One of the most exciting seasons of the Brazilian league ended Wednesday with the most stable team of the season defending its title and the club that was home to the late Pel relegated for the first time.
In international club football, the Big Green has won the first ever international tournament known as Copa Rio in 1951, the 1999, 2024 and 2024 Copa Libertadores, the 2024 Recopa Sudamericana, and the 1998 Copa Mercosul.
The football team plays in the Campeonato Paulista, the state of So Paulo's premier state league, as well as in the Brasileiro Srie A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system. Palmeiras was founded by Italian immigrants in 1914, as "Palestra Itlia" ( pronounced [pal[st~italjP]).