41 Facts About Gremio

Gremio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, commonly known as Gremio, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre, capital city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Gremio became Champions of the Intercontinental Cup, after beating Hamburger SV in 1983.

Also, Gremio is the Brazilian club that has won the most Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores de America titles alongside Sao Paulo FC, Santos, and Palmeiras.

Gremio has won 41 Campeonato Gaucho, 2 Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, 1 Campeonato Brasileiro Serie B, 1 Supercopa do Brasil, 1 Copa Sul and 5 Copa do Brasil.

Internationally, Gremio has won 1 Intercontinental Cup, 3 Copa Libertadores de America, 2 Recopa Sudamericana and 1 Sanwa Bank Cup.

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Gremio usually plays in a tricolor striped shirt, black shorts and white socks, which originated the team's nickname.

Gremio has a fierce rivalry with Internacional, which is widely considered the most heated in Brazil and one of the most heated in the world.

The trophy Gremio won that day, the Wanderpreis, is still displayed at the club's museum.

Gremio was one of the founding members of the Porto Alegre football league in 1910, and in 1911 won the league for the first time.

In 1918, Gremio became a founding member of the Fundacao Rio-Grandense de Desportes, a federation that organized the first state championships in Rio Grande do Sul.

In 1931, Gremio became one of the first teams in Brazil to play matches at night after installing floodlights at Estadio Baixada.

Between 1953 and 1954, Gremio travelled to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia, a tour dubbed "the conquest of the Americas".

In 1961, Gremio went on its first European tour playing 24 games in 11 countries: France, Romania, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Denmark, Estonia and Russia.

In 1954, Gremio inaugurated what was at the time the biggest private stadium in Brazil, the Olimpico Stadium.

Gremio maintained a series of respectable results in Campeonato Brasileiro, usually achieving a top half finish.

Gremio won its first Campeonato Brasileiro on 3 May 1981, after defeating Sao Paulo at the Morumbi Stadium in Sao Paulo.

In 1989, Gremio won the first Copa do Brasil, a Brazilian knockout cup featuring football teams from all around the country.

In 1991, after a poor season, Gremio was relegated for the first time to the Brazilian Second Division but gained immediate promotion back to the Campeonato Brasileiro's elite the following season.

On December 11,1994, Gremio had to play three matches in a single day during the 1994 Campeonato Gaucho, with kick-off times of 2PM, 4PM, and 6PM, due to their extensive schedule.

On 15 December 1996, Gremio won its second Campeonato Brasileiro, defeating Portuguesa in the final.

Gremio won the title due to their higher finish in the league.

Four years later, in 2001, Gremio won their fourth Copa do Brasil, defeating Corinthians.

In 2004, after performing poorly for two consecutive seasons in the Serie A, Gremio finished bottom of the league and were relegated to Campeonato Brasileiro's Second Division.

On 26 November 2005, at Estadio dos Aflitos, Recife, Gremio had four players sent off and two penalty given kicks against them in a tumultuous match that has become known as "The Battle of the Aflitos".

Bruno Carvalho bounced the first penalty bounced off the post in the first half when Gremio still had 11 players on the field; the second was saved by goalkeeper Galatto when had been reduced to 7 men.

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On 9 April 2006, at Estadio Beira-Rio, Gremio won the state championship against Internacional, preventing them from winning a fifth title in a row.

Gremio players said after the match that there were more than 50,000 Internacional fans in Beira Rio's Stadium and they could still hear the noise made by 6,000 Gremistas.

In 2007, at Estadio Olimpico Monumental, Gremio won the Campeonato Gaucho this time against Juventude.

Gremio did qualify for the Libertadores the following year.

However, after a successful campaign in the group stage, Gremio failed in the competition and were eliminated by San Lorenzo in the Round of 16.

Gremio appealed the result within 24 hours of the final whistle based on this information.

Gremio's anthem is one of the most critically acclaimed in all of Brazilian football, other than the anthems of the clubs from Rio de Janeiro, it is the only football anthem composed by a renowned composer, Lupicinio Rodrigues.

The partnership lasted until early 1983, when, on account of the brilliant moment that had been living in your history, the Gremio has signed a contract with a German Adidas to supply.

In 1987, for the first time in its history the Gremio signed a sponsorship agreement for stamping the shirt, with Coca-Cola.

In 2001, for the payment of debts, Gremio closed an agreement with the state government of Rio Grande do Sul, exposing Banrisul banking mark on his shirt.

Also from this era, Gremio opened more spaces for smaller sponsors, with the first being Tramontina, Unimed, TIM and the return of Coca-Cola.

In 2012, Gremio moved into their new stadium, Arena do Gremio, a big multi-use stadium in Porto Alegre.

Gremio has around 8 million fans in the country, meaning that, in terms of ranking, the club is the 6th most supporters in the Brazil.

Largest group of Gremio supporters is Geral do Gremio, the first and largest Brazilian barra brava, movement similar to European ultras, but with unique characteristics of Latin America.

The group was created during the year 2001 with Gremio fans watching games from the seats behind the southern goal at Estadio Olimpico Monumental.

Gremio was substituted after the wondrous save, and Gremio won the game.