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| Full name | Sport Club do Recife | |||
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| Nicknames | Leão (Lion) Leão do Norte (Lion of the North) Leão da Ilha (Lion of the Island) Moreninha (Little Brunette) | |||
| Founded | 13 May 1905; 120 years ago (1905-05-13) | |||
| Ground | Ilha do Retiro | |||
| Capacity | 32,983 | |||
| President | Yuri Romão | |||
| Head coach | Vacant | |||
| League | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Campeonato Pernambucano | |||
| 2024 2024 [pt] | Série B, 3rd of 20 (promoted) Pernambucano, 1st of 10 (champions) | |||
| Website | sportrecife | |||
 Current season | ||||
Sport Club do Recife (Portuguese pronunciation:[(i)ˈspɔʁtʃiˈklub(i)duʁeˈsifi]), commonly known asSport Recife or simplySport, is a Brazilian sports club, located inRecife,Pernambuco. Founded in 1905, the club currently competes in theCampeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top tier offootball in Brazil, and in theCampeonato Pernambucano, thestate of Pernambuco's topstate league division.
In football, the club has won sixCBD/CBF titles, including three national and three regional. Its greatest achievement is winning the2008 Copa do Brasil. The club also disputes the status of champion of the1987 Campeonato Brasileiro withFlamengo, as Sport Recife won the official league sanctioned by CBF, while Flamengo won the separateCopa União with the top clubs of Brazil.[1] In addition, it also won 1Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, 3Copa do Nordeste and 45Campeonato Pernambucano.
In addition to professional football, the club also participates in women's football and Olympic sports, such as rowing, swimming, hockey, basketball, futsal, volleyball, table tennis, taekwondo, judo and athletics.
Their historical rival isNáutico, and they both dispute theClássico dos Clássicos. The derby againstSanta Cruz is called theClássico das Multidões, while the derby withAmérica is called the Clássico dos Campeões.
Sport Club do Recife was founded on 13 May 1905 by Guilherme de Aquino Fonseca, a member of a wealthy family inPernambuco who found a love for football while studying engineering at theUniversity of Cambridge in England. The club were the first recorded football club in the state of Pernambuco. Sport played their first match on 22 June 1905, drawing 2–2 against a team called English Eleven, a team formed by employees working for English companies in Recife.
TheCampeonato Pernambucano was established in 1916, and Sport won the competition's first two titles. From 1923 to 1925, Sport won the competition three consecutive times, and becametricampeão (three time champion).
Sport Recife celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1955 by winning their 15th state title. In 1957, the club toured Europe. A total of 17 matches were played, with 6 wins, 3 draws, and 8 defeats. These matches include the 5–3 loss againstReal Madrid, which was the first night game atSantiago Bernabéu Stadium.[2]
Sport Recife participated in the1963 International Soccer League, finishing fourth in their group, with 2 wins, 2 draws, and 2 defeats.[3]
As a result of a dispute with theFederação Pernambucana de Futebol (FPF), Sport did not participate in the 1978Campeonato Pernambucano.
The1987 Campeonato Brasileiro/Copa União resulted in Sport's first national title, conquered in common justice. However, the club did not officially receive this title until 30 years later, in 2017.[4] This was due to a dispute withFlamengo, who also claimed to have won the title, since the latter, champion of the 1987 championship, as well as Internacional, refused to compete in a quadrangular crossing with the finalist teams of Module B, in the case of Sport and Guarani.[5] After topping group B in both the 1st and 2nd rounds Sport beatBangu 5–4 on aggregate in the semi-final, and thenGuarani 3–2 in the final. By winning the title, they qualified for the1988 Copa Libertadores, but failed to qualify for the next stages of the competition, finishing third in their group, although with a notable 5–0 victory overAlianza Lima.
A terrible1989 league campaign resulted in the club's relegation. However, they won the1990 Série B, with a 1–1 draw on aggregate againstAtlético Paranaense in the final, but were awarded the title due to their better record across the season. Led byGivanildo Oliveira, Sport won the 1st edition of theCopa do Nordeste in1994, beating hostsCRB on penalties after a 0–0 draw in normal time.
In2000, Sport won theCopa do Nordeste for the 2nd time, this time under the command of coachCelso Roth after a 2–2 draw againstVitória, again winning the title due to a superior record. In thenext Copa do Nordeste edition, Sport finished as runner up, losing 3–1 to Bahia.
In2006 Sport were promoted to the 2007 Serie A by finishing second in the league table, after five years inSérie B.
Sport became the first club from Northeastern Brazil to win theCopa do Brasil, beatingCorinthians on away goals in the2008 final. By winning the cup, Sport contested its secondCopa Libertadores in2009, and had a great start, finishing first of a group containingLDU,Colo-Colo andPalmeiras. They were drawn against Palmeiras in the next round, but were defeated on penalties, after drawing 1–1 on aggregate. In the second half of 2009, Sport disputed theBrasileirão, but could not repeat the excellent first half of the year, and finished in last place with a 4–0 defeat to Sao Paulo on the last matchday, being relegated to Série B with four managers throughout the season.
O Leão da Ilha returned to Série A for the2012 season, going through three managers –Helio dos Anjos,Mazola Júnior, andPaulo Gusmão, as they were relegated again with a seventeenth placed finish. Although they were in Serie B, Sport inherited a spot in the2013 Copa Sudamericana by regulation ofCBF towards the remnants of theCopa do Brasil.Leão were eliminated byLibertad of Paraguay with two losses in the 2nd phase, after eliminating rivalsNáutico.
2014 was a great year for Sport: they returned toSerie A, won their thirdCopa do Nordeste, 40thCampeonato Pernambucano, and finished 11th in the league, which ensured them a place in the following edition of the Copa Sudamericana.
Although the club did not win any titles in2015, Sport had a very good year, and kept coachEduardo Baptista.[6] The start of the year was poor, with Sport being eliminated from the state league by third division clubSalgueiro.[7] The club entered theCopa Sudamericana in the second stage, where they beat Bahia 4–2 on aggregate with an incredible comeback,[8] as Bahia had won the first leg 1–0.[9] In the next stage, they faced Argentine clubHuracán, where they were eliminated after losing 4-1 on aggregate (1-1, 0-3). In the2015 Série A, the club had its best campaign since 2000, finishing 6th in the table with 59 points; Sport went through 15 matches in the top 4 and was the league leader in five of them.[10] However, after this great run, Sport went through a 10-match winless run, which saw the club drop to eleventh and caused the resignation of Baptista. After the arrival ofPaulo Roberto Falcão, the club's performances improved, although the goal of qualifying for the Copa Libertadores was not met.
In 2016 Sport finished 14th in the Serie A and qualified to the 2017 Copa Sudamericana. In the Copa Sudamericana, the club were knocked out by Junior in the quarter-finals, losing 2-0 on aggregate (0-0, 2-0), after eliminating Danubio on penalties (3-0, 0-3),Arsenal de Sarandí (2-0, 1-2), and Ponte Preta (3-1, 0-1).André Felipe was the club's most important player in the Sudamericana campaign, scoring four goals, including two goals in the first leg and one in the second leg against Arsenal de Sarandí.
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| Competitions | Titles | Seasons |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | 1 | 1987 |
| Copa do Brasil | 1 | 2008 |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Série B | 1 | 1990 |
| Regional | ||
| Competitions | Titles | Seasons |
| Copa do Nordeste | 3 | 1994, 2000,2014 |
| Torneio Norte-Nordeste | 1s | 1968 |
| State | ||
| Competitions | Titles | Seasons |
| Campeonato Pernambucano | 45 | 1916, 1917, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007,2008,2009,2010, 2014,2017,2019,2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Copa Pernambuco | 3 | 1998, 2003, 2007 |
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Rank | Player | Goals |
| 1º | Traçaia | 202 |
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| 2º | Djalma Freitas | 161 |
| 3º | Leonardo | 133 |
| 4º | Luís Carlos | 108 |
| 5º | Naninho | 105 |
| 6º | Dadá Maravilha | 94 |
| 7º | Marcílio de Aguiar | 93 |
| 8º | Raúl Bentancor | 91 |
| 9º | Roberto Coração de Leão | 89 |
| 10º | Bé | 80 |
In 2013, a study named Sport Recife as the 13th most supported club in Brazil, with around 2.4 million supporters countrywide.[13] Supporters of the club are calledLeonine andSportistas.
The club has various organized supporter groups:
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The "Derby of Crowds" (Clássico das Multidões) is the football encounter between the two largest fanbases from Pernambuco. Sport has a considerable advantage over their rivals in head to head results, with 236 wins against 169 from Santa Cruz.
The Derby of Derbies (Clássico dos Clássicos) is the third oldest derby in the country, after theClássico Vovô and theGrenal. It brings together the two oldest teams inPernambuco, with Sport also having a large advantage overall, with 218 wins in the fixture, while Náutico won 187.[14]
The Champions Derby (Clássico dos Campeões) is one of the most ancient and classical derbies ofPernambuco, and is named that way because until the late 1930s, Sport and its archrival America were together the two teams with the highest number of titles, and were also the two main clubs ofRecife. The derby lost popularity after the decline of América-PE, since they haven't won any trophies since the 1940s. América are currently at the second division of the Campeonato Pernambucano.
The rivalry between Sport and Bahia is one of the biggest regional rivalries of Brazil. Both are the most successful football clubs from theNortheast region, as they are the only two clubs in the region to have won major national titles, and the clubs with most supporters across the region. The 2010s marked the growth of their rivalry, as both clubs' supporters saw their state rivals declining in comparison to them. Another important aspect about the rivalry is thatPernambuco andBahia have their own rivalry, ranging from which is the most important state in the northeast region to which state deploys the bestcarnival in the country. The rivalry between states are nurtured the most between inhabitants of the state capitals,Recife andSalvador, which also are the cities where Sport Recife and Bahia are based.
The stadium opened on 15 May 1918 with a match betweenAmerica-PE andFlamengo. It belonged to Sport Recife from 1918 until 1937, and had a capacity for 8,000 people (2,000 being seated).
Inaugurated on 4 July 1937, it is the club's current stadium, and was named after club president Adelmar da Costa Carvalho, but is better known as Iilha do Retiro due to the neighborhood where it is located. The stadium has a maximum capacity for 30,000.[15] It was considered the best stadium in Northeast Brazil until the construction of theArena Pernambuco in 2013, which is currently the best the Northeast because of its structure and FIFA standards.
The CT Presidente José de Andrade Medici, also known as CT do Leão, is the club's training center for the professional team and all youth levels. Located in the city ofPaulista, about 30 km from Recife, the site has a total area of 8 hectares (8,000 m2). The complex underwent major improvements in recent years, to prepare for the2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and2014 FIFA World Cup.[16]
The complex has 5 official fields, two hotels, a restaurant, a medical center, a gym, and dressing rooms. The training center was inaugurated on 9 September 2008.[15]
The first coat of arms had nothing to do with the current one. In one of the first statutes of the club the coat of arms was well defined: "On an anchor, bearing the date 13 May 1905 on the arm, supported by a pair of oars crossing a mast containing a croquette, a lifeguard, and in the center a football between a cricket stick and a tennis racket, crossed and surrounded by the lettersSCR, with the body containing the phrase 'Sport Club Recife'. Soon, the number 1 badge represented all sports practiced by the club at the time, from cricket to spearfishing.
However, the coat was seen as too complex, difficult to reproduce and did not contain the crimson-black colors. So in 1919 then President Arnaldo Loyo faced a challenge that was considered extremely difficult at the time: get Sport to Belém do Pará to play a series of five friendlies. During the tour, Sport won three games and lost two.
On 3 April 1919, Sport played a Remo-Paysandu combination for a French bronze trophy called theLion of the North, which had sculptures including a Greek archer accompanied by an imposing lion. This was a competition which at the time was considered very difficult for any team from Pernambuco, as football in Para was more developed. To the surprise of Pará, Sport won 2–1 and won the trophy. The disappointment from opposing fans was such that a fan invaded the ship where the Crimson-Black club kept the trophy, and damaged its tail with an iron pipe. This incident inspired the development of a new coat of arms for the club, and as a result the lion was adopted as the new symbol of the club because it represented boldness, courage and winning spirit. Designer Armando Vieira dos Santos was responsible for creating it, which was based on Scottishheraldry arms.
The stars present in the current badge are: 2 gold stars, for its two major titles (1987 Brasileirao Serie A and 2008 Copa do Brasil) and 1 silver star, for its minor titles (1990 Brasileirao Série B). The golden stars are larger than the silver one, and are located on the corners, while the silver star is smaller and is located in between the golden stars.[17]
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The official anthem of the club was created by Eunitônio Edir Pereira.[18]
In 1919, after the club won the Lion of the North trophy, the lion was selected as themascot, and one of the club's nicknames was created;Leão do Norte (Lion of the North).
The mascot is named Leo. It was created over 25 years ago by cartoonist Humberto Araujo, and since then has been illustrating the achievements of the club. Leo is present at all home games, and entertains the crowd at matches. The nameLeo meanslion inLatin.[19]
The official colors of the club are black, red and gold.
The uniforms of Sport are described in Article 8 of the 2nd chapter:In sports competitions, athletes from Sport Club do Recife will wear an official uniform, which will always have the SCR shield on their shirt, on their left side and at chest level, and obeys one of the following uniforms:
a) Shirt with black and red stripes, with white or black shorts and black socks;
b) White shirt, shorts and socks
c) Black shirt, shorts and socks, with pink accents;
d) Golden shirt, shorts and socks, with discreet pink and black details;
Penalty (1973–74) Malharia Terres (1977–80) FAIXA (1980)
Adidas (1980–82)
Le Coq Sportif (1983–87) Everest (1987) MR Artigos Esportivos (1988–89)Topper (1988–92)Finta (1992–94)Rhumell (1995–98)Topper (1998–08)
Lotto (2008–2013)Adidas (2014–2017)
Under Armour (2018)
Umbro (2019–present)This is a list of Sport Recife presidents since 2000:[20]
