Football derbies in Brazil
This article looks at the major urban derbies in Brazil . The prerequisite for admission was that at least two of the clubs mentioned had been represented in the top division of Brazil in recent years . In order to avoid excessive growth, only the most important clubs per city were included.
The chapters are sorted according to the alphabetical order of the states included. Unless otherwise stated, the derby statistics are based on the reference date July 31, 2009. Unless otherwise stated, the relevant sources are stored in the Portuguese-language Wikipedia and can be easily found there using the list of Brazilian football classics (button on the left). In principle, statistics were not taken over that were mathematically incorrect (i.e. if the number of wins for both teams and the number of draws did not correspond to the sum of the total games). However, it should generally be noted that statistics of this type should always be treated with caution, because it is not uncommon for them to differ depending on the source. Nevertheless, they give an overall impression of the sporting comparison of two teams vying for the public in the same region.
Regardless of any other name for a derby, the team that was able to achieve more victories will always be named first. Example: In the case of the classic Gre-nal ( Grêmio vs Internacional ), the derby statistics are shown from the point of view of SC Internacional because it has the more successful derby record.
Bahia
By far the most traditional derby in Bahia is the classic Ba-Vi , the duel between Bahia and Vitória from the capital Salvador da Bahia . While the EC Bahia was the clearly dominant team until the 1980s (in 1988 the 37 national championships of the blue-white-reds were compared to only 10 triumphs of the EC Vitória), the 1990s were balanced: in the ten years between 1990 and 1999 Vitória won the Bahia State Championship six times and the EC Bahia entered the list of winners five times (in 1999 both teams had shared the title). In the new millennium, the EC Vitória has clearly gained the upper hand and came to eight titles between 2000 and 2009, while the EC Bahia was only successful in 2001. In this respect, a changing of the guard has taken place with the result that Vitória has won many younger fans, while the majority of the older football fans are behind the EC Bahia.
Balance of the Ba-Vi
- Total games: 429
- Bahia wins: 173
- Draw: 128
- Vitória wins: 128
- Goals Bahia: 580
- Goals Vitória: 470
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Minas Gerais
The top classic of the state of Minas Gerais and its capital Belo Horizonte is the Dérbi Mineiro , the encounter between Atlético Mineiro and Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte . Atlético Mineiro is the record champions of Minas Gerais with 39 titles, followed by Cruzeiro with 36 successes. But the derbies of both teams with the club América Mineiro , which has since fallen behind, have a long and long tradition. After all, this club, which has won the national championship 15 times so far, won the title ten times in a row between 1916 and 1925. A series where the two big rivals can't keep up.
América was founded in 1912 by students and in its early days it set itself apart from the common people, who were denied access to the club. The Clube Atlético Mineiro, founded by young people in a city park in 1908, has always been a popular association and it was no coincidence that it chose the colors black and white; because this should also make it clear visually that the club was open to all people, regardless of their skin color, which was not a matter of course in Brazil at the time. The city's third association, Cruzeiro, was founded by the city's Italian community and was originally called Palestra Italia , but was forced to abandon this name in 1942 at the behest of the Brazilian government, which was allied with the United States during World War II, and took its current name a little later , which is derived from the constellation Cruzeiro do Sul ( Southern Cross ), which can only be seen in the southern hemisphere of our planet.
Record of the Clássico Mineiro
- Total games: 443
- Atlético MG wins: 175
- Draw: 118
- Cruzeiro wins: 150
- Atlético MG goals: 623
- Goals Cruzeiro: 561
Balance of the derby Coelho versus Galo
- Total games: 377
- Atlético MG wins: 187
- Draw: 90
- Wins America-MG: 100
- Atlético MG goals: 655
- Gates America-MG: 475
Balance of the Derby Coelho versus Raposa
- Total games: 346
- Cruzeiro wins: 140
- Draw: 105
- America MG wins: 101
- Tore Cruzeiro: unknown
- Tore América-MG: unknown
Paraná
The most traditional derby in the state of Paraná and its capital, Curitiba, is the match between Coritiba FC and Athletico Paranaense , which is simply referred to as Atletiba . A common rival of these two clubs is the Paraná Clube , which was only formed as a result of a merger in December 1989 , but which won the Paraná national championship six times in the 1990s and thus clearly put its more popular and traditional city rivals in their place; because they were only successful three times in the same period: Athletico Paranaense twice (1990 and 1998) and Coritiba only once (1999). In the new millennium, Athletico Paranaense is the most successful team in the state of Paraná with five titles, but its undisputed record champions are still Coritiba FC with 33 titles (compared to 22 from Atlético and 7 from Paraná).
Balance of the Atletiba
- Total games: 340
- Coritiba wins: 129
- Draw: 103
- Atlético PR wins: 108
- Goals Coritiba: 510
- Atlético PR goals: 467
Paratiba's balance sheet
- Total games: 87
- Coritiba wins: 32
- Draw: 25
- Wins Paraná: 30
- Goals Coritiba: 106
- Goals Paraná: 113
Balance of the Paratico
- Total games: 77
- Atlético wins: 30
- Draw: 26
- Wins Paraná: 21
- Goals Atlético: 103
- Goals Paraná: 79
Pernambuco
In Recife , the capital of the state of Pernambuco , there are three important and popular clubs whose derbies are all sorts of explosives. The national championship in Pernambuco has been won most often by Sport Recife , which has been successful a total of 38 times and so far was the only one of them to be overall champions of Brazil (1987). Sport Recife , which was founded in 1905 by young Brazilian students who became infected with the soccer virus while studying abroad in England, has aristocratic roots and has long been considered a representative of the upper class.
The second most successful club with 24 titles is Santa Cruz FC , which was only founded in 1914 and quickly developed into the social equivalent of the sports club. Because the club was founded by street footballers and quickly developed to represent the poorer sections of the population.
The oldest of the three big clubs in Recife is the Náutico Capibaribe , founded in 1901 by employees of the Pernambucana company , which was more supported by the middle class and less polarized social contrasts. Náutico has won the national championship 21 times so far.
Record of the Clássico das Multidões
- Total games: 518
- Victories Sport Recife: 217
- Draw: 146
- Santa Cruz wins: 155
- Goals Sport Recife: 741
- Goals Santa Cruz: 628
Balance of the Classico dos Classicos
- Total games: 516
- Victories Sport Recife: 198
- Draw: 147
- Victories Náutico: 171
- Goals Sport Recife: 691
- Goals Náutico: 642
Record of the Clássico das Emoções
- Total games: 462
- Santa Cruz wins: 181
- Draw: 132
- Náutico wins: 148
- Goals Santa Cruz: ???
- Goals Náutico: ???
Rio de Janeiro
The Fla-Flu , the dispute between Flamengo and Fluminense, is considered a classic of the numerous soccer derbies in Rio . It is also a duel between the two most successful teams that have won the State Cup in Rio de Janeiro most often so far. Record champion Flamengo was successful 31 times, Fluminense followed closely behind with 30 titles in second place.
The Clássico dos Milhões , the duel between Flamengo and Vasco da Gama, has long been considered the most explosive city duel . After all, these two clubs have the largest number of following in Rio, so that emotions keep boiling up around the derby and it is not uncommon for opposing fan camps to riot. In the state championship in Rio, Vasco is the third most successful team with 22 titles. Botafogo follows in fourth place with 18 successes.
Fluminense is one of the four big clubs from Rio and ranks third on the nationwide popularity scale.
Flamengo developed as its social counterpart, although the club was initially similarly elitist. The founding of the football department at the Flamengo rowing club in 1911 was even undertaken by renegade Fluminense players, and in the early days its team consisted entirely of white players, the majority of whom were students - mostly medical students. The change to the people's association, as the Flamengo is known today, took place in the 1930s. At that time, Flamengo had hired two dark-skinned talents, which quickly helped the club to become very popular in the poorer and dark-skinned residential areas. Today Flamengo is by far not only the most popular club in Rio, but also in all of Brazil.
Until the inclusion of dark-skinned players at Flamengo, Vasco was their representative. As soon as the club's football department was founded (1916), it broke all racial barriers (1917) and also welcomed dark-skinned players. A scandal at the time that brought Vasco open hostilities. This fact perhaps explains why Vasco, after all the association of the (unloved) Portuguese colony of Rio, always enjoyed such high popularity with the simple urban population.
Botafogo FR, ranked fourth on the popularity scale in Rio, was traditionally seen as a representative of the intellectuals and the bourgeois middle class.
Balance of the Fla-Flu
- Total games: 369
- Flamengo wins: 132
- Draw: 119
- Fluminense wins: 118
- Goals Flamengo: 543
- Goals Fluminense: 499
Record of the Clássico dos Milhões
- Total games: 345
- Flamengo wins: 133
- Draw: 90
- Vasco wins: 122
- Goals Flamengo: 477
- Goals Vasco: 465
Record of the Clássico da Rivalidade
- Total games: 329
- Flamengo wins: 119
- Draw: 107
- Victories Botafogo: 103
- Goals Flamengo: 516
- Goals Botafogo: 479
Record of the Classico da Amizade
- Total games: 296
- Vasco wins: 129
- Draw: 90
- Victories Botafogo: 77
- Goals Vasco: 454
- Goals Botafogo: 382
Record Vasco vs Fluminense
- Total games: 334
- Vasco wins: 129
- Draw: 95
- Fluminense wins: 110
- Goals Vasco: 503
- Goals Fluminense: 466
Record of the Clássico Vovô
- Total games: 322
- Fluminense wins: 119
- Draw: 97
- Victories Botafogo: 106
- Goals Fluminense: 514
- Goals Botafogo: 468
Rio Grande do Sul
The original rivalry between the two major clubs from the southernmost state of Brazil was strongly shaped by social differences. The Gremio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense , founded in 1903 , has long maintained its reputation as an elite club ( by the way, Gremio means nothing more than club ) and accepted black players in its team for the first time in 1952. The Sport Club Internacional was founded by three brothers, originally of Portuguese family origin, who came to Porto Alegre from São Paulo in 1908 and wanted to become members of Grêmio, the city's only club at the time. Because the doors of the elite club remained closed to them, they founded their own club in April 1909. Initially only open to Brazilians of Portuguese origin, the club has been accepting black members since 1925. This soon gave him his nickname Clube do Povo ( Association of the Poor ).
Balance of the Gre-nal
- Total games: 378
- Wins Inter: 141
- Draw: 118
- Wins Gremio: 119
- Goals Inter: 539
- Goals Grêmio: 501
São Paulo
In the state of São Paulo there are traditional derbies in the cities of São Paulo and Campinas as well as regional derbies between the three major clubs from São Paulo ( Corinthians , SPFC , Palmeiras ) and the neighboring FC Santos .
FC Santos owes its international fame above all to one man: Pelé . Although the club is probably better known to many football fans all over the world than the three major clubs from São Paulo, they all have a larger following and are each ahead of the game in direct comparison with FC Santos. A further discussion and the presentation of the direct comparisons should not be made here, however, since these encounters can no longer really be considered a regional derby due to the distance of almost 80 kilometers between São Paulo and Santos (although this is seen differently in Brazil).
In the popularity scale of São Paulo football fans, SC Corinthians ranks first and in all of Brazil it ranks second behind Flamengo. The club, which emerged from the working-class district of Bom Retiro , was one of the pioneers in Brazil (alongside Vasco , Atlético Mineiro and SC Internacional ), who defied all racial barriers and were also open to the dark-skinned population. To this day, the Corinthians maintain their reputation for being open to all strata of the population.
Guest appearances by the Italian clubs Torino Calcio and US Pro Vercelli in Brazil in 1914 encouraged some Italians living in São Paulo to found their own club, which initially traded as Palestra Italia and was renamed Palmeiras during the Second World War . Some of its early members were defectors from the Corinthians, who from then on were considered "traitors" by their old association. Therefore, the atmosphere between the two clubs was poisoned from the start.
The São Paulo FC was not formed until 1930 through a merger of two clubs that could not survive on their own, which another club joined in 1935. From the beginning it was considered a big money club and is traditionally anchored mainly in the financially upper classes.
Campinas, the third largest city in the state of São Paulo, also has a traditional derby to offer. Here Guarani and Ponte Preta face each other, representing different city districts. Guarani was founded in 1911 by young people from a neighborhood mainly inhabited by Italian immigrants, and it owes its name to an Indian tribe widespread in South America . Ponte Preta was founded in 1900 by students who named the association after the district of the same name, which in turn got its name from a black wooden bridge in the immediate vicinity.
Record of the Derby Paulista
- Total games: 330
- Palmeiras wins: 120
- Draw: 98
- Corinthians wins: 112
- Goals Palmeiras: 486
- Gates Corinthians: 442
Balance of the Majestoso
- Total games: 300
- Corinthians wins: 110
- Draw: 95
- Wins SPFC: 95
- Gates Corinthians: 431
- Goals SPFC: 421
Choque Rei record
- Total games: 292
- Wins SPFC: 101
- Draw: 95
- Palmeiras wins: 96
- Goals SPFC: 399
- Goals Palmeiras: 387
Record of Dérbi Campineiro
- Total games: 183
- Guarani wins: 64
- Draw: 60
- Victories Ponte Preta: 59
- Goals Guarani: 249
- Goals Ponte Preta: 245
Bibliography
- Omar Gisler: Football derbies. The 75 craziest cities in the world for football. Copress Sport, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7679-0883-3 .
- Omar Gisler: Top clubs. The largest clubs in the world. Copress Sport, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7679-0827-1 .
- Stefan Tarras: The big football clubs in the world. 2nd updated edition. Copress-Verlage, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7679-0281-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics as of September 16, 2007, additional games added
- ↑ Statistics before the added derby on April 18, 2009 according to the official website of the CAP ( Memento of April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ So far there have been 518 derbies. However, two of them were canceled or not rated, so that they are not taken into account here.
- ↑ Derby statistics at Netvasco
- ↑ Statistics as of March 18, 2007, additional games added ( Memento from June 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ So far there have been 184 derbies. However, one of them was not rated and is therefore not taken into account.
- ↑ Proof of derby statistics as of February 7, 2009 (the two games after that were added)