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Manchester City vs Sporting CP Hospitality 2026/27
Etihad Stadium, Manchester
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Match details: Manchester City v Sporting CP, UEFA Champions League 2026/27 league phase, Etihad Stadium, Manchester. Date and kick-off: to be confirmed by UEFA (fixture list due 29 August 2026).
Man City v Sporting CP hospitality at the Etihad Stadium is part of the 2026/27 UEFA Champions League league phase, and packages are not on sale yet. UEFA is due to publish the dated fixture list by 29 August 2026, so register your interest below and we will contact you the moment Manchester City release hospitality for this match. The fixture falls between September 2026 and January 2027, and the confirmed day and kick-off time will appear here once UEFA publishes them.
Sporting beat City 4-1 in Lisbon on 5 November 2024, Viktor Gyokeres scoring a hat-trick to become the first Sporting player to score a Champions League hat-trick in the modern competition. That was Ruben Amorim's final home match in charge before he left for Manchester United, and Gyokeres has since joined Arsenal, so a different Sporting front line comes to Manchester. This is their first visit to the Etihad since the 2021/22 round of 16, when City won the first leg 5-0 in Lisbon before a goalless return in Manchester. The two clubs have met three times in the Champions League, one win each and a draw.
Founded in Lisbon in 1906 and nicknamed the Lions, Sporting hold 58 major trophies, which makes them the third most decorated club in Portugal, and their academy produced Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figo. The Portuguese side, known in the UK as Sporting Lisbon, skipped qualifying altogether for 2026/27: as the club with the highest coefficient of any side that would otherwise have entered the qualifying rounds, they went straight into the league phase. They won the Primeira Liga in 2024/25, a 21st title, along with the Taca de Portugal, then finished second in 2025/26 on 82 points. Rui Borges has managed them since 26 December 2024. Colombian forward Luis Suarez leads the line after topping the 2025/26 Primeira Liga scoring charts with 28 league goals and 38 in all competitions, and Fotis Ioannidis, Maximiliano Araujo, Goncalo Inacio and Daniel Braganca are also in the squad.
Sporting arrive off their deepest modern European run. They finished seventh in the 2025/26 league phase on 16 points, went through 5-0 on aggregate against Bodo/Glimt in the round of 16, then lost the quarter-final to Arsenal 3-1 on aggregate.
For Manchester City this is a sixteenth consecutive Champions League season and a first European campaign under Enzo Maresca, appointed on 29 June 2026 after Pep Guardiola stepped down that May following ten years and 20 major trophies. It is the club's first season without Guardiola since 2015/16, and the expanded North Stand carries his name. City finished second in the 2025/26 Premier League on 78 points and won both domestic cups, beating Chelsea in the FA Cup final and Arsenal in the League Cup final, with Erling Haaland taking the Golden Boot on 27 goals. City won this competition in 2023, beating Inter Milan in the final to complete a treble, and followed it with the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup. They went out of last season's Champions League to Real Madrid in the round of 16.
The Etihad Stadium is at Ashton New Road, Manchester, M11 3FF, a short walk or tram ride east of the city centre. It opened in 2002 for the Commonwealth Games and became City's ground in 2003. It holds more than 61,000 with the expanded North Stand, named the Pep Guardiola Stand, open for 2026/27. Hospitality is spread across the Asahi Super Dry Tunnel Club, The Chairman's Club, The Mancunian, the Citizens lounges, Legends, the Platinum Boxes with their private balconies, The 1894 Club Bar, The Commonwealth Bar and KITS. New for 2026/27 in the Pep Guardiola Stand are City Hall, a bar behind the goal, Crossbar, a sports bar themed on the club's goalkeepers, Zadie's, a Pan-Asian restaurant with balcony seating, and the Pitch View Rooms for parties of twelve. The Residence by Etihad, in the Colin Bell Stand, is led by chef Adam Reid. Manchester City decide which areas open for each European fixture, and we confirm the detail for this one when it is released.
Prestige Corporate Events works with vetted, verified hospitality at the UK's major grounds, and we deal with the release windows so our clients do not have to chase them. There is nothing to quote on this fixture until UEFA sets a date, so this page exists to get you in early. Register your interest, tell us the rough size of your party, and we will contact you with the specifics as soon as Manchester City confirm what is available for this match.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. UEFA slots every league phase tie when it publishes the dated fixture list at the end of August 2026, and this page carries the day and kick-off time as soon as it does. Sporting's only previous visit to the Etihad was the 2021/22 round of 16, so their first league phase trip to Manchester still has a window rather than a date.
Use the enquiry form on this page. Manchester City release the hospitality areas they are opening for each European match once the fixture list is dated, and we contact everyone on this list as soon as that happens. Tell us your party size so we can match you to the right area.
The two clubs have met three times in the Champions League, one win each and a draw. City went through 5-0 on aggregate in the 2021/22 round of 16, the only tie the two clubs have met in outside the league phase. Sporting's win was the 4-1 in Lisbon in November 2024, when Viktor Gyokeres scored a hat-trick.
Manchester City open a range of areas for European fixtures, including the Asahi Super Dry Tunnel Club, The Chairman's Club, The Mancunian, the Citizens lounges and the Platinum Boxes with their private balconies. New for 2026/27 in the Pep Guardiola Stand are City Hall, Crossbar, Zadie's and the Pitch View Rooms. Suites open three hours before kick-off and most stay open for an hour after the final whistle. The club confirm which areas open for this match when the fixture is dated, and we will publish the detail here.
They went straight in on club coefficient. Sporting held the highest coefficient of any club that would otherwise have entered the qualifying rounds, so UEFA placed them directly into the league phase. They had won a 21st Primeira Liga title in 2024/25 and the Taca de Portugal, then finished second in 2025/26 on 82 points.
The ground is on Ashton New Road, M11 3FF, east of Manchester city centre and served by the Metrolink. We confirm lounge access times for this fixture when Manchester City release them.
Rui Borges, appointed on 26 December 2024 and still in post. He took over midway through the 2024/25 season and won the Primeira Liga and the Taca de Portugal in his first half-season.