Early Paulistão: São Paulo match record unbeaten since 1950 | OneFootball

The CBF's decision to bring forward the start of the State Championships due to the calendar break 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 1st and 11th, but most of those matches were friendlies or counted 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 4th, 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 referenced season.

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