Esporte Clube Bahia

The Esporte Clube Bahia, only usually called short Bahia, is a football club from Salvador, the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. The association founded in 1931 is not only the most successful of his home state, but is also the first winner of an official national football competition, the Taça Brasil in 1959 and in 2010 was officially treated as a national championship. Followed in 1988 winning the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol, which Bahia is two-time Brazilian champion

Club history

The club was founded in 1930 out of a vormaliger members of Associação Atlética da Bahia and Clube de Bahiano Tênis, as these clubs einstellten the football operation. In February 1931, the EC Bahia League Bahiana de Desportos Terrestres, the predecessor of today's state football association Federação Bahiana de Futebol joined. In October of the same year, the club won its first state championship.

In October 1939, the Tricolor achieved its highest-ever victory in the local derby as they defeated the EC Vitória with 10:1. 1948, the EC Bahia already celebrated its 10th state championship.

In 1959 in Brazil, the first national competition to determine a Cup tournament named Taça do Brasil, held by the participants in the first playout of the Copa Libertadores. The EC Bahia creates a sensation when he the dominant club of that era, the Santos FC wrestles down to the legendary Pele according to the results of 3:2 and 0:2 in the playoff 3-1. In the following years from 1961 Santos should win the trophy five times in a row, while Bahia was two more times the opponent in the final. However, both in 1961, with results of 1:1 and 1:5, as well as 1963, after 0:2 and 0:6, the team from Salvador proved chance against the team from the port city in southeastern Brazil.

The EC Bahia was able to keep relatively harmless in the state championships. 1962 succeeded the 20 success and 1974 was followed by the 25 triumph for the trophy of the Bahian Football Association. Between 1973 and 1979 even reach seven victories in a row. In the 1970s, Bahia was only the title of 1972 failed when the final against local rivals EC Vitória were lost with 1:2 and 1:3.

Also in the 1980s dominated Bahia state championship and won seven titles. However, the great triumph was the championship of Brazil in 1988. Bahia won at home while the final first leg before 90,000 spectators 2-1 against SC Internacional of Porto Alegre on the southern end of Brazil. In the return game, the Tricolor could hold a 1-1 and thus secured the title.

2010 the club managed to rise again in the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol - Série A, the top division in Brazil.

Stadium

For more than half a century the EC Bahia wore their home games at Estádio officially known Octávio Mangabeira, 1951 Fonte Nova stadium built from, which offered up to 110,000 spectators. It was one of those classic, wide, almost round stadiums Brazil. Finally, it took another end of 2007, often up to 60,000 people to the rise of games to Série B at. On November 25, 2007 in the decisive match against Vila Nova, but there was a partial collapse of the stadium, which killed seven people. It was then placed immediately to the demolition of dilapidated stadium.

The interim home of the EC Bahia was the Estádio de Pituaçu in Salvador with a capacity of 32,000 spectators.

For the Soccer World Cup in 2014 the old Estádio Octávio Mangabeira was the 52 048 -seat arena Fonte Nova rebuilt at the site. After the arena was opened as part of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013, they will also serve as the venue of the home matches of the EC Bahia.

Achievements

  • Cup of Brazil ( 2): 1959, 1988 Taça Brasil ( 1): 1959
  • Series A ( 1): 1988
  • Northeast Regional Championship (2): 2001, 2002
  • Regional Championship North East ( 4): 1948, 1959, 1961, 1963
  • State Championship of Bahia (44 ): 1931, 1933-1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1944-1945, 1947-1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958-1962, 1967, 1970-1971, 1973-1979, 1981-1984, 1986-1988, 1991, 1993-1994, 1998-1999, 2001, 2012

Known player

  • Léo Briglia, scorer of the 1959 Taça Basil
  • Daniel Alves
  • Juvenal Amarijo
  • Charles Baiano
  • Bobô
  • Dadá Maravilha
  • Fabão
  • Serginho
  • Robert
  • Ueslei
  • Carlito
  • Douglas
  • Cícero
  • José Santilippo
  • Sérgio Alves de Lima
  • Nonato
  • Sorato
  • Paulo Sérgio
  • Caio

Well-known former coach

  • Carlos Volante, Uruguay, 1959
  • Efigenio Bahianense " Geninho ", 1959 Taça Brasil in 1959
  • Manuel Fleitas Solich, Paraguay, 1970-71, State Championship of Bahia, in 1971, 71
  • Evaristo de Macedo, 1973, 1988-89, 1995, 1998, 2000-01, 2003
  • Orlando Fantoni, 1976-77, 1986-87
  • Edinho Nazareth Filho " Edinho ", 1993
  • Joel Santana 1994-1995, 1999-2000, State of Bahia Championship in 1994, 1999
  • Eugênio Machado Souto " Geninho ", 1997
  • Abel Braga, 1998
  • Arturzinho, 2007, 2008
  • Márcio Araújo, 2010
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