São Paulo match 89-year-old record with this year’s Paulistão run | OneFootball

The journey of São Paulo in the Campeonato Paulista ended last Sunday (1), with the defeat and consequent elimination in the semifinals of the competition to rival Palmeiras, at Arena Barueri.

In a State Championship with a new format, more dynamic with fewer dates, and the abolition of the group stage for the implementation of a 'preliminary league classification phase', with matchups pre-defined by draw, the Morumbi club was the only participant to face ALL five participants who also compete in the first division of the Brazilian Championship.

Moreover, only one of these matches was held at their home ground.

It would already be complicated enough, but the year began with the Tricolor embroiled in an unprecedented political crisis that culminated in the resignation of its former president, Julio Casares.

Such adversities caused the team to experience a real roller coaster of emotions, flirting with the risk of relegation before taking off and managing to string together an unbeaten streak.

But the inconsistency took its toll on the statistics.

This was only the third time in history that São Paulo finished the Paulistão with a negative goal difference. They scored 14 goals and conceded 15, resulting in a negative balance for the São Paulo team, which despite everything, holds the third overall position in the standings.

The only other times this happened were in 1936 and 1937, right after the club's re-foundation.

This was also just the fourth time that the Tricolor played only ten games or less in the State Championship. In 1937, there were nine games after the club did not qualify for the second round, and in 1938 and 2004 there were ten games.

If they had won the title in twelve games, it would have been the shortest victorious campaign in São Paulo's history in the Paulistão.

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