Campeonato Paulista

The State Championship of São Paulo - Paulista also called Campeonaro or Paulistão - is the annual championship of football clubs of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It was first held in 1902 and is the oldest football competition in Brazil. It is the state association of these days the Federação Paulista de Futebol organized.

In contrast to European Championships take the best clubs both at the national championship, which takes place in the second half of the year, as well as to the respective State Championships to be held in the first half of the year, in part. The state championship serves as a qualifying tournament for the Copa do Brasil and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.

Record holder is the SC Corinthians from Sao Paulo. A historical footnote, the two achievements of the SC Germânia in the early years of the tournament. Two of the first superstars of Brazil played there: Hermann Friese and Arthur Friedenreich. This association of German origin was a pioneer of the sport not only in São Paulo, but in all of Brazil.

Pelé was eleven scorer of the competition, including nine times in series, followed by Arthur Friedenreich, who was eight times the most prolific players in the Paulista.

In the first year 1902 there was only one league with five clubs. Today there are four leagues, the Primera Divisão A1, A2, A3, and the Segunda Divisão. The 20 clubs are in the leagues A1, A2 and A3. Approximately 48 clubs ( depending on the year, swaying slightly ) participate in the Segunda Divisão.

• 5.1 Notes to the Competition 2002

History

The state championships in Brazil have traditionally still of great importance, as national competitions arrived late to host. The first national competition was a Cup tournament, which was held from 1959 to identify participants in the Copa Libertadores ( Taça Brasil → ). A national championship is only since 1967 on the host (→ Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Torneio ). Before there was only tournaments between representatives of different states, of which the Torneio Rio - São Paulo had the highest value.

Current competition format

Series A-1 ( 2011)

First, the 20 teams will compete once each against each other. The top eight teams qualify for the knockout phase. The four worst teams get into the series from A-2. In addition, play the best four teams that have not qualified for the semifinals and not from São Paulo (city) or Santos come to the Troféu Campeão do Interior.

Series A-2 and A 3 (2011)

The 20 teams are divided into two groups according regionalized ten teams and play against each other twice each. The top four teams from each group advance to the " semi-final " in which they divided into two groups of four teams each playing each opponent twice. The two group winners play in the final for the title.

The top two teams from each group advance to the semi-final the next higher league. The two worst teams in each preliminary round group from rising.

Clubs in the Campeonato Paulista Serie A - 1 2011

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Honor roll of winners

• 26 tracks:

• 22 Title:

• 20 tracks:

• 4 tracks:

• 3 tracks:

• 2 Title:

List of winners

Notes to the Competition 2002

The Torneio Rio - São Paulo was held in a new league format in 2002, the top clubs from São Paulo (here in the order they are cutting off the tournament: Corinthians, Palmeiras and São Paulo, São Caetano, Jundiaí, Santos, Portuguesa, Ponte Preta, Guarani ) therefore did not participate in the state championship. Ituano FC was one point ahead of União São João National Champion as the best club in the second term. The Football Association of São Paulo held following a " Supercampeonato " volksmundig also called the super Paulistão, from where the top attended 3 Pauli Staner clubs from Rio -SP tournament and Ituano. details:

Scorers