Minas Gerais state football team

The Minas Gerais state football team (Portuguese: Seleção Mineira de Futebol) represents Minas Gerais in association football.

Minas Gerais

Nickname(s)	Seleção Mineira
Association	Federação Mineira de Futebol
Confederation	CBF
Top scorer	Bernardino Lucas Mário de Castro Murilinho (12)
Home stadium	Estádio Mineirão
First colours Second colours
First international
Minas Gerais 1–7 Riachuelo (Belo Horizonte, Brazil; 9 September 1910)
Biggest win
Minas Gerais 13–0 Maranhão (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 13 October 1927)
Biggest defeat
Rio de Janeiro 15–0 Minas Gerais (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 14 July 1920)

Players

Following is the information about the players who appeared for the Minas Gerais state team:

Notable players

• Belletti
• Dadá Maravilha
• Danival
• Dirceu Lopes
• Éder Luís
• Lincoln
• Nelinho
• Piazza
• Raul Plassmann
• Reinaldo
• Tostão

Managers

These are all the managers who as headed Minas Gerais state team:

• Darío Pereyra (1999)
• Ney Franco (2006)

Honours

• Campeonato Brasileiro de Seleções Estaduais:
  • Winners: 1962

• Troféu Prefeito Souza Lima: (vs. Brazil)
  • Winners: 1969

• Taça Gastão Soares de Moura: (vs. Rio de Janeiro)
  • Winners: 1975

Fixtures and results

For all past match results of the team, see Minas Gerais state football team results.

21st century

The Minas Gerais state team played only one match in the XXI century:

Minas Gerais v Cruzeiro

8 Apr 2006 Friendly	Minas Gerais	0–1	Cruzeiro	Sete Lagoas
		Report	Luizinho 22'	Stadium: Arena do Jacaré Referee: Álvaro Azeredo Quelhas

Last squad

The following players were called up for the friendly match against Cruzeiro, on April 8, 2006.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Glaysson	(1979-03-01)1 March 1979 (aged 27)	1	0	Democrata-SL
	1GK	Fernando Leal	(1981-10-24)24 October 1981 (aged 24)	1	0	Democrata-GV
	2DF	Filhão	(1982-12-04)4 December 1982 (aged 23)	1	0	Ituiutaba
	2DF	Wellington Paulo	(1972-12-01)1 December 1972 (aged 33)	1	0	América Mineiro
	2DF	João Carlos	(1972-09-10)10 September 1972 (aged 33)	1	0	Ipatinga
	2DF	Micão	(1980-02-07)7 February 1980 (aged 26)	1	0	Guarani de Divinópolis
	2DF	Alemão	(1981-08-14)14 August 1981 (aged 24)	1	0	Ipatinga
	3MF	Márcio Diogo	(1985-09-22)22 September 1985 (aged 20)	1	0	Ipatinga
	3MF	Fabrício	(1978-09-14)14 September 1978 (aged 27)	0	0	América Mineiro
	3MF	Ramon	(1972-06-30)30 June 1972 (aged 33)	1	0	Atlético Mineiro
	4FW	Ditinho	(1972-03-21)21 March 1972 (aged 34)	2	0	URT
	4FW	Éder Luís	(1985-04-19)19 April 1985 (aged 20)	1	0	Atlético Mineiro
	4FW	Washington	(1972-01-03)3 January 1972 (aged 34)	1	0	América Mineiro

Head-to-head record

Below is a result summary of all matches Minas Gerais have played against another Brazilian state teams, FIFA national teams and clubs.

  Positive Record   Neutral Record   Negative Record

State teams (non-FIFA)

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Bahia	6	3	2	1	8	7	+1
Ceará	3	3	0	0	9	3	+6
Distrito Federal	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Espírito Santo	6	5	0	1	20	7	+13
Goiás	6	5	1	0	23	3	+20
Maranhão	3	2	0	1	25	11	+14
Mato Grosso	4	3	1	0	22	4	+18
Pará	2	1	1	0	4	3	+1
Paraná	3	3	0	0	16	3	+13
Pernambuco	9	3	2	4	14	14	0
Rio de Janeiro	46	9	8	29	66	164	-98
Rio de Janeiro (Countryside)	22	14	2	6	62	37	+25
Rio Grande do Sul	4	0	1	3	5	12	-7
Santa Catarina	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
São Paulo	16	3	2	11	21	53	-32
Sergipe	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2
Total (16)	134	56	22	56	301	324	-23

National teams (FIFA)

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Argentina	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1
Brazil	3	1	0	2	3	8	-5
Brazil Olympic	1	0	0	1	0	2	-2
Chile	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1
Czechoslovakia	2	0	1	1	1	3	-2
Soviet Union	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Total (6)	9	3	2	4	10	17	-7