The Liga das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro (LIERJ;

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: League of Samba Schools of the Rio de Janeiro) is the leading association that organizes the Série A Group in the

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. On 15 July 2008, seven presidents of associations of Grupo de acesso decided to found in LESGA in order to join project and what they thought was best for the access group A, on August 7, 2008 with the entry of three associations, and associations founded by 10 From there, they separated from the

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and created their own association, the LESGA, which will manage the parades, handing over the proceeds to the samba school of the Grupo de acesso A. After separation of the Association, which was defined by the regulation, would rise 1 of the Grupo Rio de Janeiro 1 and going down 1, but the AESCRJ not agree because the dissidents who founded the LESGA had approved two going down and up two of the RJ-1, which caused a rift between the LESGA and AESCRJ, but this increased even when there came no school for the RJ-1 and Cubango and Padre Miguel finished tied calculation, which would generate more problems. In an agreement signed with RIOTUR and the AESCRJ was determined that 2010 will be 12 schools that parade, and the two fall to the Grupo Rio de Janeiro 1 (old Grupo de acesso B), and being promoted to Group A access The same regulation will serve to Carnival 2011. from 2012, the school champion of the Rio de Janeiro 1 LESGA be affiliated with, and the parade is lowered, returning to join the AESCRJ, beyond the school champion who belongs to

LIESA Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba do Rio de Janeiro ( en, Independent League of the Samba Schools of Rio de Janeiro), commonly known by the acronym LIESA, is the principal association that organizes the Carnival of the city of Rio de Janeiro. ...

, and of course lowered to become a member of LESGA. because of problems in determining the most LESGA not organized the parade. taking March 2012. been determined that the election victory of Déo Pessoa in front of the entity. months later they changed the name to LIERJ. Missing some months for the carnival, various samba schools migrated to LIERJ, with the approval of the government. all this after internal problems in AESCRJ that led to subsidization. Thus Group B was restored, but today is handled by the LIESB. While the last placed school for the year in the final scores is placed under the LIESB's B Series (Silver Division 1), the A Series (Gold Division) champion advances as a full member of

, the carnival organizer, and its attached Special Group.

Presidents

Série Ouro

* Em Cima da Hora * Acadêmicos do Cubango *

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Unidos do Porto da Pedra Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos do Porto da Pedra (commonly called Porto da Pedra or Unidos do Porto da Pedra) is a samba school currently headquartered in the municipality of São Gonçalo. The school was previously located in the ci ...

União da Ilha do Governador The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba União da Ilha do Governador (Recreation Guild Samba School Union of Governor's Island) was founded on March 7, 1953 by the friends Maurício Gazelle, and Quincas Orphylo, who were in Cacuia, the main site o ...

* Unidos de Bangu * Acadêmicos do Sossego * Lins Imperial *

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* Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz *

Unidos de Padre Miguel The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos de Padre Miguel is a samba school of the city of Rio de Janeiro, being located on Rua Mesquita in the neighborhood of Padre Miguel. I came to present themselves among the great, in 1960, 1971 and 1972 ...

* Acadêmicos de Vigário Geral *

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Império Serrano The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Império Serrano is a samba school of the city of Rio de Janeiro, that was created on March 23 of 1947 after a disagreement of the extinct samba school Prazer da Serrinha. It was nine times champion of the ...

Second Division Champions

* 1952 - Unidos do Indaiá (1) * 1953 - Acadêmicos do Engenho da Rainha (1) * 1954 -

Beija-Flor The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Beija-Flor is a Samba school headquartered in the municipality of Nilópolis, Baixada Fluminense, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In total, Beija-Flor has won 14 parades of the Carnaval do Ri ...

(1) * 1955 - União de Jacarepaguá (1) * 1955 - Paz e Amor (1) * 1956 - Lins Imperial (1) * 1956 - União do Centenário (1) * 1957 - Unidos de Bangu (1) * 1958 -

Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel is a samba school of the city of Rio de Janeiro, being located on Rua Coronel Tamarindo, in the neighborhood of Padre Miguel. History The Mocidade was founded on ...

(1) * 1959 -

(1) * 1960 -

Caprichosos de Pilares The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Caprichosos de Pilares (or simply Caprichosos de Pilares) is a Brazilian samba school of Rio de Janeiro based in the neighborhood of Pilares. It was founded on February 19, 1949 by Oscar Lino, Dagoberto Berna ...

(1) * 1961 - Unidos do Cabuçu (1) * 1962 - Unidos de Bangu (2) * 1963 - Unidos da Capela (1) * 1964 - Império da Tijuca (1) * 1965 - Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz (1) * 1966 -

São Clemente The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba São Clemente is a samba school from Rio de Janeiro, located in the Cidade Nova neighborhood, on Avenida Presidente Vargas. The school became famous over the years for plots regarded as full of good humor, ...

(1) * 1967 -

(1) * 1968 - Em Cima da Hora (1) * 1969 - Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz (2) * 1970 - Império da Tijuca (2) * 1971 - Em Cima da Hora (2) * 1972 - Tupy de Brás de Pina (1) * 1973 -

(2) * 1974 -

(1) * 1975 - Lins Imperial (2) * 1976 - Império da Tijuca (3) * 1977 - Arrastão de Cascadura (1) * 1978 -

(3) * 1979 -

Unidos de Vila Isabel Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos de Vila Isabel is a samba school in Rio de Janeiro. It was thrice champion of the Special Group and is currently headquartered in Boulevard 28 de Setembro in Vila Isabel. The Unidos de Vila Isabel sam ...

(1) * 1980 -

Unidos da Tijuca The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos da Tijuca is a samba school of the city of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of the same ...

(1) * 1981 -

(4) * 1982 -

(2) * 1983 -

(5) * 1984 - Unidos do Cabuçu (2) * 1985 - Unidos da Ponte (1) * 1986 - Unidos do Jacarezinho (1) * 1987 -

(2) * 1988 - Arranco (1) * 1989 - Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz (3) * 1990 -

Unidos do Viradouro Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Unidos do Viradouro, or simply Viradouro or Unidos do Viradouro, is a samba school that competes in the Carnival city of Rio de Janeiro. It is located in the Barreto neighborhood in Niterói. History It ...

(1) * 1991 - Tradição (1) * 1992 -

Acadêmicos do Grande Rio The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Acadêmicos do Grande Rio is a samba school of the Special Group of the carnival of the city of Rio de Janeiro, being headquartered on Almirante Barroso street in Duque de Caxias. History In the 1950s, ...

(1) * 1993 - Tradição (2) * 1994 - Unidos da Villa Rica (1) * 1995 -

(1) * 1996 - Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz (4) * 1997 - Tradição (3) * 1998 -

(1) * 1999 -

(3) * 2000 -

(2) * 2001 -

(2) * 2002 - Acadêmicos de Santa Cruz (5) * 2003 -

(2) * 2004 -

(2) * 2005 -

Acadêmicos da Rocinha The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Acadêmicos da Rocinha is a samba school in Rio de Janeiro, located in the neighborhood of São Conrado on Bertha Lutz street. History The Academic Rocinha samba school comes from three carnivals of favela ...

(1) * 2006 -

(6) * 2007 -

(3) * 2008 -

(3) * 2009 -

(2) *

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(4) * 2011 - Renascer de Jacarepaguá (1) *

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- Inocentes de Belford Roxo (1) *

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- Império da Tijuca (4) *

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(2) *

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(7) * 2016 -

Paraíso do Tuiuti The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba Paraíso do Tuiuti is a samba school in Rio de Janeiro, located in the neighborhood of São Cristóvão São Cristóvão (, ''Saint Christopher'') is a Brazilian municipality in the Northeastern state o ...

(1) *

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(4) * 2018 -

(3) Viradouro é campeã da Série A do carnaval do RJ e volta ao Grupo Especial após 3 anos
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(8) * 2020 -

Imperatriz Leopoldinense The samba school Imperatriz Leopoldinense was created on March 6, 1956 in the suburb of Ramos, in Rio de Janeiro. It is named after Maria Leopoldina, archduchess of Austria and Empress of Brazil, consort of Emperor Pedro I. Imperatriz began ...

(1)

References

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