EC Bahia
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| Full name | Esporte Clube Bahia |
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| Nickname(s) |
Tricolor Bahiaço (mix of Bahia and aço, steel) Baêa Tricolor de aço (tricolor of steel) Esquadrão de aço (Steel squadron) |
| Founded | January 1, 1931 |
| Stadium | Arena Fonte Nova (Salvador, Bahia) |
| Capacity | 48,747 |
| President | Marcelo Sant'Ana |
| Head coach | Guto Ferreira |
| League |
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Campeonato Baiano |
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2017 2016 |
Série B, 4th Baiano, 2nd |
| Website | Club home page |
Esporte Clube Bahia (Portuguese pronunciation: [isˈpɔʁtʃi ˈklubi baˈi.ɐ]), known familiarly as Bahia, is a Brazilian professional football club, based in Salvador, Bahia. They play in the Campeonato Baiano, Bahia's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Brazil's first tier league.
Bahia has won the Brasileirão title twice: in the 1959 season, defeating Santos' Santásticos which contained figures such as Gilmar, Mauro, Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pepe and Pelé, in the finals and in the 1988 season Bahia edged Internacional. Bahia has only appeared in the Copa Libertadores three times, reaching the quarterfinals in 1989, Bahia's best-ever performance. The club has also won their state title a record 46 times.
The 2000s have seen the club win only one state title. Bahia were relegated to Série B in 2003 and relegated, for the first time ever, to Série C in 2005, spending two seasons at the bottom of the Brazilian league system. In 2007, they were promoted back to the second level, and in 2010 the club found themselves back in Série A, after eight seasons. Bahia had played their home games at the 66,080 capacity Estádio Fonte Nova since 1951, but, after a section of the stadium collapsed in 2007, the Tricolor played at the Estádio de Pituaçu. With the reopening of the Fonte Nova stadium in 2013 as the Arena Fonte Nova, a modern arena built for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Bahia resumed playing their games there. The club's home kit consists of white shirts with blue shorts and red socks. They have a long-standing rivalry with Vitória, and matches between the two sides are known as the Ba–Vi.
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