Clube Atlético Mineiro, commonly known as Atlético Mineiro or Vingadoras, is a Brazilian women's
Association football club, based in the city of
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...
,
Minas Gerais. They won the
Campeonato Mineiro de Futebol Feminino seven times.
History
Initially created in 1983 as an amateur women's side of
Clube Atlético Mineiro
Clube Atlético Mineiro (), commonly known as Atlético Mineiro or Atlético, and colloquially as Galo (, "Rooster"), is the largest professional football club based in the city of Belo Horizonte, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mi ...
to play in an experimental inaugural season of the
Campeonato Mineiro de Futebol Feminino, the women's section of the club was officially created in 2005, the year which the Mineiro Feminino officially started.
Atlético's women's team was dissolved in 2012, due to lack of funding. On 19 December 2018, the club announced the return of the women's section, after
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Suri ...
obliged all men's teams to have a senior women's team playing in a competition.
Players
Current squad
Honours
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Campeonato Mineiro de Futebol Feminino:
** Winners (8): 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2020, 2021, 2022
References
External links
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Clube Atlético Mineiro
Women's football clubs in Brazil
Association football clubs established in 2005
2005 establishments in Brazil