Brazilian Football Confederation

CONMEBOL
Founded	1914
FIFA affiliation	1923
CONMEBOL affiliation	1916
President	Ricardo Terra Teixeira

The Brazilian Football Confederation (Portuguese: Confederação Brasileira de Futebol or CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil. It was founded on August 20, 1914 as Confederação Brasileira de Desportos (CBD), meaning Brazilian Sports Confederation. Its first president was Álvaro Zamith. It organizes the Brazilian national competitions, like Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol (all the four levels) and Copa do Brasil. The state federations, which organizes the state championships, are subordinated to CBF. The organization also administrates the Brazil national football team and the Brazil women's national football team. It is based in Barra da Tijuca neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state. The confederation owns a training center, named Granja Comary, located in Teresópolis.^[1]

It was announced on September 29, 2007 that the CBF will launch a women's league and cup competition in October 2007 following pressure from FIFA president Sepp Blatter during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.^[2][3]

Contents 1 Presidents of CBF 2 Honors 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Presidents of CBF

	Name	Term start	Term end
1.	Álvaro Zamith	November 20, 1915	November 4, 1916
2.	Arnaldo Guinle	November 4, 1916	January 8, 1920
3.	Ariovisto de Almeida Rego	January 8, 1920	April 26, 1921
4.	Oswaldo Gomes	April 26, 1921	January 26, 1924
5.	Ariovisto de Almeida Rego	January 26, 1924	June 20, 1924
6.	Wladimir Bernardes	June 20, 1924	December 19, 1924
7.	Oscar Rodrigues da Costa	December 19, 1924	October 13, 1927
8.	Renato Pacheco	October 13, 1927	September 23, 1933
9.	Álvaro Catão	September 23, 1933	September 5, 1936
10.	Luiz Aranha	September 5, 1936	January 28, 1943
11.	Rivadávia Correa Meyer	January 28, 1943	January 14, 1955
12.	Sylvio Correa Pacheco	January 14, 1955	January 14, 1958
13.	João Havelange	January 14, 1958	January 10, 1975
14.	Heleno de Barros Nunes	January 10, 1975	January 18, 1980
15.	Giulite Coutinho	January 18, 1980	January 17, 1986
16.	Otávio Pinto Guimarães	January 17, 1986	January 16, 1989
17.	Ricardo Teixeira	January 16, 1989	January 2014

[edit] Honors

• World Cup: 5 times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002)
• Copa América: 8 times (1919, 1922, 1949, 1989, 1997, 1999, 2004 and 2007)
• Confederations Cup: 3 times (1997, 2005 and 2009)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site (Portuguese)
• Brazil at FIFA site
• Brazil at CONMEBOL site (English)

Awards
Preceded by Fans of Celtic F.C.	FIFA Fair Play Award Winner 2004	Succeeded by Community of Iquitos

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