Associação de Futebol de Lisboa - Brazil 1913

Some team photographs of the Portuguese XI taken during their visit to Brazil. 

In 1913 Botafogo moved into their new ground, Estádio General Severiano. The first game at the stadium was played on 13.05.13, a 1-0 win over Flamengo with a goal from Mimi Sodre.
Botafogo were keen to celebrate the acquisition of their new home with a special eve. This is what prompted them (in 1912) to invite the Football Association of Lisbon to send a touring party to Rio. The arrangements were handled by journalist Duarte Rodrigues of Lisbon's Tiro e Sport magazine.
Football in Portugal was amatuer and the trip required a large commitment in terms of time and expense. 
Several players who would have featured on merit were unavailable. The Football Association of Lisbon assembled the following squad for the tour: 

GK	Eduardo Luís Pinto Basto (secretary)	Internacional
HB	Boaventura Belo	Internacional
F	João Bentes	Sporting
D	Henrique Costa	Benfica
D	Amadeu Cruz	Sporting
HB	Cosme Damião  (captain)	Benfica
F	José Domingos Fernandes	Benfica
D/HB	Carlos Figueiredo	Benfica
F/ HB	Álvaro Gaspar	Benfica
F	Artur José Pereira	Benfica
F	Cândido Rosa Rodrigues	Sporting
GK	Augusto Paiva Simões	Benfica
F	Carlos Sobral	Internacional
F	António Stromp	Sporting
F	Francisco Stromp	Sporting
F	Luís Vieira	Benfica

Cosme Damião 

Liga Metropolitana XI ('Brazil') 17.07.13

Botafogo 1913

13.07.13	British XI (Rio Cricket/ Paysandu)	3	1	Portugal XI	Estádio General Severiano, Rio de Janeiro
14.07.13	Combinado Carioca	1	0	Portugal XI
17.07.13	Brazil XI (Liga Metropolitana de Sports Atléticos)	0	0	Portugal XI
20.07.13	Botafogo	0	1	Portugal XI
24.07.13	Palmeiras	2	2	Portugal XI	Velódromo de São Paulo
25.07.13	Mackenzie	5	1	Portugal XI
27.07.13	Paulistano	0	1	Portugal XI

P	W	D	L	F	A
7	2	2	3	6	11

Goals: Artur José Pereira (3), Carlos Sobral (2) , António Stromp (1) 

Botafogo vs Portuguese XI

Paulistano 27.07.13

Vieira

Benfica's Luis Vieira stayed on in Rio and  played for Botafogo, their first overseas player.

He remained in Brazil until 1916.

Hans Nobiling

Sport 1887 Germania Club 

As a youth Hans Nobiling played for the Hamburg club Sport 1887 Germania. The club, founded unsurprisingly in 1887, was a forerunner of Hamburg SV and shared their blue and black colours.

In 1897 Nobiling moved to Brazil. When he settled in São Paulo he carried his enthusiasm for football with him (along with an actual football) and soon set up an informal club side that was generally known as Hans Nobiling's Team.
At the time much of the  football activity in São Paulo took place amongst the pupils of Mackenzie College. When the college looked to broaden their horizons they approached São Paulo Athletic Club, which was made up of Englishmen. SPAC weren't keen on playing outsiders, their members played games amongst themselves. Mackenzie College then approached Hans Nobiling  and he obliged, so on March 5th 1899 Hans Nobiling's Team played Mackenzie in a 0-0 draw, probably the first inter club fixture in the history of Brazilian football.
On August 19th 1899 a meeting took place to discuss the formation of a new club in São Paulo. Hans Nobiling was present, one of 25 attendees who included Brazilians, Germans,French, Portuguese and English. Nobiling proposed the name- SC Germânia. This was put to the vote and rejected in favour of Sport Club Internacional. Incensed, Nobiling and his compatriots left the meeting and on 7th September founded their own club,SC Germânia  They chose the Hamburg colours, blue and black.

SC Germânia: Hans Nobiling wearing the necktie

In the first edition of the Campeonato Paulista in 1902 SC Germânia finished 4th from 5 with only one win from their 8 games. Perhaps Nobiling gained some satisfaction from the fact that their win came against the club that finished bottom, Internacional.
Germania won the Campeonato Paulista in 1906 and 1916.

1904

1914

This is reputedly the the oldest picture that shows football in Brazil:

 Internacional v Germânia, 1899.

Portugal-Os Três Grandes

F.C. Lisbonense

 One version of the history of FC Porto is that wine merchant António Nicolau de Almeida founded the club in 1893. Nuno Dias' helpful comments below share some information  that I didn't know when I originally wrote the post .

In 1894 King Carlos I created a national cup, to be played annually for the football championship of the cities of Portugal.Only one edition was played, in 1894, when F.C. Porto lost 0-1 to F.C. Lisbonense (predecessors of CIF-Clube Internacional de Futebol). 

 Sporting Clube de Portugal

The club that evolved into Sporting Clube de Portugal has its origins in 1902; a game played by aristocratic young men during a holiday. They styled themselves Sport Club de Belas (Belas being the location of their vacation). After the holiday was over they returned to the Lisbon suburb of Campo Grande and  decided to continue their footballing activities. In 1904 they founded Campo Grande Football Club. Conflict between the genuine sport enthusiasts and those more interested in social events led to a schism. In 1906 the sporting wing became Campo Grande Sporting Club.  Sporting's  first official fixture was played on 3rd February 1907. 

 Benfica

Founded in the Belém neighborhood of Lisbon on February 28th, 1904 as Grupo Sport Lisboa. In 1908 the merged with Sport Clube de Benfica (founded in 1904) and took the name Grupo Sport Benfica. Members of Grupo Sport Lisboa kept the football side of the club alive.

In October, 1908, a month after the merger, the club won its first game ever against Sporting.