EC Pelotas
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Wikipedia - Esporte Clube Pelotas
Esporte Clube Pelotas, more commonly referred to as Pelotas, is a professional football club based in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Founded in 1908, it plays in the Campeonato Gaúcho, the state of Rio Grande do Sul's premier state league, holding home games at Estádio Boca do Lobo, with a 23,336-seat capacity.
The club competed several times in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B and in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, and won the Campeonato Gaúcho in 1930. Esporte Clube Pelotas women's football team competed in the 2008 Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino.
History
The club was founded on October 11, 1908, after two clubs from Pelotas, Club Sportivo Internacional and Football Club, merged. In 1930, Pelotas won the Campeonato Gaúcho, beating Grêmio in the final.
In 1983, Pelotas won the Campeonato Gaúcho Second Level. In 1988, Pelotas competed in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B for the first time, but was eliminated in the first stage. In 1989, the club competed again in the Série B, being eliminated in the first stage again.
In 1995, 1996 and in 1998, Pelotas competed in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, being eliminated in the first stage in all three seasons. In 2003, the club competed again in the Série C, where they were eliminated by RS Futebol in the third stage of the competition. In the same year, Pelotas competed in the Copa do Brasil, being eliminated in the cup's first round, by Guarani.
In 2008, the club won the Copa FGF for the first time, after beating Cerâmica in the final, thus qualifying to the same season's Recopa Sul-Brasileira, and the following season's Campeonato Brasileiro Série D. The club was eliminated in the Recopa Sul-Brasileira in the semifinals 2–0, by Atlético Sorocaba.
EC Pelotas spelar i Campeonato Gaúcho, den högsta nivån i delstaten Rio Grande do Sul, och har vunnit titeln fyra gånger, senast 1930. Klubben har också deltagit i Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, den näst högsta nivån i Brasilien.
Några av de mest kända spelare som har spelat för EC Pelotas är målvakten Leão, som var med i det brasilianska landslag som vann VM 1970, och anfallaren Jorge Wagner, som spelade för Brasilien vid VM 2006.
EC Pelotas har en stark rivalitet med stadsrivalen Grêmio Esportivo Brasil. De två klubbarna möts regelbundet i "Clássico do Pelotas" ("Pelotas-derbyt").