Clube de Regatas Brasil, commonly referred to as CRB, is a Brazilian professional

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club based in

Maceió Maceió (), formerly sometimes Anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a spring. Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped and form l ...

Alagoas Alagoas (, ) is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco (N and NW); Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. It ...

. It competes in the Série B, the second tier of

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, as well as in the

Campeonato Alagoano The Campeonato Alagoano is the football league of the state of Alagoas, Brazil. Format 2020 First Division The Campeonato Alagoano is divided into three stages. *First stage: simple round-robin, in which all eight teams play each other once. ...

, the top flight of the Alagoas state football league. Founded on 20 September 1912, its greatest rival is

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, and it plays in white and red shirts, shorts and socks.

History

The club was founded on 20 September 1912 by Lafaiete Pacheco, former member of Clube Alagoano de Regatas. He was dissatisfied with the precarious conditions of his former club. Aroldo Cardoso Zagallo, father of Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo, worked at the club in 1913 as the football department boss. Four years later, in 1916, CRB bought an estate in Pajuçara neighborhood and built its football field where is now Severiano Gomes Stadium.

CRB-CSA derby history

CRB and CSA is a traditional Alagoas state derby. Numbers of the derby *Games: 474 *CRB wins: 171 *Draws: 156 *CSA wins: 148 *CRB goals: 579 *CSA goals: 606 Biggest win: CRB 6–0 CSA on 1 October 1939, in the game that was known as "Jogo da Sofia" (Sofia's game), which is a reference to a goat named Sofia and owned by CRB's forward Arlindo, as the goat is the number six animal in Jogo do Bicho.O jogo da Sofia – 1939 – Museu dos Esportes

Stadium

The club plays at

Estádio Rei Pelé The Estádio Rei Pelé, also known as Trapichão, is a multi-purpose stadium in Maceió, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches. The stadium holds 19,105. The stadium was built in 1970. Estádio Rei Pelé is ...

, which has a maximum capacity of 19,105 people.

Achievements

: 31 ::1927, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1950, 1951, 1961, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2002,

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, 2015, 2016,

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*Torneio José Américo Filho (Cup of Northeast): 1 ::1975 * Copa do Nordeste: 0 ::Runners-up (1): 1994 *

Campeonato Brasileiro Série C The Campeonato Brasileiro Série C is the third tier of the Brazilian football league system. Unlike the first and second divisions, the Série C is not played in a double round robin system, arguably because many participating teams lack the f ...

: 0 ::Runners-up (1):

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Current squad

Out on loan

All presidents in club history

1910s and 1920s

* Luís Toledo Pizza Sobrinho (1912–13) * João Viana de Souza (1913–14) * Casimiro Movilha (1914–15) * Homero Viegas (1915–17) * Pedro Lima (1917–18) * Ismael Acioli (1918–20) * Raul Brito (1920–25) * Pedro Oliveira Rocha (1925–26) * Armando Melo (1926–27) '' (1927 – 1st title) '' * Pedro Lima (1927–28) * Juvêncio Lessa (1928–29) * Pedro Oliveira Rocha (1929–30) '' (1930 – 2nd title) ''

1930s and 1940s

* Raul Brito (1930–31) * Ismael Acioli (1931–32) * Dalmário Souza (1931–32) * Emílio de Maya (1933–34) * Pedro Claudino Duarte (1934–36) * Fábio Araújo (1936–39) * Mauro Paiva (1937–39) '' (1937 – 3rd title / 1938 – 4th title) '' * Mário Gomes de Barros (1939–40) '' (1939 – 5th title) '' * Rui Palmeira (1940–41) '' (1940 – 6th title) '' * Jaques de Azevedo (1941–42) * Mauro Paiva (1942–43) * Aristides Torres (1943–44) * Paulo de Miranda Neto (1944–45) * Mauro Paiva (1945–47) * Gal. Mário de Carvalho Lima (1947–48) * Ulisses Marinho (1948–54) '' (1950 – 7th title / 1951 – 8th title) ''

1950s and 1960s

* Ulisses Marinho (1948–54) '' (1950 – 7th title / 1951 – 8th title) '' * Luís Duda Calado (1954–55) * Djalma Loureiro (1955–56) * Roberto Castro (1956–57) * Aluizio Freitas Melro (1956–57) * Severiano Gomes Filho (1958–62) '' (1961 – 9th title) '' * Oswaldo Gomes de Barros (1962–66) '' (1964 – 10th title) '' * Severiano Gomes Filho (1966–67) * Walter Pitombo Laranjeiras (1967–68) * Divaldo Cavalcante Suruagy (1968–69) * Naftalli Edgar Setton (1969–70) '' (1969 – 11th title) ''

1970s and 1980s

* Oswaldo Gomes de Barros (1970–71) '' (1970 – 12th title) '' * Luiz Renato de Paiva Lima (1971–73) '' (1972 – 13th title / 1973 – 14th title) '' * Cláudio Regis (1973–74) * Fernando Azevedo D’Aldeia (1974–75) * Luiz Gonzaga Mendes de Barros (1975–76) * José Santana de Melo (1976–77) '' (1976 – 15th title) '' * Afrânio Lages Filho (1977–79) '' (1977 – 16th title / 1978 – 17th title / 1979 – 18th title) '' * José Otávio Moreira Filho (1979–82) * Oswaldo Gomes de Barros (1982–84) '' (1983 – 19th title) '' * José de Medeiros Tavares (1984–85) * Waldemar Correia da Silva (1985–87) '' (1985 – 20th title / 1986 – 21st title) '' * Carlos Alberto Fernande Antunes (1987–88) * José Luiz Malta Argolo (1988–89) * Walter Pitombo Laranjeiras (1989–90)

1990s and 2000s

* Paulo Roberto Magalhães Nunes (1990–91) * Manoel Gomes de Barros (1991–92) '' (1992 – 22nd title) '' * José Marcelo de Medeiros Rocha (1992–93) * Waldemar Correia da Silva (1993–94) '' (1993 – 23rd title) '' * Flávio Gomes de Barros (1994–95) '' (1995 – 24th title) '' * Walter Pitombo Laranjeiras (1995–98) * Wilton Antonio Figueiroa Lima (1998–99), (2007–08) * José Cabral da Rocha Barros (1999–04), (2006) '' (2002 – 25th title) '' * Celso Luiz Tenório Brandão (2004–06) * Wilton Antônio Figueiroa Lima (2007–08)

References

External links

Official website

CRB-NET
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