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Ceará
Ceará Sporting Club logo
Full name Ceará Sporting Club
Nickname(s) Vozão (Big Grandpa)
Vovô (Grandpa)
Alvinegro Cearense (Black and White from Ceará)
O Mais Querido (The Dearest)
Founded June 2, 1914; 110 years ago (1914-06-02)
Stadium Castelão
Ground Capacity 63,903
President João Paulo Silva
Head coach Vagner Mancini
League Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
Campeonato Cearense
2022
2022
Série A, 17th of 20 (relegated)
Cearense, 6th of 10
1915 - Campeão Cearense
Team photo from the 1915 season

Ceará Sporting Club, or simply Ceará, is a Brazilian professional football club from the city of Fortaleza, capital city of the Brazilian state of Ceará.

Founded on June 2, 1914, Ceará is one of the most traditionally successful clubs in the Northeast region of Brazil alongside Bahia, Santa Cruz, Sport, Náutico, Vitória and their city rivals Fortaleza.

Ceará is the most popular team in the state, proven in several research and communication vehicles. It also has an advantage in direct confrontations, with 203 wins, 211 draws and just 184 victories over its rival. It is the pioneering and most traditional team in its state and one of the largest in its region.

History

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, Ceará reached the Copa do Brasil semifinals, where the club was defeated by Fluminense.

In 2010, after a 17-year absence, Ceará was promoted back to the Brazilian League, after finishing third in the 2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B. In their first campaign back, Ceara had a great start, unbeaten for eight matches and kicking off their campaign with a win against champions Fluminense. However, their form began to drop with a run of only one victory in twelve matches, including a heavy 5–0 loss to Avaí. Ceara eventually finished in 12th position, achieving a place in the Copa Sudamericana.

In the 2011 Copa Sudamericana, they were eliminated by Sao Paulo in the first round, despite having won the first leg. Later that year, Ceará reached the Copa do Brasil semi-finals. Vozao ended Ronaldinho's Flamengo's unbeaten streak in the quarter-finals with a victory in the Engenhao, then drew the home game, eliminating the Rio de Janeiro team in a notorious upset. Ceará, however, was defeated by Coritiba in the semi-finals. Also that year, they won their first Campeonato Cearense in five years, paving the way for four consecutive state titles from 2011 to 2014. However, the club was relegated from the Serie A. After having began the season poorly, a run of four wins in seven matches seemed to steer the club to safety in the ninth position after a win against Athletico Paranaense, but then a spell with only one win in thirteen matches, including four successive defeats brought them into the relegation zone, and their relegation was confirmed with a loss to Bahia.

In February 2014, the Cidade Vozao – Luis Campos Training center was inaugurated. This is where the club houses its youth teams and where the first-team trains.

In 2015, Ceara won their first Copa do Nordeste, eliminating Vitoria on away goals before defeating Bahia over two legs. However, the team struggled in Série B, only finishing two points above the relegation zone. In 2018, they achieved promotion and finished 15th in the league that season. In 2020, the club won their second Copa do Nordeste, finished eleventh in Serie A, and gained qualification to the Copa Sudamericana, their first in a decade.

In 2021, they finished eleventh again, and qualified for the 2022 Copa Sudamericana, where they had a great campaign, winning all matches in the group stage which included powerhouse Independiente de Avellaneda, then beating The Strongest 5–1 on aggregate before losing to finalists São Paulo on penalties in the quarter-finals. However, the Copa Sudamericana campaign put stress on the squad and they were not able to keep up with the pace of the league, causing relegation after a seventeenth-placed finish.

Honours

National

runner-up: 1994

Regional

  • Copa do Nordeste
Winners (3): 2015, 2020, 2023
  • Torneio Norte-Nordeste
Winners (1): 1969

State

  • Campeonato Cearense
Winners (46): 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2024

Friendly tournaments

  • Taça Asa Branca
Winners (1): 2016

Stadium

Torcida alvinegra
Ceará supporters at the Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo (Castelão)

Ceará's home venue is Estádio Carlos de Alencar Pinto, capacity 3,000, but the team also plays at Estadio Castelão for big games and finals, which has a capacity of 60,326, and at Presidente Vargas Stadium, which has a 22,228 capacity.

Rivals

Ceará's greatest rival is Fortaleza, and the match between the two clubs is known as Clássico Rei. It has been played 603 times, with Ceará winning 213 times, Fortaleza winning 187 times and 203 draws. Ceará's second biggest rival is Ferroviário, the third biggest club of Fortaleza city, and the match is known as Clássico da Paz. This derby has been played 302 times, with 140 wins for Ceará, 71 wins for Ferroviário and 91 draws.

Mascot

The team mascot, an old man known as "Vovô" ("Grandpa") dressing Ceará uniform was designed by Cearense cartoonist Mino for the "Ceará: Paixão Total" Project ("Ceará: Full Passion" Project).

The team mascot appeared in late 1919, when Meton de Alencar Pinto, former president of Ceará SC, coached young players of America Football Club, a small club from the city, in the Porangabussu training center. Meton, who used to call the kids as "my grandsons", asked them to "go easy on grandpa". Afterwards, the nickname started to apply to the team of Ceará as well, helped by the seniority of the club; Ceará Sporting Club was the first football team founded in the state.

Supporters

Ceara is the best supported club in the state, and third in the Northeast, behind Bahia and Sport, according to a recent study by GloboEsporte.com. Vozao has approximately 1.6 million supporters.

Logo evolution

Ceara logo history.png

The first logo was the club's first as Ceará Sporting Club, and was used from 1915 to 1954.

The second logo was used from 1955 to 1969 and was inspired by the Santos logo.

The third logo was used from 1970 to 2003, which removed the ball found in the top left corner of the previous logo, and added a white outline.

The fourth logo is the current team logo, and was adopted in 2003. The logo is a restyled version of the previous logo created by Adman Orlando Mota. This logo introduced the white stars and the foundation date.

Players

First-team squad

No. Position Player
1 Brazil GK Richard
2 Brazil DF Raí Ramos (on loan from São Paulo)
4 Brazil DF David Ricardo
5 Brazil MF Jean Irmer
7 Uruguay FW Facundo Castro
10 Argentina MF Lucas Mugni
11 Brazil FW Aylon
13 Brazil DF Luiz Otávio
14 Brazil DF Lucas Ribeiro
16 Brazil FW Erick Pulga
21 Brazil DF Paulo Victor (on loan from Internacional)
22 Brazil GK Fernando Miguel (captain)
26 Brazil MF Richardson
27 Brazil MF Bruninho (on loan from Atlético Mineiro)
No. Position Player
28 Paraguay MF Jorge Recalde
31 Uruguay FW Facundo Barceló
40 Brazil DF Ramon Menezes
42 Brazil DF Matheus Felipe (on loan from Athletico Paranaense)
55 Brazil DF Jonathan
73 Brazil FW Saulo Mineiro
77 Brazil FW Janderson
79 Brazil DF Matheus Bahia (on loan from Bahia)
89 Brazil FW Cléber
94 Brazil GK Bruno Ferreira
97 Brazil MF Lourenço
99 Brazil MF Guilherme Castilho
Portugal DF Rafael Ramos (on loan from Corinthians)

Youth team

No. Position Player
29 Brazil DF Jotavê
33 Brazil FW Caio Rafael
37 Brazil FW Pablo
No. Position Player
Brazil GK César
Brazil DF Yago
Brazil FW Daniel

Out on loan

No. Position Player
Brazil DF Gabriel Lacerda (on loan at Sydney FC until 30 June 2024)
Brazil DF Kelvyn (on loan at Chapecoense until 30 November 2024)
Brazil DF Willian Formiga (on loan at CRB until 30 November 2024)
Brazil MF Léo Rafael (on loan at Ferroviário until 31 October 2024)
No. Position Player
Brazil FW Edison Negueba (on loan at Maringá until 30 November 2024)
Brazil FW Pedrinho (on loan at Avaí until 30 November 2024)
Brazil FW Zé Roberto (on loan at Sport Recife until 30 November 2024)

Staff

Current staff

Position Name
Coaching staff
Head coach Brazil Vagner Mancini
Assistant head coach Brazil Marcos Valadares
Assistant head coach Brazil Régis Angeli
Goalkeepers trainer Brazil Everaldo Santana
Goalkeepers trainer Brazil Handerson Santos de Souza
Performance analyst Brazil Alcino Rodrigues
Performance analyst Brazil Tadeu Alves
Medical staff
Fitness coach Brazil Valdir Nogueira de Oliveira Júnior
Fitness coach Brazil Eduardo Ballalai
Fitness coach Brazil Roberto Farias
Doctor Brazil Joaquim Garcia
Doctor Brazil Leandro Rêgo
Doctor Brazil Daniel Gomes
Doctor Brazil Pedro Guilme
Physiotherapist Brazil Adolfo Bernardo
Physiotherapist Brazil Lucas Freire
Physiotherapist Brazil Perez Maciel
Physiotherapist Brazil Matheus Carneiro

Managers

  • Brazil Arnaldo Lira (1999)
  • Brazil Lula Pereira (1999)
  • Uruguay Sérgio Ramirez d'Ávila (1999)
  • Brazil Celso Teixeira (1999–00)
  • Brazil Cláudio Duarte (2000)
  • Brazil José Carlos Serrão (2000)
  • Brazil Arnaldo Lira (2000–01)
  • Brazil Júlio Espinosa (2001)
  • Brazil Flávio Araújo (2001)
  • Brazil Artur Neto (2002)
  • Brazil Luis Carlos Cruz (2002–03)
  • Brazil Dimas Filgueiras (2003)
  • Brazil Celso Teixeira (2003)
  • Brazil Ricardo Barreto (2004)
  • Brazil Roberto Fernandes (2004)
  • Brazil Lula Pereira (2004)
  • Brazil Arnaldo Lira (2005)
  • Brazil Lula Pereira (2004)
  • Brazil Jair Pereira (2005)
  • Brazil Valdir Espinosa (2005)
  • Brazil Zé Teodoro (2006), (2009)
  • Brazil Paulo César Gusmão (2009–10)
  • Brazil René Simões (2010)
  • Brazil Estevam Soares (2010)
  • Brazil Mário Sérgio (2010)
  • Brazil Vágner Mancini (2011)
  • Brazil Estevam Soares (2011)
  • Brazil Paulo César Gusmão (2012)
  • Brazil Ricardinho (2013)
  • Brazil Sérgio Guedes (2013)
  • Brazil Sérgio Soares (2013–14)
  • Brazil Paulo César Gusmão (2014)
  • Brazil Dado Cavalcanti (2015)
  • Brazil Silas Pereira (2015)
  • Brazil Geninho (2015)
  • Brazil Marcelo Cabo (2015)
  • Brazil Lisca (2015–16)
  • Brazil Sérgio Soares (2016)
  • Brazil Gilmar Dal Pozzo (2017)
  • Brazil Givanildo Oliveira (2017)
  • Brazil Marcelo Chamusca (2017–18)
  • Brazil Jorginho (2018)
  • Brazil Lisca (2018–19)
  • Brazil Enderson Moreira (2019)
  • Brazil Adílson Batista (2019)
  • Brazil Argel Fuchs (2019–20)
  • Brazil Enderson Moreira (2020)
  • Brazil Guto Ferreira (2020–21)
  • Brazil Tiago Nunes (2021–22)
  • Brazil Dorival Júnior (2022)
  • Argentina Lucho González (2022)
  • Paraguay Gustavo Morínigo (2023)
  • Brazil Eduardo Barroca (2023)
  • Brazil Guto Ferreira (2023)
  • Brazil Vagner Mancini (2023–present)

Ultras groups

  • Cearamor
  • Movimento Organizado Força Independente (Mofi)

See also

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