SPORTING CHAMPION: Amorim is the first two-time champion coach for the Lions in 70 years

Rúben Amorim won his second national championship title with Sporting and became the first Leonine coach to win more than one championship in 72 years. At 39, he is also the youngest ever.

Among 15 different coaches who won Sporting’s 20 championships, the Englishman Randolph Galloway was the only one who did so three times, between 1951 and 1953. He therefore won his second championship in 1952.

Galloway was on the bench for a large part of Sporting’s fourth title, which would be completed by Tavares da Silva. The Portuguese coach was primarily responsible in 1953/54, when his field coach was Josef Szabo, the mythical Hungarian coach who was the first national champion in 1934/35, then on the FC Porto bench.

Szabo was also the first national champion with Sporting, in 1941, and the first two-time champion, after winning the title again in 1943/44. He also played a decisive role in this third achievement in 1954, although he is not formally considered the first coach at that time.

Cândido de Oliveira, also a historical figure, was the other coach who won more than one national champion title for Sporting, with successive victories in 1948, then as head coach and Robert Kelly as field coach, and 1949, during the time of the Five Violins.

They were all older than Rúben Amorim when they reached their third title. Cândido was 53, Szabo was 48 and Galloway was 53.

Sporting titles and champion coaches

1940/41 Josef Szabo (Hungary)

1943/44 Josef Szabo (Hungary)

1946/47 Robert Kelly (England)

1947/48 Cândido de Oliveira (Portugal)

1948/49 Cândido de Oliveira (Portugal)

1950/51 Randolph Galloway (England)

1951/52 Randolph Galloway (England)

1952/53 Randolph Galloway (England)

1953/54 Tavares da Silva (Portugal)

1957/58 Enrique Fernandez (Uruguay)