Colombian forward arrives on loan for Sporting B

Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD has reached an agreement with Atlético Nacional for the loan of the player Leonardo Ruíz for the 2016/17 season, with an option for a permanent transfer.

Sporting SAD wishes Leonardo Ruiz the best of professional and personal success.

Under-20 world champion one of Portugal's most promising youngsters

Sporting CP has officially agreed a contract with Gonçalo Nunes, who actually represented Benfica last season. Aged just 17, Nunes is already under-20 world champion.

Gonçalo Nunes, trained just down the road at Paço de Arcos, couldn't hide his satisfaction with the move: "It is a dream come true for any player to get into the senior team, especially at a club like Sporting."

Handbal star makes the move to Alvalade from RK Metalurg Skopje

The Austrian handball player Janko Bozovic is the latest of a series of signings to join Alvalade in recent weeks. Bozovic has already claimed national titles in Italy (Italgest Casarano) and Belarus (HC Meshkov Brest) and this will be his 10th time aboard having already tallied up experience in Norway, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, Belarus, Macedonia and Qatar.

Sporting SAD statement regarding the loan of the player Fidel Escobar

Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD has reached an agreement with Sporting San Miguelito for the loan of the Panamanian international Fidel Escobar for the current sports season, with an option for a permanent transfer.

Sporting SAD wishes the player the best of professional and personal success.

Defender signs in at Alvalade on five-year deal

Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD has reached an agreement with the player David Sualehe for a contract valid until June 2021, with a buy-out clause of 45,000,000.00€.

Sporting SAD wishes the player the best of professional and personal success.

Oliveirense striker signs for Sporting for three seasons

Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD has reached an agreement with União Desportiva Oliveirense – Futebol, SDUQ. Lda. for the player Ricardo Guimarães, known as Guima.

Guima has signed a contract valid until June 2019, with an optional extension until June 2021 and a buy-out clause of 45,000,000.00€.

Sporting SAD wishes the player the best of professional and personal success.

Slovenian giant makes the move to Lisbon

"I am really happy to sign for Sporting! It was an easy decision. It is a good club with a good tradition in lots of sports, not just handball." That was how Igor Zabic opened his first interview in a Sporting shirt this week, after sealing his move to Alvalade.

Standing at 2.01m and weighing 95kg, the giant Slovenian proved full of ambition: "I know we will have a great team next season and their was no reason for me not to sign. I hope to fight for first place and I always want to win, but we have to show that on the court."

Having already spent spells with Orosházi FKSE (Hungary), RK Celje Pivovarna Lasko, RK Maribor Branic (Slovenia) and Slask Wroclaw (Poland), Zabric also proved knowledgeable on Portuguese handball: "I know that four teams fight fo the title here: Sporting, Porto, Benfica and Braga (ABC). It is a really balanced league."

17-year old defender signs until 2022

Sporting Clube de Portugal – Futebol, SAD has reached an agreement with Thierry Correia for the renewal of the player's contract until June 2022, with a buy-out clause of €45,000,000.00.

Sporting SAD wishes Thierry Correia the best of professional and person success.

Sara Granja, Tânia Rodrigues and Nadine Cordeiro all pen deals

A total of 12 ladies have already put pen to paper and signed for Sporting's female football team, after the sport made its return to the club after 21 years.

The ladies far announced are: Solange Carvalhas, Fátima Pinto, Diana Silva, Patrícia Morais, Matilde Figueiras, Ana Capeta, Ana Rita Viegas, Bárbara Marques and Bruna Costa, along with the signings of Sara Granja, Tânia Rodrigues and Nadine Cordeiro this Friday.

Sara Granja, 26, arrived in Alvalade after spells with Albergaria Mazel, Valadares and UMF Afturelding. “Sporting Clube de Portugal scares a lot of people. We will be looking to win the league, the cup and to reach the champions league", said Granja in an interview with the Sporting Journal.

A 17-year old striker, Tânia Rodrigues proved overjoyed with the chance to represent Sporting: "Our objective is to win the league. I would the opportunity to play for the national team."

Nadine Cordeiro is a 19-year old midfielder and already has caps for the national under-16, under-17 and under-19 teams.

Swimming superstar extends stay until 2020

Alvalade's adapted swimming superstar João Vaz has extended his deal with the club until 2020.

Born in Lisbon on the 22nd of December, Vaz took up the sport in October 2008, with coach Alexandre Ferreira, in Portela swimming ppol, Loures.

He has been with Sporting CP since April 2009, under the coaching of Rui Gama. He took part in the National Winter Championship for the first time in February 2010, winning his first medals in the process. He racked up various national and European titles in 2011,2012 and 2013, before winning silver in the World Championships in the 400m medley and 200m breast stroke event.

He won a total of five silver medals and two bronze in the 2015 European Championships and was recognised with a Stromp Award in 2013, 2014 and 2015.