América Futebol Clube (SC)
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Full name | América Futebol Clube | |||
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Nickname(s) | Rubro Galo da Zona Norte | |||
Founded | 14 June 1914 | |||
Ground | Estádio Olímpico Sadalla Amin Ghanem, Joinville, (SC) | |||
Capacity | 2,500 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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América Futebol Clube is a football club from
In the second half of the 1980s América returned to football under its own name, albeit only on amateur level. Since the club won between 1989 and 2011 six times the amateur championship of its hometown.
Initially América was the dominant team of Joinville, winning the first four editions of the city championship of Joinville which was held 33 times between 1920 and 1962. Altogether América won the title 15 times, the same number as Caxcias FC which was founded in 1920 and shared the primacy in Joinville from circa the mid-1920s.
After Caxias brought the first state championship trophy to Joinville in 1929, América won the title in 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952 and 1971, the latter title qualifying the club for participating in the first edition of a second national tier, later named
In 1976 a merger of the football operations of América and Caxias, which by then had won in 1954 and 1955 two more state titles, led to the foundation of the Joinville Esporte Clube under the leadership of a local entrepreneur, which since has won more than ten state championships, including a record eight consecutive titles in its early phase from 1978 to 1985. Both, Caxias and América were under great financial duress in that period.
Notable players
Beto Fuscão, later a star of Grêmio FBPA in Porto Alegre and SE Palmeiras of São Paulo who played nine times for Brazil was with América from 1971 to 1972. Several players from América were top-scorers of the state championship of Santa Catarina:
- 1947: Nicácio (5 goals)
- 1948: Zabot (8)
- 1951: Bastinho (9)
- 1952: René
- 1972: Marcos (20)
Honours
State
- Campeonato Catarinense: (5) 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1971
City
- Championship of Joinville: (15) 1920, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1961.
- Amateur Championship of Joinville: 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2011.
References
- América/SC, Futebol Nacional, 2014-04-12.
- Football Competitions of Santa Catarina, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundationand RSSSF Brazil.