Ceará Sporting Club

On June 2, 1914, the club was founded as Rio Branco Football Club by Luiz Esteves Junior and Pedro Freire. Later, seventeen members joined the club. As Rio Branco Football Club, the team colors were white and lilac. In 1915, on their first birthday, the club changed its name to Ceará Sporting Club, and later won their first title in 1922. In 1941, Ceará won the Campeonato Cearense, the same year of the inauguration of Estadio Presidente Vargas. From 1961 to 1963, the club was three times consecutive state champion. In 1969, Ceará won the Northeast Cup. In 1964, Ceara finished third in Serie A, their best campaign in the top flight to date. In 1970 the club ended a seven-year state championship title drought. In 1971, Ceará was the last placed team in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A first edition. From 1975 to 1978, the club was state champion four times in a row. In 1985, Ceará finished seventh in the league, their second best ever position In 1994, the club finished as Brazilian Cup runners-up, beaten by Grêmio in the final. In 1995, Ceará participated in the Copa CONMEBOL, the club's first international championship, becoming the only club of Ceará State to play an international tournament. In 1996, the team administrator was Forró bands businessman Emanuel Gurgel. The team changed its home shirt color to all black. Because of this, the team was nicknamed "Urubu do Nordeste" (Northeast Vulture). From 1996 to 1999, the club was state champion four times in a row . In 2005,…

Official tournaments

s shared record

Others tournaments

Regional and Inter-state

Zona Norte-Nordeste da Taça Brasil (1): 1964 Taça Asa Branca (1): 2016

State

Copa dos Campeões Cearenses (1): 2014 Torneio Início do Ceará (12): 1922, 1923, 1926, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1967, 1978

Runners-up

Copa do Brasil (1): 1994 Copa do Nordeste (2): 2014, 2021 Campeonato Cearense (27): 1924, 1933, 1943, 1952, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2026 Copa dos Campeões Cearenses (2): 2018, 2019

Youth team

Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-23 (1): 2020

Women's Football

Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A2 (1): 2022 Campeonato Cearense de Futebol Feminino (5): 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024