| Clubname: | Academia Sporting |
| Fullname: | Academia Sporting Clube de Portugal |
| Nickname: | Alcochete |
| Founded: | 1 July 1906 |
| Ground: | Academia Cristiano Ronaldo |
| Capacity: | 1.200 |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Website: | https://escolasacademia.sporting.pt/ |
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The Sporting CP Youth Academy is the youth development division of Sporting CP and part of Academia Cristiano Ronaldo in Alcochete. Sporting CP's youth system, which counted for several decades with Aurélio Pereira among its scouting staff,[1] helped develop footballers such as Paulo Futre, Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo.[2]
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Sporting's Academy was 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 certification, which is recognised both locally and internationally.[11] [12]
Budgeted at around 2,000,000,000$00 million (2 million contos), the construction of the academy commenced in August 1999 in the municipality of Alcochete, located on the outskirts of Lisbon on the southern bank of the river Tejo, and the inauguration was on 21 June 21 2002.[13] 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.[14]
Sporting's youth academy and the larger Sporting Academy in general 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.
Sporting CP Youth Program 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).
| Name | Country | National Football Team | Best Result in Major Awards | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Ballon d'Or | FIFA World Player of the Year / The Best FIFA Men's Player | FIFA Ballon d'Or | ||||||
| Adrien Silva | 26 | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| Augusto Inácio | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | |||||
| Beto | 31 | 2 | - | - | - | |||||
| Cédric Soares | 34 | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| Cristiano Ronaldo | 184 | 115 | 1st (2008,2016,2017) | 1st (2008, 2016, 2017) | 1st (2013, 2014) | |||||
| Eric Dier | 45 | 3 | - | - | - | |||||
| Hugo Viana | 29 | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| João Moutinho | 135 | 7 | - | - | - | |||||
| João Mário | 45 | 2 | - | - | - | |||||
| Jorge Cadete | 33 | 5 | - | - | - | |||||
| José Fonte | 46 | 0 | - | - | - | |||||
| Luís Boa Morte | 28 | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| Luís Figo | 127 | 32 | 1st (2000) | 1st (2001) | - | |||||
| Marco Caneira | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | |||||
| Manuel Bento | 63 | 0 | - | - | - | |||||
| Mica Pinto | 27 | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| Miguel Veloso | 56 | 3 | - | - | - | |||||
| Nani | 112 | 24 | - | - | 22nd (2011) | |||||
| Nuno Valente | 33 | 1 | - | - | - | |||||
| Paulo Futre | 41 | 6 | 2nd (1987) | - | - | |||||
| Rui Águas | 31 | 10 | - | - | - | |||||
| Rui Patrício | 97 | 0 | 12th (2016) | - | - | |||||
| Ricardo Quaresma | 80 | 10 | Nominee (2007) | Nominee (2006) | - | |||||
| Silvestre Varela | 27 | 5 | - | - | - | |||||
| Simão | 85 | 22 | - | - | - | |||||
| Vítor Damas | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | |||||
| William Carvalho | 68 | 4 | - | - | - | |||||
| Bold denotes players still playing professional football. Caps and goals are correct as of 26 January 2022. | ||||||||||
The youth development division includes the Pólo EUL, Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth development campus at the Estádio Universitário de Lisboa (6 to 13 years old children),[15] [16] [17] and the Aurélio Pereira Academy located at the football fields next to the Pavilhão João Rocha, within a short walking distance from the Estádio José Alvalade.[18] [19]
The Escolas Academia Sporting (EAS – Sporting Academy Schools) are football training schools affiliated with Sporting CP. Boys and girls aged 4 to 15 are eligible to get admission in the EAS, which are in operation in several locations across Portugal.[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] Angola, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Singapore, South Africa and Spain, among other countries,[30] are foreign countries where the EAS have been founded.[31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41]