Early Paulistão sees São Paulo match unbeaten run not seen since 1950 | OneFootball

The CBF's decision to bring forward the start of the State Championships due to the break in the calendar for the World Cup in the middle of the year has led to some historic records being broken.

Before Sunday's (11th) defeat to Mirassol, São Paulo had played exactly 40 times in history between January 1 and 11, but most of those matches were friendlies or valid for a competition from the previous year.

The only exceptions were two matches in the 1950 Rio–São Paulo Tournament: a 5-4 victory over Botafogo at Pacaembu on January 4, and a 3-1 defeat to Fluminense at São Januário on the 8th of the same month.

Curiously, that tournament had started in December 1949, being the only one that Tricolor has ever played which began in the year prior to its designated season.

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