Bahia

Bahia was founded in 1931 and remains one of Brazilian football's most culturally significant clubs, deeply rooted in the Afro-Brazilian identity of Salvador, Bahia. The club's tricolor crest — blue, red, and white — reflects its working-class origins and its fierce local rivalry with Vitória. Bahia became the first club from the Northeast to win the Brazilian national championship in 1959, and they repeated that feat in 1988 with a squad that included legendary figures like Bobô and **C...