Organized by Federação Paulista de Futebol. Participants Corinthians (Brazil) Palmeiras (Brazil) São Paulo (Brazil) Santos (Brazil) Portuguesa (Brazil) Nacional (Uruguay) Boca Juniors (Argentina) Independiente (Argentina)
Obs. Independiente forfeited and was replaced by Newell's Old Boys (Argentina)
10/03/56 Corinthians 2-1 Nacional [Baltazar, Paulo; Bejamiro] 11/03/56 São Paulo 4-0 Boca Juniors [Gino-2, Maurinho, Canhoteiro] 11/03/56 Santos 4-2 Newell's Old Boys [Pepe-2, Negri, Vasconcelos; Roche-2]
14/03/56 Palmeiras 2-5 Newell's Old Boys [Valdir-contra, Nardiello, Roche, Reynoso, Belém; Nestor-2] 15/03/56 Nacional 4-3 São Paulo [Rienza-2, Caraballo, Jaro; Maurinho, Gino e Zezinho]
18/03/56 Santos 3-2 Boca Juniors - Vila Belmiro [Pepe, Vasconcelos e Pagão; Colângello, Etcheverria] 18/03/56 Portuguesa 3-2 Nacional - Pacaembu [Ipojucan-2, Airton; Romerito, Messias] 19/03/56 Corinthians 2-1 Newell's Old Boys [Luisinho, Jansen; Nardiello]
21/03/56 Palmeiras 2-0 Boca Juniors [Mazzola, Ney] 22/03/56 Newell's Old Boys 1-0 São Paulo - Pacaembu [Picot] 22/03/56 Santos 5-1 Nacional - Vila Belmiro
24/03/56 Boca Juniors 4-3 Portuguesa [Colângelo-2, Etcheverria, Angelilo; Airton, Nelson, Edmur] 25/03/56 Palmeiras 2-4 Nacional [Gambetta, Ambrois, Caraballo, Romerito; Mazzola, Ivan] 26/03/56 Portuguesa 2-1 Newell's Old Boys 27/03/56 Corinthians 4-1 Boca Juniors [Etcheverria; Paulo-3, Idário]
Local Group G W D L GF GA P+ 1. Santos 3 3 0 0 12 5 +7 -------------------------------------------- 2. Corinthians 3 3 0 0 8 3 +5 3. Portuguesa 3 2 0 1 8 7 +1 4. São Paulo 3 1 0 2 7 5 +2 5. Palmeiras 3 1 0 2 6 9 -3
Foreign Group G W D L GF GA P+ 1. N.Old Boys[ARG] 5 2 0 3 10 10 0 --------------------------------------------- 2. Nacional[URU] 5 2 0 3 12 15 -3 3. Boca Juniors[ARG] 5 1 0 4 7 16 -9
Final
29/03/56 Santos 5-2 Newells Old Boys [Pagão-2, Del Vecchio, Pepe, Vasconcelos; Picot, Hernandez]
Champions: Santos
Base team of Santos: SANTOS: Manga, Hélvio (Cássio) e Feijó (Sarno); Ramiro, Zito e Urubatão; Alfredinho, Jair Rosa Pinto, Pagão (Del Vecchio), Vasconcelos e Pepe.
This tournament was followed by the Torneio Nacional Roberto Gomes Pedrosa 1956
Thanks to José Ricardo Caldas e Almeida (josericardo.almeida@terra.com.br)
Prepared and maintained by Marcos Galves Moreira and Luciano Pasqualini for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation and RSSSF Brazil
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