Academia Cristiano Ronaldo
Interactive map of Academia Cristiano Ronaldo | |
| Location | Alcochete, Portugal |
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| Coordinates | 38°43′49″N 8°51′0″W / 38.73028°N 8.85000°W |
| Owner | Sporting CP |
| Type | Sports facility |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 2002 |
| Website | |
| sporting.pt | |
The Academia Cristiano Ronaldo (English: Cristiano Ronaldo Academy), formerly known as Academia Sporting (English: Sporting Academy) and also known as Academia de Alcochete (English: Alcochete Academy), is the name given to the football training facilities of Sporting CP, located outside Alcochete, in the Setúbal District of Portugal. It includes the Sporting CP Youth Academy, which helped to develop footballers such as Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo from a young age. Both Sporting CP B, the reserve men's football team of Sporting CP's main squad, and the main Sporting CP women's football team, play their home matches at the Estádio Aurélio Pereira (named after long-serving Sporting CP's head youth player scout Aurélio Pereira) in the Academia Cristiano Ronaldo, which holds a seating capacity of 1,180.