remember the falls from 1989 to 2023

With the defeat to Fluminense, last Saturday (25), at Maracanã, 2-1, Coritiba was relegated to the second division for the seventh time in history. The campaign is one of the worst in the club’s history.

Even having made the biggest investment in its history in the current season, Coxa was unable to remain in Series A.

The result also placed Coxa at the top of the ranking of teams most relegated to the second division, alongside América-MG.

O OneTwo Sports remembers all the falls of Coritiba from 1989 to 2023.

The seventh fall, in 2023

With a terrible campaign in the Brasileirão, without ever leaving the relegation zone in 35 rounds, Coxa fell once again, but in a very different context.

It is the team’s first year as a Sociedade Anônima do Futebol (SAF), purchased by Treecorp Investimentoswhich is committed to investing R$1.3 billion over the next ten years.

If off the field the numbers are promising in the long term, on it the reality is terrible. This season, Alviverde has the second worst defense in the competition, is the worst home team and has had the worst sequences of results in its 114 year history.

Coxa went 18 games without winning, a total of 126 days without winning, including periods with António Oliveira and Antônio Carlos Zago in charge. Then, with Thiago Kosloski, he had the worst losing streak and lost eight games in one go.

In 2021, the sixth relegation

In the 2020 Brasileirão, Coxa fell for the sixth time in history. In the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brasileirão was in disarray and the season only ended in February 2021. With three rounds to go, Alviverde had their 19th defeat of the campaign, against Santos, and confirmed their return to Série B .

From start to finish, Coxa had difficulty getting into the competition and only managed to get out of the relegation zone for a few rounds. In the 38 games, the team won 31 points, with seven wins, ten draws and 21 defeats.

The poor results were a reflection of poor planning. During the season, Coxa had six different coaches: Eduardo Barroca, Jorginho, Rodrigo Santana, Pachequinho and, finally, Gustavo Morínigo.

Four years earlier, “here comes Chape”

In 2017, Coxa fell dramatically, with a goal in the last minute of the match against Chapecoense, in the last round of the championship. In that game, at Arena Condé, Coritiba would have to win to escape.

In the second half, the score was tied in Chapecó, but simultaneously, in the game between Vitória and Flamengo, at Barradão, in Salvador, the Rio team turned around and just holding the score was enough for Alviverde.

Even so, practically at the moment of Flamengo’s turnaround, striker Túlio de Mello scored for Chape and relegated Coxa. Alviverde finished the competition with 43 points, in 17th place. In total, there were 11 wins, 10 draws and 17 defeats.

In 2009, the terror in Couto Pereira

14 years ago, Couto Pereira was the scene of the most violent episode in football in Paraná. It was the last round of the Brasileirão and Coritiba’s 1-1 draw with Fluminense resulted in Alviverde’s fourth relegation.

At the end of the match, the crowd of fans invaded the pitch, vandalized the stadium and clashed with the Military Police Shock Troops. The widespread confusion left 17 people injured. In court, six fans were convicted and Coritiba lost control of ten games, in addition to having a loss of approximately R$500 thousand.

That year, Coxa finished the season in 17th place, with 45 points, 12 wins, nine draws and 17 defeats.

In 2005, the first relegation in points

With the fourth best attendance at the Brasileirão that year, an average of 18,106 per game at Couto, Coritiba was unable to take advantage of the always present fans to avoid yet another relegation.

That season, it was the first time that Alviverde had the longest losing streak in history, a number they equaled this year, in the seventh relegation campaign. In 2005, Coxa was defeated for Paraná (3 to 2), Goiás (2 to 0), Paysandu (2 to 1), Athletico (2 to 1), Botafogo (2 to 0, Cruzeiro (3 to 0), Inter (3 to 2) and Flamengo (2 to 1).

Coritiba finished the season in 19th place, with 49 points in 42 games (that year the Brasileirão had 22 teams) with 13 wins, 10 draws and 19 defeats. In total, there were 5 technicians this year: Antônio Lopes, Cuca, Antônio Lopes Júnior, Cláudio Marques and Márcio Araújo.

In 1993, he fell with rival Athletico

In the 1990s, the Brazilian Championship was played in a group stage followed by knockouts. Coritiba was part of group D, alongside Athletico and Paraná. Each group had eight teams, the first two placed were classified for the second phase and the last four were relegated.

In seven games, Coxa had 13 points, with three wins, seven draws and four defeats and was in sixth place, out of eight teams. In seventh place was Athletico, who also fell for the first time that year. Paraná came in second place and went to the qualifiers.

Coritiba fell after CBF’s “pen attack” in 1989

Coritiba’s first relegation had nothing to do with their performance in the championship. In 1989, Coxa lost control of the field after an Alviverde fan invaded Couto Pereira’s pitch in a 2-1 victory against Sport.

Unable to play the game against Santos in Alto da Glória, the game was moved to Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais. Coxa did not travel and Peixe won in WO, but the club from Paraná received an exaggerated punishment from the CBF for its attitude and was relegated to the third division.

The punishment, signed by the president of the institution, Ricardo Teixeira, also excluded Alviverde from the championship and suspended it from competing in official and friendly matches for a year. In addition to forcing Coxa to reimburse Santos and the city of Juiz de Fora in 400 thousand new Cruzados. In 1990, Coxa eased the penalty but only managed to make an agreement to compete in the second division.