Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior

Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior

Organising body	FPF
Founded	1969
Region	Brazil
Number of teams	128
Current champions	Palmeiras (2nd title)
Most successful club(s)	Corinthians (10 titles)
Television broadcasters	Rede Globo Rede Vida SporTV Eleven Sports

The Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior (or São Paulo Youth Football Cup, in English), also known as Copa São Paulo de Juniores (São Paulo Youth Cup) and Copinha (Little Cup), is a cup competition played by Brazilian under-20 association football teams (until the 2006 edition, it was contested by under-21 teams), most of them from the state of São Paulo. It is organized by the Paulistan Football Federation and is considered one of the most traditional and important under-20 sport competitions in Brazil. Its final is usually held on January 25, the anniversary of São Paulo City's founding.

Format

In the first stage, the 128 teams are divided in 32 groups. The top 2 of each group qualify to the knockout stage. The final is always played on 25 January, the date of the foundation of the city of São Paulo. All matches are played in the São Paulo state.

List of champions

Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior Winners

Final	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue
1969	Corinthians	1–0	Nacional	Centro Esportivo Vicente Ítalo Feola
1970	Corinthians	4–2	Palmeiras	Centro Esportivo Vicente Ítalo Feola
1971	Fluminense	4–4 (aet) (4–3 p)	Botafogo	Centro Educacional de Pirituba
1972	Nacional	2–1	Internacional	Estádio do Pacaembu
1973	Fluminense	2–0 (aet)	Corinthians	Estádio Parque São Jorge
1974	Internacional	2–1	Ponte Preta	Estádio do Pacaembu
1975	Atlético Mineiro	0–0 (4–3 p)	Ponte Preta	Estádio do Pacaembu
1976	Atlético Mineiro	1–0	Corinthians	Estádio Parque São Jorge
1977	Fluminense	2–1	Ponte Preta	Estádio do Morumbi
1978	Internacional	0–0 (5–4 p)	Corinthians	Estádio do Pacaembu
1979	Marília	2–1	Fluminense	Estádio do Canindé
1980	Internacional	3–0	Atlético Mineiro	Estádio do Pacaembu
1981	Ponte Preta	1–0	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu
1982	Ponte Preta	2–1	Santos	Estádio do Pacaembu
1983	Atlético Mineiro	2–1	Botafogo (SP)	Estádio Palestra Itália
1984	Santos	2–1	Corinthians	Estádio do Canindé
1985	Juventus	1–0	Guarani	Estádio do Pacaembu
1986	Fluminense	2–0	Ponte Preta	Estádio do Pacaembu
1987	Not held
1988	Nacional	3–0	América-SP	Estádio da Universidade de São Paulo
1989	Fluminense	1–0	Juventus	Estádio do Pacaembu
1990	Flamengo	1–0	Juventus	Estádio do Pacaembu
1991	Portuguesa	4–0	Grêmio	Estádio do Pacaembu
1992	Vasco da Gama	1–1 (5–3 p)	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu
1993	São Paulo	4–3	Corinthians	Estádio do Pacaembu
1994	Guarani	1–1 (aet) (3–0 p)	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu
1995	Corinthians	3–2 (aet)	Ponte Preta	Estádio do Canindé
1996	América-MG	2–1	Cruzeiro	Estádio do Pacaembu
1997	Lousano Paulista(1)	1–1 (4–3 p)	Corinthians	Estádio do Canindé
1998	Internacional	1–1 (aet) (4–3 p)	Ponte Preta	Estádio do Morumbi
1999	Corinthians	1–0	Vasco da Gama	Estádio do Pacaembu
2000	São Paulo	2–1	Juventus	Estádio do Pacaembu
2001	Roma Barueri(2)	4–4 (6–5 p)	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu
2002	Portuguesa	1–0	Cruzeiro	Estádio do Canindé
2003	Santo André	2–2 (5–3 p)	Palmeiras	Estádio do Pacaembu
2004	Corinthians	2–0	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu
2005	Corinthians	3–1	Nacional	Estádio do Pacaembu
2006	América-SP	0–0 (3–1 p)	Comercial	Estádio do Pacaembu
2007	Cruzeiro	1–1 (6–5 p)	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu
2008	Figueirense	2–0	Rio Branco	Estádio Nicolau Alayon
2009	Corinthians	2–1	Atlético Paranaense	Estádio do Pacaembu
2010	São Paulo	1–1 (3–0 p)	Santos	Estádio do Pacaembu
2011	Flamengo	2–1	Bahia	Estádio do Pacaembu
2012	Corinthians	2–1	Fluminense	Estádio do Pacaembu
2013	Santos	3–1	Goiás	Estádio do Pacaembu
2014	Santos	2–1	Corinthians	Estádio do Pacaembu
2015	Corinthians	1–0	Botafogo (SP)	Estádio do Pacaembu
2016	Flamengo	2–2 (4–3 p)	Corinthians	Estádio do Pacaembu
2017	Corinthians	2–1	Batatais	Estádio do Pacaembu
2018	Flamengo	1–0	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu
2019	São Paulo	2–2 (3–1 p)	Vasco da Gama	Estádio do Pacaembu
2020	Internacional	1–1 (3–1 p)	Grêmio	Estádio do Pacaembu
2021	Not held due COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
2022	Palmeiras	4–0	Santos	Allianz Parque
2023	Palmeiras	2–1	América-MG	Estádio do Canindé

⁽¹⁾ Currently named Paulista Futebol Clube.

⁽²⁾ Currently named Grêmio Barueri Futebol Ltda..

Titles by team

Club	Titles	Runners-up	Finals played	Last title
Corinthians	10	8	18	2017
Fluminense	5	2	7	1989
Internacional	5	1	6	2020
São Paulo	4	7	11	2019
Flamengo	4	0	4	2018
Santos	3	3	6	2014
Atlético Mineiro	3	1	4	1983
Ponte Preta	2	5	7	1982
Nacional	2	2	4	1988
Palmeiras	2	2	3	2023
Portuguesa	2	0	2	2002
Juventus	1	3	4	1985
Cruzeiro	1	2	3	2007
Vasco	1	2	3	1992
Guarani	1	1	2	1994
América	1	1	2	2006
América	1	0	1	1996
Figueirense	1	0	1	2008
Lousano Paulista	1	0	1	1997
Marília	1	0	1	1979
Roma Barueri	1	0	1	2001
Santo André	1	0	1	2003
Botafogo (SP)	0	2	2	-
Grêmio	0	2	2	-
Atlético Paranaense	0	1	1	-
Bahia	0	1	1	-
Botafogo	0	1	1	-
Comercial	0	1	1	-
Rio Branco	0	1	1	-
Goiás	0	1	1	-

Titles by state

State	Titles	Runners-up	Finals played
São Paulo	30	37	67
Rio de Janeiro	10	4	14
Minas Gerais	5	4	9
Rio Grande do Sul	5	3	8
Santa Catarina	1	0	1
Bahia	0	1	1
Paraná	0	1	1
Goiás	0	1	1

Individual records

Topscorers

Edition	Player	Club	Goals
2003	Leandro Domingues	Vitória	6
	Waldison	Inter de Limeira
2004	Rodrigo Tiuí	Fluminense	7
	William	Palmeiras
2005	Borebi	Noroeste	9
2006	Luiz Henrique	Paulista	9
2007	Rafinha	São Bernardo FC	8
2008	Rafael Martins	Grêmio	8
	Tiago Luís	Santos
	Vinícius Ramos	Taboão da Serra
2009	Bernardo	Cruzeiro	9
2010	Lucas Gaúcho	São Paulo	9
2011	Dellatorre	Desportivo Brasil	7
2012	Valdívia	Rondonópolis	8
2013	Caio Dantas	Grêmio Audax	8
	Diego Ceará	Mogi Mirim
	Erik	Goiás
2014	Diego Cardoso	Santos	9
	Gustavo	Taboão da Serra
	Stéfano Yuri	Santos
2015	Gabriel Vasconcelos	Corinthians	8
	Isaac Prado	Botafogo (SP)
	Santiago	São Caetano
2016	Geovane Itinga	Bahia	8
2017	Carlinhos	Corinthians	11
2018	Brenner	Internacional	8
	Jonas Toró	São Paulo
	Luan Silva	Vitória
	Luís Henrique	Ferroviária
	Miullen	Londrina
2019	Gabriel Novaes	São Paulo	10
2020	Felipe Micael	Mirassol	10
2022	Figueiredo	Vasco	8
	Werik	Oeste
2023	Ruan Ribeiro	Palmeiras	9

Player of the Tournament

Edition	Player	Club
1998	Fábio Pinto	Internacional
1999	Edu	Corinthians
2000	Fábio Simplício	São Paulo
2001	Renatinho	São Paulo
2002	Rafael Iotte	Portuguesa
2003	Vágner Love	Palmeiras
2004	Jô	Corinthians
2005	Thiago Neves	Paraná
2006	Keirrison	Coritiba
2007	Breno	São Paulo
2008	Paulo Henrique Ganso	Santos
2009	Santos	Atlético Paranaense
2010	Marcelinho	São Paulo
2011	Negueba	Flamengo
2012	Marcos Júnior	Fluminense
2013	Leandrinho	Santos
2014	Lucas Otávio	Santos
2015	Gabriel Jesus	Palmeiras
2016	Felipe Vizeu	Flamengo
2017	Pedrinho	Corinthians
2018	Liziero	São Paulo
2019	Antony	São Paulo
2020	Bruno Praxedes	Internacional
2022	Endrick	Palmeiras
2023	Kevin	Palmeiras

Winning managers

Edition	Manager	Club
1976	Dawson Laviola	Atlético Mineiro
1977	Pinheiro	Fluminense
1978	Marcos Eugênio	Internacional
1979	Walter Zaparolli	Marília
1980	Abílio dos Reis	Internacional
1981	Milton dos Santos	Ponte Preta
1982	Milton dos Santos	Ponte Preta
1983	José Maria Pena	Atlético Mineiro
1984	Ernesto Marques	Santos
1985	Reinaldo Borracha	Juventus
1986	Antônio Ângelo	Fluminense
1988	Vinícios Cecconi	Nacional (SP)
1989	Sebastião Rocha	Fluminense
1990	Ernesto Paulo	Flamengo
1991	Écio Pasca	Portuguesa
1992	Gaúcho	Vasco da Gama
1993	Márcio Araújo	São Paulo
1994	Pupo Gimenez	Guarani
1995	Pupo Gimenez	Corinthians
1996	Ricardo Drubscky	América Mineiro
1997	Giba	Lousano Paulista
1998	Guto Ferreira	Internacional
1999	Roberto Brida	Corinthians
2000	Pita	São Paulo
2001	Marcelo Vilar	Roma Barueri
2002	Edu Marangon	Portuguesa
2003	Geime Rotta	Santo André
2004	Adaílton Ladeira	Corinthians
2005	Adaílton Ladeira	Corinthians
2006	Claudino Cândido	América de Rio Preto
2007	Enderson Moreira	Cruzeiro
2008	Rogério Micale	Figueirense
2009	Adaílton Ladeira	Corinthians
2010	Sérgio Baresi	São Paulo
2011	Paulo Henrique	Flamengo
2012	Narciso	Corinthians
2013	Claudinei Oliveira	Santos
2014	Pepinho	Santos
2015	Osmar Loss	Corinthians
2016	Zé Ricardo	Flamengo
2017	Osmar Loss	Corinthians
2018	Maurício Souza	Flamengo
2019	Orlando Ribeiro	São Paulo
2020	Fábio Matias	Internacional
2022	Paulo Victor Gomes	Palmeiras
2023	Paulo Victor Gomes	Palmeiras

Supercopa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior

The Supercopa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior was a tournament organized by the São Paulo Football Federation bringing together 16 teams that until then had been champions and runners-up of the Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior and played by Brazilian under-20 football teams.

It was held in 1994 and 1995.

List of Champions

Supercopa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior Winners

Final	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue
1994	Atlético Mineiro	1–0	Internacional	Estádio do Pacaembu
1995	Palmeiras	1–0 (g.g)	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu

Titles by team

Club	Titles	Runners-up	Finals played	Last title
Palmeiras	1	0	1	1995
Atlético Mineiro	1	0	1	1994
São Paulo	0	1	1	-
Internacional	0	1	1	-

Titles by state

State	Titles	Runners-up	Finals played
São Paulo	1	1	2
Minas Gerais	1	0	1
Rio Grande do Sul	0	1	1

References

• Website official Archived January 17, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
• Copinha at Facebook
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• Copinha at Instagram

Other

• (in Portuguese) RSSSF Brasil
• (in Portuguese) Gazeta Esportiva
• (in Portuguese) Tudo pronto pro início da Copa São Paulo de Futebol Juniores - São Paulo City Government (January 2, 2007)