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Pelé won his first major title with Santos in 1958 as the team won the Campeonato Paulista; he would finish the tournament as the top scorer, with 58 goals, [31] a record that still stands today. A year later, he would help the team earn their first victory in the Torneio Rio-São Paulo with a 3–0 over Vasco da Gama. [ 32 ]
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
The FA Trophy commenced in 1969 for those participants in Steps 1–4 of the National League System (tiers 5–8 of the overall English football league system). [14] The Watney Cup, active from 1970 until 1973 was one of the first of these to have top division participants, though only for clubs that didn't qualify for UEFA competitions. [ 15 ]
Pelé, Pepe and Zito are the Santos players who have won the FIFA World Cup two consecutive times. Santos FC is a football club based in Santos, that competes in the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league. The club was founded in 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by the names ...
Most international major trophies won: 35 – Real Madrid, 1955–2024 [113] Most national major trophies won: 118 – Celtic, 1892–2024; Most trophies won in top level competitions: 125 – Al Ahly, 1923–2024 [114] Most overall trophies won: 275 – Linfield, 1891–2024 [115] Most national championships won: 56 – Linfield, 1891–2024 [116]
The English football champions are the winners of the top-level league in English men's football, which since the 1992–93 season has been called the Premier League. Following the codification of professional football by the Football Association in 1885, [ 1 ] the Football League was established in 1888, after meetings initiated by Aston Villa ...
In 1999, he was named Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee [20] and included in the Time list of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, [21] while, in 2000, he was voted the World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics [22] and was a joint winner of the FIFA ...
Preston North End in 1888–89, the first Football League champions. They completed the season undefeated and went on to complete the Double by winning the FA Cup. This article lists English association football clubs whose men's sides have won competitive honours run by official governing bodies.