Sporting Clube de Portugal (Portugal) (original) (raw)

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image by Rodolfo Kussarev Jr. and José Alegría, 01 Abr 2002

Presentation

Sporting Club de Portugal (yes indeed the bit "Sporting Club" is in English, the late 19th cent. lingua franca of soccer), one the most important soccer clubs of Lisbon and of Portugal. (Oh, it’s not only a soccer club, it has teams in other sports too — it’s athletics and roller skate hockey are world famous too. But soccer gets, as usual, the lion’s share.)
António Martins, 28 Jan 2001

About the flag

The flag displayed by the side of the national flag at the main entrance of the José Alvalade stadium in Lisbon (and nowhere to be seen among the many supporter flags) is plain green with a large white rampant lion centered on it and the letters "SCP" scattered across the cloth: "S" vertically centered near the hoist, "C" above the lion’s head, and "P" vertically centered near the fly. This design, though clearly inspired by the old logo(or at least sharing a common origin), is different enough from it to not be at stake after the adoption of the new logo.
António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

I’d really like to know about the reverse of the flag: does the lion keep facing the hoist or not? And are the letters correct for reading or not?
António Martins, 28 Jan 2001

As usual, there’s a lot of unofficial flagsaround, particularly in all sorts of combinations of white, green and black, the colours of the club’s jerseys.
António Martins and Jorge Candeias, 28 Jan 2001

Variations

Logo on green with extended stripes

image by António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

New logo on green with a wide white border; the white horizontal fesses stretch out to the edges of the flag. IIRC the letters "SCP" do not show. A rare design, powerful yet sober. (This is a mass production design, sold by the thousand — it ought to be seen a lot.)
António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

Logo on green-white quartered

image by António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

New logo with a wide white border on white and green quertered. Not a bad idea, thogh it looks a lot like a municipal flag. (This is a mass production design, sold by the thousand — it ought to be seen a lot.)
António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

Previous logo on green

image by Rodolfo Kussarev Jr. and António Martins, 28 Jan 2001

The green flag with the old logo is not (and apparently never was) the club’s official flag.
António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

A 2:3 green field with the logo of the clubcentered on it, the only changes being the color of the letters, white instead of green, and the absence of the outline — for obvious reasons, since the background on the flag is green.
António Martins, 28 Jan 2001

Previous logo on triband

image by Rodolfo Kussarev Jr. and António Martins, 31 Mar 2004

This variation, with the old logo on a green and white “spanish” triband, was “legitimized” by the cover illustration of a book, Sporting Club de Portugal(by Rui Guedes publ. Dom Quixote: Lisboa, 1988), published with support from the club.
António Martins, 31 Mar 2004

Logo

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image by António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

Sporting got recently a new logo, quite unfit to sit on a green background without changes.
António Martins, 21 Oct 2001

A wide white border is used all around the emblem when this is set on a plain green background (not only on flags).
António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

Previous logo

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image by Rodolfo Kussarev Jr. and António Martins, 30 Mar 2002

The logo is a green cartouche bordered in white and outlined in green chaged with a white lion batalant facing dexter. Above the cartouche (as a crest?), the lettering "SCP" set in a fantasy, top heavy font. It appears on many unofficial flags.
António Martins, 28 Jan 2001

I believe the cartouche should be bordered in yellow, not in white. And the same for the lion. The letters are white.
Jorge Candeias, 28 Jan 2001

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