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Bahia
Bahia
Full name Esporte Clube Bahia
Nickname(s) Tricolor
Bahiaço (mix of Bahia and aço, steel)
Baêa
Tricolor de aço (tricolor of steel)
Esquadrão de aço (Steel Squad)
Founded 1 January 1931
Ground Arena Fonte Nova
(Capacity: 47,907)
Owner Flag of England City Football Group (90%)
Chairman Flag of Brazil Emerson Ferretti
Head Coach Flag of Brazil Rogério Ceni
Current League Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Campeonato Baiano 
2023
2024
Série A, 16th
Baiano, 1st (champions), 
Website Club home page

Esporte Clube Bahia, known familiarly as Bahia, is a Brazilian professional football club, based in Salvador, capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia. They play in the Campeonato Baiano, Bahia's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Brazil's first-tier league.

Bahia has won the Brasileirão title twice: in the 1959 season, defeating the Santos' Santásticos which contained figures such as Gilmar, Mauro, Mengálvio, Coutinho, Pepe and Pelé, in the finals and in the 1988 season Bahia edged Internacional. Bahia has only appeared in the Copa Libertadores three times, reaching the quarterfinals in 1989, Bahia's best-ever performance. The club has also won their state title a record 49 times.

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