Leila Pereira: Palmeiras lost Libertadores due to our own mistakes

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·14 December 2025

Leila Pereira: Palmeiras lost Libertadores due to our own mistakes

Palmeiras won the 2025 Women's Paulistão Championship on the morning of this Sunday (14), and president Leila Pereira spoke to the press after the final and the Palestrinas' celebration.

Leila Speaks!

The president gave an overview of the season for the Greatest Champion of Brazil, who went trophyless for the first time under her management.

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I usually say that our fans are spoiled in a good way. We are not used to not winning titles. We have won many titles. In my administration, this is the first year in which we haven’t won any titles. But we were runners-up in three competitions, and that shows we are competing. We really wanted to win the Brasileirão; we came very close.

About the final of the Libertadores, Leila Pereira was direct:

Unfortunately, it was our fault. I’m not going to shift the blame. It was due to our own incompetence. We didn’t lose to our opponent, we lost to ourselves. And that is very clear to me.

New season

Palmeiras will return to the field at the very beginning of 2026, with the first Paulistão match taking place on January 11, against Portuguesa at Canindé. In the state championship and the first rounds of the Brasileirão, Verdão will play at Arena Crefisa Barueri, due to the pitch replacement at Allianz Parque.

NP has learned that the plan is for Palmeiras to return to their home at the end of February or beginning of March.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.