Coritiba

Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba, and colloquially as "Coxa Branca" or simply "Coxa", is a Brazilian football club from Curitiba in the state of Paraná. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest football club in the state. Coritiba have won the Paraná State Championship 37 times – more than both of its main rivals combined (Athletico Paranaense have 22 titles and Paraná Clube have 7). Coritiba has won the Brazilian Championship once in 1985.

Coritiba is the first club from southern Brazil to have won a national title, the 1973 Torneio do Povo, and is also the first southern club to have competed in both main continental competitions – the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana. Coritiba was both the first club from Paraná to have won the Série A (the main title in Brazil), and to reach the semi-finals in the second main competition in the country – the Copa do Brasil – in 1991, 2001, 2009, and to reach the finals in 2011 and 2012.