Sporting CP Youth Academy

Sporting C.P. Youth Academy

Full name	Sporting Clube de Portugal Youth Academy
Ground	Academia Sporting Alcochete
Website	Club website

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.

Youth Squads[]

Sporting U23 team[]

As of 30 October 2021^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  POR Diogo Pinto — GK  POR Vasco Gaspar — GK  POR Pedro Miguéis — DF  POR David Monteiro — DF  POR Tiago Santos — DF  POR Rafael Lopes — DF  POR Diogo Travassos — DF  POR Alex Mendes — DF  POR Emanuel Fernandes — DF  GNB Gilberto Batista — DF  POR Rafael Fernandes — DF  NOR August Frobenius — DF  POR Martim Marques — DF  POR Adriano Almeida — MF  ANG Domingos Andrade — MF  POR Renato Veiga

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  POR João Daniel Santos — MF  POR Daniel Rodrigues — MF  GAM Lamarana Jallow — MF  POR Marco Cruz — MF  POR Mateus Fernandes — MF  POR Gonçalo Batalha — MF  POR Miguel Menino — FW  GNB Isnaba Mané — FW  POR Kiko Félix — FW  POR Rafael Moreira — FW  POR Danilo Luís — FW  POR Diogo Cabral — FW  POR Luís Gomes — FW  NOR Nicolai Skoglund — FW  POR Rui Reis — FW  POR Youssef Chermiti

Staff

• Head Coach: Filipe Pedro
• Assistant Coach: Tiago Farinha
• Assistant Coach: João Pereira
• GK Coach: Dário Ezequiel
• Fitness Coach: Bruno Dias

Sporting U19 team - Juniores[]

As of 1 September 2021^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  POR David Ivanov — GK  POR Francisco Silva — GK  POR Pedro Miguéis — DF  NOR August Frobenius — DF  POR Óscar Garcia — DF  POR João Muniz — DF  POR João Pereira — DF  POR David Moreira — DF  POR Gonçalo Braga — DF  POR Diogo Travassos — MF  POR Eduardo Barbosa

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  POR Tiago Augusto — MF  POR Tiago Octávio — MF  POR Rafael Besugo — MF  POR Samuel Justo — MF  POR Rafael Carvalho — FW  POR Lucas Anjos — FW  POR Rodrigo Ribeiro — FW  POR Rodrigo Marquês — FW  POR André Gonçalves — FW  POR Luís Gomes

Staff

• Head Coach: Pedro Coelho
• Assistant Coach: Paulo Carvalho
• Assistant Coach: Bernardo Caetano
• GK Coach: Rodolfo Vieira
• Fitness Coach: Pedro Cardoso

Sporting U17 team - Juvenis[]

As of 1 September 2021^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  POR Guilherme Pires — GK  POR Martim Botão — GK  POR Salvador Gomes — DF  POR Miguel Alves — DF  POR Marlon Júnior — DF  POR Guilherme Silva — DF  POR Rodrigo Dias — DF  POR Bernardo Carapinha — DF  POR Leonardo Barroso — DF  POR Carlos Santos — DF  POR Guilherme Flor — DF  POR José Silva — DF  POR Pedro Silva — MF  POR Rayhan Momade

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  POR Américo Silá — MF  POR Rafael Nel — MF  GNB Sérgio Matos — MF  POR Guilherme Santos — MF  POR Alexandre Brito — MF  GNB Mamadu Djaló — MF  POR Henrique Arreiol — MF  POR Manuel Mendonça — FW  BRA Gustavo António — FW  POR Saná Fernandes — FW  ANG Adair Kandala — FW  POR Vivaldo Semedo — FW  POR Afonso Moreira — FW  POR Pedro Sanca

Staff

• Head Coach: José João
• Assistant Coach: André Krus
• Assistant Coach: José Caldeira
• GK Coach: Luis Caetano
• Fitness Coach: João Marmeleira

Sporting U15 team - Iniciados[]

As of 1 September 2021^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  POR Rodrigo Pedro — GK  POR Miguel Gouveia — GK  POR Tiago Gaeiras — GK  POR Miguel Félix — DF  POR Rafael Borges — DF  POR Pedro Andrade — DF  POR Rafael Mota — DF  POR Joel Moura — DF  POR Denilson Santos — DF  POR Cristiano Palamarchuk — DF  POR Afonso Lee — DF  POR Rodrigo Cabrito — DF  POR Atanásio Cunha — DF  POR Daniel Costa — MF  POR Sandro Nascimento

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  POR Rafael Camacho — MF  POR João Simões — MF  POR João Correia — MF  POR Eduardo Felicíssimo — MF  POR Flávio Gonçalves — MF  POR João Rodrigues — MF  POR Gonçalo Correia — FW  POR Tomás Mendes — FW  STP Winilson Lopes — FW  POR Gabriel Silva — FW  POR Afonso Moço — FW  POR Rafael Melo — FW  POR Miguel Almeida — FW  POR Pedro Correia — FW  POR Salvador Blopa

Staff

• Head Coach: Bernardo Bruschy
• Assistant Coaches: Fábio Roque
• Assistant Coaches: João Lourenço
• GK Coach: João Santos

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.^[5][6]

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.^[7] 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.^[8]

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 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).^[5]

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
		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	179	109	1st (2008,2016,2017)	1st (2008, 2016, 2017)	1st (2013, 2014)
Eric Dier	England	45	3	-	-	-
Hugo Viana	Portugal	29	1	-	-	-
João Moutinho	Portugal	135	7	-	-	-
João Mário	Portugal	45	2	-	-	-
Jorge Cadete	Portugal	33	5	-	-	-
José Fonte	Portugal	46	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 Veloso	Portugal	56	3	-	-	-
Nani	Portugal	112	24	-	-	22nd (2011)
Nuno Valente	Portugal	33	1	-	-	-
Paulo Futre	Portugal	41	6	2nd (1987)	-	-
Rui Águas	Portugal	31	10	-	-	-
Rui Patrício	Portugal	97	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	68	4	-	-	-
Bold denotes players still playing professional football. Caps and goals are correct as of 1 July 2021.

References[]

External links[]

• The Sporting CP academy way – These Football Times (2015)