Brazil · Porto Alegre
Grêmio
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense
Tricolor (Tricolour), Imortal Tricolor (Immortal Tricolour), Rei de Copas (King of Cups)
Porto Alegre club founded in 1903, known for its shirt of blue, black and white vertical stripes. It has won three Copa Libertadores titles (1983, 1995 and 2017), the 1983 Intercontinental Cup, two Brasileirão titles (1981 and 1996) and five Copa do Brasil titles.
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The club
- Name
- Grêmio
- Full name
- Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense
- Nickname
- Tricolor (Tricolour), Imortal Tricolor (Immortal Tricolour), Rei de Copas (King of Cups)
- Founded
- September 15, 1903
- City
- Porto Alegre
- Country
- Brazil
- Official website
- gremio.net
- Colors
- #0D80BF, #000000, #FFFFFF
- Competitions
- Campeonato Gaúcho (since 1919)
- Brasileirão Série A (since 1959)
- Copa Libertadores (1982–2024)
- Intercontinental Cup (1983–1995)
- Copa do Brasil (since 1989)
- Brasileirão Série B (1992–2022)
- Recopa Sudamericana (1996–2018)
- Copa Sudamericana (since 2003)
- FIFA Club World Cup (2017)
- In the archive
- 1 crest · 20 shirts
Current crest
Since 2026
Shirts
1900s
1960s
1980s
2000s
Club history
Porto Alegre club founded in 1903, known for its shirt of blue, black and white vertical stripes. It has won three Copa Libertadores titles (1983, 1995 and 2017), the 1983 Intercontinental Cup, two Brasileirão titles (1981 and 1996) and five Copa do Brasil titles. It has played at the Arena do Grêmio since 2012.
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Grêmio was born in Porto Alegre on 15 September 1903. That day, 32 young men met at the Salão Grau, in the city centre, and elected Carlos Luiz Böhrer as the first president. The idea came from Cândido Dias da Silva, a native of São Paulo who, days earlier, had lent his ball for an exhibition by Sport Club Rio Grande and learned there how to found a club. In 1904 the team settled at the Baixada, in the Moinhos de Vento neighbourhood, and on 18 July 1909 it beat Internacional 10-0 in the first Gre-Nal.
Stadium
Arena do Grêmio
- Popular name
- Arena
- Location
- Porto Alegre
- Capacity
- 57,387 spectators
- Opened
- 2012
- The club plays here
- Since 2012
Grêmio's stadium since it opened on 8 December 2012 with a 2-1 win over Hamburg, the same opponent as in the 1983 Tokyo final. It lies in the north zone of Porto Alegre, next to the BR-290 motorway. It was designed as a multi-purpose stadium with advice from the Amsterdam Arena. In 2024 the Rio Grande do Sul floods left it underwater, and full crowds only returned in October of that year. The club reports a licensed capacity of 57,387.
The fans
Grêmio's supporters find their great rivalry in the Gre-Nal against Internacional, played since 18 July 1909, when Grêmio won 10-0 at the Baixada. That remains the biggest win in the derby's history. A distinctive trait is the “avalanche”: at the old Olímpico, fans in the Geral would surge en masse towards the fence after every goal. At the Arena it was restricted after a railing collapsed in January 2013. The official anthem, by Lupicínio Rodrigues, sums up the idea of following Grêmio wherever it plays.
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