Football team
Mogi Mirim
Club · Brazil · Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão
«Sapão»
Rivaldo came back to Mogi Mirim twice: once as a player in 2014, and once as club president, a post he held from 2008 to 2014. Before either return he had already made his name here, in the 1992–93 side known as the Carrossel Caipira, scoring 27 goals in 40 games alongside Válber, who top-scored in the 1992 Campeonato Paulista with 20 goals of his own.
That team remains the reference point for a club whose title history is short. Mogi Mirim won the Campeonato Paulista Série A1 three times, in 1978, 1984 and 1994, and added a Série A2 title in 1990 and a Divisão de Acesso in 1985. In 1995 it reached the final of the Copa Conmebol and lost to Rosario Central on penalties, the closest it has come to continental silverware.
The city gave the club its nickname before football did: Sapão, the frog, after the swamps that surrounded the settlement founded in the mid-17th century. The rivalry with neighbouring Itapirense carries that local weight into derby weekends.
Estádio Vail Chaves, home since well before the stadium took its current name back in 2016, holds 19,900, though for a stretch after 2018 it held no one: structural problems and a lapsed fire certificate shut it down, and Mogi Mirim played its home games in Itapira and then Amparo instead. The club has not recovered the ground it once held in Brazilian football either. Six relegations between 2015 and 2023 pushed it down to the Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão, and debts forced a withdrawal from professional competition in 2019 and 2020.
Among the players it produced were Matheus Caramelo and Gil, both killed in the Chapecoense air disaster of November 2016. But it is Rivaldo's name that still opens most conversations about this club, on the pitch first and later at its head.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 20 Jun | Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão |
Matonense
A
|
1:2 | L |
| 13 Jun | Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão |
Santacruzense
H
|
1:0 | W |
| 7 Jun | Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão |
Grêmio Catanduvense
A
|
6:0 | W |
| 30 May | Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão |
Independente SP
A
|
1:4 | L |
| 23 May | Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão |
São Carlos
H
|
3:1 | W |
| 16 May | Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão |
Matonense
H
|
1:3 | L |
Standing
Campeonato Paulista Segunda DivisãoGroup stage · Paulista, Segunda Divisão - Grupo 2 2026
| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Independente SP
|
8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 20:5 | 21 |
| 2 |
Matonense
|
8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13:9 | 16 |
| 3 |
Santacruzense
|
8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 18:11 | 13 |
| 4 |
São Carlos
|
8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16:10 | 11 |
| 5 |
Mogi Mirim
|
8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 13:13 | 9 |
| 6 |
Grêmio Catanduvense
|
8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4:36 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 10| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Scored | 15 | 7 | 8 |
| Conceded | 15 | 6 | 9 |
| Scored per game | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| Conceded per game | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.8 |
| Difference | 0 | +1 | −1 |
Fixtures of Mogi Mirim
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20 Jun
Matonense
A
1:2
L
-
13 Jun
Santacruzense
H
1:0
W
-
7 Jun
Grêmio Catanduvense
A
6:0
W
-
30 May
Independente SP
A
1:4
L
-
23 May
São Carlos
H
3:1
W
-
16 May
Matonense
H
1:3
L
-
10 May
Santacruzense
A
0:1
L
-
2 May
Grêmio Catanduvense
H
2:1
W
Honours of Mogi Mirim
- Campeonato Paulista Série A1 1978, 1984, 1994 3
- Campeonato Paulista Série A2 1990 1
- Divisão de Acesso 1985 1
- Troféu Interior Paulista 2012 1
- Copa CONMEBOL 1995 1
Transfers
TransfersArrivals
- Chay Bela Vista-RJ 17/18
- Gustavo Henrique Náutico 16/17
- Anderson Rosa Capivariano 16/17
- Emerson Santos Grêmio 15/16
- Jonathan Romarinho Flamengo-PI 15/16
- Gustavo Gomes da Silva Mirassol-SP 15/16
Departures
- Gustavo Henrique No Club 17/18
- Chay Gonçalo-RJ 17/18
- Anderson Rosa No Club 17/18
- Rodrigo Ferreira Cuiabá-MT 17/18
- Galego Marília-SP 17/18
- Emerson Santos No Club 16/17