Club Profile

• Considered one of the country’s big-three multi-sport clubs, the Lisbon-based Sporting Clube de Portugal was founded in 1906 and, like its football team, the athletics department has been in continuous operation since then.

• With an active membership of approximately 179208, including 595 enrolled at the club’s athletics academy, the athletics department has brought in hundreds of individual and team honours over the years including at least 20 European Champion Clubs Cup victories for both track & field and cross country dating back to 1977.

• Sporting Clube de Portugal’s all-time top athletes include the 1984 Olympic marathon gold medallist Carlos Lopes and other Olympians such as Fernando Mamede, Domingos Castro, Rui Silva, Francis Obikwelu and Naide Gomes.

• Complementing its international-level accomplishments, the club is proud of its strong development focus, offering its athletics academy to youngsters and achieving consistent national-level success in the U16, U18 and U20 ages group competitions.

• Website: sporting.pt/pt/Modalidades/Atletismo

• Social:
  instagram.com/fpatletismo
  instagram.com/atletismo_scp

DNA History

• The Clash of the Clubs in Leiria will be Sporting Clube de Portugal’s second appearance at the DNA U20 Clubs as in 2024 it was one of the first two Portuguese clubs to take part in the competition, placing 5th in the A Final.

• Prior to that, many of the club’s athletes had already participated in a domestic DNA event that was held to select the country’s representatives. Before last year’s Clash the team leadership held an online workshop to discuss the DNA format’s special competition rules, scoring system and the club’s team tactics.

Athletes to Watch

• Just 17, star sprinter Magarida Oliveira (instagram.com/_magui_oliveira) holds national age group short track records for the U18 400m (56.56) and U20 200m (24.36). Outdoors, she already has the international experience of competing at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships, the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships and the 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival. Her personal best times are 12.02 for 100m and 24.20 for 200m.

• Also 17, Spaniard Marcos Lara (instagram.com/malaur_07) was a member of Sporting Clube de Portugal’s 4x100m relay team that took this year’s men’s U20 national title with a championship record of 40.90. At the same event he won the long jump gold medal and earlier he placed second at the U23 championships. He has personal bests of 7.53m for long jump, 10.95 for 100m and 22.50 (into a -1.7 wind) for 200m.

• Rui Serras, 18, (instagram.com/rserras), was a member of Sporting Clube de Portugal’s 4x400m relay team that won 2024 national championships both indoors and outdoors. He has a personal best time of 47.39 for the 400m and represented Portugal in that event at this year’s European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere.  He also has PBs of 1:55.65 for the 800m and 22.28 for the 200m, both achieved this last winter on indoor short tracks.