Full Name: Sporting Clube de Portugal City: Lisbon Founded: 1906 Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade XXI (50,466) Colors: Black, Green, White Previous: Sport Club de Belas (1902-04), Campo Grande Sporting Club (1904-06) Nicknames: Os Leões (The Lions), Verde e Brancos (Green-Whites), Lagartos (Lizards) Rivals: Benfica, FC Porto
Like many Portuguese clubs, Sporting are a multi-sport club, though football is clearly the most important. Within Portugal, the club are known only as Sporting. Fans are called Sportinguistas. One of the Portuguese Big Three. Hosted the first-ever European match, a 1955 European Cup encounter with Partizan Belgrade.
Sports map specialist Bill Turianski contributes an article to Albion Road roughly once a month, bringing us something from his collection of sports maps.