São Paulo State Championship (women's football)
The São Paulo state championship for women's football ( Portuguese Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino ) is the women's football club championship of the state of São Paulo in Brazil , which has been held annually by the Federação Paulista de Futebol (FPF) since 1997 . She has a semi-professional character and is considered to be the strongest in Brazil.
history
The association-based organization of women's football in the state of São Paulo began in the early 1980s after the legal ban on it fell in 1979. However, the competitive culture of that decade is poorly documented. Under the leadership of the Municipal Secretariat for Sports Affairs (Secretaria Municipal de Esportes), a state championship was held for the first time in São Paulo in late 1983, in the final of which the players of the Sports Community of the Military Police (Associação Desportiva Polícia Militar, ADPM) competed against the ambitious team of the Ísis Pop EC were able to enforce and thus win the championship title. Ísis Pop had already broken up the following year, but some of its players formed the core of the first women's squad of CA Juventus , the successful team of the state of the 1980s in the 20th century. In the late 1987 this team intended to win its fourth championship title in a row and realized this ambition with a 1-1 draw in the second final game on December 13, 1987 against the team from Ferroviária , after the first final game a few days earlier with a 2 : 0 has been designed victoriously. The competitions of these four championships were now organized by the municipal coordination office for sport and recreation (Coordenadoria de Esportes e Recreacão). In character, the competitions of the eighties were more like a city championship, to which only a few domestic clubs were invited to meet the state-supporting requirements. Juventus had dissolved its women's squad after the championship in 1987 and no further competitions with such a claim were held in the state in the following nine years.
An official championship competition was only established in the Paulista state from the 1997 season under the auspices of the FPF as part of an initiative taken by the national association CBF to professionalize women's football in Brazil. To this end, all the major clubs in the state founded their women's sections at that time, and the most influential players included midfield director Sissi , goalscorer Kátia Cilene and young player Formiga . In the years after the turn of the millennium, a lack of spectator interest and financial considerations prompted all major capital city clubs to dissolve their women's teams, whose best talents emigrated to the financially strong leagues in Europe and North America. Since then, the national championship has been shaped by smaller clubs from the hinterland, which have thus advanced to become the new talent forges in Brazilian women's football. As a result of a second professionalisation boost that has been working hard since around 2010, which is also being promoted by the continental association CONMEBOL , three of the major Paulista clubs with new teams returned to women's football in 2015: Santos FC , São Paulo FC and SC Corinthians .
In a Brazilian comparison, the state championship for women in São Paulo is by far the strongest in the country, which is mainly due to the high concentration of structurally stable and professionally managed women's teams that take part in it every year. In contrast to the championships in other states, it can point to an almost unbroken continuity and thus a growing game culture. As a result, the Paulista clubs also dominate the national competitions of the Copa do Brasil Feminino , which has been held since 2007, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Feminino, which has existed since 2013 .
The last final game, played on November 16 of the 2019 season in the Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, set a new attendance record in Brazilian women's football with 28,862 entries.
mode
The state championship for women is currently a single track. Sixteen clubs last took part in the 2017 season, with the number of participants fluctuating between twelve and twenty in the past. A second division was only run in 2005 and 2006.
The national championship will be held in the traditional mode for Brazil, in which the competition is divided into two phases. In the first phase, the clubs drawn into at least two groups determine the qualifiers for the second phase, which is then played in the knockout system until the final decision.
Qualification for the Copa do Brasil Feminino has been decided via the state championship since 2007. The same has been true for the second division (Série A2) of the Brazilian championship since the 2017 season . Because the best teams from São Paulo are already firmly established in the first division, the state championship can enable a club that is more subordinate to enter the national championship competition.
Championship history
Note: The statistical overview only takes into account the results of the competitions held by the FPF football association. The results of the amateur association Liga Nacional de Futebol (LINAF) , which occasionally organizes its own national championships, have been omitted here.
Honor roll of the winners
  Record champions: Santos FC & CA Juventus |
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| 4 tracks |
Santos FC CA Juventus (São Paulo) |
| 3 tracks |
Ferroviária (Araraquara) Portuguesa (São Paulo) Botucatu FC São José EC (São José dos Campos) |
| 2 tracks |
São Paulo FC Rio Preto EC (São José do Rio Preto) |
| 1 title |
SE Palmeiras (São Paulo) SC Corinthians Paulista (São Paulo) AD Polícia Militar (São Paulo) |
Chronology of the Masters
U17 national championship
In the 2017 season, the FPF hosted the first women's national championship for U17 youth teams.
Championship history:
- 2017 - São Paulo FC
- 2018 - São Paulo FC
- 2019 - São Paulo FC
See also
- São Paulo State Championship (men's football)
Web links
- www.fpf.org.br (web representation of the FPF).
- São Paulo State - List of Women's Champions , RSSSF Brazil .
Remarks
- ↑ Dimítria de Faria Coutinho, A história de muitas histórias. Suzana Cavalheiro ea imagem do futebol feminino no Brasil. São Paulo 2018, pp. 12, 24.
- ↑ Charme dinamarquès. Placar , No. 910, p. 55, November 9, 1987, accessed July 4, 2020 .
- ^ Título do Juventus. Placar, No. 916, p. 55, December 18, 1987, accessed July 4, 2020 .
- ^ Feminino: Corinthians vence o São Paulo e é campeão paulista invicto. In: lance.com.br. Lance! , November 16, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 .
- ^ Corinthians faz 3 a 0 no São Paulo e confirma título paulista feminino com campanha impecável. In: globoesporte.globo.com. O Globo , November 16, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 .
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