Sporting

Club name: Sporting

Team name: Sporting

Country: The Portuguese Republic

Year of foundation: 1906

About club:

Club’s own alumnus in core team: Rui Patriciu (goalkeeper), Daniel Karrisu (guard), Tiagu Ilori (guard), Brunu Pereirinia (midfielder), Andre Santush (midfielder) and Andre Martinish (midfielder)  

About team: The team that represents Sporting at this tournament is composed of footballers born in the years of 1995 – 1996. More than half of the team players are members of junior national teams of their own countries. Sporting U-17 and U-16 teams lead at the regular championship.

About Academy:

Sporting is famous for its unique young football talent development system. Two graduates of Sporting school were recognized as the best players of the year in the world and in Europe, five alumni of the club are winners of the Champions League.

In 2002 Sporting established the Academy that became the first sports facility of such size and quality in Portugal. The Academy is one of the most modern, sophisticated and well-equipped institutions of this kind in Europe. Sporting Academy is the only in Europe that has ISO9001: 2008 quality certificate (the certificate was awarded in 2010). This certificate means that independent experts highly appreciated Academy’s mission, vision and values, its management system, quality of work with teams, sportsmen and their families, as well as performance of coaching and medical staff.    

Achievements:

Portugal Champion: 1941, 1944, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1982, 2000, 2002

Holder of Portugal Cup: 1941, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1954, 1963, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2008

Holder of Portugal Super Cup: 1982, 1987, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008

Holder of ECWC: 1964