Sporting Lisbon
Nation : Portugal, Year of Establishment : 1906
Stadium : Estadio Jose Alvalade (50,076 Seats)
Seasons in Portuguese Liga : 83 (All)
All-Time Portuguese Liga Ranking : 3rd
Portuguese Liga : Winner (18), Runner-Up (21)
Portuguese Cup : Winner (20), Runner-Up (16)
Portuguese Double Champion : 6
UEFA Cup : RN(1-B), SF(1-A,1-B), QF(1-A,1-B), R16(2-A,1-B)
Cup Winners’ Cup : WN (1), SF (1), QF (1)
European Cup : QF (1-A), R16 (1-B), R24(2-B)
All-Time Top-Scorer : Fernando Peyroteo : (529 Goals)
The Greatest Player Ever : Fernando Peyroteo
The Greatest Manager Ever : Candido De Oliviera
All-Time XI : Victor Damas, Hilario, Alvaro, Luisinho, Jose Carlos, Fernando Mendes, Jose Travacos, Albano Parreira, Luis Figo, Manuel Vasques, Fernando Peyroteo
Sporting Clube de Portugal is a famous Portuguese club from Lisbon. Júlio de Araújo, who would later become the president of Sporting and is a keen historian of the founding process of Sporting. During the 1920s, Sporting won its first Campeonato de Portugal (1922/23), a competition regarded as the National title although it was contested as a knockout competition. The '40s and '50s were fabulous years for Sporting. They won 10 out of 18 National Football Championships during these decades, with 4 out of 13 Portuguese cups also on the club's roll of honour. From the 1946 to 1954, Sporting won seven of the eight championships contested. This was the age of the famous Cinco Violinos ("Five Violins") that became famous on both the national and international levels. It is unfortunate for Sporting that UEFA did not launch the European competition earlier, otherwise Sporting could almost certainly successful. Sporting Portugal honorably played the first ever European Cup match in 1955. It holds the record most goals in a Portuguese Liga season with 123 in the 1946 - 1947 season.