What is Esporte Clube Vitória?
{{Infobox Football club | clubname = Vitória | image = | current = | fullname = Esporte Clube Vitória | nickname = | founded = 1899 | ground = [[Barradão]], [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]], [[Brazil]] | capacity = 32,000 | chairman = Fabio Mota | manager = | captain = | league = [[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Série A]] | season = 2024 | position = 11th }} '''Esporte Clube Vitória''', usually known simply as '''Vitória''', is a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] [[football]] team from [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]] in [[Bahia]], founded on May 13, 1899.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.campeoesdofutebol.com.br/vitoria_ba_historia.html|title=Esporte Clube Vitória|website=www.campeoesdofutebol.com.br|language=pt-br|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/teams/brazil/esporte-clube-vitoria/306/|title=Brazil - EC Vitória - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news - Soccerway|website=int.soccerway.com|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref> The team plays in the [[Campeonato Brasileiro Série B]] and the Campeonato Baiano. == History == The club was founded on May 13, 1899, by the brothers Artur and Artêmio Valente, along with seventeen other young fellows. On the start, the Vitória was a [[cricket]] club, named Club de Cricket Victoria, because all of them lived at the Vitória neighborhood, in Salvador.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://editoraplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bavi_uma_paixao_sem_limites.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122082253/http://editoraplus.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bavi_uma_paixao_sem_limites.pdf|archivedate=2009-11-22|title=Uma Paixão Sem Limites|date=2009-11-22|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbf.org.br/baianao/?menu=time&id=2|title=Campeonato Baiano de Futebol|website=www.fbf.org.br|access-date=2020-04-17|archive-date=2020-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422131631/http://www.fbf.org.br/baianao/?menu=time&id=2|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1902, Victory started to have footba