Corinthians end away-day drought against Cruzeiro in women's football | OneFootball

On the night of last Monday (31), Corinthians visited Cruzeiro at Arena Independência in the first leg of the 2026 Brazilian Women’s Championship quarterfinals and beat the Minas Gerais side 1-0. The Brabas’ goal was scored by midfielder Vic Albuquerque.

With the win, Timão defeated Cruzeiro away from home in the women’s game for the first time since June 19, 2023. On that occasion, in that year’s Brasileirão, playing at Estádio Soares de Azevedo, the Brabas won 2-1 with goals from Gabi Zanotti and Vic Albuquerque.

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Since then, there had been four matches between the teams away from Alvinegro’s home ground, with two wins for the Minas Gerais side and two draws. In 2024, Timão were beaten 7-2 in the first stage of the national competition at Estádio Castor Cifuentes.

That season, there were two matches. In August, in the third round of the Women’s Copa do Brasil, at the same stadium mentioned earlier, the teams drew 1-1 in regular time and the Brabas won 4-2 on penalties. In September of the same year, in the first leg of the Brasileirão final, they drew 2-2 — in the return leg, Timão secured their seventh national title by beating their rival 1-0 in Itaquera.

In 2026, the two teams faced each other in May at Arena Jacaré in the first stage of the Brazilian Women’s Championship, and Cruzeiro came out on top 3-2. The teams will now meet again next Monday (7) at Estádio do Canindé, on Brazil’s Independence Day holiday, for the second leg of the quarterfinals. A draw would send the Brabas through to the semifinals.

It is worth noting that Corinthians are the tournament’s most successful club with seven titles — 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

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