Grêmio Recreativo Barueri,
usually known as Barueri, is a Brazilian football club
from Barueri
, São Paulo
state
.
History
Grêmio Recreativo Barueri was founded on March 26, 1989 as the
official Barueri city representative in several different
sports..
Barueri had a partnership with
Bandeirantes Bank from September, 1997 to
June 1998.
The club had a partnership with Mackenzie/Microcamp from August,
1998 to May, 1999,. During this partnership, in 1998, Barueri won
the
São Paulo
State Men's Basketball Championship.
Some time later, the
club signed a partnership with Vasco da Gama, of Rio de Janeiro
.
Barueri joined a partnership with Roma Incorporadora in 2000.
During this partnership, the club, which was named Roma Barueri at
the time, won the following titles:
Campeonato Paulista Under-20 in
2000, and
Copa São Paulo
de Juniores in 2001, beating
São Paulo in the final.
The club professionalized its football section in 2001, and
competed the Campeonato Paulista Série B/3, finishing in the 14th
position.
Barueri won the
Campeonato Paulista Série
A3 in 2005, beating
Palmeiras B in the
final.
The club won the
Campeonato Paulista Série
A2 in 2006, beating
Sertãozinho in the final,
being promoted to the following year's
Campeonato Paulista first level. In the
same year, Barueri disputed the
Campeonato Brasileiro Série
C for the first time, finishing in the fourth place, thus being
promoted to the following year's
Série B. A fourth place
finish in
2008 allowed the
team to be promoted to
Série A, the top level
championship, in the following year.
Titles
Stadium
Since its
inauguration on June 26, 2007, Barueri's home stadium is Arena Barueri
, which has an initial maximum capacity of 17,000
people. The final stadium capacity will be 40,000
people.
Barueri's previous home stadium was
Orlando Novelli
Stadium , inaugurated in 1996, with a maximum capacity of 5,000
people.
Nickname
The club is usually known by the acronym GRB.
Club colors
The club colors are blue, red and yellow.
Other sports
Besides football, Barueri also has other sports sections, such as
basketball,
volleyball,
gymnastics,
futsal,
karate,
judo,
bocha and
athletics.
Current squad
References
External links
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