Club facts: Sporting CP
Monday, August 1, 2022
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Sporting Clube de Portugal
Formed: 1906
Nickname: Leões (Lions)
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
UEFA Cup: (2005)
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1964
Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 19 (2021)
Portuguese Cup: 17 (2019)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
2022/23: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2021/22: UEFA Champions League round of 16
2020/21: qualifying play-offs
2019/20: round of 32
2018/19: round of 32
2017/18: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2016/17: UEFA Champions League group stage
2015/16: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs)
2014/15: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition
Records
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
16-1: Sporting CP v APOEL
13/11/63, European Cup Winners' Cup second round first leg
Biggest away win
0-9: ÍA Akranes v Sporting CP
17/09/86, UEFA Cup first round first leg
Heaviest home defeat
0-5 twice, most recently v Manchester City
15/02/22, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg
Heaviest away defeat
7-1: Bayern München v Sporting CP
10/03/09, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg
UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
Biggest home win
7-0: Sporting CP v Politehnica Timisoara
24/10/90, second round first leg
Biggest away win
0-9: ÍA Akranes v Sporting CP (see above)
Heaviest home defeat
1-4: Sporting CP v LASK
01/10/20, qualifying play-off
0-3: Sporting CP v Gençlerbirligi
27/11/03, second round second leg
Heaviest away defeat
5-0: Celtic v Sporting CP
02/11/83, second round second leg