Sporting Clube de Portugal, otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, is a Portuguese
women's football Women's football most often refers to:
* Women's association football
Women's football may also refer to:
* Women's gridiron football
* Women's Australian rules football
* Ladies' Gaelic football
* Women's rugby league
* Women's rugby union
...
team 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 ...
. It is the women's football section of
Sporting Clube de Portugal
Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries, . The team won the national championship and the Portuguese Women's Cup in 2016–17 and 2017–18.
History
Sporting CP had a women's football team in the 1990s that was established in 1991 during
Sousa Cintra's tenure as president of the sports club. In 1995, during the tenure of club president
Pedro Santana Lopes
Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes (; born 29 June 1956) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, who is the current mayor of Figueira da Foz. He most notably served as prime minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005.
Background and early life
Ped ...
, the women's football team was disbanded.
Then for 21 years there was no women's football in Sporting CP. The club, then headed by club president
Bruno de Carvalho
Bruno may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Bruno (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname
* Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880)
* Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologn ...
, reactivated the women's football team for the
2016–17 season and immediately won the national championship and
the Portuguese cup, qualifying for the
UEFA Women's Champions League
The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA.
...
for the first time.
Competitive record
Players
Current squad
Former players
Honours
*
Campeonato Nacional
: Winners (2):
2016–17,
2017–18
*
Taça de Portugal
The Taça de Portugal (; ) is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Generali Tranquilidade since the 2024–25 seaso ...
: Winners (3): 2016–17, 2017–18, 2021–22
*
Supertaça de Portugal
: Winners (3): 2017, 2021, 2024
References
External links
Sporting Clube de Portugal's website
Association football clubs established in 1991
1991 establishments in Portugal
Women's football clubs in Portugal
Sporting CP sports
Sport in Lisbon
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