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Portuguese clubs Sporting Lisbon, Porto face 1-year European bans for unpaid debts
•Sporting, who have advanced to the round of 16 in the Champions League, and Porto, who are second in their group, could be excluded the next time they qualify for the Champions League, Europa League or Europa Conference League in the next three seasons.
Champions League: Neymar out for Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico-Liverpool meet again
•Liverpool head to Atletico Madrid seeking a third straight win in the group and likely to welcome back Brazil internationals Alisson Becker and Fabinho after their late returns from national team duty.
Ligue 1: Paris Saint-Germain sign Portugal full-back Nuno Mendes from Sporting Lisbon
•Nuno Mendes completes a bumper transfer window for PSG, who will reportedly pay Sporting a loan fee of seven million euros ($8.3 million) with the option to make the deal permanent for 40 million euros.
Europa League: Tottenham literally move the goalposts to win in Macedonia, AC Milan survive without Zlatan Ibrahimovic
•Son Heung-min and Harry Kane struck in the final 20 minutes to set up a playoff round tie at home to Maccabi Haifa next Thursday on an eventful night in Macedonia for Jose Mourinho's men.
Primeira Liga: Sporting Lisbon to rename youth academy after 'greatest-ever' product Cristiano Ronaldo
•Ronaldo, who scored in Juventus' first Serie A game of the season on Sunday, joined the capital city side aged 12.
Two days before resumption of Primeira Liga, Sporting records 10 positive cases of COVID-19
•The Portuguese league is due to resume on Friday behind closed doors. Sporting's opening game is on Saturday at home to another hard-hit club, Gil Vicente.
Porto clinch second Portuguese league title in three years with 2-0 win over Sporting Lisbon
•It is the 18th straight season that either Benfica or Porto win the Portuguese league. Sporting Lisbon, third in the standings this season, won the title in 2001-02.
Primeira Liga: Benfica blow chance to open up lead on Porto with home draw; bus stoned after game injuring two players
•Portuguese champions Benfica missed the chance to move clear of title rivals Porto as they were held to a 0-0 draw at home to lowly Tondela in their first game back after the top-flight season was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sporting Lisbon's ex-president acquitted of inciting attack on players as Portuguese court sentences nine
•In May 2018 a group of hooded Sporting fans armed with sticks and belts attacked players at the club’s training ground after the team failed to qualify for the Champions League.
FIFA open investigation into Sampdoria's claim of holding share in Bruno Fernandes' transfer fee to Sporting Lisbon
•FIFA is investigating a complaint by Sampdoria to get a share of the reported €55 million ($59.4 million) transfer fee Manchester United paid Sporting Lisbon for Bruno Fernandes.