Sporting CP (youth)

Sporting Clube de Portugal "Juniors" (Portuguese: Juniores), commonly known as Sporting Juniors, is the under-19 football team comprised in the youth department of Portuguese club Sporting CP. They play their home matches at the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo in Alcochete which counted for several decades with Aurélio Pereira among its scouting staff,^[1] helped develop footballers such as Paulo Futre, Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo.^[2]

As of 4 October 2023^[3][4]

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

Staff

• Head coach: João Pereira
• First assistant coach: Tiago Teixeira
• Assistant coach: António Calça e Pina
• Assistant coach: José Caldeira
• GK Coach: Dário Ezequiel
• Fitness coach: Pedro Cardoso
• Analytics coach: João Ferreira

As of 5 October 2023^[5][6]

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

Staff

• Head coach: Pedro Coelho
• Assistant coach: Paulo Carvalho
• Assistant coach: Pedro Cruz
• GK Coach: Rodolfo Vieira
• Analytics coach: João Jorge
• Scout: César Fragoso
• Scout: André Figueiró
• Team Manager: Mariana Vaz Pinto

As of 5 October 2023^[7][8]

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

Staff

• Head coach: José João
• Assistant coach: Rafael Pinto
• Assistant coach: Diogo Souto
• GK Coach: Luís Caetano
• Analytics coach: André Gonçalves

As of 5 October 2023^[9][10]

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

Staff

• Head coach: Bernardo Bruschy
• Assistant coaches: Gonçalo Olim
• Assistant coaches: João Lourenço
• GK Coach: João Santos

Sporting's Academy was the first and only sports academy in Europe to receive the ISO9001:2008 – a quality certification awarded by EIC, a Portuguese anonymous society responsible for this type of certification, which is recognised both locally and internationally.^[11][12]

Budgeted at around 2,000,000,000$00 million (2 million contos), the construction of the academy commenced in August 1999 in the municipality of Alcochete, located on the outskirts of Lisbon on the southern bank of the river Tejo, and the inauguration was on 21 June 21 2002.^[13] The main building of the academy has two different areas, the professional football area and the youth area. In both sides there is medical center equipped with treatment rooms, gym, Turkish bath, Jacuzzi and bedrooms. In the youth area, there are also several study rooms. The academy is equipped with a main field, four grass pitches for training, a synthetic field and a grassed area for goalkeepers training.^[14]

Sporting's youth academy and the larger Sporting Academy in general was one of the training grounds for the Portugal national football team during Euro 2004. A number of European clubs choose the Sporting's Academia for training in the off-season.

Sporting CP Youth Program helped produce two FIFA World Player of the Year winners (Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo), two Ballon d'Or winners (Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo) and one runner-up (Paulo Futre), and one FIFA Ballon d'Or winner (Cristiano Ronaldo).^[11]

List criteria

• Player has made 25 appearances or more for his country at full international level
• Player who has been at least nominated for a "world's best men's player" award (Ballon d'Or, FIFA World Player of the Year / The Best FIFA Men's Player or FIFA Ballon d'Or).

The youth development division includes the Pólo EUL, Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth development campus at the Estádio Universitário de Lisboa (6 to 13 years old children),^[15][16][17] and the Aurélio Pereira Academy located at the football fields next to the Pavilhão João Rocha, within a short walking distance from the Estádio José Alvalade.^[18][19]

The Escolas Academia Sporting (EAS – Sporting Academy Schools) are football training schools affiliated with Sporting CP. Boys and girls aged 4 to 15 are eligible to get admission in the EAS, which are in operation in several locations across Portugal.^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]} Angola, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Singapore, South Africa and Spain, among other countries,^[30] are foreign countries where the EAS have been founded.^{[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]}

• The Sporting CP academy way – These Football Times (2015)