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Sporting Clube de Portugal, otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting, or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon. Having various sports departments and sporting disciplines, it is best known for its men's professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.
The Primeira Liga, officially known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, it is contested by 18 teams since the 2014–15 season, with the three lowest-placed teams relegated to the Liga Portugal 2 and replaced by the top-three non-reserve teams from this division.
The Latin Cup was an international official football tournament for club sides from the Southwest European nations of France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In 1949, the football federations came together and requested FIFA launch the competition. European clubs could not afford hefty travel costs, so competition was staged at the end of every season in a single host country. The competition featured two semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and a final.
Clube de Desportos do Maxaquene, usually known simply as Maxaquene, is a sports club based in Maputo, Mozambique. The club is nicknamed Maxaca. Currently, besides football (soccer) there are two indoor sports, namely, basketball and handball. In such sports Maxaquene is the club with the most national titles after independence. Maxaquene won its first post-independence title in football, the Taça de Moçambique, in 1978. Prior to Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975, CD Maxaquene were known as Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques or simply Sporting de Lourenço Marques, and was the branch number 6 of Lisbon-based Sporting Clube de Portugal. Under this name, both the legendary Eusébio and Hilário, played for the club.
Sporting Clube de Portugal is a professional futsal club part of the Sporting CP sports club. Based in Lisbon, the section was founded in 1985, and began playing in the newly created Portuguese First division in 1990. As inaugural winners 1990-91 season, they are the most decorated team in Portugal and a founding member of Portuguese Futsal, having won the UEFA Futsal Champions League two times.
AP Hotels & Resorts–Tavira–SC Farense, also known as Clube de Ciclismo de Tavira is a Portuguese professional cycling team, founded in 1979, which is based in Tavira, in the Portuguese region of Algarve. It is one of the European teams in the UCI Continental Tour.
Sports in Portugal are important in Portuguese culture. High-profile, successful competitive athleticism and sportsmanship in Portugal can be traced back to the time of Ancient Rome. Gaius Appuleius Diocles was a noteworthy charioteer born in Lamego who became one of the most celebrated athletes in ancient history. He is often cited as the highest-paid athlete of all time. Football is the most popular sport in Portugal. Other than football, many other professional or semi-professional well organized sport competitions take place every season in Portugal, including basketball, swimming, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, futsal, rink hockey, team handball, volleyball, surfing, canoeing and rugby union championships among the hundreds of sports played in this country.
Christopher Ian Scott, OAM is a former Australian Paralympic cyclist. He has won ten medals at six Games from 1988 to 2008.
The Lisbon University Stadium is a unit within the University of Lisbon, and a multivenue park located in Alvalade, Lisbon, comprising several sports facilities, and mostly known for its main venue and namesake, the Estádio de Honra, a multi-use stadium. It also includes several indoors arenas, tennis courts, football fields, a golf course, a swimming pool complex and a medical centre. It was under direct government management until 2013, when it was integrated in the university.
The Academia Cristiano Ronaldo, formerly known as Academia Sporting and also known as Academia de Alcochete, is the name given to the football training facilities of Sporting Clube de Portugal, located outside Alcochete, in Setúbal District, Portugal. It includes the Sporting CP Youth Academy which helped to develop footballers such as Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo from a young age. Both Sporting CP B, the reserve men's football team of Sporting CP's main squad, and the main Sporting CP women's football team, play their home matches at the Estádio Aurélio Pereira in the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo, which holds a seating capacity of 1,200.
Sporting Clube de Portugal is a professional multi-sports club, with a roller hockey section, from Lisbon, Portugal. They compete in the Portuguese First Division, the top-tier league in the country, and dispute their home matches at João Rocha Arena. Roller Hockey at Sporting CP is highly successful and popular sports’ mobility followed, after its football department and the club being one of the biggest 4 teams' in Portugal. Due to the popularity of the sport and the success of the national side, many of Sporting's past and present players have represented Portugal many times over the years at international level.
Clube de Futebol Esperança de Lagos(abbreviated as CF Esperança de Lagos or CF Esperança Lagos), usually referred to as Esperança de Lagos, is a Portuguese football club based in Lagos in the Algarve. CF Esperança de Lagos currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, which is the fourth tier of Portuguese football and they play their home matches at the Municipal de Lagos in Lagos. The club is affiliated to Associação de Futebol do Algarve and has competed in the AF Algarve Taça. It has also entered the national cup competition known as Taça de Portugal on many occasions.
Sporting Clube de Portugal B is the reserve team of Portuguese football club Sporting CP, a team based in Lisbon. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cannot play in the same division as their senior team, so Sporting B is ineligible for promotion to the Primeira Liga and could not play in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga. The team play at the Estádio Aurélio Pereira in the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo which holds a seating capacity of 1,200.
Sporting Clube de Portugal Feminino is a Portuguese women's football team from Lisbon. It is the women's football section of Sporting Clube de Portugal. The team won the national championship and the Portuguese Women's Cup in 2016–17 and 2017–18.
Sporting Clube de Portugal is a Portuguese professional cycling team that existed from 1911 to 2010 and was refounded in 2020. It is part of the Sporting Clube de Portugal sports club based in Lisbon. It participated in the 1978 and 1984 editions of the Tour de France, with Paulo Ferreira's victory in the fifth stage in 1984 the team's sole win of the race.
Inês Teixeira Pereira is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Deportivo de La Coruña, on loan from Everton, and the Portugal women's national team.
Joana Filipa Gaspar Silva Marchão is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Swiss club Servette and the Portugal women's national team. She has previously played for CA Ouriense, Sporting CP and Parma.
Grupo Sportivo de Loures is a Portuguese football club located in Loures, Portugal.
