Internacional Foot Ball Club, from 1921 Internacional Sport Club, was a
football club from
Curitiba
Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan area ...
, the capital of the Brazilian state of
Paraná. Internacional played its home games at the
Baixada do Água Verde which had a maximum capacity of 5,000 people.
The club was founded on 22 May 1912 under the leadership of Joaquim Américo Guimarães (who later became a councilor of Curitiba) by members of the ''Jockey Club Paranaense''. In 1914, the team's stadium ''Baixada do Água Verde'' was inaugurated with a 1-7 defeat against
CR Flamengo
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from Rio de Janeiro. At that time, the attendance of 3,000 was the state's record for a football match.
In 1915, Internacional won the championship of the ''Liga Sportiva Paranaense'' and is now considered the first winner of the state championship of Paraná, the
Campeonato Paranaense. Ivo Leão from Internacional scored 14 goals, becoming the first top scorer of the league. In both 1917 and 1918, the club were runners-up in the state championship.
In 1921 Internacional merged with ''Centro Hipico Paranaense'' to form a new club: ''Internacional Sport Club.'' Internacional Sport Club merged with
América Foot-Ball Club before the championship of 1924, forming today's
Clube Atlético Paranaense. The location of the ''Baixada do Água Verde'' is now the ground of Atlético's modern stadium,
Arena da Baixada
Estádio Joaquim Américo Guimarães, known commonly as Arena da Baixada, is a stadium located in Curitiba, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil. It is the home stadium of Club Athletico Paranaense, and has a capacity of 42,372 people. The sta ...
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Honours
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1915 Football Championship Paranaense
** Runners-up: 1917, 1918.
References
* Rodolfo Stella:
América Paraná Sport Club – Curitiba / PR', História do Futebol-Final: A Enciclopédia do Futebol na Internet!!!!, 201303-09.
*
Internacional/PR [BRA]', Futebol Nacional, 2014-01-15.
* Marcelo de Paula Dieguez
Historia do Estádio Joaquim Américo do Clube Atlético Paranaense', Marcelo Dieguez - o Historiador, (per 2014-05-15).
* Julio Bovi Diogo:
',
Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation and RSSSF Brazil, 2014-04-13.
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Defunct football clubs in Paraná (state)
Association football clubs established in 1912
Association football clubs disestablished in 1924
Club Athletico Paranaense
Sport in Curitiba
1912 establishments in Brazil
1924 disestablishments in Brazil