Santos Limited history

The Alvinegro Praiano took part in their first Campeonato Paulista in 1913, being thrashed 8–2 by Germânia on 1 June.

In 1914, due to an internal financial crisis, Santos only played friendly matches, winning all seven of them.

In 1915, Santos changed their name temporarily to União Futebol Clube in order to compete in another city tournament due to budgeting reasons.

With the Araken Patusca was the first Santista to participate in a World Cup, as a member of the Brazilian national team squad in the FIFA World Cup in 1930, the first World Cup.

Following their triumph in the 1935 Paulistão, many key players of the winning squad left or retired soon afterwards, depleting the club of its veterans.

Patusca's departure in 1937 proved to be the closing chapter of his generation and the beginning of dismal campaigns in the Paulista tournament for the following 10 years, finishing no higher than 5th place.

Australia launched a national effort to develop its own oil reserves in the years immediately following World War II. Oil exploration first began in 1946 and continued into the next decade.

Santos also participated in the Torneio Rio – São Paulo for the first time in 1952, finishing in third place overall.

Founded in 1954, Santos has been active in the energy business for more than 50 years.

Santos went public in February 1955 as it launched its oil exploration operations.

The contract between Santos and the young Pelé was finalized in June 1956.

With Delhi's backing, Santos at first began drilling at Oodnadatta in 1957.

Santos won the third state title in 50 years, the magical year of 1958 – in which Brazil won the World Cup in Sweden, with Zito Santos, Pelé and Pepe, and won in spectacular fashion.

In 1959, Santos completed its first deep well there.

Santos made its first significant discovery of natural gas in the Cooper Basin with the Gidgealpa 2 well in 1963.

Delhi and Santos continued to explore the Cooper Basin and, by 1965, the partners had discovered a new major natural gas deposit, at Moomba.

The Moomba 1 discovery in 1966 confirmed this region as a major petroleum province.

In six games of qualifying for the 1970 World Cup "The beasts of the Saldanha" played with six Santos players : Carlos Alberto, Djalma Dias, Joel Camargo, Rildo, Pelé and Edu.

1977 The company discovers Strzelecki 3, the first significant discovery of oil in Ergomanga Basin, with a production of more than 2,400 barrels per day.

Santos and Delhi agreed to a breakup of their partnership in 1979, with Delhi taking over exploration operations in the Cooper Basin, while Santos became responsible for the production and further development of the area's gas and oil fields.

The period began with the Santos became the vice-champion of the São Paulo state championship of 1980, and the executioner of this final Santos – São Paulo fan striker Serginho – is who would become the idol of the decade Santos.

The pipeline enabled Santos to begin its first export shipments, of LPG to Japan, in 1984.

The company also acquired a majority of Latec Investments, active in the Amadeus Basin in the Northern Territory, as well as the holdings of Total and Western Mining Corporation in the Cooper Bay and Ergomanga Basin areas in 1987.

In 1988, the company bought Peko Oil, a company with holdings in the Timor Sea, as well as in the United Kingdom and United States.

By 1989, the company had made a new major oil field discovery, at Talbot 1 in the Timor Sea.

The company extended its reach into Queensland with the completion of a new raw gas pipeline between Moomba and Ballera in 1992.

In 1993, the company became the major backer of the discovery effort behind the Stag 1 oil field in Carnarvon Basin.

In 1995, the company boosted its gas and condensate holdings with the discovery of the Undan field in the Timor Gap.

By 1999, the company had added operations in Victoria, with the purchase of shares of a site in Otway Basin and an offshore site in Gippsland Basin.

Since 2000 Santos has continued to build its business in South East Asia, the United States and southern Australia, while undertaking a high impact exploration program and developing new projects to drive production and earnings growth.”

2002 Esenjay Corporation in the United States is acquired.

In 2003, Santos finished in second position in the first ever Brazilian national championship without a post-season play-off to determine the champion.

By then, Santos also had stepped up its exploration activities in Indonesia and, since 2004, had launched exploration operations in the Gulf of Suez in Egypt as well.

In 2005, the company's revenues neared AUD 2.5 billion ($1.9 billion).

2006 Santos adopts a new strategy of becoming the leading southeast Asian energy company.

In 2007 Santos lost its first match only in the first leg of the final yet winning the title through a second leg victory nonetheless.

In 2008 Santos played Copa Libertadores again.

In 2009, Neymar and Paulo Henrique Ganso joined the professional team; Neymar signed with the team when he was 13, while Ganso came from Paysandu, a northern team, when he was 15.

They also won Copa do Brasil 2010, beating Vitória in the finals, but with an overwhelming campaign.

In 2011 the Santos GLNG project was sanctioned.

In 2012, Santos kept the two title per year ratio, winning the State Championships (Paulistão) against Guarani and the Recopa against Universidad de Chile.

First Gas Peluang Indonesia March 2014.

In 2015, due to the club's financial problems, free agents Elano and Ricardo Oliveira returned to Santos with a low wage, and the club also loaned out Damião (the most expensive player of the previous campaign). On 5 March, despite the club's unbeaten status, Enderson Moreira was sacked.

Dorival remained in charge of the club for the 2016 campaign, winning the year's Paulistão (22nd) and achieving a first place in Brasileirão for one week after eight years.

During the 2017 campaign, the club sacked Dorival and subsequently appointed Levir Culpi; however, after the club's elimination of the Copa Libertadores and due to poor form, Levir was himself dismissed.

2019 marked 50 years since the first gas from Santos’ operations in the Cooper Basin made its way to homes and businesses in Adelaide.

In the following month, Cuca announced his departure from the club, and Argentine Ariel Holan was hired on his place for the 2021 campaign.