Sporting Clube de Portugal 2023/24 Home Shirt

If this season's white away shirt collected the points up and down the country, this was the one that lived the party. Almost entirely green, with white reduced to an arched band across the chest and black closing off collar and cuffs, the 2023/24 home shirt is the one in which Alvalade welcomed the 20th national title, the second of the Amorim era, with Coates lifting the trophy as captain before a stadium bursting at the seams. It was also the shirt of Viktor Gyökeres's first home nights, the Swede who turned every Alvalade fixture into the promise of a goal on his way to 43 in that debut season. The pair from this season tells the full story: the white one won the points on the road, the green one kept the embraces at home. In collections as in championships, this is the pairing that closes things properly: the working shirt and the party shirt. This is the party one.

Here at Hoopster this is the shirt of the party: the twentieth title received at Alvalade, Coates holding the trophy high and Gyökeres turning every night into a promise of goals. Some hoops smell of champagne forever.