Calleri shines for São Paulo, matches best goal streak | OneFootball

Now at 32 years old and returning from a complicated knee surgery that kept him out for almost the entire last season, striker Calleri is enjoying a great run for São Paulo at the start of 2026.

The top scorer has already netted six goals in these first ten matches for Tricolor, across the Paulista Championship and the Brazilian league. These numbers make this the best start to a season for Calleri at São Paulo, even surpassing his explosive debut for the club in 2016.

Never before had the Argentine directly participated in six goals for Tricolor in his first ten matches of the year. He has surpassed his initial contributions in 2016 (3 goals and 2 assists) and 2022 (5 goals), according to data provided by the page Diário SPFC.

Calleri’s efficiency also leaves behind his season starts in 2023, with 2 goals and 2 assists, 2024, with 3 goals and 1 assist, and 2025, when he scored 2 goals and provided 2 assists in the first ten games. In 2021, the São Paulo idol only arrived halfway through the season and scored 3 goals in that period.

Another important milestone reached by the Tricolor’s number 9 was his streak of scoring in consecutive matches. He has now found the net in four straight games. He scored in every match so far in February, against Santos, Primavera, Grêmio, and Ponte Preta, with the match against the team from Rio Grande do Sul being the only one in the Brasileirão, and the others in the Paulistão.

According to the page SPFC Estatísticas, the only other time Calleri scored in four consecutive games was during his brilliant first spell in 2016. He scored against Trujillanos (4 goals), River Plate (2 goals), Audax, and The Strongest.

The difference is that in April 2016, the striker impressively scored eight goals in just four matches for São Paulo. That was when he began to win over the Tricolor fans.

Calleri is also just one goal or assist away from already matching his offensive contribution from the 2025 season. In a complicated year, the Argentine managed three goals and four assists in just 18 games before suffering a serious injury.

Clearly recovered, the center forward was essential for São Paulo’s qualification for the quarterfinals of the Paulistão, where they will face Bragantino on Saturday (21), in Bragança Paulista.

In the match that secured their spot, a 2-1 win over Ponte Preta, he needed four shots to score, caused plenty of trouble for the Campinas defense, suffered two fouls, and also helped defensively with a clearance and a ball recovery.

The top scorer for Tricolor so far this year, Calleri is the second-highest scorer in the Paulistão, with four goals, and also ranks among the top scorers at the start of the Brasileirão, with two goals in three matches played.

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