Sporting Clube de Portugal has a football training facility (Academia Sporting in Alcochete), which accommodated Portugal during the Euro 2004 competition. Sporting youth system help developed footballers such as Ballon d'Or recipients Cristiano Ronaldo and Luís Figo.
| Full name | Sporting Clube de Portugal Youth Academy |
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| Ground | Sporting/Puma Academy Alcochete |
| Website | Club website |
Youth Squads
Sporting U23 team
- As of 3 April 2021
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
- Head Coach: Filipe Pedro
- Assistant Coach: António Ribeiro
- Assistant Coach: Pedro Guerreiro
- Assistant Coach: Tiago Farinha
- Fitness Coach: Carlos Bruno
- GK Coach: Dário Ezequiel
Sporting U19 team - Juniores
- As of 4 June 2021
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
- Head Coach: Pedro Coelho
- Assistant Coach: Paulo Carvalho
- Assistant Coach: Bernardo Caetano
- Fitness Coach: Pedro Cardoso
- GK Coach: Rodolfo Vieira
Sporting U17 team - Juvenis
- As of 23 August 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
- Head Coach: João Couto
- Assistant Coach: João Gonçalves
- Assistant Coach: João Vargas
- Fitness Coach: Filipe Antunes
- GK Coach: Nuno Almeida
Sporting U17 B team - Juvenis (Distritais)
- As of 9 September 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
- Head Coach: Paulo Alexandre Nunes
- Assistant Coach: João Gonçalves
- GK Coach: Nuno Almeida
Sporting U15 team - Iniciados
- As of 25 August 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
- Head Coach: Pedro Coelho
- Assistant Coaches: Paulo Carvalho
- Assistant Coaches: Francisco Nobre
- GK Coach: Gonçalo Simões
Sporting U15 B team - Iniciados (Distritais)
- As of 9 September 2016
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
- Head Coach: Tiago Capaz
- Assistant Coach: Marco Santos
- Assistant Coach: Gonçalo Cruz
- GK Coach: João Spínola
The Academy
Sporting's Academy was also the first and only sports academy in Europe to receive the ISO9001:2008 – a quality certification awarded by EIC, a Portuguese anonymous society responsible for this type of reward, which is recognised both locally and internationally.[1][2]
Facilities
Budgeted around 2000$00 million (2 million contos), the construction of the academy commenced in August 1999 in the council of Alcochete, located on the outskirts of Lisbon on the southern bank of the river Tejo, and the inauguration was on June 21, 2002.[3] The main building of the academy has two different areas, the professional football area and the youth area. In both sides there is medical center equipped with treatment rooms, gym, Turkish bath, Jacuzzi and bedrooms. In the youth area, there are also several study rooms. The Academy is equipped with a main field, four grass pitches for training, a synthetic field and a grassed area for goalkeepers training.[4]
Sporting's youth academy was one of the training grounds for the Portugal national football team during Euro 2004. A number of European clubs choose the Sporting's Academia for training in the off-season.
Youth Program
Sporting CP helped produce two FIFA World Player of the Year winners (Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo), two Ballon d'Or winners (Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo) and one runner-up (Paulo Futre), and one FIFA Ballon d'Or winner (Cristiano Ronaldo).
Notable Academy graduates
- List criteria
- Player has made 25 appearances or more for his country at full international level
- Player who has been at least nominated for a "world's best men's player" award (Ballon d'Or, FIFA World Player of the Year / The Best FIFA Men's Player or FIFA Ballon d'Or).
| Name | Country | National Football Team | Best Result in Major Awards | ||||||
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| Apps | Goals | Ballon d'Or | FIFA World Player of the Year / The Best FIFA Men's Player | FIFA Ballon d'Or | |||||
| Adrien Silva |  Portugal | 26 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Augusto Inácio | Portugal | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | |||
| Beto | Portugal | 31 | 2 | - | - | - | |||
| Cédric Soares | Portugal | 34 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 173 | 103 | 1st (2008,2016,2017) | 1st (2008, 2016, 2017) | 1st (2013, 2014) | |||
| Eric Dier |  England | 45 | 3 | - | - | - | |||
| Houssine Kharja |  Morocco | 78 | 13 | - | - | - | |||
| Hugo Viana | Portugal | 29 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| João Moutinho | Portugal | 113 | 7 | - | - | - | |||
| João Mário | Portugal | 45 | 2 | - | - | - | |||
| Jorge Cadete | Portugal | 33 | 5 | - | - | - | |||
| José Fonte | Portugal | 45 | 0 | - | - | - | |||
| Luís Boa Morte | Portugal | 28 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Luís Figo | Portugal | 127 | 32 | 1st (2000) | 1st (2001) | - | |||
| Marco Caneira | Portugal | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | |||
| Manuel Bento | Portugal | 63 | 0 | - | - | - | |||
| Miguel | Portugal | 59 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Miguel Veloso | Portugal | 56 | 3 | - | - | - | |||
| Nani | Portugal | 112 | 24 | - | - | 22nd (2011) | |||
| Nuno Valente | Portugal | 33 | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Paíto |  Mozambique | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | |||
| Paulo Futre | Portugal | 41 | 6 | 2nd (1987) | - | - | |||
| Rui Águas | Portugal | 31 | 10 | - | - | - | |||
| Rui Patrício | Portugal | 92 | 0 | 12th (2016) | - | - | |||
| Ricardo Quaresma | Portugal | 80 | 10 | Nominee (2007) | Nominee (2006) | - | |||
| Silvestre Varela | Portugal | 27 | 5 | - | - | - | |||
| Simão | Portugal | 85 | 22 | - | - | - | |||
| Vítor Damas | Portugal | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | |||
| William Carvalho | Portugal | 64 | 4 | - | - | - | |||
| Bold denotes players still playing professional football. Caps and goals are correct as of 16 September 2018. | |||||||||
References
- ^ "Academia Sporting is the best in Europe" (in Portuguese). DN. 2010-01-18. Archived from the original on 2012-07-19.
- ^ "Quality Academy" (in Portuguese). Record. 2010-01-18.
- ^ "O futuro começa hoje" [The future begins today]. Record (in Portuguese). June 21, 2002. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
- ^ "A Academia" [The Academy]. Record (in Portuguese). June 21, 2002. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
External links
- The Sporting CP academy way – These Football Times (2015)
