Clube do Remo

Clube do Remo was founded on 5 February 1905, as Grupo do Remo. The founders, before founding Remo, had abandoned Sport Club do Pará. On 14 February 1908, Remo was closed, after the club's general assembly. On 29 March 1908, Remo's partners and Sport Club do Pará made a deal, and Remo was officially extinct in 1908. On 15 August 1911, Remo was reorganized following the initiative of Antonico Silva, Cândido Jucá, Carl Schumann, Elzaman Magalhães, Geraldo Motta, Jayme Lima, Norton Corllet, Oscar Saltão, Otto Bartels and Palmério Pinto.[1]

In 1950, Remo held a tour to Venezuela at the invitation of the football federation of the country to compete in the Caracas International Tournament, which, according to some publications, may have been the precursor of the Little World Cup, played between the 1950s and 1960s. The team held five matches, getting four wins (La Salle, Unión, Military School and Deportivo Italia) and only one loss to Loyola, considering the higher strength of the Venezuelan football at the time. Remo is still seeking official recognition of the title by the CONMEBOL. If accepted, will be the first international title in club history.

Remo also has great campaigns on the national scene. His most outstanding campaigns were the 7th place in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 1993 and the semifinals in the Copa do Brasil in 1991 – these results represent the best performance of a northern team in the history of both competitions.

In 2005, the club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C. This was the club's first national title. The club also has one title of the Copa Verde, three of the Torneio do Norte and one Torneio Norte-Nordeste, as well as being one of the largest state winners.

Raul Engelhard, one of the founders of the Grupo do Remo, on 5 February 1905, had been a student in England. Rowing Club supporter, also party race, has proposed that the official color of Remo was the same of Rowing: the United Kingdom's imperial blue. In 1911, the Grupo do Remo (regattas) turned Clube do Remo and, two years later, already disputed the first Campeonato Paraense, with horizontal stripes shirts in Navy Blue and white.

Traditional home kit

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Since it emerged, the club features navy blue and white as its official colors. Thus, the main uniforms of all types adopt navy blue as the predominant color, reversing the order in secondary uniforms. The shirt used by the team in his first football match had horizontal stripes.

In the 1970s, the prestigious magazine Revista Placar, elected the best supported clubs in each Brazilian state and the Leão Azul again confirmed its supremacy in Pará. In the 90s contributed further to the increase in Clube do Remo fans, due to the large made the club in this period: eight state titles, large national campaigns and supremacy in the Classic King of the Amazon (the taboo history of 33 games without losing for the biggest rival).

However, from the 2000s, the Clube do Remo began to get into a turbulent period in its history with successive failures in national competitions like the relegation for the Série C in 2005 and getting even without play a national championship three times.

Despite the difficulties, the fans, contrary to expectations, only increased. Proof of this was the IBOPE which ranked the Clube do Remo as the largest North of Brazil and the 16th in the ranking of the largest supporters of the country, besides being the northern fastest growing among fans in the range of 10 to 15 years, surpassing clubs like Botafogo, Fluminense and Coritiba. In Belém, Remo focuses its biggest fans. Currently, bluish appearance ranging from 1 million to 2 million.

Remo's biggest rival is Paysandu, with whom he plays the Clássico Rei da Amazônia (Amazon King derby) or Re-Pa, the largest in the northern region of Brazil. The first game took place on 14 June 1914, with Remo winning 2–1. The Periçá's Club has the most wins in the derby. Between 1993 and 1997, Remo applied a historical taboo on the rival. There were 33 matches (21 wins and 12 draws) in 4 years, 5 months and 24 days. In 2016, the derby was declared intangible cultural heritage of the Pará state, being qualified as a cultural expression of the people of Pará.[2]

A further minor rivalry exists between Remo and Tuna Luso. The first match happened on 15 November 1931. It was a friendly that ended tied at 0–0.

Baenão at night

Remo's stadium is Evandro Almeida (Baenão), which has a maximum capacity of 17,250 people. The stadium is named after Evandro Almeida, who was a Remo's football player and employee. The nickname Baenão is a reference to the place where the stadium is located, called Travessa Antônio Baena.

Mangueirão is used for the derbies against Paysandu and also for Remo big matches, where the record attendance for Remo occurred on 5 November 2000, in a Copa João Havelange Group Yellow semifinal match attended by 55,000 fans against Paraná.

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série C

Winners (1): 2005

• Copa Verde

Winners (1): 2021

• Torneio Norte-Nordeste

Winners (1): 1971

• Torneio do Norte

Winners (3): 1968, 1969, 1971

• Campeonato Paraense

Winners (47): 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1933, 1936, 1940, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022

• (in Portuguese) Official Site
• (in Portuguese) Remo 100%
• (in Portuguese) Remo on Globo Esporte