O Santos de 1964, time de Pelé, foi campeão paulista, campeão da Taça Brasil e dividiu com o Botafogo o título do Torneio Rio-São Paulo.
Santos FC 1964
Santos' 1964 team was one of the great teams of Pelé's era. It won the São Paulo Championship, the Brazil Cup and the Rio-São Paulo Tournament, the latter shared with Botafogo.
History
In 1964, Santos was experiencing the peak of the generation that dominated Brazilian and world football in the early 1960s. The team had Pelé, Gilmar, Zito, Coutinho, Pepe, Mengálvio and Dorval, among other legendary names. In the 1964 São Paulo Championship, Santos was champion and maintained the state hegemony that had lasted since the beginning of the decade. In the 1964 Brazil Cup, a tournament that at the time defined the national champion, Santos won the title and reached the fourth consecutive national trophy, after winning in 1961, 1962 and 1963. The final was against Flamengo. In the same year, Santos shared with Botafogo the title of the Rio-São Paulo Tournament, a prestigious competition among the main clubs from both states. The 1964 squad is remembered as part of the victorious sequence that made Santos one of the most admired teams in the world, with the offensive and flamboyant football that marked the club at that time.