Alvalade with 83 names included in 32 national squads lists

Add up the numbers and you come to the inevitable truth: Sporting is the club who has provided most players for the national team. Since 2010, a total of 32 squad lists have been issued. Together, Agostinho Oliveira, Carlos Queiroz, Paulo Bento and Fernando Santos have named 702 players (mostly the same group of stars), 83 of which were from Sporting, followed by 79 from Real Madrid and 68 from FC Porto.

The arrival of Fernando Santos is showing no sign of reversing the tendency, with Rui Patrício, William Carvalho, Adrien and João Mário all set to face Belgium and Bulgaria in the coming round of friendlies.

Top-10 teams providing players to the national team:

1st Sporting: 83

2nd Real Madrid: 79

3rd FC Porto: 68

4th Sp. Braga: 59

5th Zenit: 47

6th Benfica: 40

7th Valencia: 37

8th Besiktas: 25

9th Fenerbahçe: 24

10th AS Monaco: 21