In terms of revenue, Santos is Brazil's fourth-richest sports club and one of the biggest football clubs in the world, generating an annual turnover of over $114 million in 2012. In 2013, the club is the 2nd most valuable club in Brazil and South America, and 38th most valuable club in the world according to Brand Finance, worth over $65 million. The most recognized Santista anthem is the ' Leão do Mar' written by Mangeri Neto. Santos' regular kit is white shirts, with white shorts, accompanied by white socks. The Peixe play their home games at the Vila Belmiro, which currently holds up to 20,120 spectators. On 20 January 1998, Santos became the first team, in any category in the world, to reach the milestone of 10,000 goals in the entire history of football and was voted by FIFA as one of the most successful clubs of the 20th century. It has also won 22 Paulistãos, three Copa Libertadores, two Intercontinental Cups, one Supercopa de Campeones Intercontinentales, one Copa CONMEBOL (the precursor of current Copa Sudamericana), one Copa do Brasil, and one Recopa Sudamericana.

Santos is one of the most successful clubs in the Brasileirão, becoming national champions on eight occasions. Os Santásticos won four competitions in 1962, thus completing a quadruple, comprising the Paulistão, the Brasileirão, the Copa Libertadores, and the European/South American Cup. Os Santásticos, considered by some the best club team of all times, won a total of 24 titles during that decade including five consecutive Brasileirões, a feat that remains unequaled today. This was largely thanks to the Peixe's golden generation of the 1960s, with players like Gilmar, Mauro Ramos, Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pepe, and most notable of all, Pelé, named the 'Athlete of the Century' by the International Olympic Committee, and widely regarded as the best and most accomplished footballer in the game's history.

Since then, Santos has become one of Brazil's most successful clubs, becoming a symbol of Jogo Bonito (English: the Beautiful Game) in football culture, hence the motto 'Técnica e Disciplina' (technique and discipline). The club was founded in 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos, and Argemiro de Souza Júnior as a response to the lack of representation the city had in football. It plays in the Paulistão, the State of São Paulo's premier state league, as well as the Brasileirão, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system. It is also the team with the most goals in football history. Santos Futebol Clube ( Brazilian Portuguese: ( listen)), commonly known simply as Santos or Santos FC and nicknamed the Peixe (, 'fish'), is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a bairro in the city of Santos.

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