Associação Atlética das Palmeiras, A. A. das Palmeiras or simply AA das Palmeiras was a football club based in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Founded on November 9, 1902, its colors were black and white. It was São Paulo champion of three times: 1909, 1910 and 1915.
Their principal uniform had a white shirt with a black horizontal stripe, black shorts, and socks, similar to the traditional Paraguayan
Club Olimpia
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uniform. For the second color, played in a black shirt, black shorts, and white socks, and also played with an alternative uniform in the
1909 Campeonato Paulista campaign: shirt with the left half black and the right half white, white shorts and black socks.
History
AA das Palmeiras entered in the Campeonato Paulista for the first time in 1904. It originally constituted some of the most traditional families of the city. His first ground was on Av. Angélica, where at the time there were only farms and empty lots. But the team was not a common lowland team, it constantly played against the reserve squads of the teams that compose the
Liga Paulista
The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional football league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Run by the FPF, the league is contested between 16 clubs and typ ...
and obtained good results. Its characteristic as an elite team can be evidenced by the fact that, until 1915, only doctoral students, engineers, and law graduates could play for them.
Legacy for football
SE Palmeiras
In 1916, Associação Atlética das Palmeiras supports the newly founded club
SS Palestra Itália to gain a spot to compete in the Campeonato Paulista professional for the first time. This fact would be remembered in 1942 when Palestra Itália was forced to change its name due to
World War II
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(and the fact that the
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
integrates the
allied forces), Palestra Itália changed the name to the current
SE Palmeiras
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (), commonly known as Palmeiras, is a Brazilian professional football club based in the city of São Paulo, in the district of Perdizes. Palmeiras is one of the most popular clubs in South America, with around ...
, in honor of A.A. das Palmeiras.
São Paulo FC
With the end of the amateur era of Brazilian football in 1930, and the disbanding of the most successful team so far,
CA Paulistano
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, and also of the AA das Palmeiras itself, the dissident players of both clubs became the current
São Paulo FC
São Paulo Futebol Clube (), commonly referred to as São Paulo, is a professional football club in the Morumbi district of São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 1930. It plays in the Campeonato Paulista (the State of São Paulo's premier state leag ...
. The red color of São Paulo represents CA Paulistano faction, and the black AA das Palmeiras faction. The club's stadium,
Chácara da Floresta
Chácara da Floresta ( en, Forest Farmstead) was an football (soccer), association football stadium in São Paulo, Brazil.
It was used by AA das Palmeiras, a three-time state champion club, from 1906 to 1929. From 1930 to 1935, it was used by Sã ...
, came to São Paulo in 1930.
The last appearance
The club's last appearance was in the 1933 Campeonato Paulista, of the newly created Federação Paulista de Foot-Ball (FPF). Unfortunately, the club ended up dissolving during the end of the first round of the dispute, leaving football forever since then.
Honours
![A](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/A.A._das_Palmeiras_-_1915.jpg)
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Campeonato Paulista
The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional association football, football league in the Brazilian States of Brazil, state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. Run b ...
:
**Winners (3):
1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Januar ...
,
1910,
1915
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
*January 1 ...
*
Taça Salutaris:
**Winners: 1911
*Torneio Início:
**Winners: 1922, 1923, 1925
Campeonato Paulista total appearances
AA das Palmeiras participated for 24 times of the tournament.
Players
For 4 times a player from AA das Palmeiras made the top scorer of the Campeonato Paulista:
* Eurico, 10 goals in 1910
* Luiz, 3 goals in 1913
* Nazaré, 13 goals in 1915
* Miguel, 13 goals in 1933
And more 5 players served
Brazil national football team
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:
*Octávio Egydio (vs. Argentina, first Brazil official match, 1914)
*
Demosthenes
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(at
1916 South American Championship)
* Ítalo and Nazaré (vs. Dublin FC and
Sportivo Barracas
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,
unofficial friendlies, 1917)
* Alexy (vs. Paraguay, at
Copa Rodrigues Alves
The Copa Rodrigues Alves ( en, Rodrigues Alves Cup), was a friendly association football competition realized between Brazil and Paraguay, contested in the years of 1922 and 1923. The trophy name is in honor of Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, f ...
, 1922)
References
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Defunct football clubs in São Paulo (state)
Association football clubs established in 1902
Association football clubs disestablished in 1933
1902 establishments in Brazil
1933 disestablishments in Brazil