Sociedade Esportiva Juventude, usually known as Juventude Samas, Juventude-MA or simply Juventude, is a Brazilian football club from

São Mateus do Maranhão São Mateus do Maranhão is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. The municipality contains a small part of the Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit created i ...

Maranhão Maranhão () is a state in Brazil. Located in the country's Northeast Region, it has a population of about 7 million and an area of . Clockwise from north, it borders on the Atlantic Ocean for 2,243 km and the states of Piauí, Tocantins and ...

. Juventude Samas is currently ranked fourth among Maranhão teams in CBF's national club ranking, at 103rd place overall.

History

Founded in 1979 in the city of Caxias, Juventude only played amateur competitions until 2005, when it played in the

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. After finishing second, the club achieved promotion and played the 2006

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, but finished in the last position and later went to inactivity. The club then played the second division again in 2008, before staying ten years without playing and moving to

. After finishing fourth in 2018, the club won the second division in 2019, and late in the year, also won the

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, qualifying for the

2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D The 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D was a football competition held in Brazil, equivalent to the fourth division. The competition was originally scheduled to begin on 3 May and end on 22 November, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic the tourn ...

Honours

: 2019 *

: 2019

References

External links

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Soccerway team profile
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