“I don’t know if there will be another candidacy or not, but if there is, it’s healthy, because it’s good to debate the clubs’ problems in a high level”noted Miguel Ribeiro Telles.
In December 2025, at the Stromp Awards gala, Frederico Varandas had announced his re-candidacy for the presidency of Sporting, considering he was halfway through his mission at the club, whose leadership he assumed in September 2018, in succession to Bruno de Carvalho, dismissed three months earlier.
“I believe that the future, with the possible election of this management, is assured. I wouldn’t say that it wouldn’t be with someone else, but I believe that this is the best solution to continue managing the club’s destiny. I think that the action program will be the continuity and development of the work that has been done so far in terms of infrastructure, sporting, economic and financial”highlighted Miguel Ribeiro Telles.
Frederico Varandas was Sporting’s clinical director when he ran for president of the club for the first time and won with 42.32% of the votes, in the most participated Leo ballot ever, before being re-elected in March 2022, with double voting (85.8%).
In these two terms, he even became the president with the most national football trophies at the service of the ‘green and whites’, winning nine, compared to the eight of António José Ribeiro Ferreira, leader between 1946 and 1953.
In addition to three League Cups (2018/19, 2020/21 and 2021/22), two Portuguese Cups (2018/19 and 2024/25) and a Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup (2021), Sporting became national champions three times with Varandas.
The Lisbon team broke a 19-year hiatus in the I Liga, the longest in the club’s history, in 2020/21, before, last season, they renewed the title for the first time in more than seven decades and sealed the ‘double’ after 23 years.
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