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Sports club Place Members Date 1 S.L. Benfica: Lisbon, Portugal: 392,202 January 2025 [1] 2 FC Bayern Munich: Munich, Germany: 382,000 December 2024 [2] 3 Club Atlético River Plate: Buenos Aires, Argentina: 350,000 December 2024 [3] 4 Boca Juniors: Buenos Aires, Argentina: 335,000 August 2023 [3] 5 Tasmania Football Club: Tasmania, Australia ...
They can also compete in the FIFA Club World Cup, although until today no Portuguese team reached this recent competition. The teams also compete in a domestic cup competition each year, called Cup of Portugal ( Taça de Portugal ) and the winners play against the champions in the SuperCup Cândido de Oliveira .
Benfica is the club with most league, cup and league cup titles, as well as the most domestic titles (81) and overall titles won (83 or 84, if the Latin Cup is taken into account), including back-to-back European Cup trophies. Porto is the club with most Portuguese Super Cups and international titles won (7).
Sporting is the second largest sports club by membership in Portugal, with about 150,000 [14] members, which makes it one of the world's largest. [15] It is also among the top three Portuguese sports clubs in number of non-affiliated fans . [ 16 ]
The club is particularly renowned for its football branch. With more than 100,000 registered club members, [ 1 ] Sporting is one of the most successful and popular sports clubs in Portugal. Its teams, athletes and supporters are often nicknamed Os Leões (English: The Lions ).
Before the creation of the Primeira Liga, there was a competition called Championship of Portugal (Campeonato de Portugal), created in 1922 as the first competition of Portuguese football. However, despite its name, it corresponds to today's Portuguese Cup (Taça de Portugal) and was held in a knock-out basis. Therefore, its winners are not ...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal, since March 2020, in contrast with various European leagues, the Primeira Liga began playing matches behind closed doors.On 13 September, Sporting confirmed that three players had tested positive for coronavirus, leading their pre-season match against Napoli to be cancelled due to the orders of the Portuguese Ministry of Health. [3]
Portuguese football club stubs (180 P) Pages in category "Football clubs in Portugal" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 306 total.