Sporting CP B

Sporting Clube de Portugal B is the reserve team of Portuguese football club Sporting CP, a team based in Lisbon. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cannot play in the same division as their senior team, so Sporting B is ineligible for promotion to the Primeira Liga and could not play in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga. The team play at the Estádio Aurélio Pereira in the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo which holds a seating capacity of 1,200.

Sporting CP B
Full nameSporting Clube de Portugal B
Nickname(s)Leões (Lions)
Verde-e-Brancos (Green and Whites)
Short nameSporting B
Founded2000
2012 (refounded)
2020 (refounded)
Dissolved2004
2018
GroundEstádio Aurélio Pereira
Capacity1,200
PresidentFrederico Varandas
ManagerFilipe Celikkaya
LeagueLiga 3
2022–23Liga 3 Serie B, 5th (First stage)
Serie 3, 1st (Relegation Stage)
WebsiteClub website

Having been established in 2000, Sporting Portugal's B team operated until the end of the 2003–04 season when it was dissolved. The team was refounded in the 2012–13 season, when a new set of rules regarding B teams was introduced in the Portuguese football league system. In that season, another five B-teams were refounded and entered into Segunda Liga. In the 2017–18 season after the creation of a under-23 championship, club president Bruno de Carvalho announced the end of Sporting CP B.

President Frederico Varandas decided to refound Sporting CP B in 2019 and the team resumed operations in the 2020–21 Campeonato de Portugal. In 2021, Sporting CP B played in Liga 3, a new tier in the Portuguese league system.

History

Sporting CP had a B-team which competed in the third tier of the Portuguese football league system from 2000 to 2004.[1] This original iteration of Sporting CP B was the 1st club in the senior career of footballing legend Cristiano Ronaldo, where he debuted in a 2-1 away loss against Sport Clube Lusitânia on 1 September 2002, in the Azores.[2]

Prior to the end of the 2011–12 football season in Portugal, seven clubs in the Primeira Liga announced their interest in constructing a B team to fill the six vacant places available to compete in the Segunda Liga for the 2012–13 season.[1] Of those seven, five clubs were selected to take part in the competition considering their position in the 2011–12 Primeira Liga, as well as Marítimo, since they had already a B team competing.[3] The LPFP, the organism responsible for the professional football in Portugal, announced that for the clubs to compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga they would have to pay €50,000. In addition, they had to comply with new rules regarding player selection in which each 'B' team must have a squad of a minimum of ten players who were formed at the club's academy as well as having an age requirement between 15 and 21 years old. The LPFP also went on to saw that the clubs are unable to compete in cup competitions as well as gaining promotion due to the possibility of playing the senior team. Each 'B' team may have three players above 23-years old.[4]

In late May 2012, it was officially announced that the six Primeira Liga clubs' B teams would compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga which would increase the number of teams in the league from 16 to 22 as well as increasing the number of games needed to play in one season from 30 games to 42 games.[5][6] Sporting B's first season back ended with a best-ever fourth place, under managers Oceano and later José Dominguez.[7]

After the announcement of the creation of an under-23 championship in February 2018, club president Bruno de Carvalho announced the end of Sporting CP B.[8]

After the dismissal of Carvalho in August 2018, Sousa Cintra reverted the former's decision, subscribing the reserve team to the new season in the Campeonato de Portugal (Portuguese football's third tier), but he later gave up, with Santa Iria replacing Sporting CP B.[9][10]

In 2019, President Frederico Varandas decided to reestablish Sporting CP B for the next year's Campeonato de Portugal.[11]

In 2021, Sporting CP B played in Liga 3, a new tier in the Portuguese league system, beginning with the 2021–22 season.[12]

Players

Current squad
As of 19 May 2023[13]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
44 GK Georgia (country) GEO Papuna Beruashvili
46 DF Portugal POR Gonçalo Esteves
50 DF Portugal POR Martim Marques
51 GK Portugal POR Diogo Pinto
56 FW Portugal POR André Gonçalves
62 MF The Gambia GAM Lamarana Jallow
66 DF Guinea-Bissau GNB Gilberto Batista
70 FW Portugal POR Diogo Cabral
71 DF Portugal POR Flávio Nazinho
72 DF Portugal POR João Ferreira
73 DF Portugal POR Chico Lamba
74 DF Portugal POR Gonçalo Braga
No. Pos. Nation Player
75 FW Guinea-Bissau GNB Vando Félix
76 MF Portugal POR Diogo Abreu
77 FW Canada CAN Lucas Dias
78 FW Portugal POR Joelson Fernandes
86 DF Portugal POR Emanuel Fernandes
88 FW Portugal POR Tiago Ferreira
90 FW Portugal POR Kiko Félix
93 MF Portugal POR Miguel Menino
96 MF Portugal POR Samuel Justo
97 DF Portugal POR Diogo Travassos
98 FW Portugal POR Afonso Moreira

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Portugal POR Renato Veiga

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Portugal POR Danilo Luís (at Pobla Mafumet until 30 June 2023)

Managerial history
  • Portugal Vítor Damas (2000–2001)
  • Portugal Jean Paul Castro (2001–2002)
  • Portugal Luís Alegria (2002–2003)
  • Portugal Jean Paul Castro (2003–2004)
  • Portugal Oceano da Cruz (July 2012 – Oct 2012)
  • Portugal José Dominguez (Oct 2012 – June 2013)
  • Portugal Abel Ferreira (July 2013 – July 2014)
  • Portugal Francisco Barão (July 2014 – Oct 2014)
  • Portugal João de Deus (Oct 2014– 2017)
  • Portugal Filipe Celikkaya (July 2020– )

References
  1. "Sete clubes interessados nas seis vagas para equipas B" [Seven clubs interested for the six vacancies for the B teams]. Relvado. 17 February 2012. Archived from the original on 20 April 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  2. KeeG. "Sabia Que o 1º jogo como sénior de Cristiano Ronaldo foi nos Açores?". I Love Azores. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  3. "Equipas B de FC Porto, Benfica e Sporting confirmadas" [B teams of FC Porto, Benfica and Sporting have been confirmed]. Relvado. 28 May 2012. Archived from the original on 20 April 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  4. "Equipas B custam 50 mil euros de inscrição" [B Team's registration costs €50,000]. O Jogo. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  5. "Liga: seis clubes inscreveram a equipa "B"" [League: six clubs register for a B team]. Mais Futebol. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  6. Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de (2012-02-17). "Sete clubes interessados nas seis vagas das equipas "B"". Sete clubes interessados nas seis vagas das equipas "B" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  7. "Aves falha o pódio" [Aves miss out on the podium]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 12 May 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  8. "Sporting B vai deixar a II Liga" [Sporting B will leave the II Liga]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 2018-03-07. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  9. "Sporting: equipa B continua e joga Campeonato de Portugal" [Sporting: B team continues and plays in the Campeonato de Portugal] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  10. "Santa Iria substitui o Sporting B no Campeonato de Portugal" [Santa Iria replaced Sporting B in the Campeonato de Portugal]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  11. "Varandas revela: "A equipa B estará de volta no próximo ano"" [Varandas reveals: "The B team will be back next year"] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  12. "Liga 3: os 24 clubes que vão estrear o campeonato em 2021/22". Maisfutebol (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  13. "Plantel". Sporting Clube de Portugal. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
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