Brazilian Campeonato Gaucho

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Established
1919 (106 years old)

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Current Season
2025

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Brazil

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Male

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Results
16 Mar	Internaci	1 - 1	Grêmio
15 Mar	Brasil de	0 - 1	Avenida
14 Mar	Pelotas	2 - 1	São Jos�
09 Mar	Avenida	4 - 1	Pelotas
09 Mar	São Jos�	2 - 1	Brasil de
08 Mar	Ypiranga	2 - 1	São Luiz
08 Mar	Grêmio	0 - 2	Internaci
06 Mar	Brasil de	1 - 0	Pelotas
05 Mar	São Jos�	1 - 0	Avenida
02 Mar	Pelotas	0 - 0	Brasil de

Description

The Campeonato Gaúcho de Futebol, better known as Gauchão, is an official professional football competition in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Organized by the Federação Gaúcha de Futebol (FGF), it began to be played in 1919, having not been held until 1923 and 1924, due to the Federalist Revolution. It is one of the oldest championships still in dispute in Brazil. It was created by the initiative of the then Federação Rio-Grandense de Desportos (FRGD). The first edition, held in 1919, saw the victory of Grêmio Esportivo Brasil, from the city of Pelotas. In the mid-1940s, with the professionalization of football in the state, the FRGD split, and the championship began to be organized by its specific successor, the Federação Rio-Grandense de Futebol (FRGF), which only in the 1960s gained its current name of Federação Gaúcha de Futebol (FGF).

Internacional is the biggest winner of the competition, with 46 titles, followed by Grêmio with 43 titles and Guarany with 2 titles. The longest streak of consecutive titles belongs to Internacional, who won the eighth championship by winning the championships between 1969 and 1976. Since 1940 when the championship became professional, the Grenal duo has not won the title on only four occasions: the now defunct Renner won the cup in 1954, Lori Sandri's Juventude was champion in 1998, Caxias, in 2000, under the command of Tite, and Novo Hamburgo, in 2017, coached by Beto Campos.

In addition to the main competition, there is the Campeonato do Interior Gaúcho, created to encourage teams from other regions to participate in the competition. According to the formula adopted from 2012 onwards, the award is given to the best-placed team in the championship, as long as it is not Grêmio or Internacional and has not played in the final of the competition.

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