Supporters of Sporting CP

Sporting Clube de Portugal is a Portuguese sports club based in Lisbon, founded in 1906. Sporting have won, just in football, 23 championships, 17 Taça de Portugal, 4 Taça da Liga, 9 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, 4 Campeonato de Portugal and 1 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. The supporters of the club, who are called Sportinguistas, have played an important part in the club's growth during its 117-year existence. One of those cases was the raising of money for the construction of the João Rocha Pavilion, when a lot of money was donated by the supporters. The club has over 160,000 paying members (called sócios) and research studies have suggested it has a number of fans ranging from 1,100,000 to 2,700,000 in Portugal alone – which makes it the second or third most supported sports club in Portugal, depending on the study. Like the other two Portuguese Big Three sports clubs, Sporting CP has also a sizable number of foreign fans in other Portuguese-speaking countries beyond Portugal itself and supporters among the Portuguese expatriate community.

Organized autonomous groups of supporters also exist. Sporting has 4 ultras groups: Juventude Leonina, founded in 1976, Torcida Verde, founded in 1984, Directivo Ultras XXI, founded in 2002 and Brigada Ultras Sporting, founded in 2004.