With a gala performance at the Fonte Nova Arena in Salvador, Bahia thrashed Confiança 5-0 to ensure the title of the 2025 edition of the Northeast Cup. This is the fifth opportunity in which the Tricolor de Steel got the competition trophy, after the victorious campaigns of 2001, 2002, 2017 and 2021.
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Pental champion!
Squad is run over in the final, imposes 9 to 1 on the aggregate score and isolates in number of titles in the Northeast Cup, now with five officers and without asterisk. Unique penta! Tiago (3), Lucho and Rezende scored 5-0 today in a source with almost 50 thousand… pic.twitter.com/mjv1fa7pkf
– Esporte Clube Bahia (@ecbahia) SEPTEMBER 6, 2025
The team led by coach Rogério Ceni has already reached the second game of the decision with a hand in the cup, after surpassing the dragon 4-1, last Wednesday (3) in the middle of Arena Batistão, Aracaju, in the confrontation.
The Bahia show started early. Just four minutes into the first half, Tiago took advantage of Rodrigo Nestor’s low cross to hide to the bottom of the net. Six minutes later Uruguayan Lucho Rodríguez showed a goal to extend the advantage of Tricolor de Steel. Still in the early stage, but at 17, defender Rezende scored the third.
At 36 minutes Tiago scored for the second time in the match, when he completes his head after Iago’s cross. Bahia’s shirt 77 lived a special night on Saturday, and needed just three minutes to receive from Rodrigo Nestor, leave in speed and hit the goalkeeper Allan to score his third goal in the decision.
With such an elastic advantage built before the break, it was up to Bahia to manage the actions in the final stage to confirm the title of the Northeast Cup.
