page_title: Supporters of Santos FC
section_title: Sponsors
hierarchical_section_title: Supporters of Santos FC / Sponsors
caption_attribution_description: English: I took photo with Canon camera.
context_page_description: Santos FC is a football club based in Santos, that competes in the Campeonato Paulista,
  São Paulo's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league. The club was founded in 1912 by the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos by the names of Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos, and Argemiro de Souza Júnior, and played its first friendly match on June 23, 1914. Initially Santos played against other local clubs in the city and state championships, but in 1959 the club became one of the founding members of the Taça Brasil, Brazil's first truly national league. As of 2010, Santos is one of only five clubs never to have been relegated from the top level of Brazilian football, the others being São Paulo, Flamengo, Internacional and Cruzeiro.
  The supporters of Santos have played an important part in the formation of the club's cultural association with Joga Bonito in football culture during the club's 99-year existence, numbering at 18,491 in 2009.
context_section_description: Since 1979, Santos has had 38 different sponsors, with Rainha being the club's first kit manufacturer. Casas Bahia, a Brazilian retail chain which specializes in furniture and home appliances, became the first sponsor for the Peixe. The current main sponsors are: Nike, Netshoes, Seara, CSU, Corr Plastik and Minds Idiomas.
  The club has had several famous sponsors such as Adidas (a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, golf company (including Ashworth), and Rockport), Coca-Cola (a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries), TAM Airlines (Brazil and Latin America's largest airline) and Panasonic, a Japanese multinational consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.
caption: Coca-Cola
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