Corinthians hold the edge in past meetings with Internacional | OneFootball

Corinthians face Internacional at Neo Química Arena in a match valid for the 10th round of the 2026 Brazilian Championship on Sunday night (5) at 7:30 p.m. (Brasília time). At the moment, Alvinegro sit 14th in the national competition with 10 points — two wins, four draws, and three losses — with eight goals scored and 10 conceded.

The Alvinegro will also look to improve their historical record against the team from Rio Grande do Sul. The first-ever meeting between the sides took place in a friendly on November 4, 1945, at Pacaembu, and Corinthians won 4-1. Since then, the teams have faced each other 100 more times, with 33 Corinthians wins, 42 draws, and 25 losses — 112 goals scored and 104 conceded. The historical average of goals per match in this fixture is 2.16.

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Considering Brazilian Championship matches, the club from Parque São Jorge also holds a good advantage. Overall, there have been 27 wins, 35 draws, and 20 losses. In addition, Corinthians have scored 92 goals and conceded 88. As for matches at Neo Química Arena, inaugurated in 2014, there have been 11 meetings, with five Corinthians wins, six draws, and one loss — 18 goals scored and 13 conceded.

The last match between the teams in Itaquera took place on May 3, 2025, in the seventh round of the national competition, and Alvinegro won 4-2, with a hat-trick from striker Yuri Alberto. The other goal was scored by midfielder Igor Coronado, who left the club midway through last year. That match was also Dorival Júnior’s first at Neo Química Arena.

Over the last eight years, that is, since 2018, the history of matches between Corinthians and Internacional has been marked mostly by draws — most of them ending 2-2 (five times). In the last eight years, there have been 16 matches, with two Corinthians wins, 11 draws, and three losses — 20 goals scored and 20 conceded.

Meanwhile, the most recent match between Corinthians and Internacional in overall terms took place in October 2025, in the second half of the Brazilian Championship. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. Timão opened the scoring with striker Gui Negão right at the start of the game, but conceded the equalizer in stoppage time through a controversial penalty.

Matches between Corinthians and Internacional over the last eight years:

1) Internacional 2 x 1 Corinthians – Brasileirão 20182) Corinthians 1 x 1 Internacional – Brasileirão 20183) Internacional 0 x 0 Corinthians – Brasileirão 20194) Corinthians 0 x 0 Internacional – Brasileirão 20195) Corinthians 1 x 0 Internacional – Brasileirão 20206) Internacional 0 x 0 Corinthians – Brasileirão 20207) Corinthians 1 x 1 Internacional – Brasileirão 20218) Internacional 2 x 2 Corinthians – Brasileirão 20219) Internacional 2 x 2 Corinthians – Brasileirão 202210) Corinthians 2 x 2 Internacional – Brasileirão 202211) Internacional 2 x 2 Corinthians – Brasileirão 202312) Corinthians 1 x 2 Internacional – Brasileirão 202313) Internacional 1 x 0 Corinthians – Brasileirão 202414) Corinthians 2 x 2 Internacional – Brasileirão 202415) Corinthians 4 x 2 Internacional – Brasileirão 202516) Internacional 1 x 1 Corinthians – Brasileirão 2025

Top scorer in the history of the fixture

Corinthians’ all-time leading scorer in matches against Internacional is striker Yuri Alberto, who played for the team from Rio Grande do Sul between 2020 and 2021. Wearing the Corinthians shirt, the center-forward has scored six goals in five matches against his former team.

Since joining Alvinegro in mid-2022, Yuri Alberto has totaled 80 goals and 22 assists in 219 matches wearing the Corinthians shirt. He is the player with the most goals for the club in the 21st century, as well as the top scorer at Neo Química Arena — 50 goals in 111 matches.

With Corinthians, the striker has won three titles: the Campeonato Paulista (2025), Copa do Brasil (2025), and Supercopa do Brasil (2026), against Palmeiras, Vasco da Gama, and Flamengo, respectively. He scored in all three of those finals.

In 2024, he was the top scorer in Brazilian football with 31 goals, 15 of them in that year’s Brasileirão, where he was named to the team of the season and finished as the tournament’s joint top scorer alongside Alerrandro, then at Vitória. That same year, he played a crucial role in the team’s surge in the competition, which took them out of the relegation zone and secured a spot in the Libertadores preliminary stage — seventh place with 56 points.

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