Chapecoense

At the end of last year Chapecoense suffered their first ever relegation at national level, when their six-year spell in the Brazilian first division came to an end.

But this is a club well able to tell the difference between a sporting disappointment and a genuine tragedy. Chapecoense, of course, are the little club whose team were practically wiped out in an air disaster on November 28, 2016. Their plane crashed on approach to Medellin airport, where they were about to play Atletico Nacional in