* August 13 – In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Cruzeiro defeat Sporting Cristal of Peru 1 – 0, becoming the Copa Libertadores de América champions for the second time.

Villarreal CF, Sporting de Gijón and Racing de Santander were relegated to 2012 – 13 Segunda División the previous season: Villarreal were relegated after twelve years in La Liga, Sporting de Gijón returns to Segunda División after four-year tenure in La Liga, while Racing de Santander ended ten consecutive seasons in La Liga, the longest period in its history.

* Sporting Club de Bastia

Several sports clubs were founded across the entire territory, among them were some of the largest and oldest sports organizations of Mozambique like Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques established in 1920.

The top soccer club is the Sporting Toulon Var, currently playing at the fourth level of French Football ( Championnat de France Amateurs ).

Real Sporting de Gijón, S. A. D.

In 1916 a new change took place to adopt today's denomination, Real Sporting de Gijón.

Like most old football clubs, Sporting de Gijón did not initially have any badge displayed on their shirts.

Real Sporting de Gijón's flag.

The official flag of Sporting de Gijón consist of, in a rectangular field with ratio 2: 3, nine equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white.

During the 1910s, the club won several Andalusian regional leagues, and became the first Spanish side to defeat a Portuguese team, winning against Sporting Clube de Portugal.

Before the switch from blue and white to red and white, only one other team wore red and white, Sporting de Gijón, since 1905.

The club became first widely known in Spain in 1995 – 96, while still playing at the third level, for its extraordinary run in the Spanish Cup, eliminating three top flight clubs ( Real Sociedad, Racing de Santander and Sporting de Gijón ) and only being knocked out in the quarter-finals by FC Barcelona, after taking the lead.

Alianza Lima, Sporting Cristal, and Universitario de Deportes are the biggest teams in Peru.

Sporting Cristal was finalist in the Copa Libertadores de América 1997, South America's most important soccer tournament.

In the Champions League Bayern also reached the quarter-finals after winning Group F and defeating Sporting Clube de Portugal in the first knockout round, achieving a Champions League record aggregate of 12 – 1.

The club's badge is a triangle with red and white vertical stripes with ' S ' ( for Sporting ) and ' G ' ( for Gijón ) intertwined, in gold, across them.

Following a 1 – 3 loss at Sporting Gijón on 2 November 2008, Numancia reached a total of 200 goals against in the top division, reaching 44th in the all-time list.

The team finished as runners-up in La Liga for the first time in 1979 – 80, gaining 52 points compared to Real Madrid's 53, and 13 points clear of third-placed Sporting Gijón.

During the 1993 – 94 season, he scored a hat-trick against Albacete Balompié, adding four against Sporting de Gijón.

The loan move wasn't a great success ( 5 appearances, 1 goal ), and Cunningham returned to Real Madrid, where he was promptly loaned out to Sporting Gijón for the 1983 / 4 season.

Category: Sporting de Gijón footballers

* Real Sporting de Gijón, a football club from Gijón, Spain.

On 3 December 2011, Ronaldo scored Madrid's second goal in a 0 – 3 defeat of Sporting de Gijón in La Liga.

Ronaldo officially broke his previous record of 40 goals in a La Liga season on 14 April, scoring in a 3 – 1 win against Sporting Gijón.

Ibrahimović playing for Barcelona in a match against Sporting de Gijón | Sporting Gijón.

With the opening of the new Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, Sporting Kansas City became the first major-league team to have played in stadiums on both sides of the state line in Kansas City, and may continue to use Arrowhead Stadium for special-occasion games, such as those against well-known international teams.

Since the rebranding in 2010, Sporting have seen dramatic growth in their fan section, with several fan groups adding their voice to The Cauldron culture and atmosphere.

The Ladies of SKC, Northland Noise SG, Omaha Boys and others have gained many supporters and have been officially recognized by Sporting KC.

Famous players such as Delio Onnis, Jean Tigana, Christian Dalger, David Ginola or Sébastien Squillaci have played for Sporting.

Sporting have a fierce and long term rivalry with their Asturias opponents Real Oviedo.

The two likely categories Barnes could have chosen from within the SAKU classification system at that time were, " Sporting " and " Gundog ".

In an article from the Sporting News, he commented that " There's too much of a lack of respect players have for one another ...

As of 2012, the Rapids and Sporting Kansas City, both founding MLS clubs, are the only two teams to never have had a paid shirt sponsor on the front of their jerseys ( entering 2012, FC Dallas was part of this group, but recently acquired a shirt sponsor ).

Also in 1999, Elway was ranked number 16 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the only player to have spent the majority of his career with the Broncos to make the list ( Willie Brown, who began his career with the Broncos but spent more of it with the Oakland Raiders, also made the list ).

* A variety of radio hosts have used the term for events encouraged or sponsored by the shows, such as Brent Farris of KZST in California, Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1, David Stein of the Sporting News Radio, and Kfm Breakfast of 94. 5 Kfm in South Africa.

A number of football teams have adopted this pattern, such as Celtic, Queens Park Rangers, Reading, Flamengo, Sporting Lisbon and, formerly, Parma.

Paul and Ira have a close friendship, but their hidden rivalry came out when Ira took ownership of Buchman's Sporting Goods upon Burt's retirement.

Said to have been able to speak with a voice that resembled a squeak, he was actually one of the most intelligent players of his time, and is sometimes credited with developing the hand signals used by umpires to this day, though this view is widely disputed ; Cy Rigler is believed to have created signals for balls and strikes while working in the minor leagues ( although, in the November 6, 1886 issue of The Sporting News, the deaf pitcher Ed Dundon is credited as using hand signals while umpiring a game in Mobile, Alabama on October 20 of that year ), and Bill Klem is credited with introducing those signals to the major leagues.

Sporting colours, more often known merely as colours or house-colours, are awarded to members of a university or school who have excelled in a sport.

Sporting bullets, with a calibre d ranging from 0. 177 to 0. 50 inches ( 4. 50 to 12. 7 mm ), have G1 BC ’ s in the range 0. 12 to slightly over 1. 00, with 1. 00 being the most aerodynamic, and 0. 12 being the least.

With John Doyle as Roy Slaven, they have appeared on television shows such as The Dream with Roy and HG, This Sporting Life, Club Buggery, The Channel Nine Show, Planet Norwich, Win Roy and HG's Money, The Monday Dump, The Nation Dumps, The Dream in Athens and The Memphis Trousers Half Hour.

At Number 79, he was the highest-ranking New Jersey native to have made The Sporting News list of Baseball's Greatest Players in 1999.

Sporting clubs have also used the flag as a symbol including the Melbourne Victory and Melbourne Rebels.

After starting professionally at Porto, Postiga went on to have spells in England ( one season with Tottenham ), France and Greece ( five months apiece ), before returning to his country with Sporting.

It is unfortunate for Sporting fans that UEFA did not launch this competition earlier, otherwise Sporting could almost certainly have had at least one Cup of the Clubs of the European Champions amongst its honours.