| Full name | Esporte Clube Vitória | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Leão da Barra ("Lion from Barra") | |||
| Founded | May 13, 1899 | |||
| Stadium | Barradão, Salvador, Brazil (Capacity: 35,632[1]) |
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| President | Alexi Portela | |||
| Head coach | Toninho Cerezo | |||
| League | Campeonato Brasileiro Série B | |||
| 2011 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, 5th | |||
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Esporte Clube Vitória, usually known simply as Vitória, is a Brazilian football team from Salvador in Bahia, founded on May 13, 1899.
Vitória's home games are played at the club's own stadium (Manoel Barradas, capacity 35,632[2]). They play in red and black horizontal striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The stripes have changed over time: they have been sometimes vertical, horizontal, wide and narrow.
The youth system of the club is one of the most successful of the world, holding, between 1995 and 2000, at its peak, at least 21 world titles.[3] Recent names that started playing in the club are Hulk, David Luiz, Dudu Cearense, Marcelo Moreno, and others.
The rivals of Vitória are Esporte Clube Bahia. Their matches are known as Ba–Vi ("Ba" from Bahia and "Vi" from Vitória). It's one of the most intense rivalries in the country.
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The club was founded on May 13, 1899, by the brothers Artur and Artêmio Valente, along with seventeen other young fellows. They were from an old Bahian family, and discovered football during their studies in England. Initially Vitória was a cricket club, named Club de Cricket Victoria, because all of them lived at the Vitória neighborhood, in Salvador.
On May 22, 1901, Vitória played its first football match, at Campo da Pólvora, against International Sport Club, a team whose players were English seamen. Vitória beat International 3–2. Two months after that match, Vitória changed its original colors, which were black and white, to red and black, which are still in use.
On September 13, 1903, Vitória beat a club formed by people from São Paulo state, São Paulo Bahia Football Club 2–0 in the club's first official match. In 1908, Vitória won its first title ever, the Campeonato Baiano. They won the next year as well.
From 1910 to 1952, they didn't win any titles because they were still an amateur club. In 1953, the club turned professional, and won its third Baiano honor. Bahia was dominating the state championship, and Vitória only won titles in 1955, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1980, 1985 and 1989.
The club was runner-up in the 1993 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A to Palmeiras, with an extremely small payroll. Vitória was champion of Bahia in 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000, becoming the top club of the state for the first time. In the 1999 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Vitória reached the semifinals.
In the 2000s, the Campeonato Baiano trophy was won by Vitória eight out of ten years.
In 2004 Vitória, after a poor campaign, was relegated to the Brazilian Second Division. In 2005, the club competed in the Brazilian second division, finishing 17th, and so was relegated to the Third Division for the first time in its history.
In 2006, Vitória was sub-champion of the third division, and was promoted to the Brazilian second division. In 2007, the club was promoted back to the first division after finishing in 4th place. This meant the club had managed to return from the lowest Brazilian national division to its original place in the first division in only two years.
As of June 2011, according to combined sources on the official website.[4] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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The club's mascot is a lion named Lelê Leão (Lion), and according to Vitória's official site, his objective is to stimulate the club's supporters and players on match days.
The competitions record of Vitória's last ten seasons:
| Year | Campeonato Baiano | Campeonato Brasileiro | Copa do Brasil | Copa do Nordeste | Copa Sudamericana | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pos | G | W | D | L | Division | Pos | G | W | D | L | Pos | G | W | D | L | Pos | G | W | D | L | Pos | G | W | D | L | |
| 2001 | 4º | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | Série A | 16º | 27 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 14º | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7º | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2002 | 1º | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | Série A | 10º | 25 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 25º | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2º | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | 1º | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | Série A | 16º | 46 | 15 | 11 | 20 | 7º | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1º | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2004 | 1º | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | Série A | 23º | 46 | 13 | 9 | 24 | 4º | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2005 | 1º | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | Série B | 17º | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 23º | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2006 | 2º | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | Série C | 2º | 32 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 9º | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2007 | 1º | 28 | 20 | 6 | 2 | Série B | 4º | 38 | 18 | 5 | 15 | 26º | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2008 | 1º | 28 | 16 | 4 | 8 | Série A | 10º | 38 | 15 | 7 | 16 | 26º | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | 1º | 26 | 19 | 3 | 4 | Série A | 13º | 38 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 8º | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 14º | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1º | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | Série A | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Many kinds of shirts have been worn by Vitória's players over the years.
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