" ("Sporting's March", written in 1955) and its supporters are called sportinguistas. 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. įounded 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. Its youth academy has helped produce footballers such as Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Noted for the wide array of sports departments and sporting disciplines it houses, as well as for the number of trophies won by them, it is best known for its men's professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Sporting Clube de Portugal ( Portuguese pronunciation: ), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon.
