Global InformationCruzeiro Esporte Clube information
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| Full name | Cruzeiro Esporte Clube | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Raposa (Foxes) Celeste (Celestials) Cabuloso (Badass Ones) | ||
| Founded | 2 January 1921 | ||
| Ground | Mineirão | ||
| Capacity | 62,160[1] | ||
| SAF Owner | Pedro Lourenço (90%) Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (10%) | ||
| President | Lidson Potsch | ||
| Head coach | Fernando Seabra | ||
| League | Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Campeonato Mineiro | ||
| 2023 2023 | Série A, 14th of 20 Mineiro, 4th of 12 | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Brazilian Portuguese: [kɾuˈzejɾu esˈpoʁtʃi ˈklubi]), known simply as Cruzeiro, is a sports club based in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Although competing in a number of different sports, Cruzeiro is mostly known for its association football team. It plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the state of Minas Gerais's premier state league.
The club was founded on 2 January 1921, by sportsmen from the Italian colony of Belo Horizonte as Società Sportiva Palestra Itália. As a result of the Second World War, the Brazilian federal government banned the use of any symbols referring to the Axis powers in 1942. On October 7, 1942,[2] club board members rebaptized the club with the name of a leading national symbol: the Cruzeiro do Sul's constellation. Cruzeiro play their home games at the Mineirão stadium, which currently holds up to 62,547 spectators. Cruzeiro's regular kit colors are blue shirts and white shorts with white socks.
Cruzeiro is one of Brazil's most successful clubs. It won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A for the first time in 1966, after defeating Santos' Os Santásticos in the final series.[3] Cruzeiro has won the Brasileirão again in 2003, 2013 and 2014, obtaining the best campaign in the present format of the competition. Cruzeiro has also won record six Copa do Brasil titles and the Campeonato Mineiro 38 times. Cruzeiro won the defunct state competitions Taça Minas Gerais five times, the Copa dos Campeões Mineiros twice, Copa Sul Minas twice, the Torneio Início 8 times and the Supercampeonato Mineiro once. A Raposa also obtained many international laurels such as two Copa Libertadores, two Supercopa Libertadores, one Recopa Sudamericana, one Copa de Oro and one Copa Master de Supercopa. Cruzeiro is one of the two Brazilian clubs to complete the Domestic Treble, a feat accomplished in 2003 after winning the Campeonato Mineiro, the 2003 Copa do Brasil and the 2003 Brasileirão.
Cruzeiro hold a long-standing rivalry against Atlético Mineiro. It has contributed many key and famous players towards Brazil's FIFA World Cup squads such as Piazza, Tostão, Nelinho, Ronaldo, Luisão, Alex, Maicon, Cris, Dida, Jairzinho, Rivaldo, and Edílson among so many others, as well as towards other countries' FIFA World Cup squads, including Roberto Perfumo and Juan Pablo Sorin from Argentina, and Giorgian de Arrascaeta from Uruguay.
- ^ "Structure Mineirão Stadium". estadiomineirao.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
- ^ "Cruzeiro E.C., glória do futebol mineiro". Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Jogos eternos Cruzeiro 6x2 Santos Eternal matches Cruzeiro 6x2 Santos". Archived from the original on 21 January 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2015.