E.C. 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. 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…

Official tournaments

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Others tournaments

International

International Soccer League (1): 1900 Dakar Tournament (1): 1992 Trofeo Ciudad de Valladolid (1): 1997

National

Torneio Quadrangular de Salvador (2): 1954-Ii, 1967-II Torneio Maria Quitéria (1): 1996

Regional

Torneio José Américo de Almeida Filho (1): 1976

State

Torneio Início da Bahia (11): 1926, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1980

Runners-up

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1): 1993 Copa do Brasil (1): 2010 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B (1): 1992 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C (1): 2006 Copa do Nordeste (3): 1998, 2000, 2002 Campeonato Baiano (30): 1906, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1942, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1966, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2025, 2026 Taça Estado da Bahia (2): 2001, 2002

Youth team

Copa do Brasil Sub-20 (1): 2012 Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores (1): 1994 Copa Votorantim Sub-15 (1): 2000

Women's Football

Campeonato Baiano de Futebol Feminino (2): 2016–17, 2018