The 2019 season was São Paulo's 90th year since the club's existence. Celebrating 9 decades of history, The Dearest has taken a place at a Campeonato Paulista finals after 16 years of tries, against the same rival of 2003 finals, Corinthians, but for the Tricolor Paulista a bad result happened again. São Paulo FC fatally fell in front of Corinthians in the last minute of second half in second match, by a result of 1–2 (Away) after 0–0 in Home. In other championships, São Paulo hadn't similar performance being prematurely eliminated in Copa do Brasil by Bahia by two losses and the painful defeat in the history of Copa Libertadores, in preliminary round by the Argentine club Talleres. Following an unsuccessful season, the only and last "hopeness" for the paulistas has turned into the national league, Série A. The Tricolor kept a regular position in the table between the 4th place and 8th place however constantly changing the head coaches (a very common practice by Brazilian clubs face of bad negative results in just a few matches). In overall were four managers, André Jardine, Vagner Mancini, Cuca and Fernando Diniz in the entire year of 2019. Finishing the performance of the season, the club has taken a place in the group stage of Copa Libertadores in 2020, keeping the dream of new international trophies in the next year.
Players
Current squad
Transfers
Transfers in Pos.PlayerTransferred fromFee/notesDateSource DF Igor Vinícius Ponte Preta On loan December 4, 2018 DF Léo BahiaR$ 3,000,000 December 5, 2018 FW Pablo Athletico ParanaenseR$ 26,600,000 December 19, 2018 GK Tiago Volpi Querétaro On loan December 23, 2018 MF Hernanes Hebei FortuneR$ 13,200,000 December 29, 2018 FW Biro Biro Shanghai Shenxin Free January 2, 2019 MF Willian Farias Vitória Free January 3, 2019 MF Jonathan Gómez Al-Fayha Loan return January 28, 2019 FW Alexandre Pato Tianjin Tianhai Free March 27, 2019 MF Tchê Tchê Dynamo Kyiv R$ 20,800,000 March 30, 2019 MF Vitor Bueno Santos On loan April 3, 2019 MF Marcos Calazans Fluminense Free May 22, 2019 MF Maicosuel Paraná Clube Loan Return June 4, 2019 FW Léo Natel APOEL FC Loan Return July 1, 2019 GK Lucas Perri Crystal Palace Loan Return June 24, 2019 MF Lucas Fernandes Portimonense Loan Return July 15, 2019 RB Dani Alves Paris Saint-Germain Free August 1, 2019 RB Juanfran Atlético Madrid Free August 2, 2019
Transfers out Pos.PlayerTransferred toFee/notesDateSource FW Joanderson Grêmio Free December 12, 2018 GK Sidão Goiás Free December 13, 2018 DF Auro Jr. Toronto FCR$ 2,600,000 December 16, 2018 DF Rodrigo Caio FlamengoR$ 22,200,000 December 29, 2018 FW João Paulo CearáFree December 30, 2018 MF Shaylon BahiaOn loan December 30, 2018 MF Roni AdanasporFree December 31, 2018 MF Thomaz BolívarOn loanJanuary 4, 2019 FW Pedro Bortoluzo CriciúmaOn loanJanuary 4, 2019 FW Santiago Tréllez InternacionalOn loan January 13, 2019 GK Lucas Perri Crystal PalaceOn loan January 15, 2019 FW Caíque CriciúmaOn loanJanuary 17, 2019 MF Maicosuel Paraná Clube On loan January 24, 2019 DF Tuta Eintracht Frankfurt R$7,600,000 January 29, 2019 FW Guilherme Bissoli Fernando de la MoraFree January 31, 2019 MF Felipe Araruna Fortaleza On loan March 8, 2019 FW Diego Souza Botafogo On loan March 8, 2019 DF Edimar BragantinoFree April 25, 2019 MF Jonathan Gómez CSA On loan May 24, 2019 FW Brenner Fluminense On loan May 25, 2019 DF Lucão GoiásFree June 3, 2019 FW Paulinho Bóia São Bento On loan June 18, 2019 FW Biro Biro Nova Iguaçu Free June 24, 2019 DF Rodrigo Freitas Portimonense On loan June 25, 2019 GK Lucas Paes Louletano On loan July 4, 2019 MF Nenê Fluminense Free July 12, 2019 MF Lucas Fernandes Portimonense R$10,000,000 August 15, 2019 MF Everton Felipe Athletico Paranaense On loan August 30, 2019 DF Morato Benfica R$27,300,000 September 2, 2019 DF Lucas Kal América Mineiro On loan September 6, 2019 MF Willian Farias Sport Recife Free September 13, 2019 DF Bruno Peres Sport Recife Free September 26, 2019
Competitions
Overview
Overall
{|class="wikitable" |- |Games played || 62 (18 Campeonato Paulista, 2 Copa do Brasil, 2 Copa Libertadores, 38 Campeonato Brasileiro, 2 Friendly match) |- |Games won || 23 (6 Campeonato Paulista, 0 Copa do Brasil, 0 Copa Libertadores, 17 Campeonato Brasileiro, 0 Friendly match) |- |Games drawn || 19 (6 Campeonato Paulista, 0 Copa do Brasil, 1 Copa Libertadores, 12 Campeonato Brasileiro, 0 Friendly match) |- |Games lost || 20 (6 Campeonato Paulista, 2 Copa do Brasil, 1 Copa Libertadores, 9 Campeonato Brasileiro, 2 Friendly match) |- |Goals scored || 59 |- |Goals conceded || 53 |- |Goal difference || +6 |- |Best result || 4–0 (H) v Chapecoense – Campeonato Brasileiro Série A – July 22, 2019 |- |Worst result || 0–3 (A) v Palmeiras – Campeonato Brasileiro Série A – October 30, 20190–3 (A) v Grêmio – Campeonato Brasileiro Série A – December 1, 2019 |- |Top scorer || Pablo (7 goals)
Goalscorers In italic players who left the team in mid-season. PlacePositionNationalityNumberNameCampeonato PaulistaCopa LibertadoresSérie ACopa do BrasilFriendliesTotal 1 FW 12 Pablo 4 0 3 0 0 7 2 FW 39 Antony 2 0 4 0 0 6 = DF 6 Reinaldo 1 0 5 0 0 6 = MF 12 Vitor Bueno 0 0 6 0 0 6 3 FW 7 Alexandre Pato 0 0 5 0 0 5 = MF 15 Hernanes 2 0 2 0 1 5 4 MF 15 Igor Gomes 2 0 2 0 0 4 5 FW 44 Toró 0 0 3 0 0 3 6 DF 10 Dani Alves 0 0 2 0 0 2 = MF 25 Hudson 1 0 1 0 0 2 = DF 5 Robert Arboleda 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 DF 4 Anderson Martins 1 0 0 0 0 1 = MF 28 Brenner 0 0 0 0 1 1 = DF 3 Bruno Alves 0 0 1 0 0 1 = MF 9 Diego Souza 1 0 0 0 0 1 = FW 22 Éverton 0 0 1 0 0 1 = MF 18 Everton Felipe 1 0 0 0 0 1 = DF Igor Vinícius 0 0 1 0 0 1 = MF 14 Liziero 1 0 0 0 0 1 = MF Nenê 0 0 0 0 1 1 = FW 21 Raniel 0 0 1 0 0 1 = MF 28 Tchê Tchê 0 0 1 0 0 1 Total 17 0 39 0 3 59
Managers performance
NameNationalityFromToPWDLGFGAWin%10 January13 February10316111333%17 February30 March93428648%Cuca7 April25 September269107241947%28 September8 December17845161555%
Friendlies
Florida Cup
Competitions
Campeonato Paulista
Group D
First stage São Paulo was drawn on the Group D.
Knockout stage
Quarterfinal
Semifinal
Final
Record Final PositionPointsMatchesWinsDrawsLossesGoals ForGoals AwayWin%2nd2418666171344%
Copa Libertadores
Second stage
Record Final PositionPointsMatchesWinsDrawsLossesGoals ForGoals AwayWin%43rd120110216%
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Results summary
Results by round
Record Final PositionPointsMatchesWinsDrawsLossesGoals ForGoals AwayWin%6th633817129393055%
Copa do Brasil
The draw was held on May 2, 2019.
Record Final PositionPointsMatchesWinsDrawsLossesGoals ForGoals AwayWin%14th02002020%
References
External links official website