Sporting Lisbon | Sporting Clube de Portugal

Sporting Clube de Portugal – Sociedade Desportiva de Futebol, SAD, founded in 1906, is a general sports club based in Lisbon with more than 97,000 registered club members, although the football ‘department’ is clearly dominant across all of the sports disciplines in terms of budget and popularity. The club has won the Portuguese Liga 18 times, the Portuguese Cup 19 times and 1 European Cup Winners’ Cup. Home matches are played at the Estádio José Alvalade (capacity: 50,080). The company (SAD) was admitted into the Portuguese Stock Exchange in 1998.

Sporting Clube de Portugal – Sociedade Desportiva de Futebol, SAD, founded in 1906, is a general sports club based in Lisbon with more than 97,000 registered club members, although the football ‘department’ is clearly dominant across all of the sports disciplines in terms of budget and popularity. The club has won the Portuguese Liga 18 times, the Portuguese Cup 19 times and 1 European Cup Winners’ Cup. Home matches are played at the Estádio José Alvalade (capacity: 50,080). The company (SAD) was admitted into the Portuguese Stock Exchange in 1998.

Turnover and pre-tax profit figures are in Euro millions for the football club alone.

Financial Overview

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2007

45.461

0.200

43.7

225

2006

64.882

15.112

33.4

191

2005

39.188

1.761

44.6

 

2004

34.188

-10.073

60.2

183

2003

32.567

-9.633

63.0

 

2002

17.912

-33.909

 

145

2001

22.816

-34.624

 

158

2000

26.036

-26.098

 

196

1999

15.893

-28.154

 

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