Sporting Lisbon - The great champions of the 21st Century - players and their shirts

This page shows shirts from Sporting Lisbon from the 2000 decade. We show hooped home shirts, Stromp, away, and goalie shirts, match worn (worn by players in a game, or prepared for a player who stayed in the bench or was not even called), as well as replica shirts (the normal shirts worn by the supporters and fans sold e.g. in the official Sporting Lisbon shop). The kits from the current season can be found in the page dedicated to the Sporting shirts from the 2010s

The 21st Century started well, winning the national championship after 17 years without the major Portuguese trophy. That was the season 1999/2000, and the corresponding shirts are in the Sporting 1990s page. Soon thereafter, in 2001/02, we won the league again (and the Portugal Cup and the Supercup), but the rest of the decade was disappointing, with glory nearly missed in the lost 2004/05 UEFA Cup final, and the "only" silverware conquered was two cups and two supercups.

The Sporting Lisbon shirt in 2000/2001: once again the Champion patch

Reebok continued to be the supplier of the Sporting Clube de Portugal shirts, staying until the Centennial year in 2006. The home hooped shirt followed the style of the two previous seasons, with some evolution, namely in the collar and other small details.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. You can click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from 2000 2001.

The 2001/02 Sporting Lisbon shirt: Champion again, plus the Cup and the Supercup

From 2001/02, the new crest of the Sporting Clube de Portugal started to be introduced, and there are shirts both with the old and the new symbol. One must note that in the football shirts, worn by the players or in replicas, the SCP acronym on top of the crest is missing, which is against the Sporting statutes.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. Click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from 2001 2002.

The Sporting Clube de Portugal shirt in the 2002/2003 season

Reebok insisted on the previous year's bet on innovation, and the home jerseys are an evolution based on the previous season. The all white area that joins the shoulders with the armpits is kept, but more stylised and separated from the hoops by a black line, still breaking some stripes. On the other hand, in this Sporting shirt, the green stripes are not green stripes: each hoop is made of many finw lines, alternately green and black. Seen from afar, the overall effect is hoops of a very dark green. This shirt, not very "Sporting Lisbon", became however famous all over the world, because this was the season were Cristiano Ronaldo played with the main Sporting Lisbon football team, after six years in the Sporting football Academy and one season in the B team.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. You can click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon jerseys from 2002 2003.

The 2003/2004 Sporting Clube de Portugal football shirts

Reebok supplied a hooped home shirt, that is, without foreign elements interrupting the Sporting hoops. The only novelty was that te area close to the collar was completely green. The number of green hoops, seven to eight (up to nine, counting the geen area by the neck), was high, and the hoops are fairly narrow, but we note that in old Sporting Lisbon shirts, in the 1970s, also had seven hoops.

Here we only show one home, and one away shirt. The Stromp shirt of this season is equal to the match worn ones (player Rogério) shown in the next season. You can click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from 2003 2004.

Sporting Lisbon shirts in 2004/2005: the white hole on the back

This season saw the coming of a dreadful "innovation" that defaced the Sporting Lisbon home shirt. Due to external imposition, and with ludicrous arguments of visibility of the player name and number, the back side of the kits started to have a very large area in one colour only, which in this first year was a huge white area that makes that the hoops are not hoops at all. In this year this happened only in the match worn shirts, that is, worn by the Sporting Lisbon player on the pitch. The replica shirts still kept the hoops.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. You can click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from 2004 2005.

The Centenary of Sporting Clube de Portugal - the Sporting shirt

In the year where Sporting Lisbon reached one century of Effort, Dedication, Devotion and Glory, reebok, in its last year of contract, provided soccer shirts almost unanimously considered as being the best since the classic years when Le Coq Sportif supplied the Sporting Lisbon kit. Later on, the Sporting 2011 2012 shirt also excited the supporters.

We only show here one home and one Stromp shirt. There was no away jersey in this season. Click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from the Centennial season, 2005 2006.

Sporting Lisbon shirts in 2006/2007 - Winner of Cup and Super-cup

After the contract with Reebok was finished, Puma was presented as the new supplier of the Sporting Lisbon equipment. Puma had been the very first brand maker of Sporting shirts, in the early 1980s, and now continued into the 2010 decade. Puma innovated a great deal, which led to jerseys that were very well received by some supporters and less well so by other. In any case, after the Centennial year shirts it would always have been difficult to please the fans.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. Click here to see all the Sporting Clube de Portugal shirts from 2006 2007.

Sporting shirts from 2007/2008: many hoops and a green hole, a Cup and a Supercup

Puma greatly improved the quality of its shirts in the second year of contract with Sporting. However, the innovations in the jerseys still led to arguments among the supporters. In particular, the Sporting Clube de POrtugal shirt in 2007/08 had nine or ten green hoops, which was considered simply too much, and led to the introduction of the recommendation that not more than six hoops should be present.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. You can click here to see all the Sporting Club Portugal jerseys from 2007 2008.

The Sporting Clube de Portugal shirt in the 2008/2009 season

The Sporting Lisbon shirts of this season were simple and lovely, besides the green hole in the back. The quality was also good, these are dual layer shirts.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. You can click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from 2008 2009.

The Sporting Clube de Portugal kit in 2009/2010

The decade ended with a Sporting home shirt that was nicknamed "bib" by the supporters. Too innovative by half, the strongest point of contention was that it does not have one single hoop. The stripes are cut off on the sides by green fabric, so instead of hoops the shirts actually have white rectangles inserted in a green background. In practical terms this was not very noticeable on the shirts once worn.

Here we only show one home, one Stromp, and one away shirt. You can click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from 2009 2010.

Click here to see all the Sporting Lisbon shirts from the 2010s.