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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. The team plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B and the Campeonato Baiano, respectively the second tier of national football and the highest division of state football.
Vitória's home games are played at the club's own stadium, Manoel Barradas, capacity 35,632.[1] The team plays 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 international titles.[2] Recent names that started playing in the club are Bebeto, Vampeta, Dida, Júnior, Hulk, David Luiz, Dudu Cearense, Marcelo Moreno, Gabriel Paulista 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 is one of the most intense rivalries in the country.
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 Bahia 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 runner-up 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 fourth 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.
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:
Many kinds of shirts have been worn by Vitória's players over the years.
As of February 2015, according to combined sources on the official website.[3]
Argentina, Mexico, India, Venezuela, Russia
2013 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, Paraná Clube, Paysandu Sport Club, Criciúma Esporte Clube, Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Association football, Real Madrid C.F., Greece national football team, UEFA Euro 2004, Midfielder
Spain national football team, Defender (association football), Playmaker, Real Madrid C.F., Association football positions
Association football, FC Barcelona, Portugal, Arsenal F.C., Shooting (association football)
Bahia, Pernambuco, Esporte Clube Vitória, Rio Grande do Norte, Sport Club do Recife
São Paulo FC, Santos FC, Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, Brazil, Clube Atlético Mineiro
Ad interim, Esporte Clube Vitória, Givanildo Oliveira, Evaristo de Macedo, Bengalinha
Esporte Clube Vitória, Brazil, Esporte Clube Bahia, Association football, Pan American Games
Esporte Clube Bahia, Galícia Esporte Clube, Sociedade Desportiva Juazeirense, Juazeiro Social Clube, Esporte Clube Vitória