Club Athletico Paulistano
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| Full name | Club Athletico Paulistano |
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| Founded | 29 December 1900 |
| Ground | Football: Velódromo (1900–1915) Jardim América (1915–1930) |
| Location | São Paulo, Brazil |
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Chairman | Emílio Machado Julianelli |
| Colors | (White, Crayola) |
| Website | www |
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Club Athletico Paulistano, generally known as just Paulistano, is a Brazilian sports and social club based in São Paulo. The club is located in the quarter of Jardim América.
The club was founded on 29 December 1900 for the purpose of playing association football. Its team was one of the early pioneers of the sport in Brazil and was considered the nationally leading side around 1920. To date, Paulistano remains the only club that won the São Paulo state championship four consecutive times, and the team is still the fifth most successful team in the history of the tournament, only behind the state's four big teams of Corinthians, Palmeiras, São Paulo and Santos. In the course of the professionalisation of the sport in Brazil, the club closed its football department after 1929.
Since then, basketball has developed into the leading sport practised by Paulistano. Further to that, the club these days maintains departments for artistic gymnastics, badminton, basque pelota, boxing, chess, fencing, football, golf, martial arts, rowing, squash, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and waterpolo, among other activities.