In fact, the real name of Sporting Football Club Lisbon is Sporting Football Club Portugal, nicknamed "Lion" or "Green and White Legion". However, due to historical reasons, people used to call it Sporting Lisbon outside Portugal, and the club once deliberately cleared its name, but later found it too difficult to accept the fact that there were different names at home and abroad.

Sporting Lisbon 1902, Viscount Holtermann, the first president of the club, borrowed money from his grandfather to buy land and proposed to form a team. At that time, it was called "Belas Athletic Club", 1904 was renamed as "Grassland Athletic Club", and 1906 was renamed as "Portuguese Athletic Club". So far, people have long been used to calling it "Lisbon Athletic".

Portuguese Sports (Sporting Lisbon) has more than 90,000 members. Since the 1930s, Portuguese sports have been in the forefront of the Portuguese League, and the worst result is only the fifth in the League. However, the performance at home and abroad is declining. Not only is the total number of domestic league titles surpassed by Porto Football Club, ranking only at the bottom of the top three, but there is only one European Cup Winners' Cup winner in European events, far behind Benfica and Porto, who won the European Champions Cup twice respectively.

Like Benfica, Portuguese sports has many sports teams, and its youth training base is one of the best in the world. Figo, the soul of Portugal's golden generation, Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani were all trained here, and many European clubs often choose this place as the summer training venue.

General situation of Portuguese sports clubs

Portuguese Sports Club is a Portuguese sports club founded in 1902, located in Lisbon, Portugal, and adopted its current name in 1906. The home of the football team is Jose alvarado Stadium.

The Portuguese Sports Club itself is not purely a football club, but also an organization of various sports, including track and field, tennis, swimming, boxing and even chess. The outstanding achievement of the club is football, and the league can be ranked in the forefront in recent years.

In the Portuguese Super League, Portugal won the championship after Benfica and Porto, and was called Portugal's top three with the top two. Portugal has the best youth training system in Portugal and even Europe, and has trained excellent stars including Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani.

Alvarado Stadium is located in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and it is also one of the largest football fields in Portugal. The name of the club is named after the founder. The stadium can accommodate 52,000 people at its peak. It is often used by the European Football Association as a neutral position for holding European finals, including the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Cup.