São Paulo FC (women's football)

São Paulo FC
(women's football)
	São Paulo FC ; (women's football)
Basic data
Surname	São Paulo Futebol Clube
Seat	São Paulo / SP
founding	1930 (association); 1981 (department)
Colours	red-white-black
president	Carlos Augusto Barros e Silva
Website	saopaulofc.net
First soccer team
Venue	Estádio do Morumbi
Places	80,000
league	Series A2
2019	1st place ▲
home	Away

The women's football department of the São Paulo FC from Brazil was first formed in 1981 and is currently being restructured.

history

According to sports journalist Thomaz Mazzoni († 1970; A Gazeta Esportiva ), the SPFC is said to have played a women's soccer game against America FC from Rio de Janeiro for the first time in 1940 . However, the audience response to this game was so low that the club decided not to set up a new women's team. Only a year later, the organization of women's football by clubs was banned by law in Brazil. After this ban fell in 1979, the club founded its own section for women's football for the first time in 1981. The team played at amateur level in a number of city and regional tournaments until the end of this decade before being disbanded.

After the poor performance of the Brazilian women's national team at the first world championships and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , the national football association CBF initiated a professionalization of women's football in order to raise the level of play. After the SPFC, all the other major clubs in the state of São Paulo founded their respective club sections with which they played the first professionally organized national championship in women's football for the 1997 season . The SPFC won the championship after beating FC Santos in the final . In November of the same year he also won the CBF championship tournament held in Taubaté . The 1999 national championship was won against the Portuguesa . Well-known players of this time were the captain Sissi , the goal scorer Kátia Cilene , the goalkeepers Andréia Suntaque and Marlisa Wahlbrink , as well as the young players Rosana , Emily Lima and Formiga . The coach of this team was José "Zé" Duarte , who also coached the national team. A lack of spectator interest and financial considerations led the SPFC, like almost all other major clubs, to the renewed dissolution of the women's team after the 2001 season.

For the 2015 state championship, the SPFC returned to women's football with a new team that included playmaker Djenifer Becker and Argentinian goal scorer Florencia Soledad Jaimes . The championship final could be reached straight away, in which one was defeated against the São José EC . Despite this success, in the absence of a sponsor, the team was dissolved again immediately afterwards. The SPFC is currently pushing its ambitions to return to gaming in the foreseeable future. In the 2017 season he entered into a partnership with the Centro Olímpico youth center to set up a new professional team. In that year, the youth team won the U17 championship held for the first time in the state of São Paulo.

In January 2019, the club confirmed the commitment of the multiple national player Cristiane for the coming season. With the move into the semi-finals of the Série A2, the SPFC completed its promotion to the first division for the following season on July 20, 2019.

Venues

The SPFC uses various smaller venues as venues for its women's team, such as the Arena Barueri in the suburb of the same name or the Estádio Nicolau Alayon. Finals will be played on local land, on a field of the social complex of the Estádio do Morumbi .