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América Futebol Clube is a football club from
Joinville Joinville () is the largest city in Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina, in the Southern Brazil, Southern Region of Brazil. It is the third largest municipality in the southern region of Brazil, after the much larger state capitals of Curitib ...
, with a population of more than half a million the largest city of the south Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The club, founded on 14 June 1914, won between 1947 and 1971 five times the state championship of Santa Catarina, the
Campeonato Catarinense The Campeonato Catarinense is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. It is run by the Santa Catarina Football Federation (FCF). History The Catarinense has had different names throughout ...
. In the national level, América took part in second level of the national championship of 1971, where it finished on the 15th place. In 1976 a merger of the football operations with the traditional rivals Caxias FC gave birth to the
Joinville Esporte Clube Joinville Esporte Clube, JEC or simply Joinville, is a Brazilian football team from Joinville in Santa Catarina. Founded on 29 January 1976 they have won the Série B and Série C once and they have the largest sequence of consecutive state ...
, which since has won more than ten state championships. 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 Série B, in the same year where the club finished 15th. 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
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and
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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


Official tournaments


Others tournaments


State Regional

*Copa Regional Norte Catarinense (4): 2004, 2005, 2011, 2013


City

*Liga Joinvilense de Futebol (15): 1942, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2011, 2014


Runners-up

*
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(4): 1942, 1943, 1953, 1969


References


América/SC
Futebol Nacional, 2014-04-12.

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and RSSSF Brazil. {{DEFAULTSORT:America Futebol Clube SC Football clubs in Santa Catarina (state) Joinville Joinville Esporte Clube Association football clubs established in 1914 1914 establishments in Brazil Inactive football clubs in Brazil