Esporte Clube Vitória

Esporte Clube Vitória, usually known simply as Vitória, is a Brazilian football team from Salvador in Bahia, founded on May 13, 1899.

Vitória's home games are played in the  stadium Manoel Barradas, capacity 32,000. They play in red and black horizontal striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The stripes have changed in time: they are sometimes vertical, sometimes horizontal, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow
The club was founded on May 13, 1899, by the brothers Artur and Artêmio Valente. They were from a traditional Bahia family, and discovered football during their studies in England. Initially, however, Vitória was a cricket club named Club de Cricket Victoria.

On May 22, 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.



Titles

Cup  Nordeste :  1997, 1999 and 2003.
State championships (in 1908, 1909, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1980, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008).

Other competitions
Torneio Maria Quitéria: 1996