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Federação Bahiana de Futebol

Brazilian football state federation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3091532 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Federação Bahiana de Futebol (English: Football Association of Bahia state) was founded on 14 September 1913, and it manages all the official football tournaments within the state of Bahia, which are the Campeonato Baiano and the Campeonato Baiano lower levels, and represents the clubs at the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). Its headquarters are located in the Edifício Palácio dos Esportes, Praça Castro Alves, Salvador.

Current clubs in Brasileirão

As of 2025 season.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Federação Bahiana de Futebol” is brazilian football state federation. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Federação, Bahiana and Futebol, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1913-01-01. For this dossier, Federação, Bahiana and Futebol is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian football state federation” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3091532. VIAF identifies the subject as 6212153289940032770004. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913 and 2025.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Federação Bahiana de Futebol” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.