Ceará, Fortaleza, Sport want North-Northeast titles recognised | OneFootball

This Tuesday, Ceará, Fortaleza, and Sport, together with the Cearense Football Federation (FCF) and the Pernambuco Football Federation (FPF), sent a request to the CBF for the recognition of the titles of the North-Northeast Tournaments as Brazilian Championships.

In an official statement released on social media, the entities claimed that the tournament was mistakenly considered regional at the time. The group stated that the competition was part of the project to nationalize Brazilian football carried out by the now-defunct CBD (Brazilian Sports Confederation).

The initiative, conceived since the second half of 2023, aims to “correct a sporting injustice.” The clubs are following the same principle that led the CBF to recognize the titles of the Taça Brasil and the Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Tournament as Brazilian Championships.

When did the North-Northeast Tournament take place?

There were three editions of the competition: in 1968, 1969, and 1970. Sport was the first champion, followed by Ceará, while Fortaleza lifted the trophy in the last edition of the North-Northeast.

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Read the full statement

“The signatory entities – Ceará Sporting Club, Fortaleza Esporte Clube, Sport Club do Recife, Federação Cearense de Futebol, and Federação Pernambucana de Futebol – hereby inform the public that they have formally submitted a request to the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) for the official recognition of the titles of the North-Northeast Tournaments of 1968, 1969, and 1970 as Brazilian Championships.

The work, conducted jointly since the second half of 2023, brought together leaders from the three clubs and the two federations to gather historical and legal information, consolidating a common agenda in defense of Northeastern football and national recognition of these achievements.

The central argument of the request is that, at the time, the North-Northeast Tournament was mistakenly considered a regional competition, when in reality it was part of the project to nationalize Brazilian football promoted by the Brazilian Sports Confederation (CBD).

The North-Northeast Tournament was held in three editions: Sport was champion in 1968, Ceará in 1969, and Fortaleza in 1970. If the request is recognized by the CBF, the clubs will be considered Brazilian champions.

In a gesture of unity and historical recovery, the signatory entities emphasize that the request does not seek to create privileges, but merely to correct a sporting injustice, based on the same principle that led the CBF, in 2010, to recognize the Taça Brasil and the Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Tournament as equivalent to the Brazilian Championship.”

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