Futebol Clube Cascavel, more commonly referred to as FC Cascavel, is a Brazilian professional

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club in

Cascavel Cascavel is a municipality in the state of Paraná in Brazil. It is the fifth most populous city in the state with 332,333 residents, according to IBGE, a government agency. The distance to Curitiba, the state capital, is 491 kilometers by fr ...

, Paraná which currently plays in Série D, the fourth tier of

Brazilian football Football is the most popular sport in Brazil and a prominent part of the country’s national identity. The Brazil national football team has won the FIFA World Cup five times, the most of any team, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. Brazil an ...

, as well as in the

Campeonato Paranaense Campeonato Paranaense, which has been contested since 1915, is the top-flight football league of the state of Paraná, Brazil. Format The format has changed in 2014. 12 teams are together in a single group. They play against each other once, ...

, the top division of the Paraná state football league.

History

The club was founded on 23 January 2008. by the footballer Juliano Haus Belletti. They finished in the second position in the Campeonato Paranaense Third Level in 2009, losing the competition to

Pato Branco Pato Branco ("White Duck" in English) is a municipality in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The municipality covers 537,8 km² (206.7 mi²) and has a population of 83,843 (2020 IBGE estimate). Pato Branco started off as a village in 1942 and was ...

Stadium

FC Cascavel play their home games at

Estádio Olímpico Regional Arnaldo Busatto Estádio Olímpico Regional Arnaldo Busatto, sometimes nicknamed Ninho das Cobras (meaning ''Snake Nest'') is a multi-use stadium in Cascavel, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosts the home games of Cascavel Clube Recre ...

. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 28,125 people.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cascavel, FC Association football clubs established in 2008 Football clubs in Paraná (state) 2008 establishments in Brazil