To date, Paulistano remains the only club that won the São Paulo state championship four consecutive times.

Further to that, the club these days maintains departments for artistic gymnastics, badminton, basque pelota, boxing, chess, fencing, football, golf, martial arts, rowing, squash, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and waterpolo, among other activities.

[1] Under the leadership of the Englishman Charles William Miller representing the São Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC), Paulistano, together with SC Internacional, AA Mackenzie College and SC Germânia founded in 1901 the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball (LPF), the first football league in Brazil.

In 1914 there was a schism in the football of São Paulo as the LPF was averse to accepting new members and thus the broadening of the base of the game.

Paulistano joined the competing, generally accessible league under the auspices of the Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos (APEA).

In March and April 1925 Paulistano as first Brazilian side toured continental Europe, a trip that to date forms a major part of the club's folklore.

Paulistano, re-inforced with Araken Patusca from Santos FC and three far less prominent players from Rio's CR Flamengo, won nine out of ten matches in France, Switzerland and Portugal, encountering and defeating also the national selections of their first two countries.

[6] Another noteworthy sport is tennis, which has brought to light several prominent names in its history, such as Nelson Cruz, one of Brazil's players in the country's first participation in the Davis Cup; Armando Vieira, one of the pioneers in competing internationally and introducing foreign techniques to Brazilian tennis; Cecy Carvalho, a São Paulo and Brazilian champion who captained the CAP elite team for thirteen consecutive years;[7] and Laura Pigossi, a club member who, alongside Luisa Stefani, won the first Olympic medal in tennis for Brazil in history at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.