Rugby team
Sporting
Club · Portugal · Andebol 1
«The Lions»
Sporting go into this season as reigning champions of Andebol 1 and holders of the Taça de Portugal, having taken both again in 2025–26. Not since the club last dropped out of the top flight — which is to say never — has the green and white shirt been away from the division's summit for long.
Sporting have added two European Cups along the way, both against the Polish side MMTS Kwidzyn, in 2010 and again in 2017, and have twice reached the Champions League quarter-finals in the two most recent seasons without yet going further.
None of it was guaranteed. In 1995, with the handball section short of money, members were asked directly whether to keep it running alongside futsal, and voted to save it rather than let Sporting's oldest amateur department close. The section has not finished outside the top since.
The rivalry that matters most still runs across Lisbon, against Benfica, sharpened by the same city and the same decades of shared silverware; Porto supply the other fixture nobody takes lightly.
Ricardo Costa has coached the team since 2021, the years in which Sporting turned a strong domestic side back into a European one and pushing the club to its best Champions League finishes in its history.
Latest results
All matches| 9 Sep | Champions League |
GOG
A
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| 9 Sep | Champions League |
Szeged
A
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| 9 Sep | Champions League |
IFK Kristianstad
H
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| 9 Sep | Champions League |
Szeged
H
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| 5 Sep | Supercopa Iberica |
Barcelona
A
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34:39 | L |
| 4 Sep | Supercopa Iberica |
Bidasoa Irun
A
|
31:29 | W |
Standing
Champions LeagueGroup stage · Group D
| # | Team | M | W | L | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
GOG
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 |
Sporting
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 |
Szeged
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 |
IFK Kristianstad
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted: 217| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 217 | 105 | 112 |
| Scored | 7635 | 3839 | 3796 |
| Conceded | 6021 | 2884 | 3137 |
| Scored per game | 35.2 | 36.6 | 33.9 |
| Conceded per game | 27.7 | 27.5 | 28.0 |
| Difference | +1614 | +955 | +659 |
Fixtures of Sporting
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10 Sep · 19:45
GOG
H
Champions League
-
13 Sep · 16:00
ABC Braga
A
Andebol 1
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16 Sep · 17:45
IFK Kristianstad
A
Champions League
-
19 Sep · 18:30
Benfica
H
Andebol 1
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23 Sep · 20:00
Belenenses
A
Andebol 1
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26 Sep · 18:00
Carvalhos
H
Andebol 1
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29 Sep · 19:00
BM Torrelavega
H
EHF European League
-
29 Sep · 19:00
BM Torrelavega
A
EHF European League
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9 Sep
GOG
A
-
9 Sep
Szeged
A
-
9 Sep
IFK Kristianstad
H
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9 Sep
Szeged
H
-
5 Sep
Barcelona
A
34:39
L
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4 Sep
Bidasoa Irun
A
31:29
W
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29 Aug
Santo Tirso
H
37:25
W
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26 Aug
Avanca
H
46:23
W
Honours of Sporting
- Andebol 1 1952, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2024, 2025, 2026 24
- Taça de Portugal 1972, 1973, 1975, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 20
- Supertaça Portuguesa de Andebol 2002, 2013, 2023, 2024, 2025 5
- EHF European Cup 2010, 2017 2
Transfers
TransfersArrivals
- I. Ba Famalicão 26/27 €21.25M
- Rodrigo Dias Sporting B 26/27
- Issa Doumbia Venezia 26/27 €20.53M
- Silas Andersen Häcken 26/27 €7.25M
- Sergi Altimira Real Betis 26/27 €18.25M
- J. Derry Chelsea U21 26/27
Departures
- Diogo Travassos Braga 26/27 €5.50M
- J. Derry Chelsea U21 26/27
- Souleymane Faye FC Lorient 26/27
- Giorgi Kochorashvili Sevilla FC 26/27 €4.50M
- Ricardo Mangas Monza 26/27
- Hidemasa Morita Hull City 26/27