# 2025 Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas season

The 2025 season will be the 101st year of competition for Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, a Brazilian football club based in Rio de Janeiro. The team is set to compete in the Série A, Campeonato Carioca, Copa do Brasil, Copa Libertadores, Recopa Sudamericana, and, for the first time, the Supercopa do Brasil and FIFA Club World Cup. Botafogo are the reigning champions of the Copa Libertadores.

## Squad
### Transfers In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| MF | Jeffinho | Lyon | €5,300,000 | 3 January 2025 | |
| FW | Artur | Zenit Saint Petersburg | €10,000,000 | 20 January 2025 | |

### Transfers Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| DF | Pablo | Flamengo | End of loan | 31 December 2024 |
| MF | Óscar Romero | | Released | 31 December 2024 |
| GK | Gabriel Toebe Studt | Avenida | | 31 December 2024 |
| MF | Emerson Urso | Vila Nova | Released | 31 December 2024 |
| MF | Chay | Volta Redonda | Released | 31 December 2024 |
| DF | Rafael | Retired | End of contract | 31 December 2024 |
| DF | Marçal | | End of contract | 31 December 2024 |
| GK | Gatito Fernández | Cerro Porteño | End of contract | 31 December 2024 |
| MF | Tchê Tchê | Vasco da Gama | End of contract | 31 December 2024 |
| MF | Eduardo | Cruzeiro | End of contract | 31 December 2024 |
| DF | Daniel Borges | Mirassol | Free | 3 January 2025 |
| DF | Hugo | Vitória | Loan | 7 January 2025 |
| MF | Raí | Boavista | Loan | 10 January 2025 |
| MF | Thiago Almada | Olympique Lyonnais | Loan | 15 January 2025 |
| MF | Luiz Henrique | Zenit Saint Petersburg | €33,000,000 | 20 January 2025 |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | 29–31 March 2025 | 21 December 2025 | Matchday 1 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Campeonato Carioca | 11 January 2025 | | Taça Guanabara | Taça Guanabara | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 12 | −1 | 036.36 |
| Copa do Brasil | 29 April – 1 May 2025 | | Third round | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Supercopa do Brasil | 2 February 2025 | 2 February 2025 | Final | Runner-up | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Copa Libertadores | 1–3 April 2025 | | Group stage | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Recopa Sudamericana | 20 February 2025 | 27 February 2025 | Final | Runner-up | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 000.00 |
| FIFA Club World Cup | 15 June 2025 | | Group stage | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 19 | −7 | 028.57 |
Last updated: 18 January 2025 Source: Competitions

### Campeonato Carioca
#### Taça Guanabara
##### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Ground | H | H | A | H |
| Result | L | W | L | |
| Position | 9 | | | |

### FIFA Club World Cup
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Paris Saint-Germain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Atlético Madrid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Botafogo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Seattle Sounders FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |