Sporting CP (roller hockey) explained

Clubname:Sporting CP
Fullname:Sporting Clube de Portugal
Founded:1923
Ground:Pavilhão João Rocha
Capacity:3,000
Owner:Sporting CP
Chrtitle:President
Chairman:Frederico Varandas
Coach:Alejandro Domínguez
League:1ª Divisão
Season:2023–24
Position:First Division
Website:sporting.pt
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Sporting Clube de Portugal is a professional multi-sports club, with a roller hockey section, from Lisbon, Portugal. 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, 4 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 in the final four and UD Oliveirense 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 is a multi-sports pavilion located in the parish of Lumiar, in Lisbon. Located next to the Estádio José Alvalade, 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, who remained in office from September 1973 to October 1986. Its inauguration took place on the day June 21, 2017.

Honours

National

91938–39, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1981–82, 1987–88, 2017–18, 2020–21

31969–70, 2003–04, 2011–12

21999–00, 2010–11

41975–76, 1976–77, 1983–84, 1989–90

21983, 2020

Winners: 2016, 2018

International

4 1976–77, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2023-24

2 1983–84, 2014–15

3 1980–81, 1984–85, 1990–91

2 2019, 2021

Current squad

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Goalkeepers

Defenders/Midfielders

Forwards

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Roller Hockey Team. pt. Sporting CP. 4 September 2020.