National Championship of Rio de Janeiro (1915–1978)

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The State Championship of Rio de Janeiro is the name of the football championship of the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil , which existed from 1889 to 1975 and was held with interruptions from 1915 to 1978. It is not to be confused with the championship of the city-state of Rio de Janeiro, which has been under different names since 1906 and in which it was absorbed in 1979. In Brazilian usage, the championship of the state in the Portuguese national language was called Campeonato Fluminense , in contrast to the championship of the city-state, which was called Campeonato Carioca .

history

The city of Rio de Janeiro was Brazil since independence in 1822, both the capital of the province of Rio de Janeiro as well as the Empire Brazil. In 1834 the city was administratively separated from its surrounding area as an independent regional authority. While the city now, fulfilling its function as the capital of Brazil, took on the status of a "neutral city" (Município Neutro), the surrounding area continued to exist as the province of Rio de Janeiro, with Niterói as the new capital. Since both regional authorities had the same name, they have since been differentiated in simple language usage; Carioca stood for the city and Fluminense for the surrounding area. This state of affairs continued after the end of the Empire and the proclamation of the republic in 1889, after which the city now existed as a “federal district” ( Distrito Federal ) and the surrounding area now as a federal state. After the federal district was moved to Brasília in 1960 , the city assumed the status of a federal state with the name " Guanabara ". Rio city and the surrounding area were only reunited as a federal state in 1975.

The football clubs of the urban federal district (Carioca) held their first championship as early as 1906, the third of a Brazilian state after São Paulo and Bahia , while those of the provincial state (Fluminense) were only able to organize one in 1915. State football was played at amateur level until 1951 and was organized by various sports associations that occasionally competed with one another. It was only with the umbrella organization of the Federação Fluminense de Desportos (FFD) founded in 1941 that a process of professionalization could be initiated. The dominant clubs in the state came from the state capital Niterói and Campos dos Goytacazes .

In 1975, by decree of President Ernesto Geisel, the states of Guanabara (Rio city; Carioca ) and Rio de Janeiro (Rio area; Fluminense ) were reunited with the name Rio de Janeiro. The merger of the Federação Fluminense de Desportos (FFD) and the Federação Carioca de Futebol (FCF), however, was a long time coming, which until then continued to align their championships in parallel. On the occasion of the union of the two associations to the present day Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FERJ) a union championship was held in 1979.

The "provincial clubs" of the old Campeonato Fluminense have been inferior to the economically much stronger municipal clubs since reunification in the state championship. To date, only two of them (2002 Americano FC (RJ) , 2005 Volta Redonda FC ) have made it to a runner-up position. The dominance of the city clubs is also reflected in the colloquial name of the championship, which has been played since 1979 and which is still referred to as Campeonato Carioca .

winner

Americano FC
Record champions:
Americano FC 		0 6 tracks Americano FC (Campos dos Goytacazes)
5 tracks Goytacaz FC (Campos dos Goytacazes)
4 tracks Byron FC (Niterói)
Associação Noneroyense (Niterói)
3 tracks Fonseca AC (Niterói)
Central SC (Barra do Piraí)
Adrianino AC (Paulo de Frontin)
Liga Campista (Campos dos Goytacazes)
2 tracks AA Barbará (Barra Mansa)
Barra Mansa FC
Barreto FC (Niterói)
Fluminense AC (Niterói)
Icaraí FC (Niterói)
Manufatora AC (today Associação Desportiva Niterói )
Serrano FC (Petrópolis)
Liga Desportiva de Barra do Piraí (Barra do Piraí)
1 title Ararigboya FC (Niterói)
Clube dos Coroados (Valenca)
Associação Esportiva Eletrovapo (Niterói)
SC Elite (Niterói)
Friorífico AC (Mendes)
Grupo de Regatas Gragoatá (Niterói)
Nictheroyense FC (Niterói)
Odeon FC (Niterói)
Parnahyba FC (Niterói)
Petropolitano FC (Petrópolis)
CE Rio Branco (Campos dos Goytacazes)
Royal SC (Barra do Piraí)
EC Sapucaia (Campos dos Goytacazes)

Championship history

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0 Beginning of the professional era