2007 São Paulo FC season

São Paulo
2007 season
Chairman Brazil Juvenal Juvêncio
Manager Brazil Muricy Ramalho
Campeonato Brasileiro Champions (5th title)[1]
Copa Libertadores Round of 16
Copa Sudamericana Quarter-finals
Campeonato Paulista Semi-finals
Top goalscorer League: Borges, Dagoberto and Rogério Ceni (7)
All: Borges (13)
Highest home attendance 69,989 ( v América-RN in the Campeonato Brasileiro)
Lowest home attendance 3,440 ( v Rio Branco in the Campeonato Paulista)
← 2006 2008 →

The 2007 season was São Paulo's 78th club existence season's history. After being a national champions in the previous year, them team qualified to the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana. Tricolor took a place on Semifinals of Campeonato Paulista but was eliminated by São Caetano with a rout in his home stadium in the second leg after drawing in 1-1 on away, was defeated by 4-1. In the Copa Libertadores for the fourth year's participation sequence, Tricolor was eliminated in Round of 16 losing to Grêmio in aggregated score. While played the Campeonato Brasileiro, São Paulo participated of Copa Sudamericana. With two draws against Figueirense the group advanced on Away goal rule to Round of 16 when eliminated the Argentine current champions of Copa Libertadores, Boca juniors, also in away goal rule, after scored one goal in La Bombonera in the loss by 2-1, Tricolor wins in Morumbi with a single goal scored by Aloísio. However in the quarterfinals was eliminated with two losses for Colombians Millonarios. Playing only the national league the club rising the fifth title in 31 October, on 34th round, behind the victory over América-RN for 3-0 in Morumbi. The team became a champions with a record of 23 wins, 8 draws, 7 losses and keeping the best defence of league, only 19 goals conceded in 38 matches.

Undisputed Champions

In the season of 2007 a soccer team reached another level in the history of the Brazilian soccer. São Paulo Futebol Clube reigned for the second time in the role as national champions, now with five titles So Paulo F.C. is the only team in Brazil to have reached such glory. In the making of history São Paulo F.C. also broke many records, some of them set by São Paulo FC in the previous year. CBF, the Brazilian Confederation of Football, acknowledged São Paulo as the first team to be five-time national champion. The decision caused some controversy, because Flamengo, the most popular club in Brazil, claims to have been champion in five occasions; however, in 1987, Flamengo won the First Division and refused (with support of all major teams, including São Paulo) to go for a play-off against the winner of Second Division.

São Paulo playing a friendly match against Bayern Munich in Hong Kong.

Awards

CBF gave São Paulo F.C. a trophy created in the 70’s, which it was designed at the time for the team who reached five titles first or three consecutive titles, since no team ever accomplished winning three titles consecutively, São Paulo was given the trophy for winning the tournament five times. The trophy made out of silver soccer balls, were given to all the national champions in transition order until 1992, which it was the season Flamengo FC celebrated their last national title. Do to the controversy of 1987, after 1992 CBF locked the most wanted trophy for all Brazilian teams and created a new trophy to be given for the national champions.

Prestige

São Paulo FC was considered to be the best team in Brazil at this time by various soccer entities, and it was also considered the undisputed champion of 2007 by Placar (Brazilian monthly sports magazine), with four games left and 15 points in front of the second place team (Santos FC). São Paulo F.C. broke many records in 2007; the team went 13 games without losing in the tournament, São Paulo also didn't allow any goals for eleven games, having the best defense of the tournament. São Paulo F.C. finished the tournament with 19 goals scored against, another record set in the Brasileirao. The biggest record achieved that year, was that São Paulo broke its own record as a team to win the tournament before it was even over, the year before, São Paulo F.C. was mathematically crowned the champions with three games still left to play; in 2007 São Paulo F.C. won with four games left.

Final Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Brazil GK Rogério Ceni (captain)
3 Brazil DF André Dias
5 Brazil DF Miranda
6 Brazil DF Júnior
7 Brazil MF Jorge Wagner
9 Brazil FW Leandro
10 Brazil MF Souza
11 Brazil MF Hugo
12 Brazil DF Danilo Silva
13 Ecuador DF Néicer Reasco
14 Brazil FW Aloísio
15 Brazil DF Alex Silva
16 Brazil DF Jadílson
No. Position Player
17 Brazil FW Borges
18 Brazil MF Fernando
20 Brazil MF Richarlyson
21 Brazil MF Zé Luís
22 Brazil GK Bosco
23 Brazil DF Jackson
25 Brazil FW Dagoberto
26 Brazil MF Hernanes
29 Brazil MF Sérgio Mota
30 Brazil MF Francisco Alex
33 Brazil DF Breno
34 Brazil FW Diego Tardelli
40 Brazil GK Fabiano

Scorers

Position Nation Playing position Name Campeonato Paulista Copa Libertadores Campeonato Brasileiro Copa Sudamericana Others Total
1 Brazil FW Borges 3 1 7 2 0 13
2 Brazil FW Aloísio 3 1 6 1 0 11
= Brazil MF Hugo 7 1 3 0 0 11
3 Brazil GK Rogério Ceni 2 0 7 1 0 10
4 Brazil FW Leandro 3 1 4 0 0 8
5 Brazil DF Alex Silva 3 2 2 0 0 7
= Brazil FW Dagoberto 0 0 7 0 0 7
6 Brazil MF Jorge Wagner 2 0 4 0 0 6
= Brazil MF Richarlyson 3 1 2 0 0 6
= Brazil MF Souza 3 1 2 0 0 6
7 Brazil MF Hernanes 1 0 3 1 0 5
= Brazil MF Lenílson 5 0 0 0 0 5
8 Brazil DF Júnior 2 1 0 0 0 4
= Brazil DF Miranda 0 2 2 0 0 4
9 Brazil FW Marcel 2 0 0 0 1 3
10 Brazil DF Breno 0 0 2 0 0 2
= Brazil DF Ilsinho 2 0 0 0 0 2
= Brazil DF Jadílson 1 1 0 0 0 2
11 Brazil DF André Dias 0 0 1 0 0 1
= Brazil FW Diego Tardelli 0 0 1 0 0 1
= Brazil MF Francisco Alex 0 0 1 0 0 1
= Brazil MF Josué 1 0 0 0 0 1
/ / / Own goals 0 0 1 0 0 1
Total 43 12 55 5 1 116

Overall

Games played 74 (21 Campeonato Paulista, 8 Copa Libertadores, 38 Campeonato Brasileiro, 6 Copa Sudamericana, 1 Friendly match)
Games won 41 (13 Campeonato Paulista, 4 Copa Libertadores, 23 Campeonato Brasileiro, 1 Copa Sudamericana, 0 Friendly match)
Games drawn 18 (6 Campeonato Paulista, 2 Copa Libertadores, 8 Campeonato Brasileiro, 2 Copa Sudamericana, 0 Friendly match)
Games lost 15 (2 Campeonato Paulista, 2 Copa Libertadores, 7 Campeonato Brasileiro, 3 Copa Sudamericana, 1 Friendly match)
Goals scored 116
Goals conceded 52
Goal difference +64
Best result 6–0 (H) v Paraná - Campeonato Brasileiro - 2007.9.1
Worst result 1–4 (A) v São Caetano - Campeonato Paulista - 2007.4.21
Top scorer Borges (13 goals)

Source: São Paulo FC

Friendlies

Official competitions

Campeonato Paulista

Record

Final Position Points Matches Wins Draws Losses Goals For Goals Away Win%
3rd 45 21 13 6 2 43 18 71%

Copa Libertadores

Record

Final Position Points Matches Wins Draws Losses Goals For Goals Away Win%
12th 14 8 4 2 2 12 6 58%

Campeonato Brasileiro

Record

Final Position Points Matches Wins Draws Losses Goals For Goals Away Win%
1st 77 38 23 8 7 55 19 67%

Copa Sudamericana

Record

Final Position Points Matches Wins Draws Losses Goals For Goals Away Win%
7th 5 6 1 2 3 5 8 27%

References

  1. ↑ "Campeonato Brasileiro winner squad". Retrieved 6 March 2010.
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