The most direct answer is: in the broader historical profile currently presented by oGol, Confiança has an advantage over Itabaiana. The base records 88 matches between the teams until the 1-1 draw on July 25, 2026, with 40 wins for Confiança, 24 draws and 24 wins for Itabaiana. The bank itself, however, makes an important reservation: not all old editions of the Campeonato Sergipano have coverage that allows absolute completeness to be guaranteed. Therefore, these 88 games must be read as a retrospective documented on this basis, and not as a historical count immune to revision.
The criteria used to not mix different numbers
This retrospective separates four questions that usually appear confused. The first is the general documented on the historical basis. The second is performance by competition. The third is the recent profile, especially the Campeonato Sergipano since 2016. The fourth is the performance in decisive clashes. A number from one of these layers should not be presented as if it automatically responds to the others.
For wins, draws and defeats, the criterion adopted is the result of the game, without transforming a penalty shootout into a victory in retrospect. If a match ends in a draw and a team advances or wins on penalties, the classification belongs to the winner of the dispute, but the game continues to be recorded as a draw in the count of clashes. This is also the criteria declared by oGol for matches decided by penalties.
Friendly matches are also outside the main total of this article. The objective is to compare official competitions. This is relevant because some H2H pages include friendlies and thus arrive at different totals even when they are not necessarily contradicting the score of a specific game.
The general retrospective documented until July 25, 2026
At oGol, the total reaches 88 official games. Confiança appears with 40 wins, Itabaiana with 24 and there are 24 draws. In terms of goals, the same base points to 110 for Confiança and 88 for Itabaiana.
The Azulina advantage, therefore, is 16 victories in the balance of triumphs: 40 against 24. In percentage terms, Confiança won around 45% of the documented games, while Itabaiana won approximately 27%; the other 27% ended in a draw.
This is the number that best answers the question “who won the most?” when the reader wants the broadest cut available on a single basis. But it needs to be accompanied by a methodological note: oGol informs that it fully follows the editions used in the selection of Série B, Série C, Copa do Nordeste and Seletiva da Série B, while it does not guarantee that all old editions of the other competitions are complete.
Campeonato Sergipano concentrates most of the classic
Of the 88 games listed, 71 are from the Sergipe Championship. In this state section, Confiança has 33 wins, Itabaiana 20 and there are 18 draws.
The state alone represents more than four-fifths of the documented history. This helps to understand why texts that only talk about Sergipano can show a very different number of pages that also include national competitions.
It also explains the recent weight of the duel. In February 2026, ge showed that Confiança x Itabaiana had been the most repeated confrontation in the Sergipe Championship in the previous ten years: there were 28 matches from 2016 until the end of 2025. In this cut-off, Itabaiana had a slight advantage, with 10 wins, compared to Confiança's nine and nine draws; Tricolor had scored 30 goals and Dragão, 26.
From then on, the scenario changed with the three state games in 2026. On February 8, Confiança won 1-0. On February 25, Itabaiana won the first leg of the semi-final 2-1. On February 28, Confiança won the second leg 2-0 at Mendonção and advanced to the final.
Updating only that state section started in 2016, without including Copa do Nordeste or Série C, we reach 31 games: 11 wins for Confiança, 11 for Itabaiana and nine draws. In terms of goals, the update of GE's score is 32 for Itabaiana and 30 for Confiança. In other words: Sergipano's recent period is much more balanced than oGol's general history.
Series C, Series B, Copa do Nordeste and Selective
In Series C of the Brazilian Championship, oGol lists 12 clashes between Confiança and Itabaiana. There are five wins for Confiança, four draws and three wins for Itabaiana. The most recent meeting was precisely the last verifiable game used in this article: on July 25, 2026, in the 15th round, Confiança and Itabaiana drew 1-1 at Batistão. The official CBF record confirms the date, location and score.
In Series B, the base records two games, with one victory for each side and no draws. In the old Serie B Selective, two clashes appear, both drawn.
The Copa do Nordeste has only one meeting in the history documented by oGol: Itabaiana 0 x 1 Confiança, on April 9, 2026, at Etelvino Mendonça. CBF's record confirms Azulina's 1-0 victory.
Adding these competitions to Sergipano, we reach 88 base games: 71 in the state, 12 in Series C, two in Series B, two in the Series B Selective and one in the Copa do Nordeste.
What happened in the five meetings of 2026
The year 2026 is a good example of why the classic can appear repeatedly in recent searches. There were five official clashes until July 25th.
The first ended with a 1-0 victory for Confiança, on February 8, in the first phase of Sergipano. The second, on February 25, was won by Itabaiana 2-1, in the first game of the state semifinal. Three days later, at Mendonção, Confiança responded with 2-0 and eliminated their rival.
On April 9, in the Copa do Nordeste, Confiança won again in Itabaiana, this time 1-0. The fifth meeting came in Série C, on July 25, and ended in a 1-1 draw at Batistão.
The balance from 2026 until this game is three wins for Confiança, one for Itabaiana and a draw, with six goals scored by Confiança and three by Itabaiana. This recent performance favors Dragão, but should not be confused with either the general history or the ten-year history of the Sergipe Championship.
The recent finals show another layer of the rivalry
Between 2016 and 2025, Confiança and Itabaiana made three Sergipano Championship finals. In 2017, the first game ended 1-1 at Arena Batistão. On the way back, at Mendonção, Confiança won 1-0 and took the title.
In 2023, the script was completely favorable to Itabaiana. Tricolor won both final games 2-0, first at home and then at Arena Batistão, winning the state championship with 4-0 on aggregate.
In 2025, Confiança won the first leg at Mendonção 2-1 and drew the second leg 1-1 at Batistão, a result enough to be champion. Thus, in the three finals between the two within this recent period, Confiança won two titles, in 2017 and 2025, and Itabaiana with one, in 2023.
The rivalry continued in the knockout stages in 2026, but already in the semifinals. Itabaiana took the lead by winning the first leg 2-1 in Aracaju. Confiança reversed away from home with 2-0 and advanced with 3-2 on aggregate. ge noted that it was the fourth year in a row that the clubs met in a state knockout phase and the third consecutive elimination of Itabaiana by Confiança since 2024.
Why do some bases show 31 games and others 88
The difference is not resolved by automatically choosing the largest number. You have to figure out what each page is telling you.
oGol works with a much longer history and, in the current query, separates 88 official matches per competition. AiScore has a H2H page that says it counts 31 games since 2016, including two friendlies. The problem is that the division shown on this page reports 27 Sergipano Championship games, a number that does not match the cut-off documented by ge: even before the first Confiança x Itabaiana in 2026, ge had already recorded 28 state matches since 2016. After the three Sergipano games in 2026, this cut-off reaches 31 state matches alone.
This makes the AiScore page useful as an example of partial trimming, but inadequate for responding to the classic's historical total. Divergence may arise due to time window, competitions included, friendlies, matches absent from the base, change of competition names, registration criteria and treatment of penalty decisions.
There is also extra care to be taken with dates. A page can record the event according to local time, bank update or internal standardization. When there is an official competition record, as in the 2026 CBF games, it must prevail for the date and score of the event.
So, who won more Confiança vs Itabaiana?
If the question is based on the broader official history documented on oGol until July 25, 2026, Confiança won more: 40 triumphs against Itabaiana's 24, with 24 draws in 88 games.
If the question is only about the Sergipano Championship, the same basis also points to Confiança's advantage in the documented accumulated: 33 wins against 20 for Itabaiana, in addition to 18 draws in 71 matches.
If the focus is Sergipano since 2016, the balance is much greater. Updating the 28 games collected by ge until 2025 with the three state meetings in 2026, the two clubs are tied on 11 wins, with nine draws.
And if the question is about the recent state finals between them, Confiança took two of the three decisions of the period: 2017 and 2025; Itabaiana was champion in 2023.
For this reason, any serious retrospective needs to bring the number and, next to it, the cutout. Just saying “there were 31” or “there were 88” without explaining the period, competition and source creates a false contradiction. The most useful data is the one that makes it clear what entered the account and what was left out.
Sources used and survey limits
oGol was used as the basis for the general retrospective and division by competitions. Page: Confiança x Itabaiana - Confrontation History. URL: https://www.ogol.com.br/estatisticas/confianca-itabaiana/t3204-t3301. The page itself informs the limited coverage of old editions of the Campeonato Sergipano and states that games decided by penalties are considered draws for historical purposes.
ge was used to outline the Sergipe Championship since 2016 and to contextualize recent decisions. Main page of the clipping: Confiança x Itabaiana is the game that has been most repeated in the last ten years of the Sergipe Championship. URL: https://ge.globo.com/se/futebol/cam peonato-sergipano/noticia/2026/02/06/confianca-x-itabaiana-e-o-jogo-que-mais-se-repetiu-nos-ulti mos-dez-anos-de-campeonato-sergipano.ghtml.
The CBF was used to confirm the two national meetings in 2026. Série C, July 25, 2026: https://www.cbf.com.br/futebol-brasileiro/jogos/campeonato-brasileiro/serie-c/2026/confianca-saf- x-itabaiana/834838. Copa do Nordeste, April 9, 2026: https://www.cbf.com.br/futebol-brasilei ro/jogos/copa-do-nordeste/masculino/2026/itabaiana-x-confianca-saf/833660.
The Sergipe Football Federation and ge were used to check the 2026 knockout stages and recent decisions. The FSF confirms Confiança's 2-0 victory at Mendonção and qualification for the 2026 final: https://fsf-se.com.br/sergipe-e-confianca-estao-na-final-do-sergipao-superbet/. For 2025, the FSF records a 1-1 draw in the second leg and the Confiança title after a 2-1 victory in the first leg: https://fsf-se.com.br/confianca-e-bicampeao-do-sergipao-superbet/.
This article does not transform the oGol total into a definitive historical truth because the source itself warns of gaps in old editions of the state. If new summaries, digitized newspapers or federation files prove missing matches, the overall total can be corrected without changing the criteria: competition, date, score and source must be identified before the game is counted.
