Ceará SC

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Ceará
Ceara Sporting Clube de Fortaleza.svg
Basic data
Surname Ceará Sporting Club
Seat Fortaleza
founding June 2, 1914
president BrazilBrazil Robinson de Castro
Website cearasc.com
First soccer team
Head coach BrazilBrazil Argel Fucks
Venue Estádio Plácido Aderaldo Castelo
Places 60,000
league Série A
2019 16th place
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The Ceará Sporting Club , usually just called Ceará for short , is a football club from Fortaleza , the capital of the Brazilian state of Ceará , which was founded on June 2, 1914. It is considered to be steeped in tradition and particularly popular within the working class. In addition to arch rivals Fortaleza EC , he is one of the two leading clubs in Ceará. The club was the Brazilian Cup finalist in 1994 . National plays the club in the first-class Series A .

The team is also known as Vovô (grandfather). The name came into being in 1919 when Meton Alencar Pinto, one of the club's founders, was playing soccer with children and asked them to play carefully with their "grandfather". Since Ceará is also the oldest team in Ceará, the name stayed. The mascot is correspondingly a "Vovô" in the club's jersey.

Ceará's biggest local rival is the Fortaleza EC . The games of the two teams against each other represent the most important derby in Fortaleza. It is called Classico Rei , "royal classic". Fortaleza has dominated in recent years and has overtaken Ceará in the number of state championships. Another local rival is the Ferroviário AC , the third largest club in Fortaleza. The "railway workers" are, however, insignificant nationally and also far behind in the number of state championships - 9 up to 1995 -.

history

On June 2, 1914, the club was founded as the Rio Branco Football Club with the team colors white and purple, and renamed the Ceará Sporting Club a year later . From 1914 to 1919, the club won six consecutive championships from Ceará, which were organized in the first year by the five clubs involved. The Liga Metropolitana Cearense de Futebol was finally set up to hold the other five tournaments, in which, with the exception of the Maranguape Football Club, only teams from Fortaleza participated .

From 1961 to 1963 the club was national champion of Ceará three times in a row . In 1969 Ceará won the regional cup of the north-northeastern states of Brazil, the Copa Norte-Nordeste . In the years 1975 to 1978 the club was again three times in a row champions of Ceará.

1985 Ceará reached 7th place in the Brazilian first division. This is the best result ever for a team from the state of Ceará.

In 1994 the club reached the final of the Copa do Brasil , the Brazilian Cup, but was defeated in this by record winner Gremio Porto Alegre in the finals with 0-0 and 0-1. In 1995 the team qualified for the Copa Conmebol , the South American equivalent of the UEFA Cup .

From 1996 to 1999, the club were state champions four times in a row and were state champions again in 2006.

In 1996 the team manager was Emanuel Gurgel, a businessman from the music industry ( Forró bands). The team changed its home shirt to a completely black one, which is why it has since been called Urubu do Nordeste ("Northeastern Vulture"), in reference to the mascot of Flamengo Rio de Janeiro , a vulture.

Stadion

The club's stadium is the Estádio Carlos de Alencar Pinto , known as Vovozão , which can only accommodate 10,000 spectators. Therefore, the fighting team carries their championship games exclusively in the Estádio Presidente Vargas , which has 22,228 seats, or in the Estádio Plácido Aderaldo Castelo, which belongs to the state.

Ceará shares this venue, which is generally only called "Castelão", with local rivals Fortaleza EC . The stadium was inaugurated on November 11, 1973 and seats around 60,000 spectators. The Castelão was also used at the 2014 World Cup .

title

Men:

  • Brazilian Cup : 1994 finalist; Semi-finals 2005, 2011
  • Copa do Nordeste : 2015, 2020
  • Copa Norte-Nordeste (North-Northeast Brazilian Regional Championship): 1969
  • State championship of Ceará : (45 x) 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018

Women:

Known players

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