Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP is a professional multi-sports club, with a

roller hockey Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using wheeled skates. It can be played with traditional roller skates (quad skates) or with inline skates and use either a ball or puck. Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 cou ...

section, from

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

. 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. In domestic competitions, they have won 9 league titles, 5 Portuguese Cups, 2 Portuguese Super Cups and two Portuguese Elite Cups. At international level, the team has won 4 WSE Champions League titles, 2 WSE Cups, 3 CERH Cup Winners' Cups and 2 WSE Continental Cups. By winning the 2023-24 edition against

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association footbal ...

in the final four and

UD Oliveirense União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), commonly known as Oliveirense, is a Portugal, Portuguese sports club from the city of Oliveira de Azeméis, in Aveiro District. The club was founded on 25 October 1922. The main football (soccer), football te ...

in an all Portuguese final, Sporting CP are currently the most successful Portuguese side internationally and were the first Portuguese team to win the WSE Champions League (formally the Euroleague) in the 1976-77 edition..

Facilities

Pavilhão João Rocha

Pavilhão João Rocha Pavilhão João Rocha is a multi-sports pavilion located in Lisbon, next to the Estádio José Alvalade and it is the home of Sporting CP sports. The pavilion is named after João Rocha, a former club president who remained in office from Sept ...

is a multi-sports pavilion located in the parish of Lumiar, in Lisbon. Located next to the

Estádio José Alvalade The Estádio José Alvalade (; ') is a Football (soccer), football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, home of Sporting Clube de Portugal. It was built adjacent to the site of the Estádio José Alvalade (1956), older stadium. The stadium is named afte ...

, it is the home of Sporting CP sports. In honor of one of the most distinguished figures in the history of Sporting, the pavilion was named after former club president,

João Rocha João António dos Anjos Rocha (9 July 1930 – 8 March 2013) was a Portuguese entrepreneur, investor and sports manager. He was president of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP) between 7 September 1973 and 3 October 1986. Presidency of ...

, who remained in office from September 1973 to October 1986. Its inauguration took place on the day June 21, 2017.

Honours

National

* Portuguese First Division: 9 1938–39, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1987–88, 2017–18, 2020–21 *

Portuguese Second Division Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

: 3 1969–70, 2003–04, 2011–12 * Portuguese Third Division: 2 1999–00, 2010–11 * Portuguese Cup: 5 1975–76, 1976–77, 1983–84, 1989–90, 2024-25 * Portuguese Super Cup: 2 1983, 2020 * Elite Cup : Winners: 2016, 2018

International

* WSE Champions League: 4 1976–77, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2023-24 * WSE Cup: 2 1983–84, 2014–15 *

Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winne ...

: 3 1980–81, 1984–85, 1990–91 * WSE Continental Cup: 2 2019, 2021

Current squad

References

External links

Official website
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