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Club · Brazil · Serie A

«Mengão»

467 Matches
270 wins
102 draws
94 losses
823–428 Goals
+395 Difference
1.8 Scored per game
Form W 20 Aug · Home Cruzeiro · 2:1 L 23 Aug · Away Cruzeiro · 1:2 W 30 Aug · Home Botafogo · 3:0 W 2 Sep · Home Mirassol · 2:0 W 6 Sep · Away Remo · 1:0 W 11 Sep · Away Independiente del Valle · 2:0

The Maracanã holds 78,838 now, and it carries an official name few use — Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho. Flamengo did not build it; the club simply became the tenant history remembers, the red and black filling the stands so often that the ground reads as theirs by default rather than by deed.

The club itself started somewhere else entirely, as a rowing outfit on 17 November 1895. Football only arrived in 1911, and it arrived through a grievance: a group of players walked out of Fluminense and brought the sport with them. The breakaway set up the fixture that still matters most in Rio, the Fla-Flu, first played in 1912 — the same year Flamengo's football side took the field for its own opening match, a 16-2 win over Mangueira that gave little hint of the rivalry to come.

By 1914 Flamengo had its first Campeonato Carioca title, an early entry in what became the longest-running habit in the club's history — 40 state championships, the last string of them taken in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The nickname Urubu, the vulture, traces back further into the crowd than any trophy: supporters brought the bird symbol to the terraces in 1924, and it stuck.

Continentally, Flamengo has won the Copa Libertadores four times, the first in 1981 against Cobreloa, the most recent in 2025 against Palmeiras. That 1981 side went further still, beating Liverpool 3-0 to take the Intercontinental Cup — a result the club could not repeat when it met Liverpool again in the 2019 Club World Cup final, this time on the losing side. Domestically, the Brasileirão has come nine times, with 2025 the latest addition.

None of it moves far from where it began. Flamengo remains a rowing club that picked up a football team along the way, and the football team never quite let go of the name.

Latest results

All matches
13 Sep Serie A Corinthians H
11 Sep CONMEBOL Libertadores Independiente del Valle A 2:0 W
6 Sep Serie A Remo A 1:0 W
2 Sep Serie A Mirassol H 2:0 W
30 Aug Serie A Botafogo H 3:0 W
23 Aug Serie A Cruzeiro A 1:2 L

Standing

CONMEBOL Libertadores

Group stage · Group A

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
1 Flamengo 6 5 1 0 14:2 16
2 Estudiantes de La Plata 6 2 3 1 6:5 9
3 Independiente Medellin 6 2 1 3 6:11 7
4 Cusco 6 0 1 5 4:12 1
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Team statistics

matches counted: 467
467 Matches
270 wins
102 draws
94 losses
823–428 Goals
+395 Difference
1.8 Scored per game
Season results matches counted: 467
270wins: 270 · 57% 102draws: 102 · 21% 94losses: 94 · 20%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
20 Aug · Home Cruzeiro · 2:1
23 Aug · Away Cruzeiro · 1:2
30 Aug · Home Botafogo · 3:0
2 Sep · Home Mirassol · 2:0
6 Sep · Away Remo · 1:0
11 Sep · Away Independiente del Valle · 2:0
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 467 231 236
Scored 823 454 369
Conceded 428 186 242
Scored per game 1.8 2.0 1.6
Conceded per game 0.9 0.8 1.0
Difference +395 +268 +127

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Agustín Rossi Goalkeeper 43 Matches Emerson Royal Defender 43 Matches Samuel Lino Midfielder 43 Matches Ayrton Lucas Defender 43 Matches Leonardo Rech Ortiz Defender 41 Matches Pedro Guilherme Abreu dos Santos Forward 41 Matches Danilo Defender 39 Matches Guillermo Varela Defender 39 Matches

Squad of Flamengo

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
1 AR Agustín Rossi Goalkeeper 31 43
22 BR Emerson Royal Defender 27 43
16 BR Samuel Lino Midfielder 26 43
6 BR Ayrton Lucas Defender 29 43
3 BR Leonardo Rech Ortiz Defender 30 41
9 BR Pedro Guilherme Abreu dos Santos Forward 29 41
13 BR Danilo Defender 35 39
2 UY Guillermo Varela Defender 33 39
52 BR Evertton Gustavo Fernandes Araújo Midfielder 23 39
42 BR Andrew Goalkeeper 25 38
4 BR Leonardo Pereira Defender 30 38
15 CO Jorge Andrés Carrascal Guardo Midfielder 28 36
10 UY Giorgian Daniel de Arrascaeta Benedetti Midfielder 32 34
7 Luiz de Araújo Guimarães Neto Forward 34
19 EC Gonzalo Jordy Plata Jiménez Forward 25 33
27 BR Bruno Henrique Forward 35 33
64 BR Wallace Yan Forward 21 32
44 Vitor Eduardo da Silva Matos Defender 31
18 Diego Nicolás de la Cruz Arcosa Midfielder 30
21 IT Jorginho Midfielder 34 30
11 Everton Forward 30
26 Alex Sandro Defender 29
20 BR Lucas Tolentino Coelho de Lima Midfielder 29 28
5 CL Erick Antonio Pulgar Farfán Midfielder 32 27
8 ES Saúl Ñíguez Esclapez Midfielder 31 27
49 BR Diogo Alves Goalkeeper 22 23
77 Johnny Gough Defender 10
99 BR Lorrane Midfielder 20 9
51 Daniel Salech Defender 9
75 Luís Felipe Midfielder 7
61 Joao Victor Defender 6
81 Douglas Costa Telles Forward 5
25 BR Matheus Cunha Queiroz Goalkeeper 25 5
30 Michael Forward 4
30 AR J. Freitas Forward 19 2
14 EC Anthony Lenín Valencia Bajaña Forward 23 2
79 Caio Jose Midfielder 2
47 Guilherme Gomes Midfielder 2
56 Pablo Luchio Midfielder 2
23 Juninho Forward 2

Fixtures of Flamengo

Honours of Flamengo

  • Campeonato Carioca 1914, 1915, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1927, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963, 1965, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2026 39
  • Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1992, 2009, 2019, 2020, 2025 9
  • Copa Libertadores 1981, 2019, 2022, 2025 4
  • Intercontinental Cup 1981 1

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