Avaí Futebol Clube () is a
Brazilian football team from
Florianópolis
Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina, in the South Region, Brazil, South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as we ...
in
Santa Catarina, founded on 1 September 1923. Their home stadium is
Estádio Aderbal Ramos da Silva, also known as Ressacada, with a capacity of 17,800. They play in blue and white shirts, shorts and socks.
History
The club was founded after a businessman called Amadeu Horn gave football kits to a group of boys. The boys played a match against a team called Humaitá, and won. On 1 September 1923, at Amadeu Horn's house, the club was founded, known as Avahy Football Club at the time. The team was named Avahy after the
Battle of Avay, in the
Paraguayan War
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. In the following year, it became the first Santa Catarina State Championship champion.
Avaí has played in the
Brazilian First Division ("Série A") eleven times: 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. In 1998, they won their only national title, the
Brazilian Third Division ("Série C"). From 1999 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014, they played in the
Série B with their best campaigns being the third place attained in 2004 (when Avaí reached the Final Four, but could not be promoted to the First Division because only the two best placed teams were promoted) and 2008.
In 2008 they finished 3rd in the championship and were promoted to the First Division for the first time in 30 years. In its first year playing in
Série A, Avaí finished in 6th place, thus qualifying for the
Copa Sudamericana
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. This has been the best participation ever by a club from the State of Santa Catarina in the Brazilian first division. The team eventually was relegated in 2011, and returned to the Série A in 2014, when the team won the promotion in the last round. Avaí won the most
Santa Catarina State Championship titles in the 20th Century (13), and is currently the all-time record state champions (18), same as
cross-bridge rivals Figueirense.
Rivals
Avaí's greatest rival is
Figueirense.
Club colors and nickname
The club colors are blue and white, and it is known as "''The Lion of the Island''" (because 90% of the
Florianópolis
Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina, in the South Region, Brazil, South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as we ...
territory is established on an island).
Competitions record
Série A
Série B
Série C
Copa do Brasil
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Copa Sudamericana
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* 9 seasons in Série A
* 19 seasons in Série B
* 5 seasons in Série C
Stadium
Avaí's stadium is Estádio Aderbal Ramos da Silva (though it's mostly referred to as Ressacada), and it was inaugurated in 1983. It has a maximum capacity of 17,800 people, but its record crowd was 32,000 at the 1988 State Championship final. Before 1983, Avaí's stadium was Estádio Adolfo Konder (which has been subsequently demolished).
Players
First team squad
Other players under contract
Youth team
Out on loan
Retired numbers
Technical staff
Honours
Official tournaments
*
Others tournaments
International
*International Triangular Tournament (1): 1975
Inter-state
*Torneio Integração Paraná-Santa Catarina (1): 1972
*Torneio Ivo Reis Montenegro (1): 1975
State
*
Taça Governador do Estado (2): 1983, 1985
*Torneio Início do Campeonato Catarinense (3): 1925, 1926, 1936
City
*Campeonato Citadino de Florianópolis (20): 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1933, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1995
*Torneio Início de Florianópolis (13): 1925, 1926, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963
Runners-up
*
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
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(1):
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
*
Campeonato Catarinense (10): 1925, 1940, 1949, 1951, 1972, 1977, 1985, 1992, 1999, 2017
*
Recopa Catarinense (2): 2020, 2022
Youth team
*
Copa Votorantim Sub-15 (2): 2019, 2020
Affiliated clubs
The following club is currently affiliated with Avaí FC:
*
Odisha FC (2021–present)
Odisha FC partners with Brazil's Avaí Futebol Clube expanding OFC's global presence
''indiansuperleague.com''. 5 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
See also
* Avaí FC (women)
References
External links
*
Fan siteFanáticos por Futebol – Avaí
(archived)
AvaianoSempre – Avaí's Flog
(archived)
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Association football clubs established in 1923
Sport in Florianópolis
1923 establishments in Brazil