Sporting Clube de Portugal ComC MHIH OM, otherwise known as Sporting, Sporting CP, and referred to colloquially as Sporting Lisbon, is a football club based in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded on 1 July 1906, Sporting is one of the Três Grandes (Big Three) clubs in Portugal, along with rivals S.L. Benfica and FC Porto, that have never been relegated from the top flight of Portuguese football, Primeira Liga, since 1934. Sporting is nicknamed Leões (Lions) and Verde e Brancos (Green and Whites). The club s anthem, A Marcha do Sporting (Sporting s March), was written in 1955. In March 2019, Sporting reported having more than 80,500 paying members, with the rest of them, 98,400, without their fees paid in full.