Sporting CP B

Sporting Clube de Portugal B
Full name Sporting Clube de Portugal B
Nickname(s) Sportinguistas
Leões (Lions)
Verde-e-Brancos (Green and Whites)
Short name Sporting B
Founded 2000–2004, 2012–
Ground Academia Sporting
Ground Capacity 12,000
President Bruno de Carvalho
Manager Luís Martins
League LigaPro
2014–15 5th
Website Club website

Sporting Clube de Portugal B is a Portuguese football team. They are the reserve team of Sporting Clube de Portugal. 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 cannot play in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga.

Sporting had a B team until the 2003–04 season, and refounded it in 2012–13, when a new set of rules regarding B teams was introduced in Portuguese football system. In that season, another five B-teams were refounded and entered into Segunda Liga.

The club currently plays at the Aurélio Pereira Stadium, in the Academia Sporting which holds a seating capacity of 12,000.

History

Revival

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 on 2011–12 Primeira Liga, as well as Marítimo, since they had already a B team competing.[2]

The LPFP who organizes the professional football tiers in Portugal announced that for the clubs to compete in the 2012–13 Segunda Liga they would have to pay 50,000 €.[3] In addition the LPFP would also require the clubs to follow 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.

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.[4]

Current squad

As of 30 May 2017.[5]

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

No. Position Player
20 Portugal DF André Geraldes
24 Portugal DF Domingos Duarte
30 Serbia GK Vladimir Stojković
40 Panama DF Fidel Escobar (on loan from Sporting San Miguelito)
41 Mali DF Boubakar Kouyaté
43 Portugal MF Pedro Delgado
49 Portugal DF Pedro Empis
50 Guinea-Bissau DF Mama Baldé
52 Angola FW Ary Papel
54 Portugal FW Pedro Marques
57 Angola FW Gelson Dala
58 Portugal DF Mauro Riquicho
61 Portugal FW Luís Elói
64 Portugal DF Ivanildo Fernandes
67 France FW Bilel Aouacheria (on loan from Sporting Covilhã)
68 Portugal MF Bubacar Djaló
70 Portugal FW Ronaldo Tavares
72 Portugal FW Ricardo Almeida (on loan from Moreirense)
No. Position Player
74 Portugal DF Guilherme Ramos
75 Portugal DF Abdu Conté
78 Portugal MF Edu Pinheiro
79 Portugal MF Guima
80 Portugal DF Bruno Paz
81 Portugal GK Luís Maximiano
82 Portugal GK Pedro Silva
83 South Africa FW Liam Jordan (on loan from Bidvest Wits)
85 Portugal DF David Sualehe
86 Azerbaijan MF Budag Nasirov
89 Portugal FW Elves Baldé
90 Colombia FW Leonardo Ruiz (on loan from Atlético Nacional)
93 Portugal FW Rafael Leão
94 Portugal MF Rafael Barbosa
95 Portugal GK Diogo Sousa
96 Portugal MF Fabinho
97 Cape Verde FW Jovane Cabral
98 Turkey DF Merih Demiral (on loan from AC Alcanenense)
Portugal DF Diogo Nunes

Registered players from the U19 team

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

No. Position Player
76 Portugal DF Gonçalo Vieira
84 Portugal FW Jefferson Encada
No. Position Player
91 Portugal MF Pedro Ferreira
Portugal MF Miguel Luís

See also Sporting C.P. Youth and Academy.

League history

Managerial history

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. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  2. ↑ "Equipas B de FC Porto, Benfica e Sporting confirmadas" [B teams of FC Porto, Benfica and Sporting have been confirmed]. Relvado. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Equipas B custam 50 mil euros de inscrição" [B Team's registration costs 50,000 €]. O Jogo. 21 May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Liga: seis clubes inscreveram a equipa "B"" [League: six clubs register for a B team]. Mais Futebol. 28 May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "Equipa B" (in Portuguese). Sporting Clube de Portugal B. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
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