Campeonato Carioca

The Campeonato Carioca, also known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, is the football league of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The first season of the Campeonato Carioca was played in 1906 and it is thus the second oldest in Brazil, behind only the Campeonato Paulista of São Paulo.

History

In the beginning of the 20th century, the number of football clubs in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói largely increased, being founded clubs such as Rio Cricket and Athletic Association in Niterói, Fluminense Football Club in 1902, and Bangu Atlético Club, América Football Club, and Botafogo Football Club in 1904. Football became very popular, and was initiated a campaign to organize a football league reuniting clubs such as Rio Cricket and Athletic Association, Fluminense Football Club, Football and Athletic Club, América Football Club, Bangu Atlético Club, Sport Club Petrópolis and Payssandu Cricket Club. On June 8, 1905, was founded the Liga Metropolitana de Football (Metropolitan Football League, in English, also called LMF. LMF's first president was Bangu's José Villas Boas, shortly being replaced by Francis Walter in december of the same year.

In 1906, was disputed the first edition of Campeonato Carioca, by six clubs: Fluminense, Botafogo, Bangu, Football and Athletic, Payssandu and Rio Cricket. América, even being one of the league founders, did not dispute the league's first edition. Fluminense was the first Rio de Janeiro state champion.

On February 29, 1908, Fluminense, Botafogo, América, Paysandu, Rio Cricket, and Riachuelo founded Liga Metropolitana de Sports Athleticos (which means Athletic Sports Metropolitan League, in English) usually known as LMSA, which organized the Campeonato Carioca of that year, which was won by Fluminense.

In 1911, Botafogo abandoned LMSA, and founded Associação de Football do Rio de Janeiro (which means Rio de Janeiro Football Association, in English), also known as AFRJ. The league was nicknamed Liga Barbante (which means String League), because Botafogo was the only significant club disputing the competition. AFRJ was incorporated by LMSA in 1913.

In 1917, after several accusations of bribery, LMSA was replaced by Liga Metropolitana de Desportos Terrestres (Terrestrial Sports Metropolitan League, in English), usually known as LMDT. Fluminense won the competition of that year.

On March 1, 1924, occurred the first league splitting, being founded Associação Metropolitana de Esportes Athleticos (which means Athletic Sports Metropolitan Association, in English), usually known as AMEA. AMEA imposed discriminatory rules against blacks and lower class citzens to their members. AMEA's competition was won by Fluminense, and LMDT's competition was won by Vasco da Gama.

On January 23, 1933 was founded Liga Carioca de Futebol (Carioca Football League, in English), also known as LCF.

On December 11, 1934, Botafogo, Vasco, Bangu, São Cristóvão, Andaraí, Olaria, Carioca and Madureira founded Federação Metropolitana de Desportos (which means Sports Metropolitan Federation, in English), usually known as FMD. This federation incorporated AMEA.

In 1937, the Brazilian football clubs became professional teams.

On July 29, 1937, FMD and LCF fused, giving origin to Liga de Football do Rio de Janeiro (which means Rio de Janeiro Football League), also called LFRJ. In 1941, LFRJ changed its name to Federação Metropolitana de Futebol (which means Metropolitan Football Federation), also known as FMF. To celebrate the fusion, a friendly match between Vasco da Gama and América was playing. Because of this match, the matches played between Vasco and América are nicknamed Clássico da Paz, which means Peace Derby, in English.

On April 21, 1960, the Brazilian capital city was transferred to Brasília, so, Federação Metropolitana de Futebol changed its name to Federação Carioca de Futebol (Carioca Football Federation, in English), also called FCF. América won the state championship of that year.

On July, 1974, Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara states fused.

On September 29, 1978, Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation, in English), also known as FERJ, was founded, after Guanabara state's FCF and Rio de Janeiro state's FFD (which means Federação Fluminense de Desportos, or Sports Football Federation, in English) fused.

In 1979, there was an extra edition of Campeonato Carioca which also included the countryside state teams, which, until that year, disputed the Campeonato Fluminense. This extra competition, known as Primeiro Campeonato Estadual de Profissionais (First Professionals State Championship, in English) was won by Flamengo. The regular competition was also won by Flamengo.

In 1996, was disputed Taça Cidade Maravilhosa, only between clubs from Rio de Janeiro city. This competition was disputed by eight teams (América, Bangu, Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense, Madureira, Olaria and Vasco da Gama), which played against each other once. Botafogo was the champion, being Flamengo the runner-up. In the same year, was disputed a state championship, which was won by Flamengo.

Format

The competition is usually divided in three stages: the traditional Taça Guanabara, Taça Rio, and the finals, which are disputed between the winners of Taça Guanabara and Taça Rio.

List of Champions

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Comments
1906	Fluminense	Payssandu
1907	Fluminense Botafogo	Payssandu	both clubs were declared champions
1908	Fluminense	Botafogo América
1909	Fluminense	Botafogo
1910	Botafogo	Fluminense
1911	Fluminense	América
1912	Payssandu	Flamengo	by LMSA, Liga Metropolitana de Sports Athleticos
1912	Botafogo	SC Americano	by AFRJ, Associação de Football do Rio de Janeiro
1913	América	Flamengo
1914	Flamengo	Botafogo
1915	Flamengo	Fluminense
1916	América	Botafogo
1917	Fluminense	América
1918	Fluminense	Botafogo
1919	Fluminense	Flamengo
1920	Flamengo	Fluminense
1921	Flamengo	América
1922	América	Flamengo
1923	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1924	Vasco da Gama	Bonsucesso	by LMDT, Liga Metropolitana de Desportos Terrestres
1924	Fluminense	Flamengo	by AMEA, Associação Metropolitana de Esportes Athleticos
1925	Flamengo	Fluminense
1926	São Cristóvão	Vasco da Gama
1927	Flamengo	Fluminense
1928	América	Vasco da Gama
1929	Vasco da Gama	América
1930	Botafogo	Vasco da Gama
1931	América	Vasco da Gama
1932	Botafogo	Flamengo
1933	Botafogo	Fluminense	by AMEA, Associação Metropolitana de Esportes Athleticos
1933	Bangu	Andaraí	by LCF, Liga Carioca de Futebol
1934	Botafogo	Olaria	by AMEA, Associação Metropolitana de Esportes Athleticos
1934	Vasco da Gama	São Cristóvão	by LCF, Liga Carioca de Futebol
1935	Botafogo	Vasco da Gama	by FMD, Federação Metropolitana de Desportos
1935	América	Fluminense	by LCF, Liga Carioca de Futebol
1936	Vasco da Gama	Madureira	by FMD, Federação Metropolitana de Desportos
1936	Fluminense	Flamengo	by LCF, Liga Carioca de Futebol
1937	Fluminense	Flamengo
1938	Fluminense	Flamengo
1939	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
1940	Fluminense	Flamengo
1941	Fluminense	Flamengo
1942	Flamengo	Botafogo
1943	Flamengo	Fluminense
1944	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
1945	Vasco da Gama	Botafogo
1946	Fluminense	Botafogo
1947	Vasco da Gama	Botafogo
1948	Botafogo	Vasco da Gama
1949	Vasco da Gama	Fluminense
1950	Vasco da Gama	América
1951	Fluminense	Bangu
1952	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1953	Flamengo	Fluminense
1954	Flamengo	América
1955	Flamengo	América
1956	Vasco da Gama	Fluminense
1957	Botafogo	Fluminense
1958	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1959	Fluminense	Botafogo
1960	América	Fluminense
1961	Botafogo	Flamengo
1962	Botafogo	Flamengo
1963	Flamengo	Fluminense
1964	Fluminense	Bangu
1965	Flamengo	Bangu
1966	Bangu	Flamengo
1967	Botafogo	Bangu
1968	Botafogo	Vasco da Gama
1969	Fluminense	Botafogo
1970	Vasco da Gama	Fluminense
1971	Fluminense	Botafogo
1972	Flamengo	Fluminense
1973	Fluminense	Vasco da Gama
1974	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
1975	Fluminense	Botafogo Vasco da Gama
1976	Fluminense	Vasco da Gama
1977	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1978	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
1979	Flamengo	Fluminense
1979	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama	extra tournament
1980	Fluminense	Vasco da Gama
1981	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
1982	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1983	Fluminense	Flamengo
1984	Fluminense	Flamengo
1985	Fluminense	Bangu
1986	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
1987	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1988	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1989	Botafogo	Flamengo
1990	Botafogo	Vasco da Gama
1991	Flamengo	Fluminense
1992	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1993	Vasco da Gama	Fluminense
1994	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1995	Fluminense	Flamengo
1996	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
1996	Botafogo	Flamengo	extra tournament, named Taça Cidade Maravilhosa, disputed by Rio de Janeiro city clubs
1997	Botafogo	Vasco da Gama
1998	Vasco da Gama	Flamengo
1999	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
2000	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
2001	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
2002	Fluminense	Americano FC	sub judice, according to the FERJ
2003	Vasco da Gama	Fluminense
2004	Flamengo	Vasco da Gama
2005	Fluminense	Volta Redonda
2006	Botafogo	Madureira

Titles by Team

• Fluminense 30 times
• Flamengo 28 times
• Vasco da Gama 22 times
• Botafogo 18 times
• América 7 times
• Bangu 2 times
• São Cristóvão 1 time
• Payssandu 1 time

See also

• Campeonato Carioca (lower levels)
• Taça Guanabara
• Taça Rio

References

• MÉRCIO, Roberto. A História dos Campeonatos Cariocas de Futebol. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. FERJ.

External links

• FFERJ Official Website
• RSSSF