Esporte Clube Vitória

The club was founded on 13 May 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 the United Kingdom. Initially Vitória was a cricket club, named Club de Cricket Victoria, because all of them lived at the Vitória neighborhood, in Salvador.^[4][5]

On 22 May 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 13 September 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 semi-finals.

In the 2000s, the Campeonato Baiano trophy was won by Vitória eight out of ten years.^[6]

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 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 third to the first division in only two years. The team was also relegated in 2010, promoted back in 2012, relegated again in 2014, but this time they were promoted back after one season in 2015.

In February 2018 the intense rivalry between Vitória and Esporte Clube Bahia drew international attention when nine players (four from Bahia and five from Vitória) were shown the red card in a State Championship match.^[7] The team was relegated back to the second division of the Brazilian league later that year.

In 2021, Vitória was relegated to the third division for a second time. However this was followed by back to back promotions, in 2022 to the second tier and as champions of the second division in 2023, the first national title of the club.

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.

This is the competition record of Vitória's last few seasons:

  Champion.

  Runner-up.

  Classified for Sudamericana.

  Promoted.

  Relegated.

Its colours are red and black, which made it to be called "Rubro-Negro" ("red-black", in portuguese). In the early years, the club's colours would be green and yellow, but due to difficulty in find the proper materials in these colours, it was chosen to be white and black. That was the colours worn in the inaugural match facing the International Sport Club. The current red-black colours were adopted 3 years later, in 1902.^{[citation needed]}

Many kinds of shirts have been worn by Vitória's players over the years.

1993

1997

2000

2003

2007

2008

2009

2012

2022

2023

2023 kit

home

away

alternative

2024 kit

home

away

third

Nordeste

2025 kit

home

away

Nordeste

As of 16 March 2026^[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Lucas Arcanjo 2 DF  BRA Claudinho 4 DF  BRA Camutanga 5 DF  BRA Riccieli (on loan from Famalicão) 6 MF  ARG Emmanuel Martínez 7 FW  BRA Marinho 8 MF  BRA Ronald 9 FW  BRA Pedro Henrique 10 MF  BRA Matheuzinho 11 FW  BRA Osvaldo 12 GK  BRA Gabriel 13 DF  BRA Ramon (on loan from Internacional) 16 MF  POR Rúben Ismael 17 MF  ESP Aitor Cantalapiedra 18 DF  BRA Kauan Coutinho 19 FW  ECU Kike Saverio 20 FW  BRA Lucas Silva (on loan from Seoul) 21 MF  BRA Dudu 22 FW  BRA Lucas Braga 23 FW  BRA Fabrí 25 DF  BRA Cacá (on loan from Corinthians) 26 DF  BRA Edenilson

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 FW  ARG Diego Tarzia (on loan from Independiente) 28 FW  BRA Anderson Pato 31 FW  URU Renzo López 33 FW  BRA Erick 35 GK  BRA Fintelman 36 DF  BRA Luan Cândido (on loan from Red Bull Bragantino) 41 MF  BRA Wendell Santos 42 GK  BRA Davi Barbosa 43 DF  BRA Edu Ribeiro 44 MF  BRA Gabriel Baralhas (captain) 45 DF  BRA Nathan Mendes (on loan from Red Bull Bragantino) 50 DF  BRA Paulo Roberto 52 MF  BRA Lucas Lohan 55 MF  BRA Zé Breno 56 DF  BRA Kauan Vitor 62 MF  BRA Pablo Baianinho 71 GK  BRA Yuri Sena 77 DF  BRA Neris 79 FW  BRA Renato Kayzer 83 DF  BRA Jamerson (on loan from Coritiba) 95 MF  BRA Caíque Gonçalves 98 DF  BRA Mateusinho

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Youth team

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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No. Pos. Nation Player 46 MF  ARG Alejandro Almaraz 47 MF  BRA Luis Aucélio 48 DF  BRA Ivan 49 FW  BRA Marquinhos 53 DF  BRA Andrei 54 MF  BRA Cauan Farias

No. Pos. Nation Player 57 GK  BRA Ezequiel 58 FW  BRA Emanoel 59 DF  BRA Gean 65 MF  COL Nicolás Celis 67 DF  BRA Guilherme Inácio

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Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  BRA Zé Marcos (at Sport Recife until 30 November 2026) — DF  BRA Willean Lepo (at Criciúma until 30 November 2026) — MF  BRA Dudu Miraíma (at São Bernardo until 30 November 2026) — MF  BRA Filipe Machado (at Goiás until 30 November 2026) — MF  BRA Léo Naldi (at Novorizontino until 30 November 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  BRA Pepê (at Cuiabá until 30 November 2026) — FW  BRA Lawan (at Botafogo-PB until 30 November 2026) — FW  BRA Luis Miguel (at Caxias until 30 November 2026) — FW  BRA Wellington Rato (at Goiás until 30 November 2026)

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