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Copa Dos Campeões Estaduais (1920–1937)
This entry presents the two main national and official competitions between state champions that preceded the Taça Brasil de Futebol, namely, the 1920-CBD Champions Tournament and the 1937-FBF Champions Tournament, which are two different competitions, only with the same intention, challenge between state champions. Winners of the competitions were: * 1920: CA Paulistano from São Paulo * 1937: Atlético Mineiro from Belo Horizonte 1920 Torneio dos Campeões The tournament of 1920 was held in March in Rio de Janeiro in the format of a league ("Round-robin tournament, round robin"). All matches took place in the Estádio das Laranjeiras of Fluminense FC. It was the first competition organised by the ''Confederação Brasileira de Deportes'', the precursor of today's Brazilian Football Confederation, CBF. Participants were the following winners of their state championships of 1919: * the Campeonato Carioca, State Champions of Rio de Janeiro: Fluminense FC, from the city of Rio de J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CA Paulistano
Club Athletico Paulistano –generally known as just Paulistano– is a sports club, sports and social club from the Brazilian metropolis São Paulo located in the quarter of Jardins, Jardim América, close to the city. The club was founded on 29 December 1900 for the purpose of playing association football. Its team was one of the early pioneers of the sport in Brazil and was considered the nationally leading side around 1920. To date, Paulistano remains the only club that won the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo state championship four consecutive times. In the course of the professionalisation of the sport in Brazil, the club abandoned the game after 1929. Since then, basketball has developed into the leading sport practised by Paulistano. Further to that, the club these days maintains departments for artistic gymnastics, badminton, basque pelota, boxing, chess, fencing, association football, football, golf, martial arts, rowing (sport), rowing, squash (sport), squash, swimmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
