Campeonato Paulista de Futebol de 1913 (APEA)

The Foot-Ball Championship of the São Paulo Sports Athletics Association of 1913 was the first edition of this sport competition between APSA affiliated São Paulo football clubs and is recognized as a legitimate edition of the Paulista Football Championship by the FPF. It is one of two tournaments officially recognized by the Paulista Football Federation as the Paulista Football Championship of that season. Its champion was the Atletico Paulistano Club, being the Mackenzie with the vice-championship.

Filmed between May 13 and October 11, he had three LPF dissident teams. All the clashes of the league were played in the field of the Velodrome Paulistano. In nine games, 36 goals were scored (an average of 4.0 per game).

History

The FPF officially recognizes two competitions as legitimate editions of the 1913 Paulista Football Championship, each of which is organized by a different entity, one by the Paulista Athletic Sports Association and another by the Paulista Foot-Ball League. [2] That year, for the first time, there was a split in the elite of the soccer of São Paulo, due to political disputes. Disgruntled with LPF, a group led by Club Athletico Paulistano left the traditional entity and decided to create a parallel league in the city of São Paulo, organized by the newly founded APEA (or APSA, according to the original spelling). The breaking point was the possibility of the LPF accepting the joining of clubs of popular origin - such as the Sport Club Corinthians Paulista - and the exchange of the official field of the championship - the league closed with an exclusive rent with the Germanic, owner of the Park of the Antarctica Paulista, to the detriment of the Velodrome of São Paulo, belonging to Paulistano. Thus, for four seasons, football in the city of São Paulo would have two official rival leagues.