The team is part of the São Tome Island Football Association and the Santomean Football Association.
Sporting São Tomé is the fathering club of Sporting Clube de Portugal and is the 183rd affiliate.
Sporting São Tomé alongside Andorinha and the club now Porto de Folha Fede never won any titles after independence in 1975.
In recent years, the club was relegated into the Second Division and later relegated into the Third Division until 2015 when they were in the top two positions and returned to the Second Division for two seasons, in September 2017, the club finished first with 42 wins, 13 wins, 3 draws and a marvelous 71 goals which was the highest in several seasons for the club, with the mainstreams of a few high scoring matches with the highest, a victory over Oque del Rei 0-10 which was the highest match in the nation of any tiers or levels.
Sporting São Tomé will return yet again to the regional Premier Division in several years.