Santos Futebol Clube

Santos Futebol Clube is a Brazilian professional football club based in Santos, São Paulo. Famous around the world as the club of Pelé, and more recently of the ascending football star Neymar among others, they play in the Campeonato Paulista. and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the highest professional leagues in São Paulo state and Brazil, respectively.

Santos is the defending Paulista champion. Domestically, the club have won twenty Campeonato Paulista titles, one Copa do Brasil, and a joint record of eight Brazilian championships. Internationally, they are amongst Brazil's most successful clubs with nine international titles, including three Copa Libertadores and two Intercontinental Cups. In 1962, Santos became the first club in the world to win the continental treble consisting of the Paulista, Taça Brasil (Brazilian Championship), 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. Their international and domestic success has led IFFHS to name Santos as one of the top twenty clubs in South America in the 20th century.

Founded as Santos Foot-Ball Club on April 14, 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by the names of Francisco Raymundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos and Argemiro de Souza Júnior, the club have become a symbol of beautiful and exciting football, known in Brazil as "futebol-arte". It is one of Brazil's richest football clubs in terms of revenue, with an annual revenue of US$45.1 million (€31.5 million), and one of the most valuable clubs, worth over $86.7 million (€60.6 million) in 2011. Santos was a founding member of the Clube dos 13 (English: Club of the 13), group of Brazil's leading football clubs.