50,000 spectators expected at the match

Article by Daniel Grigore – published Monday, September 1, 2025, 16:25 / Updated Monday, September 1, 2025:25
Legends Charity Gamethe charitable event that will face some of the greatest footballers of all time, will be hosted by Estádio “José Alvalade”, the Arena of Sporting CP.
- On September 15, 22:00, GSP.ro will transmit exclusively in Romania to face some of the biggest footballers: Legends Charity Game aims to gather donations of over one million euros for victims of wars and conflicts held worldwide;
- Three reporters of the newspaper, Ionuț Iordache, George Nistor and Daniel Grigore, will provide from Lisbon images, real -time information, reports and interviews;
Officially, Legends Charity Game knows his home. The event that aimed to gather over 1 million euros for 4 charitable associations will take place at Sporting CP stadium, the organizers announced.
Hagi, Kaka, Figo and Roberto Carlos will play in Legends Charity Game on Estádio “José Alvalade”
Estádio “José Alvalade”, opened 22 years ago, has a capacity of 50,000 seats. It is expected that all will be busy on September 15at Legends Charity Game, the match that will face Luis Figo, Pepe & Paulet, respectively Gică Hagi, Cafu, Kaka and Roberto Carlos.
The organizers waited for the championship League calendar to announce which of the “José Alvalade” and Estádio Da Luz would host the legends.
The initial idea was for the charitable match to take place at the team stadium that would have played on the week of September 15-21, but UEFA scheduled both teams from Lisbon on their own ground in that first stage of the League phase: On Benfica on Tuesday, against Qarabag, on Sporting on Thursday, against Kairat Almaty.
Finally, he weighed decisively to schedule the parties – as Sporting will only play on Thursday, there will be enough time between the two games, so that the lawn is in the best conditions.
The program on the day of Legends Charity Game:
- 8:00: 00* – the arrival of the players
- 8:30 pm – the entrance of the spectators
- 9:40 pm – show preceding the party
- 22:00 – Start in half 1
- 22:50 – show at the match break including with raffles
- 23:10 – Start in the second half
- 00:00 – Trophy award
* Romania hours
Team composition at Legends Charity Game:
The legends of Portugal: Vitor Baia, Beto, Pepe, Ricardo Carvalho, Fabio Coentrao, Bosingwa, Jorge Andrade, Eliseu, Bruno Alves, Luis Figo, Deco, Dani, Simao, Maniche, Tiago Mendes, Nani, Quaresma, Nuno Gomes, Helder Postiga, Hugo Almeida
Coach: Costinha
The legends of the world: Petr Cech, Edwin van der Sar, Rene Higuita, Cafu, Marco Materazzi, Javier Zanetti, Carles Puyol, John Terry, Roberto Carlos, Kaka, Youri Djorkaeff, Christian Karembeu, Gaizka Mendieta, Krassimir Balakov, Gheorghe Hagi, Giorgos Karagounis, Marek. Hamsik, Alessandro del Piero, Henrik Larsson, Michael Owen, Javier Saviola, Hristo Stoichkov
Coach: Peter Schmeichel
Second coach: Diego Lugano

This is how the world's legends team in Legends Charity Game could look





