Sporting CP Youth Academy
The Sporting CP Youth Academy is the youth development division of Sporting CP and part of Academia Cristiano Ronaldo in Alcochete. Sporting CP's youth system, which counted for several decades with Aurélio Pereira among its scouting staff, helped develop footballers such as Paulo Futre, Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Youth Squads

Sporting U23 team

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

Sporting U19 team - Juniores

 

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

Sporting U17 team - Juvenis

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

Sporting U15 team - Iniciados

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

The Academy
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.

Facilities
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. 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.

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.

Youth program
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).

Notable Academy graduates
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).

Academia Aurélio Pereira and Pólo EUL 
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), 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.

Escolas Academia Sporting 
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. Angola, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, Singapore, South Africa and Spain, among other countries, are foreign countries where the EAS have been founded.

References

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

Football academies in Portugal
Sporting CP
Youth football in Portugal
UEFA Youth League teams
NextGen series