Among Portuguese clubs, Sporting is presently a third club in the Portuguese overall championship. It boasts the newly bowl, Estádio José Alvalade XXI, built for the 2004 European Football Championship, that hosted the 2005 UEFA Cup final in which Sporting misplaced to CSKA Moscow. Sporting besides has the globe-class football step by step training facility (Academia Sporting in Alcochete).

Sporting has developed several top football player inside recent years; a bit of of the virtually all luminary come Paulo Futre (Retired), Luis Figo (Inter Milan) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) and as well others that failed to produce an impression outside Portugal, like previous FC Barcelona players Ricardo Quaresma (who joined FC Porto in 2004) and Simão Sabrosa (joined SL Benfica in 2001). Hugo Viana, the merely giving to Sporting, joined in loan from either Newcastle United in 2004. A club captured Eighteen prizewinning titles, Thirteen cups & won a previous Cup Winners' Cup in 1964, their only european win.

Sporting besides occurs as major team inside futsal, around which it won a league in 2003/2004. However Sporting has many sections otherwise football, among the babies athletics (members include world-class athlete Francis Obikwelu), swimming, handball, table tennis and rink hockey.
Current Football Squad (2005/06 season)