Santos FC is a football club based in Santos, that competes in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league. The club was founded in 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by the names of Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos, and Argemiro de Souza Júnior, and played its first friendly match on 23 June 1914. Initially Santos played against other local clubs in the city and state championships, but in 1959 the club became one of the founding members of the Taça Brasil, Brazil's first truly national league. As of 2010, Santos is one of only five clubs never to have been relegated from the top level of Brazilian football, the others being São Paulo, Flamengo, Internacional and Cruzeiro.
The first full-time manager for Santos was Urbano Caldeira. He originally came from São Paulo to work as a clerk for the club but soon became a player/manager who spent his spare time planting trees and gardens for Santos. The most successful Santos FC manager in terms of trophies won is Lula, who won five Brasileirão titles, eight Campeonato Paulista trophies, four Rio-São Paulo tournaments, two Intercontinental Cups and two Copa Libertadores trophies, the most prestigious laurel in South America, in his 12-year reign as manager. Under Lula's management, Santos became the first club in Brazil and the world to win the continental treble consisting of the Paulista, Taça Brasil, and the Copa Libertadores. That same year, it also became the first football club ever to win four out of four competitions in a single year, thus completing the quadruple, comprising the aforementioned treble and the Intercontinental Cup.
As of 2011 the manager is Muricy Ramalho, becoming the second manager, after Lula, to win the Copa Libertadores and the continental double by winning the 2011 Campeonato Paulista and the 2011 Copa Libertadores.
List of managers During the first 46 years of Santos's existence, from 1912 to 1958, Brazil did not have a national football league. Santos competed almost solely in the championship of the city of Santos.
In 1959, the Taça Brasil, Brazil's first national football league, was formed, with Santos among the founder members. The club continue to participate in the Paulista championship which continued alongside the Brasileirão. Clubs qualified to the Taça Brasil based on their placings in the regional championships until 1967, when it became open to all teams through the Robertão.
NameNationalityFromToTitles wonCampeonato Brasileiro Série A includes results from the Taça Brasil and the Robertão.RefsNo manager1912Urbano Caldeira1915Campeonato Santista (1913, 1915)1° Título do SantosJuan Bertone1919Ramón Platero1920Urbano Caldeira1932Joaquim Loureiro1933Bororó1933Pedro Mazullo1934Caêtano di Domênica1935Bilú1936Campeonato Paulista (1935)Franz Gaspar1937Bilú1937Alzemiro Ballio1937Camarão1938Flavio Costa1938José Arruda Penteado1938Camarão1939Isaac Goldenberg1939Bilú1940Darío Letona1941Ratto1942Adhemar Pimenta1943Ricardo Diez1944De Maria1944Bilú1945Abel Picabéa1947Diego Ayala1948Albertinho1948Osvaldo Brandão1950Caêtano di Domênica1950Artigas1950Luiz Comitante1950Niginho1951Antoninho1951Artigas1951Luiz Comitante1951Aymoré Moreira1952Lula1952Artigas1953Antoninho1954Giuseppe Ottina1954Lula1966Campeonato Paulista (1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965)Torneio Rio – São Paulo (1959, 1963, 1964)Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965)Intercontinental Cup (1962, 1963)Copa Libertadores (1962, 1963)Antoninho1971Campeonato Paulista (1967, 1968, 1969)Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1968)Recopa Sudamericana (1968)Intercontinental Supercup (1968)Mauro Ramos de Oliveira1972Jair da Rosa Pinto1972Pepe1974Campeonato Paulista (1973)Tim1975Pepe1975Olavo1976Alfredinho1976José Duarte1976Urubatão1977Otto Glória1977José Ramos Delgado1978Mengálvio1978Formiga1979Clodoaldo1979Hilton Chaves1979Pepe1980João Avelino1980Sérgio Clérice1981Coutinho1981Daltro Menezes1981Clodoaldo1982Paulo Emílio1982Cilinho1982Formiga1984Del Vecchio1984Castilho1985Júlio Espinosa1986Formiga1987Candinho1987Geninho1988Carlos Gainete1988Marinho Peres1989Raul Pratalli1989Nicanor de Carvalho1989Pepe1990Cabralzinho1991Ramiro Valente1991Écio Pasca1991Dé1991Rubens Minelli1992Geninho1992Evaristo de Macedo1993Antônio Lopes1993Pepe1994Serginho Chulapa1994Joãozinho1995Coutinho1995Cabralzinho1996Candinho1996Orlando Amarelo1996José Teixeira1996Vanderlei Luxemburgo1997Emerson Leão1999Paulo Autuori1999Carlos Alberto Silva2000Giba2000Carlos Alberto Parreira31 Dec 2000Geninho2001Serginho Chulapa2001Cabralzinho2001Celso Roth16 May 2002Emerson Leão5 May 2004Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (2002)Vanderlei Luxemburgo29 Dec 2004Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (2004)Oswaldo de Oliveira2005Gallo26 Sep 2005Nelsinho Baptista15 Nov 2005Serginho Chulapa (interim)2005Vanderlei Luxemburgo31 Dec 2007Campeonato Paulista (2006, 2007)Emerson Leão26 May 2008Cuca7 Aug 2008Márcio Fernandes12 Feb 2009Vagner Mancini13 Jul 2009Serginho Chulapa (interim)16 Jul 2009Vanderlei Luxemburgo7 Dec 2009Dorival Júnior22 Sep 2010Campeonato Paulista (2010)Copa do Brasil (2010)Marcelo Martelotte (interim)31 Dec 2010Adilson Batista27 Feb 2011Marcelo Martelotte (interim)2011Muricy Ramalho31 May 2013Campeonato Paulista (2011, 2012)Copa Libertadores (2011)Recopa Sudamericana (2012)Claudinei Oliveira1 Jun 201331 Dec 2013Oswaldo de Oliveira11 Dec 20131 Sep 2014Enderson Moreira3 Sep 20145 Mar 2015Marcelo Fernandes5 Mar 201512 Jul 2015Campeonato Paulista (2015)Dorival Júnior12 Jul 20154 Jun 2017Campeonato Paulista (2016)Elano (interim)4 Jun 20176 Jun 2017Levir Culpi 6 Jun 201728 Oct 2017Elano (interim)28 Oct 201731 Dec 2017Jair Ventura 3 Jan 201823 Jul 2018Serginho Chulapa (interim)30 Jul 2018Cuca 30 Jul 20182 Dec 2018Jorge Sampaoli 17 Dec 20189 Dec 2019Jesualdo Ferreira 23 Dec 20195 Aug 2020Cuca 7 Aug 202021 Feb 2021Marcelo Fernandes (interim) 22 Feb 20213 Mar 2021Ariel Holan 22 Feb 202126 Apr 2021Fernando Diniz 7 May 20215 Sep 2021Fábio Carille 8 Sep 202118 Feb 2022Marcelo Fernandes (interim) 18 Feb 202225 Feb 2022Fabián Bustos 26 Feb 20227 Jul 2022Marcelo Fernandes (interim) 7 Jul 202219 Jul 2022Lisca 19 Jul 202212 Sep 2022Orlando Ribeiro (interim) 12 Sep 202213 Nov 2022Odair Hellmann 16 Nov 202222 Jun 2023Paulo Turra 23 Jun 20236 Aug 2023Diego Aguirre 6 Aug 202315 Sep 2023Marcelo Fernandes 15 Sep 20236 Dec 2023Fábio Carille 19 Dec 202318 Nov 2024Campeonato Brasileiro Série B (2024)Leandro Zago (interim) 18 Nov 2024 23 Dec 2024 Pedro Caixinha 23 Dec 202414 Apr 2025 César Sampaio (interim) 14 Apr 2025 29 Apr 2025 Cleber Xavier 29 Apr 2025 17 Aug 2025 Juan Pablo Vojvoda 22 Aug 2025 19 Mar 2026 Cuca 19 Mar 2026 present
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