2023/24 · Away

Titles are won in white too. The 2023/24 away shirt reduced the hoops to fine green pinstripes on a white base, with Betano and Super Bock in matching green, a clean shirt for an overwhelming season. It was the year of Viktor Gyökeres, signed from Coventry amid general scepticism and transformed into a phenomenon: 43 goals in all competitions in his debut season, 29 of them in a league Sporting dominated from start to finish to seal their 20th national title with games to spare, the second of the Amorim era. In Europe, the Europa League run only stopped in the last 16, against an Atalanta side that went on to win the competition, and the season closed with the Taça de Portugal final lost in extra time to Porto, the only smudge on a year painted green. Or rather white: it was also in this shirt that the team collected points up and down the country on the way to number twenty. Home shirts get the glory of the anthems at Alvalade; away shirts win the leagues in the places nobody is watching.

Here at Hoopster this white one proves the lion needs no green to rule: fine pinstripes, 43 goals from a doubted Swede and a title sealed with rounds to spare. Green history can be written in white too.