It includes the Sporting CP Youth Academy which helped to develop footballers such as Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo from a young age.

[10][11] The Sporting Academy, inaugurated in 2002 and since 2020 officially known as Cristiano Ronaldo Academy, was built on the opposite bank of the Tagus River from Lisbon as a brand new infrastructure of Sporting CP's football training facilities, including those belonging to its youth development system.

[1][12] The academy was one of the training grounds for the Portugal national football team during the UEFA Euro 2004.

[13] The academy (by then known as the Academia de Alcochete) was renamed Sporting/Puma Academy (Academia Sporting/Puma) to reflect the sponsorship and naming contract signed by the club and the sports brand Puma in 2006; the contract lasted until 2012.

[16][17] In June 2010, Sporting CP signed the first contract for consultancy in sports training at the international level, with Al-Ahli Saudi Soccer Academy, from Saudi Arabia, a partnership that lasted for three years.