AA Palmeiras
The Associação Atlética das Palmeiras was a football club from the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo . The association was founded on November 9, 1902 and dissolved at the beginning of professionalism in 1930. In 1909, 1910 and 1915 he won the São Paulo State Championship . By winning the Taça Salutaris in 1911, AA das Palmeiras won the second competition between Brazilian state champions and can thus, albeit only unofficially, be regarded as the second national champion in Brazilian football history.
Today's São Paulo FC emerged from the club . SE Palmeiras chose the name Palmeiras in 1942 as a tribute to AA das Palmeiras. The club's colors were black and white. The team played in black shirts and white shorts. In the year of the championship of 1909, the team wore a jersey with the left half white and the other black. The most famous shirt, however, was white with a black chest ring. From this later the jersey of São Paulo FC emerged.
history
The club was founded in 1902 by wealthy families, so-called boas familias , in the year the first São Paulo championship was held, the first ever football competition in Brazil . The elitist nature of the association was to be preserved until 1915; only then were members without an academic background admitted.
In the beginning, Palmeiras often played against the reserve teams of the big clubs in the city and achieved good results. This encouraged the club to take part in the third championship in 1904. With the CA Internacional from the port city of Santos , another club was interested in a free place in the league. With a 4-0 win over the competitor Palmeiras secured participation in the championship competition.
The victory in the first game against the German immigrant club SC Germânia remained the only point win in the first season and Palmeiras finished the first season in sixth and last. In the following year Palmeiras could not improve. In 1906 the club was excluded from the current championship competition due to irregularities in the sale of tickets and did not take part in the championship for the next two seasons.
1909 returned Palmeiras with vehemence in the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball (LPF) back and ended the season tied with last year's champions CA Paulistano as first in the table. In the playoff on December 5, Palmeiras got the upper hand 2-1. In August 1910 there was the first game for a Troféu Interestadual against the national champions of Rio de Janeiro , the Botafogo FC . Palmeiras lost the game led by Hermann Friese , a player from SC Germânia who was also one of the outstanding referees in the early days of Brazilian football, in the Velódromo at home with a clear 2: 7, with which Botafogo secured the first championship title in Brazilian history.
In 1910 Palmeiras was defeated only once in the state championship and was able to defend his title. In June and September 1911 Palmeiras played against the re-champions of Rio, the Botafogo FC, this time for the Taça Salutaris . Palmeiras won 4-2 in Rio and 2-0 in the second leg at Parque Antarctica, making it the only winner of this trophy, which was won by the Taça dos Campeões Estaduais Rio-São Paulo - forerunner of the Torneio Rio-São Paulo and thus the following year today's championship of Brazil - and has since been replaced by the Taça Ioduran . In June of that year, Palmeiras also beat Fluminense FC from Rio, who were to become undefeated national champions in the same year, sensationally with 8: 2. In the league, Palmeiras lost 3: 4 at SC Germânia in July 1911 and withdrew from the championship, leading to irregularities in the area of the game, and did not take part in the competition in 1912 either.
In 1913 there was a schism in São Paulo football. After disputes about the admission of clubs from less elite backgrounds, separate championships - both recognized as official state championships these days - were held by LPF and the Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos (APEA). Palmeiras played as a co-founder with the CA Paulistano and the team of Mackenzie College in a three-round for the championship of the "aristocrats" of the APEA and was the last, as in the following year, when six teams played for the title. In 1915 Palmeiras was able to rehabilitate and became the undefeated champion. Carlos Nazareth was king of the league scorer with 13 goals. In that year, SC Germânia won its second and final championship title in the LPF's competitive league.
Before the 1916 season, the Palmeiras supported the admission of Palestra Itália to the APEA. In 1942, when club names with reference to the Axis powers were undesirable, this was a motivation for Palestra to “brazilize” as Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras and as such achieved worldwide fame. In terms of sport, the AA das Palmeiras was only penultimate that year, ahead of Palestra.
In 1917 the competing associations merged under the name of the APEA. In the following years Palmeiras remained in the lower half of the table of the associations that had been reunited under the name APEA since 1917. In 1918 and 1925, the club dropped out again prematurely from the current championship competition. In 1926 the league was split up again. The Liga dos Amadores de Futebol (LAF) split off from the APEA with an emphasis on amateur status. In addition to Paulistano and Germânia, Palmeiras was also one of the eight founding members. In 1928 and 1929 AA das Palmeiras was here last and penultimate in the championship. The history of AA das Palmeiras practically ended on November 10, 1929 with a 1: 3 home defeat against Hespanha FC , today's Jabaquara AC from Santos.
While clubs like CA Paulistano, the last champion of the LAF, and SC Germânia took the increasing professionalization of football in Sao Paulo in those years as an opportunity to close their football departments because they saw no future in amateur football, Palmeiras broke up after a futile attempt a professional To assemble the team for the 1930 Championship.
Various officials and players from AA das Palmeiras and CA Paulistano, from which Arthur Friedenreich and Araken Patusca came from, joined forces on January 25, 1930 to form a new football club: São Paulo FC . AA Palmeiras brought into the compound and the often short Chácara da Floresta called Estádio da Floresta one, which acquired the club in 1913 and 1915 expanded to a capacity of 15,000 spectators. This gave the newly founded association the nickname São Paulo da Floresta in that era . Another morning gift was the white leotard with the chest ring; After the colors of Paulistano were red and white, the black chest ring became a red-white-black one that still makes the jerseys of São Paulo FC unmistakable today.
São Paulo FC won its first national championship in 1931, but soon ran into economic difficulties which led to a re-establishment in 1935. In the further course of its history, however, it should become one of the most important football clubs in the world.
statistics
successes
- Taça Salutaris : 1911
- São Paulo State Championship : 1909, 1910, 1915
League affiliation
- Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball: 1904-1906, 1909-1911
- Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos: 1913–1925
- Liga dos Amadores de Futebol: 1926–1929
Web links
- AA das Palmeiras , futebol nacional, 17th March 2010
- Lizbeth Batista: Em 1911, partida de futebol levava torcedores paulistanos ao delírio . In: Arquivo Estado . June 25, 2011 (Brazilian Portuguese, com.br [accessed May 17, 2018] - compiled from the archives of the O Estado de S. Paulo on June 25, 1911).