2011–12 Sporting Clube de Portugal season

Sporting CP

2011–12 season
President	Luís Godinho Lopes
Manager	Carlos Freitas
Stadium	Estádio José Alvalade
Primeira Liga	4th
Portuguese Cup	Runners-up
League Cup	Third round
UEFA Europa League	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Ricky van Wolfswinkel (14) All: Ricky van Wolfswinkel (25)
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The 2011–12 season is Sporting Clube de Portugal's 79th season in the top flight, the Primeira Liga, known as the Liga ZON Sagres for sponsorship purposes. This article shows player statistics and all matches (official and friendly) that the club plays during the 2011–12 season.

Sporting CP's under-19 squad played in the inaugural tournament of the NextGen series.

Players

Squad information

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
1	GK		R. Patrício	27	EU	2006	167	0	2013	Youth system
2	DF		A. Rodríguez	31	EU	2011	0	0	2016	Free
3	DF		D. Carriço	26	EU	2008	116	4	2013	Youth system
4	DF		Â. Polga	36	EU	2003	305	4	2012	Free	Second nationality: Portugal
5	DF		Onyewu	32	EU	2011	1	0	2014	Free	Second nationality: Belgium
6	LB		Evaldo	33	EU	2010	51	1	2014	€ 3M	Second nationality: Brazil
7	FW		Bojinov	29	EU	2011	2	0	2016	€2.6M	Second nationality: Italy
8	MF		Schaars	31	EU	2011	4	0	2014	€0.85M
9	FW		v. Wolfswinkel	27	EU	2011	4	4	2016	€5.4M
10	MF		Izmailov	32	Non-EU	2008	111	14	2015	€4.5M
11	MF		D. Capel	27	EU	2011	0	0	2016
12	GK		M. Boeck	30	EU	2009	3	0	2016	undisclosed	Second nationality: Belgium
14	MF		Matías	28	Non-EU	2009	77	12	2013	€3.65M	Second nationality: Argentina
16	GK		Tiago	40	EU	2001	131	0	2012	undisclosed
17	LW		Jeffrén Suárez	27	EU	2011	0	0	2016	€3.75M
18	FW		A. Carrillo	23	Non-EU	2011	0	0	2016	€1.2M
19	RB		Arias	23	Non-EU	2011	0	0	2016	Free
20	FW		Yannick	28	EU	2008	155	34	2013	Youth system	Second nationality: Guinea-Bissau
21	MF		Rinaudo	27	EU	2011	3	0	2016	€0.525M	Second nationality: Italy
22	MF		L. Aguiar	29	EU	2011	0	0	2016	Free	Second nationality: Italy
23	FW		H. Postiga	32	EU	2008	112	24	2012	€2.5M
25	MF		B. Pereirinha	27	EU	2006	129	5	2013	Youth system
26	MF		A. Santos	26	EU	2010	46	2	2014	Youth system
28	MF		A. Martins	25	EU	2009	4	0	2012	Youth system
30	MF		Zézinho	22	EU	2011	3	0	2016	Youth system	Second nationality: Portugal
32	GK		V. Golas	24	EU	2009	1	0	2012	Youth system	Second nationality: Poland
33	FW		D. Rubio	21	EU	2011	4	5	2016	€ 1M	Second nationality: Germany
47	RB		J. Pereira	31	EU	2010 (Winter)	51	3	2014	€ 3M
88	RB		J. Gonçalves	27	EU	2007	0	0	2013	Youth system
89	LB		A. Turan	23	EU	2011	0	0	2016	Free	Second nationality: Turkey

Transfers

In

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
18	FW		André Carrillo	23	Non-EU	Alianza Lima	Transfer	Summer	2016	€1.2M	Sporting.pt
32	GK		Vítor Golas	24	EU	Boavista	Loan return	Summer	2012	N/A
9	FW		Ricky van Wolfswinkel	27	EU	Utrecht	Transfer	Summer	2016	€5.4M	Sporting.pt
2	DF		Alberto Junior Rodríguez	31	EU	Braga	Transfer	Summer	2016	Free	Sporting.pt
8	MF		Stijn Schaars	31	EU	AZ	Transfer	Summer	2014	€0.85M	Sporting.pt
28	MF		André Martins	25	EU	Pinhalnovense	Loan return	Summer	2014	N/A	Sporting.pt
88	RB		João Gonçalves	27	EU	Olhanense	Loan return	Summer	2013	N/A
19	RB		Santiago Arias	23	Non-EU	La Equidad	Transfer	Summer	2016	Free	Sporting.pt
5	DF		Oguchi Onyewu	32	EU	Milan	Transfer	Summer	2014	Free	Sporting.pt
12	GK		Marcelo Boeck	30	EU	Marítimo	Transfer	Summer	2016	Undisclosed	Sporting.pt
21	MF		Fabián Rinaudo	27	EU	Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	Transfer	Summer	2016	€0.525M	Sporting.pt
22	MF		Luis Aguiar	29	EU	Dynamo Moscow	Transfer	Summer	2015	Free	Sporting.pt
33	FW		Diego Rubio	21	EU	Colo-Colo	Transfer	Summer	2016	€1M	Sporting.pt
7	FW		Valeri Bojinov	29	EU	Parma	Transfer	Summer	2016	€2.6M	Sporting.pt , cmvm.pt
25	MF		Bruno Pereirinha	27	EU	Kavala	Loan return	Summer	2013	N/A	Sporting.pt
89	LB		Atila Turan	23	EU	Grenoble	Transfer	Summer	2016	Free
17	LW		Jeffrén Suárez	27	EU	Barcelona	Transfer	Summer	2016	€3.7M	Sporting.pt
11	LW		Diego Capel	27	EU	Sevilla	Transfer	Summer	2016	€3.5M
77	MF		Elias	29	Non-EU	Atlético Madrid	Transfer	Summer	2016	€8.85M
48	LB		Emiliano Insúa	26	EU	Liverpool	Transfer	Summer	2016

Total spending: €15.275 million

Out

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
	GK		Timo Hildebrand	36	EU		End of contract	Summer	Free
	MF		Tales de Souza	25	Non-EU	Internacional	Loan return	Summer	Free
	MF		Cristiano	31	EU	Beira-Mar	End of contract	Summer	Free
	FW		Rui Fonte	25	EU	Espanyol	End of contract	Summer	Free
	DF		Nuno André Coelho	29	EU	Braga	Undisclosed	Summer	N/A
	MF		Pedro Mendes	36	EU		Contract termination	Summer	N/A
	MF		Maniche	37	EU		Contract termination	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	RB		Abel Ferreira	36	EU		End of contract	Summer	N/A
	MF		Afonso Taira	22	EU	Córdoba	End of contract	Summer	N/A
	GK		Vladimir Stojković	31	EU	Partizan	Contract cancellation	Summer	Free	Sporting.pt
	DF		Mexer	27	Non-EU	Olhanense	Loan	Summer	N/A
	FW		Amido Baldé	23	EU	Cercle Brugge	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	DF		Nuno Reis	24	EU	Cercle Brugge	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	MF		Renato Neto	23	Non-EU	Cercle Brugge	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	RB		Cédric Soares	23	EU	Académica	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	MF		Celsinho	26	Non-EU	Târgu Mureș	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	DF		Eric Dier	21	EU	Everton	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	FW		Pongolle	30	EU	Saint-Étienne	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	LW		Diogo Salomão	26	EU	Deportivo La Coruña	Loan	Summer	N/A	Sporting.pt
	RW		Wilson Eduardo	24	EU	Olhanense	Loan	Summer	N/A
	LB		André Marques	27	EU	Beira-Mar	Loan	Summer	N/A
	DF		Pedro Filipe Mendes	24	EU	Servette	Loan	Summer	N/A
	MF		Adrien Silva	26	EU	Académica	Loan	Summer	N/A
	MF		Diogo Rosado	25	EU	Feirense	Loan	Summer	N/A
	MF		Jaime Valdés	34	EU	Parma	Loan	Summer	N/A
	GK		Ricardo Batista	28	EU	Olhanense	Loan	Summer	N/A

Total income: €0 million

Club

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Ricardo Sá Pinto

Kit

Supplier: Puma
Sponsor(s): TMN, Meo, Super Bock

Home

Away

Stromp

Goalkeeper

Goalkeeper

Goalkeeper

Training

Training

Source: Home kit, Sporting.pt

Competitions

Pre-season

Friendly Game 9 July 2011 (2011-07-09)	Sporting CP	3 – 0	Alta de Lisboa	Alcochete, Portugal
11:00 CEST	H. Postiga  16' D. Rubio  34', 70'	Report		Stadium: Academia Sporting

Friendly Game 13 July 2011 (2011-07-13)	Presikhaaf	0 – 8	Sporting CP	Arnhem, Netherlands
19:00 CEST		Report	Postiga  2', 6', 39' Rubio  19' Carriço  24' van Wolfswinkel  66', 72' Bruma  67'	Stadium: Sportpark De Schuytgraaf

Friendly Game 16 July 2011 (2011-07-16)	Telstar	0 – 3	Sporting CP	Arnhem, Netherlands
18:00 CEST		Report	Postiga  34' Rubio  65' van Wolfswinkel  73' (pen.)	Stadium: Sportpark De Schuytgraaf Referee: Danny Makkelie

Friendly Game 18 July 2011 (2011-07-18)	Ankaragücü	0 – 3	Sporting CP	Wezep, Netherlands
18:00 CEST		Report	Postiga  7' van Wolfswinkel  42' (pen.) Rubio  78' (pen.)	Stadium: Sportpark Mulderssingel

2011 WFC 24 July 2011 (2011-07-24)	Sporting CP	2 – 1	Juventus	Toronto, Canada
00:00 CEST	Yannick  13', 36'	Report	Del Piero  80'	Stadium: BMO Field Attendance: 10,028 Referee: Drew Fischer

Presentation Game 30 July 2011 (2011-07-30)	Sporting CP	0 – 3	Valencia	Lisbon, Portugal
19:45 CEST			Bernat  6' Soldado  31' Piatti  42'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade

Ramón Carranza Semi-final 5 August 2011 (2011-08-05)	Málaga	3 – 1	Sporting CP	Cádiz, Spain
--:-- CEST				Stadium: Estadio Ramón de Carranza

Ramón Carranza Third place 6 August 2011 (2011-08-06)	Udinese	2 – 2	Sporting CP	Cádiz, Spain
--:-- CEST	Badu  13' Floro Flores  81'		Diego Rubio  49' Diego Rubio  92'	Stadium: Estadio Ramón de Carranza

Last updated: 28 July 2011
Source: Sporting.pt, footballzz.co.uk

Primeira Liga

Matches

1 13 August 2011 (2011-08-13)	Sporting CP	1 – 1	Olhanense	Lisbon
	Izmailov  76'	Report	Eduardo  30'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 33,248 Referee: Carlos Xistra

2 21 August 2011 (2011-08-21)	Beira-Mar	0 – 0	Sporting CP	Aveiro
		Report		Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Attendance: 15,548 Referee: Fernando Martins

3 28 August 2011 (2011-08-28)	Sporting CP	2 – 3	Marítimo	Lisbon
	Izmailov  38' Jeffrén  75'		Rafael Miranda  49' Sami  52' Baba  90+1'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 27,965 Referee: Pedro Proença

4 10 September 2011 (2011-09-10)	Paços de Ferreira	2 – 3	Sporting CP	Paços de Ferreira
	Michel  5', 55'		Izmailov  75' Elias  78' Van Wolfswinkel  83'	Stadium: Estádio da Mata Real Attendance: 2,896 Referee: Paulo Batista

5 19 September 2011 (2011-09-19)	Rio Ave	2 – 3	Sporting CP	Vila do Conde
	Atsu  48' Yazalde  63'		Schaars  2' Van Wolfswinkel  3' Onyewu  74'	Stadium: Estádio do Rio Ave FC Attendance: 4,308 Referee: Hugo Miguel

6 24 September 2011 (2011-09-24)	Sporting CP	3 – 0	Vitória de Setúbal	Lisbon
	Schaars  2' Van Wolfswinkel  8', 15'			Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 33,261 Referee: Cosme Machado

7 2 October 2011 (2011-10-02)	Vitória de Guimarães	0 – 1	Sporting CP	Guimarães
			Capel  7'	Stadium: Estádio D. Afonso Henriques Referee: Carlos Xistra

8 24 October 2011 (2011-10-24)	Sporting CP	6 – 1	Gil Vicente	Lisbon
	Carriço  7' Van Wolfswinkel  58' (pen.) Capel  62', 65' Bojinov  79', 90+2'		Roberto  75'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 30,103 Referee: João Capela

9 30 October 2011 (2011-10-30)	Feirense	0 – 2	Sporting CP	Aveiro
			Van Wolfswinkel  64' (pen.) Schaars  77'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Aveiro Attendance: 14,848 Referee: André Gralha

10 6 November 2011 (2011-11-06)	Sporting CP	3 – 1	União de Leiria	Lisbon
	Fernández  8', 50' Van Wolfswinkel  90+3' (pen.)		Djaniny  21'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 34,214 Referee: Manuel Mota

11 26 November 2011 (2011-11-26)	Benfica	1 – 0	Sporting CP	Lisbon
	Javi García  42'			Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 63,146 Referee: João Capela

12 10 December 2011 (2011-12-10)	Sporting CP	1 – 0	Nacional	Lisbon
	Onyewu  22'			Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 40,405 Referee: Vasco Santos

13 18 December 2011 (2011-12-18)	Académica	1 – 1	Sporting CP	Coimbra
	Éder  28'	Report	Elias  80'	Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Coimbra Attendance: 10,454 Referee: Rui Costa

14 8 January 2012 (2012-01-08)	Sporting CP	0 – 0	Porto	Lisbon
				Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 48,855 Referee: Pedro Proença

15 15 January 2012 (2012-01-15)	Braga	2 – 1	Sporting CP	Braga
	Barbosa  51' Lima  64'	Report	Carrillo  74'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal de Braga Attendance: 16,802 Referee: João Capela

16 23 January 2012 (2012-01-23)	Olhanense	0 – 0	Sporting CP	Olhão, Portugal
		Report		Stadium: Estádio José Arcanjo Attendance: 4.066 Referee: Vasco Santos

17 29 January 2012 (2012-01-29)	Sporting CP	2 – 0	Beira-Mar	Lisbon, Portugal
	Onyewu  18', 27'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 38.405 Referee: Duarte Gomes

18 11 February 2012 (2012-02-11)	Marítimo	2 – 0	Sporting CP	Madeira, Portugal
	Benachour  21' Danilo  50'	Report		Stadium: Estádio dos Barreiros Attendance: 4.600 Referee: Cosme Machado

19 19 February 2012 (2012-02-19)	Sporting CP	1 – 0	Paços de Ferreira	Lisbon, Portugal
	Ricardo  36' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 28,418 Referee: Jorge Ferreira

20 26 February 2012 (2012-02-26)	Sporting CP	1 – 0	Rio Ave	Lisbon, Portugal
	M. Izmailov  34'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 25.107 Referee: Paulo Baptista

21 3 March 2012 (2012-03-03)	Vitória de Setúbal	1 – 0	Sporting CP	Setúbal, Portugal
	B. Amaro  19'	Report		Stadium: Estádio do Bonfim Attendance: 4.000 Referee: André Gralha

22 11 March 2012 (2012-03-11)	Sporting CP	5 – 0	Vitória de Guimarães	Lisbon, Portugal
	Van Wolfswinkel  21' Matías Fernández  50' M. Izmailov  70' (pen.) Jeffrén  80', 87'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 33.349 Referee: Artur Soares Dias

23 19 March 2012 (2012-03-19)	Gil Vicente	2 – 0	Sporting CP	Barcelos, Portugal
	Galo  13' Cláudio  56'	Report		Stadium: Estádio Cidade de Barcelos Attendance: 6.480 Referee: Bruno Paixão

24 24 March 2012 (2012-03-24)	Sporting CP	1 – 0	Feirense	Lisbon, Portugal
	Capel  15' (pen.)	Summary		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 29,509 Referee: Vasco Santos

25 1 April 2012 (2012-04-01)	União de Leiria	0 – 1	Sporting CP	Leiria, Portugal
		Report	M. Fernández  90+1'	Stadium: Estádio Municipal da Marinha Grande Attendance: 4.930 Referee: Pedro Proença

26 9 April 2012 (2012-04-09)	Sporting CP	1 – 0	Benfica	Lisbon
	Van Wolfswinkel  18' (pen.)			Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 47,230 Referee: Artur Soares Dias

27 22 April 2012 (2012-04-22)	Nacional	2 – 3	Sporting CP	Madeira
	Mateus  34' Keita  75'	Report	Rubio  12' R. Neto  31' Van Wolfswinkel  77' (pen.)	Stadium: Estádio da Madeira Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Carlos Xistra

28 30 April 2012 (2012-04-30)	Sporting CP	2 – 1	Académica	Lisbon
	Carrillo  30' Capel  36' Van Wolfswinkel  77' Schaars  79' Daniel Carriço  85'	Summary	Simão  9' Polga  44' (o.g.) Edinho  72' Nivaldo  81' Rui Miguel  84'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Referee: Hugo Filipe Ferreira de Campos Moreira Miguel

29 5 May 2012 (2012-05-05)	Porto	2 – 0	Sporting CP	Porto
	Săpunaru  14' Moutinho  41' Fernando  43', 90+2' Lucho  49' Hulk  82' (pen.), 89'  83'	Summary	Carrillo  16' Onyewu  20', 67' Polga  81'	Stadium: Estádio do Dragão Attendance: 50,212 Referee: Pedro Proença

30 12 May 2012 (2012-05-12)	Sporting CP	3 – 2	Braga	Lisbon
	Van Wolfswinkel  34', 61', 84' Elias  62' Evaldo Fabiano  87' Daniel Carriço  89' Rui Patrício  90'	Summary	Elderson  53' Barbosa  57' Mossoró  62' Lima  88' (pen.)	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 37,820 Referee: Marco Bruno dos Santos Ferreira

Source: Sporting.pt, Journal Record

Taça da Liga

Third round

Group A Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Gil Vicente 3 2 1 0 4 2 +2 7 Moreirense 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4 Sporting CP 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2 Rio Ave 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2

1 2 January 2012 (2012-01-02)	Rio Ave	1 – 1	Sporting CP	Vila do Conde
	João Tomás  16'		Onyewu  87'	Stadium: Estádio do Rio Ave FC Attendance: 3,188 Referee: Cosme Machado

2 19 January 2012 (2012-01-19)	Sporting CP	1 – 1	Moreirense	Lisbon
	Capel  28'	report	Ghilas  35'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 17,440 Referee: Marco Ferreira

3 4 February 2012 (2012-02-04)	Sporting CP	0 – 1	Gil Vicente	Lisbon
		report	Claudio  54'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 23,801 Referee: Bruno Esteves

Source: Sporting.pt,

UEFA Europa League

Play-off round

First leg 18 August 2011 (2011-08-18)	Nordsjælland	0 – 0	Sporting CP	Farum, Denmark
		Report		Stadium: Farum Park Attendance: 3,891 Referee: Mark Courtney (Northern Ireland)

Second leg 25 August 2011 (2011-08-25)	Sporting CP	2 – 1 (2 – 1 agg.)	Nordsjælland	Lisbon, Portugal
	André Santos  77' Evaldo  82'	Report	Laudrup  90+3'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 24,048 Referee: Ovidiu Haţegan (Romania)

Group stage

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sporting CP	6	4	0	2	8	4	+4	12
Lazio	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9
Vaslui	6	1	3	2	5	8	-3	6
Zürich	6	1	2	3	5	8	-3	5

1 15 September 2011 (2011-09-15)	Zürich	0 – 2	Sporting CP	Zürich, Switzerland
		Report	Insúa  4' Van Wolfswinkel  21'	Stadium: Letzigrund Attendance: 10,400 Referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)

2 29 September 2011 (2011-09-29)	Sporting CP	2 – 1	Lazio	Lisbon, Portugal
	Van Wolfswinkel  21' Insúa  45+2'	Report	Klose  45+2'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 33,725 Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)

3 20 October 2011 (2011-10-20)	Sporting CP	2 – 0	Vaslui	Lisbon, Portugal
	Evaldo  43' Fernández  70'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 28,106 Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

4 3 November 2011 (2011-11-03)	Vaslui	1 – 0	Sporting CP	Piatra Neamţ, Romania
	Zmeu  30'	Report		Stadium: Ceahlăul Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

5 1 December 2011 (2011-12-01)	Sporting CP	2 – 0	Zürich	Lisbon, Portugal
	Van Wolfswinkel  15' Bojinov  58'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 13,414 Referee: Peter Rasmussen (Denmark)

6 14 December 2011 (2011-12-14)	Lazio	2 – 0	Sporting CP	Rome, Italy
	Kozák  42' Sculli  55'	Report		Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Attendance: 8,295 Referee: Mike Dean (England)

Knockout phase

Round of 32

First leg 16 February 2012 (2012-02-16)	Legia Warsaw	2 – 2	Sporting CP	Warsaw, Poland
	Wawrzyniak  37' Gol  79'	Report	Carriço  60' André Santos  88'	Stadium: Polish Army Stadium Attendance: 27,324 Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

Second leg 23 February 2012 (2012-02-23)	Sporting CP	1 – 0 (3 – 2 agg.)	Legia Warsaw	Lisbon, Portugal
	Fernández  84'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 20,144 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov (Russia)

Round of 16

First leg 8 March 2012 (2012-03-08)	Sporting CP	1 – 0	Manchester City	Lisbon, Portugal
19:00	Xandão  51'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 34,371 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

Second leg 15 March 2012 (2012-03-15)	Manchester City	3 – 2 (3 – 3a agg.)	Sporting CP	Manchester, England
21:05	Agüero  60', 83' Balotelli  75' (pen.)	Report	Fernández  33' Van Wolfswinkel  40'	Stadium: Etihad Stadium Attendance: 38,021 Referee: Tom Harald Hagen (Norway)

Quarter-finals

First leg 29 March 2012 (2012-03-29)	Sporting CP	2 – 1	Metalist Kharkiv	Lisbon, Portugal
21:05	Izmailov  51' Insúa  64'	Report	Xavier  90+1' (pen.)	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 40,512 Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

Second leg 5 April 2012 (2012-04-05)	Metalist Kharkiv	1 – 1 (2 – 3 agg.)	Sporting CP	Kharkov, Ukraine
21:05	Cristaldo  57'	Report	Van Wolfswinkel  44'	Stadium: Metalist Stadium Attendance: 38,633 Referee: William Collum (Scotland)

Semi-finals

First leg 19 April 2012 (2012-04-19)	Sporting CP	2 – 1	Athletic Bilbao	Lisbon, Portugal
21:05	Insúa  76' Capel  80'	Report	Aurtenetxe  54'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 37,238 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

Second leg 26 April 2012 (2012-04-26)	Athletic Bilbao	3 – 1 (4 – 3 agg.)	Sporting CP	Bilbao, Spain
21:05	Susaeta  17' Gómez  45+1'  76' Amorebieta  54' Llorente  88'	Report	Van Wolfswinkel  10'  44' Carriço  59' Xandão  90+4'	Stadium: San Mamés Stadium Attendance: 37,598 Referee: Martin Atkinson (England)

Millennium Cup

Round of 64

16 October 2011 (2011-10-16)	Famalicão	0 – 2	Sporting CP	Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
			Van Wolfswinkel  62', 67'	Stadium: Municipal 22 de Junho Referee: Artur Soares Dias

Round of 32

18 November 2011 (2011-11-18)	Sporting CP	2 – 0	S.C. Braga	Lisboa, Portugal
	Capel  14' Insúa  21'			Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Referee: Jorge Sousa

Round of 16

1st Leg 5 December 2011 (2011-12-05)	Sporting CP	2 – 0	Belenenses	Lisboa, Portugal
	Van Wolfswinkel  50' Schaars  66'			Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Referee: Bruno Esteves

Quarter Finals

22 December 2011 (2011-12-22)	Sporting CP	3 – 0	Marítimo	Lisboa, Portugal
	Carrillo  48' Van Wolfswinkel  60' (pen.) Insúa  82'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Referee: Artur Soares Dias

Semi Finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sporting CP	5 – 3	Nacional	2 - 2	3 - 1

1st Leg 11 January 2012 (2012-01-11)	Sporting CP	2 – 2	Nacional	Lisbon, Portugal
	Elias  75' Schaars  90+6'	Report	Rondón  36' Candeias  45+1'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Referee: Paulo Baptista

2nd Leg 8 February 2012 (2012-02-08)	Nacional	1 – 3	Sporting CP	Madeira, Portugal
	Diego Barcellos  63'	Report	Rinaudo  18' Van Wolfswinkel  75' João Pereira  90+4'	Stadium: Estádio da Madeira, Funchal Referee: Pedro Proença

Final

Final 20 May 2012 (2012-05-20)	Sporting CP	0 – 1	Académica	Oeiras, Portugal
17:00 UTC+1		Report	Marinho  4'	Stadium: Estádio Nacional Attendance: 37,522 Referee: Paulo Baptista

Overview

Competition	Started round	Current position / round	Final position / round	First match	Last match
Primeira Liga	—	—		13 August 2011	13 May 2012
Millennium Cup	QR3	Final		15 October 2011	20 May 2012
Portuguese League Cup	Third qualifying round	—	QR3	2 January 2012	4 February 2012
UEFA Europa League	Play-off round	—	SF	18 August 2011	26 April 2012

Last updated: 10 July 2011
Source: Competitions

References

External links

• Official club website (Portuguese) (English)

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