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Sporting CP

2022–23 season
President	Frederico Varandas
Head coach	Rúben Amorim
Stadium	Estádio José Alvalade
Primeira Liga	4th
Taça de Portugal	Third round
Taça da Liga	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	Group stage
UEFA Europa League	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Pedro Gonçalves (15) All: Pedro Gonçalves (20)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2022–23 season was the 117th season in the history of Sporting CP and their 89th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football. In addition to the domestic league, they participated in this season's editions of the Taça de Portugal, Taça da Liga, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

Players

Current squad

As of 3 February 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Antonio Adán (3rd captain) 2 DF  BRA Matheus Reis 3 DF  NED Jerry St. Juste 4 DF  URU Sebastián Coates (captain) 5 MF  JPN Hidemasa Morita 6 MF  GRE Sotiris Alexandropoulos 10 MF  ENG Marcus Edwards 11 MF  POR Nuno Santos 12 GK  URU Franco Israel 13 DF  POR Luís Neto (vice-captain) 15 MF  URU Manuel Ugarte 16 MF  POR Rochinha 17 FW  POR Francisco Trincão (on loan from Barcelona) 18 FW  GHA Abdul Fatawu Issahaku 19 DF  ESP Héctor Bellerín 20 FW  POR Paulinho 22 GK  POR André Paulo

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  POR Daniel Bragança 25 DF  POR Gonçalo Inácio (5th captain) 26 DF  CIV Ousmane Diomande 28 MF  POR Pedro Gonçalves 32 MF  ARG Mateo Tanlongo 33 FW  BRA Arthur Gomes 41 GK  BRA Diego Callai 46 DF  POR Gonçalo Esteves 47 DF  POR Ricardo Esgaio (4th captain) 71 DF  POR Flávio Nazinho 73 DF  POR Chico Lamba 77 FW  CPV Jovane Cabral 79 FW  POR Youssef Chermiti 82 MF  POR Mateus Fernandes 84 MF  POR Dário Essugo 91 FW  POR Rodrigo Ribeiro

Other players under contract

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 92 MF  BRA Eduardo Henrique

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  POR Eduardo Quaresma (at 1899 Hoffenheim until 30 June 2023) — DF  ESP José Marsà (at Sporting Gijón until 30 June 2023) — DF  ESP Pedro Porro (at Tottenham Hotspur until 30 June 2023) — DF  POR Rúben Vinagre (at Everton until 30 June 2023) — DF  POR Tiago Ilori (at Paços de Ferreira until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  CIV Idrissa Doumbia (at Alanyaspor until 30 June 2023) — MF  POR Renato Veiga (at Augsburg until 31 December 2023) — FW  POR Rafael Camacho (at Aris until 30 June 2023) — FW  POR Tiago Tomás (at VfB Stuttgart until 30 June 2023)

Transfers

In

Summer

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
16	DF	Rúben Vinagre	Wolverhampton Wanderers	€10,000,000	1 July 2022
24	DF	Pedro Porro	Manchester City	€8,500,000
3	DF	Jeremiah St. Juste	Mainz 05	€9,500,000
5	MF	Hidemasa Morita	Santa Clara	€3,800,000
22	GK	Franco Israel	Juventus U23	€650,000	5 July 2022
27	FW	Rochinha	Vitória de Guimarães	€2,000,000	6 July 2022
17	FW	Francisco Trincão	Barcelona	Loan (€3,000,000)	13 July 2022
6	MF	Sotiris Alexandropoulos	Panathinaikos	€4,500,000	29 August 2022
33	FW	Arthur Gomes	Estoril	€2,500,000	1 September 2022
Disclosed total
€44,450,000

Winter

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
32	MF	Mateo Tanlongo	Rosario Central	Free	5 January 2023

Out

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
3	DF	Zouhair Feddal	Valladolid	Free	15 May 2022
—	DF	Nuno Mendes	Paris Saint-Germain	€38,000,000	10 June 2022
—	FW	Pedro Marques	NEC	Free	21 June 2022
87	DF	Gonçalo Esteves	Estoril	Loan	1 July 2022
6	MF	João Palhinha	Fulham	€20,000,000	4 July 2022
—	FW	Gonzalo Plata	Valladolid	€3,000,000	11 July 2022
40	GK	Renan Ribeiro	Al Ahli	Free	20 July 2022
—	FW	Luiz Phellype	FC Tokyo	Loan	20 July 2022
—	FW	Rafael Camacho	Aris	Loan	20 July 2022
—	FW	Andraž Šporar	Panathinaikos	€3,500,000	26 July 2022
16	DF	Rúben Vinagre	Everton	Loan	27 July 2022
8	MF	Matheus Nunes	Wolverhampton Wanderers	€45,000,000	17 August 2022
—	DF	Tiago Ilori	Paços de Ferreira	Loan	22 July 2022
—	DF	Eduardo Quaresma	Hoffenheim	Loan	4 August 2022
—	MF	Idrissa Doumbia	Paços de Ferreira	Loan	5 August 2022
9	FW	Islam Slimani	Brest	€1,500,000	25 August 2022
—	FW	Pedro Mendes	Ascoli	€500,000	29 August 2022
Disclosed total
€111,500,000

Pre-season and friendlies

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

13 July 2022 Friendly	Sporting CP	1–1	Union Saint-Gilloise	Parchal
19:00 WEST (UTC+1)	Porro 19' (pen.)	Report	Sykes  20', 50'	Stadium: Complexo Desportivo Belavista

14 July 2022 Friendly	Sporting CP	1–1	Villarreal	Faro/Loulé
21:00 WEST (UTC+1)	Gonçalves 40'	Report	Baena 68'	Stadium: Estádio Algarve Referee: Ricardo Baixinho

19 July 2022 Friendly	Sporting CP	3–2	Roma	Faro/Loulé
20:00 WEST (UTC+1)	Gonçalves 29' (pen.) Inácio 53' Ugarte  62' Nunes  85' Tabata 86'	Report	Inácio 31' (o.g.) Smalling  52' Mancini  58' Pellegrini 69' Zaniolo  79' Veretout  85'	Stadium: Estádio Algarve Referee: Hugo Silva

24 July 2022 Troféu Cinco Violinos	Sporting CP	1–1 (5–6 p)	Sevilla	Lisbon
19:45 WEST (UTC+1)	Tabata  55' Paulinho 82' Edwards  90'	Report	Corona 15' Acuña  54'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Referee: António Nobre (Portugal)
	Penalties
	Porro Gonçalves Rochinha Tabata Edwards Issahaku		Gudelj Ocampos Gómez Jordán Suso Montiel

30 July 2022 Friendly	Sporting CP	1–1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Faro/Loulé
--:-- WEST (UTC+1)				Stadium: Estádio Algarve

23 September 2022 Friendly	Sporting CP	1–0	Vilafranquense	Alcochete
19:00 WEST (UTC+1)		Report		Stadium: Academia

Competitions

Overall record

Source: Soccerway

Primeira Liga

League table

Results summary

Source: Liga Portugal

Results by round

Matches

Taça de Portugal

Sporting entered in the third round.

Taça da Liga

Third round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 25 August 2022.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		TOT	FRA	SPO	MAR
1	Tottenham Hotspur	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Advance to knockout phase		—	3–2	1–1	2–0
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	6	3	1	2	7	8	−1	10			0–0	—	0–3	2–1
3	Sporting CP	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7	Transfer to Europa League		2–0	1–2	—	0–2
4	Marseille	6	2	0	4	8	8	0	6			1–2	0–1	4–1	—

7 September 2022 1	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–3	Sporting CP	Frankfurt, Germany
18:45 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Edwards 65' Trincão 67' Santos 82'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 50,500 Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

13 September 2022 2	Sporting CP	2–0	Tottenham Hotspur	Lisbon, Portugal
17:45 WEST (UTC+1)	Paulinho 90' Arthur 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 39,899 Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

4 October 2022 3	Marseille	4–1	Sporting CP	Marseille, France
19:05 CEST (UTC+2)	Sánchez 13' Harit 16' Balerdi 28' Mbemba 84'	Report	Trincão 1'	Stadium: Stade Vélodrome Attendance: 618 Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)
Note: The match was originally scheduled to be played at 18:45, but was delayed to 19:05 after the bus carrying Sporting CP's players was caught in traffic and arrived late at the stadium.

12 October 2022 4	Sporting CP	0–2	Marseille	Lisbon, Portugal
20:00 WEST (UTC+1)		Report	Guendouzi 20' (pen.) Sánchez 30'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 38,126 Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)

26 October 2022 5	Tottenham Hotspur	1–1	Sporting CP	London, England
20:00 BST (UTC+1)	Bentancur 80'	Report	Edwards 22'	Stadium: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Attendance: 59,588 Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

1 November 2022 6	Sporting CP	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Lisbon, Portugal
20:00 WET (UTC±0)	Arthur 39'	Report	Kamada 62' (pen.) Kolo Muani 72'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 41,744 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

UEFA Europa League

Knockout phase

Knockout round play-offs

The Knockout round play-offs draw was held on 7 November 2022.

16 February 2023 First leg	Sporting CP	1–1	Midtjylland	Lisbon, Portugal
20:00 WET	Coates 90+4'	Report	Ashour 77'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 23,279 Referee: François Letexier (France)

23 February 2023 Second leg	Midtjylland	0–4 (1–5 agg.)	Sporting CP	Herning, Denmark
18:45 CET		Report	Coates 21' Gonçalves 50', 77' Gartenmann 85' (o.g.)	Stadium: MCH Arena Attendance: 9,576 Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Round of 16

The Round of 16 draw was held on 24 February 2023.

9 March 2023 First leg	Sporting CP	2–2	Arsenal	Lisbon, Portugal
20:00 WET	Inácio 34' Paulinho 55'	Report	Saliba 22' Morita 62' (o.g.)	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 36,006 Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

16 March 2023 Second leg	Arsenal	1–1 (3–3 agg.) (3–5 p)	Sporting CP	London, England
20:00 GMT	Xhaka 19'	Report	Gonçalves 62'	Stadium: Emirates Stadium Attendance: 59,929 Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)
	Penalties
	Ødegaard Saka Trossard Martinelli		St. Juste Esgaio Inácio Arthur Santos

Quarter-finals

The Quarter-finals draw was held on 17 March 2023.

13 April 2023 First leg	Juventus	1–0	Sporting CP	Turin, Italy
21:00 CEST	Gatti 73'	Report		Stadium: Juventus Stadium Attendance: 38,490 Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)

20 April 2023 Second leg	Sporting CP	1–1 (1–2 agg.)	Juventus	Lisbon, Portugal
20:00 WEST	Edwards 20' (pen.)	Report	Rabiot 9'	Stadium: Estádio José Alvalade Attendance: 45,903 Referee: François Letexier (France)

Statistics

Appearances and goals

As of 26 May 2023

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Primeira Liga		Taça de Portugal		Taça da Liga		UEFA Champions League		UEFA Europa League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	ESP	Antonio Adán	46	0	31	0	0	0	4	0	5	0	6	0
12	GK	URU	Franco Israel	8	0	3	0	1	0	2	0	1+1	0	0	0
22	GK	POR	André Paulo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	GK	BRA	Diego Callai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF	BRA	Matheus Reis	51	1	26+7	1	1	0	6	0	5+1	0	3+2	0
3	DF	NED	Jerry St. Juste	32	1	7+14	1	0	0	1+1	0	3+1	0	5	0
4	DF	URU	Sebastián Coates	44	3	30	1	0	0	4	0	5	0	5	2
13	DF	POR	Luís Neto	7	0	4+2	0	0	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0
19	DF	ESP	Héctor Bellerín	13	1	6+4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0+3	0
25	DF	POR	Gonçalo Inácio	52	4	26+7	1	1	0	5+1	2	6	0	5+1	1
26	DF	CIV	Ousmane Diomande	17	1	11+2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2+2	0
46	DF	POR	Gonçalo Esteves	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
47	DF	POR	Ricardo Esgaio	32	1	15+10	1	0	0	1+3	0	2+1	0	0	0
71	DF	POR	Flávio Nazinho	6	0	2+1	0	0	0	0	0	0+3	0	0	0
73	DF	POR	Chico Lamba	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Midfielders
5	MF	JPN	Hidemasa Morita	41	6	21+8	6	1	0	2	0	5	0	4	0
6	MF	GRE	Sotiris Alexandropoulos	14	0	0+6	0	1	0	0+4	0	0+3	0	0	0
10	MF	ENG	Marcus Edwards	51	12	27+6	7	1	0	5	2	6	2	6	1
11	MF	POR	Nuno Santos	49	9	25+6	8	1	0	5	0	5+1	1	3+3	0
15	MF	URU	Manuel Ugarte	45	0	28+3	0	0+1	0	4+1	0	6	0	0+2	0
16	MF	POR	Rochinha	20	1	3+13	1	0+1	0	0+2	0	0+1	0	0	0
23	MF	POR	Daniel Bragança	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF	POR	Pedro Gonçalves	51	20	33	15	0+1	0	5+1	2	5	0	6	3
32	MF	ARG	Mateo Tanlongo	14	0	0+9	0	0	0	0+2	0	0	0	0+3	0
82	MF	POR	Mateus Fernandes	7	1	1+2	0	0	0	1+1	1	0+1	0	0+1	0
84	MF	POR	Dário Essugo	10	0	3+1	0	0	0	2+1	0	0+1	0	0+2	0
Forwards
17	FW	POR	Francisco Trincão	52	13	26+8	10	1	0	4+1	1	5+1	2	4+2	0
18	FW	GHA	Abdul Fatawu Issahaku	12	0	1+5	0	0+1	0	0+2	0	0+2	0	0+1	0
20	FW	POR	Paulinho	38	15	14+8	5	1	0	6	8	2+3	1	4	1
33	FW	BRA	Arthur Gomes	38	4	6+18	1	0	0	1+5	1	1+2	2	2+3	0
77	FW	CPV	Jovane Cabral	10	0	0+4	0	0+1	0	1+3	0	0+1	0	0	0
79	FW	POR	Youssef Chermiti	31	3	16+9	3	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	1+4	0
91	FW	POR	Rodrigo Ribeiro	2	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players who have made an appearance this season but have left the club
24	DF	ESP	Pedro Porro	21	3	12+2	2	1	0	5+1	1	0	0	0	0
63	DF	ESP	José Marsà	7	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0+2	0	0	0
8	DF	POR	Matheus Nunes	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• Source: soccerway

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