The Campeonato Fluminense was the football league of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the period when the Guanabara state and the Rio de Janeiro state where two separated states.
Until 1960, Rio de Janeiro city was the Brazilian capital and was not part of Rio de Janeiro state. In 1960, with the inauguration of Brasília as the new capital of Brazil, the city of Rio de Janeiro became the new Guanabara state. Only in 1975 the states of Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara fused forming present day's Rio de Janeiro state, but the Campeonato Fluminense continued separately until 1978, after which all its clubs joined the city league, the Campeonato Carioca.
As most of the big clubs in the Campeonato Carioca have come from Rio de Janeiro city, the countryside clubs have rarely contended for the state title since the merger; only two countryside clubs, Americano and Volta Redonda, came close to winning the Carioca title, settling for runner-up in 2002 and 2005 respectively.
The first Campeonato Fluminense was disputed in 1915, right after the foundation of LSF (the first state football association). In 1928 the clubs were replaced by city XI teams, and the champion league represented the state. From 1941 to 1945 FFD (former AFEA) replaced the city XI teams by clubs. In 1946 the clubs were again replaced by city XI teams. These were the state champions clubs in the amateur era:
1915 - Ararigboya (Niterói)1916 - Parnahyba (Niterói)1917 - Odeon (Niterói)1918 - Nictheroyense (Niterói)1919 - Fluminense (Niterói)1920 - Fluminense (Niterói)1921 - Barreto (Niterói)1922 - Byron (Niterói)1923 - Barreto (Niterói)1924 - Byron (Niterói)1924 - Byron (Niterói) - extra championship1925 - Serrano (Petrópolis) - AFEA championship1925 - Byron (Niterói) - LSF championship1926 - Elite (Niterói)1927 - Gragoatá (Niterói)1928 - Niterói team1928 - Niterói team1930 - Niterói team1931 - Niterói team1932 - not disputed1933 - not disputed1934 - Barra do Piraí team1935 - Niterói team1936 - Campos team1937 - not disputed1938 - Niterói team1939 - Campos team1940 - Campos and Nova Friburgo team1941 - Icaraí (Niterói)1942 - Royal (Barra do Piraí)1943 - Icaraí (Niterói)1944 - Petropolitano (Petrópolis)1945 - Serrano (Petrópolis)1946 - not held1947 - Campos team1948 - Petrópolis team1949 - Petrópolis team1950 - Barra do Piraí team1951 - Barra do Piraí teamIn 1951, FFD (Federação Fluminense de Desportos) formed a professional department (the D.E.P.), which carried out the first professional club state championship. Since then the state championship was disputed by the professional champions of each region. From 1959 on, the Fluminense champions had berths in the Taça Brasil, but neither the later Roberto Gomes Pedrosa tournament and its successor, the Campeonato Brasileiro, awarded berths to the Fluminense champions.
1952 - Adrianino (Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin)1952 - Adrianino (Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin) - extra championship1953 - Barra Mansa FC (Barra Mansa)1953 - Barra Mansa FC (Barra Mansa) (Superchampionship)1954 - Coroados (Valença)1955 - Frigorífico (Mendes)1955 - Goytacaz FC(Campos) (Superchampionship)1956 - not finished1957 - not finished1958 - Manufatora (Niterói)1959 - Fonseca AC (Niterói)1960 - Fonseca AC (Niterói)1961 - Rio Branco (Campos)1962 - Fonseca AC (Niterói)1963 - Goytacaz FC (Campos)1964 - Americano FC (Campos)1964 - Eletrovapo (Niterói) (Superchampionship)1965 - Americano FC (Campos)1966 - Goytacaz FC(Campos)1967 - Goytacaz FC(Campos)1968 - Americano FC (Campos)1969 - Americano FC (Campos)1970 - Central (Barra do Piraí)1971 - Central (Barra do Piraí)1972 - Barbará (Barra Mansa)1973 - Barbará (Barra Mansa)1974 - Sapucaia (Campos)1975 - Americano FC (Campos)In 1975, although the Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara states had already fused, the federations were still separate. The FFD organized the Countryside State Championship:
1976 - Central (Barra do Piraí)1977 - Manufatora (Niterói)In 1978 the federations merged into the new FERJ. However, on this year FERJ still organized a Countryside Championship, considered the last Campeonato Fluminense:
1978 - Goytacaz FC (Campos)Americano FC - 7Goytacaz FC - 6Ypiranga FC - 5Adrianino AC - 3Central SC - 3Fluminense AC - 3Fonseca AC - 3Alliança FC - 2AA Barbará - 2EC Cascatinha - 2Icaraí FC - 2AD Niterói(as Manufatora AC) - 2Serrano FC - 2Barra Mansa FC - 2Canto do Rio FC - 1Coroados FC - 1AE Eletrovapo - 1SC Elite - 1Frigorífico AC - 1GR Gragoatá - 1Internacional FC - 1Petropolitano FC - 1CE Rio Branco - 1Royal SC - 1EC Sapucaia - 1