2014 Santos FC season

The 2014 season is Santos Futebol Clube's 102nd season in existence and the club's fifty-fifth consecutive season in the top flight of Brazilian football. As well as the Campeonato Brasileiro, the club competes in the Copa do Brasil and the Campeonato Paulista. This season is the first in history that Santos uses fixed numbers assigned to each player.

On 19 December 2013, Santos signed Leandro Damião from Internacional for a fee of R$ 42 million (€13m) (biggest transfer in history between two Brazilian clubs). At the same time, the club did not spend a cent, as the player's rights were bought by Doyen Sports, an investment fund based in Malta; Damião was later assigned to Peixe in a free transfer, but the club will have to pay the company after the end of Damião's contract, with a 10% interest per year.

This was Oswaldo de Oliveira's second (third in history) season in charge after Claudinei Oliveira was relieved from the club at the end of the 2013 season. He was relieved from his duties on 2 September, after a bad run of results. A day after Oswaldo's dismissal, Santos appointed Enderson Moreira as the club's new manager.

Santos reached Campeonato Paulista's finals for the sixth successive year, but lost to countryside team Ituano in penalties after a 1–1 draw on aggregate score.

On 15 May, Luis Álvaro de Oliveira Ribeiro resigned from the presidency of the club due to health problems, and Odílio Rodrigues (the former vice-president) assumed the position until the end of his term.

Squad information
Source: SantosFC.com.br (for appearances and goals), Wikipedia players' articles (for international appearances and goals), FPF (for contracts)

Starting XI
4–3–3 Formation

According to the most recent line-ups.



Appearances and goals
Last updated: 8 December 2014

Source: Match reports in Competitive matches, Soccerway, Campeonato Brasileiro, Campeonato Paulista, Copa do Brasil

Goalscorers
Last updated: 8 December 2014

Source: Match reports in Competitive matches

Disciplinary record
As of 8 December 2014 Source: Campeonato Brasileiro, Campeonato Paulista, Copa do Brasil = Number of bookings; sent off: = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; sent off:  = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

Kit
Source: Home Ayaw Third

Official sponsorship

 * Corr Plastik
 * CNA Idiomas
 * Unicef
 * Huawei

Transfers in
Total spending: R$46,000,000

Transfers out
Total gaining: R$ 33,500,000

Detailed overall summary
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" ! !Total ! Home ! Away
 * align=left| Games played         || 68 || 35 || 33
 * align=left| Games won            || 36 || 25 || 11
 * align=left| Games drawn          || 13 || 4 || 9
 * align=left| Games lost           || 19 || 6 || 13
 * align=left| Biggest win          || 5–0 v Bragantino 5–0 v Botafogo || 5–0 v Bragantino 5–0 v Botafogo || 5–2 v Mogi Mirim
 * align=left| Biggest loss         || 1–4 v Penapolense 0–3 v Cruzeiro 0–3 v Criciúma || 1–2 v Atlético Mineiro 1–2 v Internacional || 1–4 v Penapolense 0–3 v Cruzeiro 0–3 v Criciúma
 * align=left| Clean sheets         || 27 || 17 || 10
 * align=left| Goals scored         || 114 || 76 || 38
 * align=left| Goals conceded       || 65 || 24 || 41
 * align=left| Goal difference      || +49 || +52 || -3
 * align=left| Average GF per game    ||  ||  ||
 * align=left| Average GA per game || ||  ||
 * align=left| Yellow cards        || 150 || 69 || 81
 * align=left| Red cards sent off:      || 7 || 3 || 4
 * align=left| Most appearances    || align=center| Aranha (58) Cicinho (58) ||align=center| Aranha (31) Arouca (31) Gabriel (31) ||Cicinho (29)
 * align=left| Top scorer ⚽  || align=center| Gabriel (21)||align=center| Gabriel (15)||align=center| Gabriel (6)
 * align=left|Worst discipline     || align=center| Cicinho  (16) sent off:  (2) ||align=center|David Braz  (10)||align=center| Cicinho  (10) sent off:  (1)
 * align=left| Points              || 121/204 (%) || 79/105 (%) || 42/99 (%)
 * align=left| Winning rate        || (%) || (%) || (%)
 * align=left| Goal difference      || +49 || +52 || -3
 * align=left| Average GF per game    ||  ||  ||
 * align=left| Average GA per game || ||  ||
 * align=left| Yellow cards        || 150 || 69 || 81
 * align=left| Red cards sent off:      || 7 || 3 || 4
 * align=left| Most appearances    || align=center| Aranha (58) Cicinho (58) ||align=center| Aranha (31) Arouca (31) Gabriel (31) ||Cicinho (29)
 * align=left| Top scorer ⚽  || align=center| Gabriel (21)||align=center| Gabriel (15)||align=center| Gabriel (6)
 * align=left|Worst discipline     || align=center| Cicinho  (16) sent off:  (2) ||align=center|David Braz  (10)||align=center| Cicinho  (10) sent off:  (1)
 * align=left| Points              || 121/204 (%) || 79/105 (%) || 42/99 (%)
 * align=left| Winning rate        || (%) || (%) || (%)
 * align=left| Most appearances    || align=center| Aranha (58) Cicinho (58) ||align=center| Aranha (31) Arouca (31) Gabriel (31) ||Cicinho (29)
 * align=left| Top scorer ⚽  || align=center| Gabriel (21)||align=center| Gabriel (15)||align=center| Gabriel (6)
 * align=left|Worst discipline     || align=center| Cicinho  (16) sent off:  (2) ||align=center|David Braz  (10)||align=center| Cicinho  (10) sent off:  (1)
 * align=left| Points              || 121/204 (%) || 79/105 (%) || 42/99 (%)
 * align=left| Winning rate        || (%) || (%) || (%)
 * align=left| Points              || 121/204 (%) || 79/105 (%) || 42/99 (%)
 * align=left| Winning rate        || (%) || (%) || (%)
 * align=left| Winning rate        || (%) || (%) || (%)
 * align=left| Winning rate        || (%) || (%) || (%)

Matches
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