Novorizontino

Runner-up is as close as Novorizontino has come to the state's top prize. In 2026, Novorizontino reached the final of the Campeonato Paulista Série A1 and finished second, the deepest run yet for a club that spent years climbing back through the divisions to get there. Five years earlier, the Troféu do Interior went the club's way in 2021, a title reserved for São Paulo sides from outside the capital, and it remains the closest thing Novorizontino has to a marquee trophy.

The current club carries the name of one that folded. The original Grêmio Esportivo Novorizontino was dissolved in 1999, and on 1 March 2010 a new Grêmio Novorizontino rose in Novo Horizonte to take up the shirt again. The rebuilding showed results by 2014, when the club won the Campeonato Paulista Série A3, and by 2015 it had already reached the Série A2 final — a second such final followed in 2023, both lost.

Novorizontino play in yellow and black, a colour scheme that earned them the nickname Tigre do Vale, the Tiger of the Valley, and they carry it into home games at the Estádio Doutor Jorge Ismael de Biasi, known locally as Jorjão, which holds 12,398. Mirassol, from the same region of São Paulo state, has grown into the club's sharpest rivalry as both sides have pushed up through the Paulista pyramid in recent years.

What still eludes Novorizontino is a state title outright. Two runner-up finishes in the Série A2, one in the top flight itself, and no Campeonato Paulista Série A1 trophy on the shelf — the closest they have come is the final whistle in 2026, on the wrong side of the score.