Clube Atlético Mineiro (), commonly known as Atlético Mineiro or Atlético, and colloquially as Galo (, "Rooster"), is the largest professional
football club based in the city of
Belo Horizonte, the
capital city
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of the
Brazilian state of
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literall ...
. The team competes in the
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian"), and also known as Brasileirão Assaí due to sponsorship with Assaí Atacadista, is a Br ...
, the
first level of Brazilian football, as well as in the
Campeonato Mineiro, the top tier
state league of Minas Gerais.
Atlético Mineiro is the oldest active football club in Minas Gerais, founded on 25 March 1908 by twenty-two students from Belo Horizonte.
Despite having upper-class founders, the club immediately opened its doors to players of every
social class, establishing itself as a "people's club",
and becoming one of the most-supported clubs in Brazil.
The club's mascot, a rooster, has been strongly associated with Atlético since its introduction in the 1930s. Over the years, the word ''Galo'' (
Portuguese for "rooster") became a common nickname for the club itself. The team's regular home
kit
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comprises black-and-white striped shirts, with black shorts and white socks.
Atlético has won the Campeonato Mineiro a record 47 times. At the national level, the club has won the Campeonato Brasileiro twice and has finished second on five occasions. It has also won two
Copa do Brasil
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, and the
Supercopa do Brasil, the
Copa dos Campeões Estaduais, and the
Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros once each.
In
international club football, Atlético has won the
Copa Libertadores and the
Recopa Sudamericana once each, and a record two
Copa CONMEBOL; the team has also reached three other continental finals. The club has also competed in other sports throughout its history, with the
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department becoming especially notable.
Atlético plays its home matches at the estádio
Mineirão
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It served as ...
, the club has a long-standing cross-city rivalry with
Cruzeiro, with matches between the two teams referred to as the
Clássico Mineiro
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. The club also holds a
local rivalry with
América Mineiro
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, and an
interstate one with
Flamengo. Atlético has the eighth most valuable brand in Brazil, worth million (€143 million) as of 2016, and ranks seventh in the country in terms of turnover, generating R$244.6 million (€62.2 million) in 2015.
Atlético is currently building a new stadium, the
Arena MRV
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History
The initial step to kick off the construct ...
, which will have a capacity of over 48,000 spectators. Its inauguration is scheduled for the first quarter of 2023.
History
Early years and achievements (1908–1949)

Atlético Mineiro was formed on 25 March 1908 by a group of twenty-two students from
Belo Horizonte, who decided the club's name would be ''Athletico Mineiro Foot Ball Club.'' The club's first match was played against Sport Club Futebol on 21 March 1909; Atlético won 3–0, with the first goal scored by
Aníbal Machado
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.
In 1913, the club's name was officially changed to ''Clube Atlético Mineiro'', and in the following year Atlético won the Taça Bueno Brandão, the first competition ever held in the state of Minas Gerais. In 1915, the club won the inaugural edition of the
Campeonato Mineiro, the
state league of Minas Gerais. The competition was then organised by the ''Liga Mineira de Sports Athléticos'', which would later become the
Federação Mineira de Futebol
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.
América won the next ten editions of the Mineiro, and Atlético only won the league again in 1926, led by striker
Mário de Castro
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. In 1927, forwards
Said and
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joined Castro to form an attacking partnership nicknamed the ''Trio Maldito'' ("Unholy Trio"), which guided Atlético to another state league triumph. In 1929, the club played its first international encounter, against Portuguese club
Vitória de Setúbal, winning 3–1 in a match played at the
Presidente Antônio Carlos Stadium. The ground had opened earlier that year, and would be the club's home for the following two decades.

Atlético won the state league in 1931 and 1932, before becoming a professional club in 1933. After another Campeonato Mineiro triumph in 1936, Atlético won the
Copa dos Campeões Estaduais in
1937, its first title at national level. The competition was organised by the ''Federação Brasileira de Foot-Ball'', a federation for professional clubs that would later merge into the
Brazilian Sports Confederation (CBD). The Copa dos Campeões Estaduais was contested by the 1936 state league champions from Minas Gerais (Atlético),
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(
Fluminense),
São Paulo
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(
Portuguesa) and
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(
Rio Branco). Atlético defeated the latter 5–1 in the final match, played at the Antônio Carlos stadium.
Guará
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rose as the club's top player during that period, and the interstate title was followed by two more Campeonato Mineiro victories, in 1938 and 1939.
Success continued in the 1940s, with a squad that included
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,
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,
Nívio and goalkeeper
Kafunga. The club was dominant in the state as it won the league in 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947 and 1949.
Although América had been Atlético's long-standing adversary, a new
rivalry started to develop with
Cruzeiro in the 1940s, as it became Galo's main challenger during this period.
European tour and the Mineirão era (1950–1969)
In 1950, the club's home moved from the Antônio Carlos to the newer and larger
Estádio Independência. The season saw another Campeonato Mineiro triumph and the club's first
European tour, in which it played ten games in five countries. The excursion happened at a time when there were neither regular national competitions in Brazil nor continental ones in South America, and followed soon after the traumatic
Maracanazo. The tour and Atlético's results, many of which achieved under adverse weather conditions and snow, were seen by national sports media as a historic achievement for
Brazilian football itself. The team, captained by
Zé do Monte, was dubbed the ''Campeões do Gelo'' ("Ice Champions"), a title that is remembered in the club's official anthem.
The club's success in the state competition continued in the 1950s, a decade that saw the rise of forward
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and five consecutive Campeonato Mineiro victories from 1952 to 1956. After another state league title in 1958, Atlético took part in the
inaugural edition of the
Taça Brasil in the following year, reaching the third round. The tournament, the country's first annual nationwide competition, was a
cup
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contested between state league champions, originally created by the CBD to select Brazil's entrants in the newly formed
Copa Libertadores.
In the 1960s, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro twice, in 1962 and 1963, but failed to advance to the later stages of the Taça Brasil.
Mineirão
Mineirão (), officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (''Governor Magalhães Pinto Stadium'') is the largest football stadium in the state of Minas Gerais. It was established in 1965, and it is located in Belo Horizonte.
It served as ...
, Belo Horizonte's new stadium, opened in 1965 and immediately became the club's home. It was in the mid-1960s that the rivalry with Cruzeiro became the biggest in the state, after this club won the first five state leagues of the Mineirão era. In 1967, another national-level competition was created by the CBD, the
Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa.
It included more clubs than the Taça Brasil, but Atlético did not finish in the top-four in any of its editions in the decade. In the second half of the 1960s, highlights came in the form of friendlies against national sides. In 1968, Atlético, representing the
Brazilian national team, defeated
European Championship runners-up Yugoslavia
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3–2 at the Mineirão; the following year, the ''Seleção'' itself, which would become champions of the
1970 FIFA World Cup, was defeated 2–1.
National success and state dominance (1970–1989)

With the arrival of
Telê Santana as the club's head coach in 1970, Galo broke Cruzeiro's sequence and won its first state league title in the Mineirão, also finishing third in the last
Roberto Gomes Pedrosa. In 1971, captained by midfielder
Oldair and with
World Cup-winning forward
Dario as the league's top goalscorer, Atlético won the
Campeonato Brasileiro. It was the first edition of the competition, also known as the Brasileirão, which replaced both the Taça Brasil and the Roberto Gomes Pedrosa as the new national championship.
Atlético played a final group stage against
São Paulo
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and
Botafogo, defeating the former 1–0 at the Mineirão and the latter 1–0 at the
Maracanã. The victory also secured the club's first participation in an official continental competition, the
1972 Copa Libertadores, in which it did not advance past the first group stage.

After four trophyless years, Atlético won the state league again in 1976 and finished third in the
Campeonato Brasileiro. That season saw the emergence of a golden generation of players, formed in the club's youth academies under coach
Barbatana.
Reinaldo,
Toninho Cerezo,
Éder,
Luizinho,
Paulo Isidoro and
João Leite, players who represented Brazil at international level, were central to the team that took Atlético to six consecutive state league victories between 1978 and 1983, and to good results in the Série A. Atlético came second in the
1977 Brasileirão, losing the final to São Paulo in a
penalty shootout at the Mineirão, despite remaining undefeated for the entire season. Reinaldo, the league's top scorer in that season with an average of 1.56 goals per match, was banned from the final. By his account, this was because of his insistence on celebrating his goals by raising his fist, a political symbol that opposed the
Brazilian military government of the time. In 1978, Atlético reached the
Copa Libertadores semi-finals and won the
Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros, a tournament organised by the CBD between past winners of the Brasileirão. In a repetition of the previous year's Brasileiro decisive match, the opponent in the final of this competition was São Paulo, with Atlético this time winning a penalty shootout.
In
1980, after having the best record in the first stages of the Brasileirão, Atlético lost to
Flamengo in a controversial final of the competition. Three Galo players were sent off, among them Reinaldo, who received a straight red card after scoring twice.
The team was then eliminated from the
following year's Copa Libertadores undefeated, in another decisive match marked by controversy: a play-off against Flamengo that ended after 37 minutes, following the sendings-off of five Atlético players.
During the 1980s, the club participated in and won international friendly competitions, such as the
Amsterdam Tournament and the
Tournoi de Paris. Atlético had the best statistic league records of the 1980,
1983,
1985,
1986 and
1987 Brasileirão seasons, but did not win the title, falling in the finals or semi-finals of those editions. In the second half of the decade, the club continued its success in the state, winning the Campeonato Mineiro in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989.
Atlético was one of Brazil's top sides of the 1980s, providing many players to the Brazilian national team, being dominant at state level and having good performances in the Brasileiro, but a tendency to lose in its final knockout stages prevented a new title in this competition.
Continental efforts and financial turmoil (1990–2009)
In the following decade, Atlético won the state league in 1991 and first saw success at continental level in 1992, when it won the inaugural
Copa CONMEBOL. The team, managed by
Procópio Cardoso, defeated Paraguay's
Olimpia in the finals to claim its first official international title. As champion of that competition, the club took part in the
1993 Copa de Oro, in which it eliminated rivals Cruzeiro in the semi-finals but eventually lost to Argentina's
Boca Juniors
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. After finishing fourth in the
1994 Brasileirão, the following year saw the club win the state league and reach the finals of the
Copa CONMEBOL for a second time. This one ended in defeat to Argentine team
Rosario Central on penalties, after Atlético won the first leg by 4–0 and lost the second one by the same score. In 1996, Atlético participated in the
Copa Masters CONMEBOL
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, a competition between past winners of the Copa CONMEBOL that was played in
Cuiabá; Atlético eliminated Rosario Central in the semi-finals but lost to São Paulo in the final match. The team also finished third in
that year's Brasileiro and fourth in the
following edition, falling in the semi-finals of both seasons. Another triumph came in the
1997 Copa CONMEBOL, when an Atlético team that included
Marques and
Cláudio Taffarel defeated Argentina's
Lanús in the finals, and won the trophy for a second time.
In 1999, after another Campeonato Mineiro title, a Galo side led by Marques and
Guilherme
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, the top scorer in the league, reached the
Série A finals for the fourth time, but lost to
Corinthians. Despite international success and good performances in the Série A, the decade was marked by bad club administration by Atlético's presidents and deteriorating finances, which made the club one of the most indebted in Brazilian football.
In 2000, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro, and reached the
Copa Libertadores quarter-finals and the semi-finals of
Copa Mercosur, but had a bad season in the national league, the
Copa João Havelange. The following year, despite a good performance in the
Brasileirão with a squad that included Marques, Guilherme and
Gilberto Silva, the team again was eliminated in the competition's semi-finals, eventually finishing in fourth place. Atlético then finished in the upper part of the national league table in the following two seasons, but in
2004
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it barely escaped relegation. In
2005 the club was demoted to the
Série B, the second level of the Brasileirão.
With
Levir Culpi as head coach, the club won promotion at the first attempt as Série B champion in
2006, returning to the Série A for the 2007 season.
That year, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro, its first trophy in seven years, and finished eighth in the
national league
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. Alexandre Kalil was chosen as the club's new president in 2008, and tried to improve its finances and status. In 2009, with
Diego Tardelli in good form, Galo led the
Brasileirão for eight of the thirty-eight rounds, before eventually finishing in seventh place. Despite some highlights at the beginning and end of the decade, the 2000s were not a successful period in the club's history, again marked by bad administration and frequent managerial changes.
Resurgence and international success (2010-2017)
The team won its 40th Campeonato Mineiro in 2010, but finished 13th in the
Série A. After an unsuccessful year in
2011, coming close to relegation, the arrival of
Cuca as head coach at the end of that season marked the beginning of another successful era for the club. The club moved back to the Independência in 2012, as the Mineirão was closed for renovation, and won the
Campeonato Mineiro undefeated. The arrival of
Ronaldinho in the middle of the season was an important event for the club, which eventually finished as runner-up in the
Série A and earned a spot in the
following year's Copa Libertadores.
Diego Tardelli and Gilberto Silva returned to the club in 2013, and joined Ronaldinho,
Jô and
Bernard towards another
Campeonato Mineiro triumph. The quarter-finals of that season's Copa Libertadores saw an iconic moment for Atlético, when a penalty kick was awarded to Mexican
Club Tijuana in
injury time
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. It would have meant elimination if it had been scored, but was saved by Atlético's goalkeeper
Victor with his foot. The save, according to sports commentators and fans, represented the "kicking out" of the club's historic "jinx". Atlético then defeated Argentina's
Newell's Old Boys in the semi-finals and Olimpia in the
finals on penalties, after losing both first legs by 2–0 and winning the second ones by the same score, to claim its first Copa Libertadores title. The club's participation in the
FIFA Club World Cup was unsuccessful, as it failed to reach the final, losing to Moroccan hosts
Raja Casablanca; Atlético eventually finished in third place after defeating China's
Guangzhou Evergrande.
Under Levir Culpi, who returned to the club in 2014, Atlético won its first
Recopa Sudamericana, defeating Lanús for the second time in a continental
final
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.
In that season's
Copa do Brasil
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, after trailing 0–3 on aggregate in both the quarter-finals and semi-finals (against Corinthians and Flamengo, respectively), Atlético made 4–3 comebacks and advanced. The competition's finals were the first at national level to feature the Belo Horizonte rivals, and Atlético defeated Cruzeiro on both encounters to win its first Copa do Brasil.
The club's successful run in the decade continued in
2015, when it won the
Campeonato Mineiro and finished second in the
Campeonato Brasileiro. In
2016, however, Atlético Mineiro ended the season without official trophies, finishing as runner-up of the
Campeonato Mineiro and the
Copa do Brasil
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, and in fourth place in the
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. The club achieved its 44th Campeonato Mineiro title in
2017
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.
New Golden age (2021–)
On 2 December 2021, after finishing in 3rd place in the
2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, they won their second
Série A title after 50 years, beating Bahia in a thrilling 2–3 outstanding match to win the title. Less than two weeks later, on 15 December, they beat
Athletico Paranaense in the
2021 Copa do Brasil Finals after a 4–0 win at home and a 1–2 away win to win 6–1 on aggregate.
On 20 February 2022, in a crazy penalty shootout (8–7) after a 2-2 draw with
Flamengo, they won the inaugural
2022 Supercopa do Brasil
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.
On 2 April 2022, they won the
2022 Campeonato Mineiro for the third consecutive time. Making it the first time in 42 years (1978-80), and the 47th title since 1915.
Hulk was the top goal scorer of all competitions with 36 goals in 68 appearances.
Seasons in league since 2003:
Symbols and colours
Crest
The club's first emblem, introduced in the 1910s, consisted of a simple design of the three initials of the club's name ("CAM" for Clube Atlético Mineiro) in an oval shape in black. The first and most significant change occurred in 1922, when an edged shield format was adopted, with the letters in its upper part and black and white stripes in the lower. The crest's general appearance has been kept ever since, with only the exact format and the placement of the black and white stripes within the escutcheon changing over the decades. In the 1970s a golden
star
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above the badge was introduced, alluding to the 1971 Série A title, which still remains. Red stars were featured on two occasions, referring to the 1978 Copa dos Campeões and the 1992 and 1997 Copa CONMEBOL victories, but these were removed in 1999.
Mascot
Atlético's mascot, a rooster, is the best known in the country. According to
Kafunga, who played as goalkeeper for the club from 1935 to 1955, the "rooster" nickname was associated with Atlético because of its kit colours. In 1945, Fernando Pierucetti, known as Mangabeira, a cartoonist for the ''A Folha de Minas'' newspaper, was selected to design mascots for each of the three biggest clubs in Belo Horizonte. According to Mangabeira, Atlético's would be the rooster because the team used to play with passion and would never give up until the end of each match, like
gamecocks in
cockfights.
Over the years, the word ''galo'' (
Portuguese for "rooster") became a cheering chant for the supporters and a nickname by which they referred to the club, an appellation that eventually spread to other football fans in the country. The nickname was incorporated into the club's official anthem, composed by Vicente Motta in 1968, whose chorus hails Atlético as a "strong and avenging rooster".
In 1976, a costumed rooster mascot was introduced, to accompany players and children in the match entrance. The stadium mascot was reintroduced with a new costume in 2005, named ''Galo Doido'' ("Crazy Rooster") by the supporters.
Kits
The club's home kit has always consisted of a black-and-white vertically striped shirt, with black shorts and white or black socks. The width of the black and white stripes has varied from season to season, as has the colour of the shirt numbers, which have usually been red, black, white or yellow. Atlético's traditional away kit is all-white shirts, shorts and socks, but has had slight variations.
An all-black
third kit
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was introduced in the 2000 season, being used again in 2015. In 2008, a black-and-gold vertically striped third kit was launched to commemorate the club's centenary, featuring the first crest. Squad number 12 is retired from the club's kits, dedicated to the
fans.
Since the 1981 season, the club has had its kits manufactured by sportswear corporations, the first one being Brazilian company Rainha.
Since 2017, Atlético's kits are manufactured by
Topper, a company which previously provided apparel for the club from 2010 to 2012. Other previous suppliers were
Adidas (1983–85),
Penalty (1986–90, 1992–93 and 1997–2001),
Dell'erba (1991),
Umbro (1994–96 and 2002–04),
Diadora
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(2005–07),
Lotto (2008–09), Lupo (2013),
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(2014–2015) and
Dryworld
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History
T ...
(2016).
In 1982, bank Credireal was Atlético's first shirt sponsor.
After one sponsorless season in 1983, Precon, a construction company, appeared on the shirts in 1984 and 1985; it was replaced by Agrimisa bank in 1986. In 1987,
Coca-Cola sponsored all participating clubs of
Copa União, and the brand remained on Atlético's kits until 1994. The club was subsequently sponsored by
TAM Airlines (1995–96),
Tenda (1997–98),
and had temporary deals with
Fiat
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and
Telemar
Oi (, Portuguese for "Hi"), formerly known as Telemar, is the largest fixed telephone operator and the fourth mobile telephone operator in Brazil, being the third largest telecommunication company in Latin America. It is headquartered in Rio de Jan ...
in 1999. Two sponsorless years followed, before permanent deals were signed with Fiat (2002–03),
MRV Engenharia (2004–07) and Fiat again in 2008. After one more season without a brand on the club's shirts, BMG, a bank that was owned by the former club president Ricardo Annes Guimarães, was the main sponsor from 2010 to 2014. MRV returned as the club's main shirt sponsor in 2015, being replaced by state-owned bank
Caixa Econômica Federal in 2016.
Grounds

Atlético had its first home ground built in 1912 at Paraopeba Avenue, in downtown Belo Horizonte, across the street from
América's first stadium. The club's main ground for most of its early years, however, was the
Presidente Antônio Carlos stadium, which held 5,000 people; it was nicknamed ''Estádio de Lourdes'' for the quarter in which it was located. The Antônio Carlos was one of the first stadiums in Brazil to feature
floodlights, and opened on 30 May 1929 with a friendly against
Corinthians, won by Atlético 4–2. The following year, the stadium was visited by
FIFA president
Jules Rimet, who watched a
night game for the first time.
The stadium fell out of favor when the larger
Independência was built in 1950, and remained largely unused by the first team; eventually it was sold by the club to the Belo Horizonte municipality in the 1960s. After decades of legal disputes with the municipal government, the property returned to the club in 1991. It was leased to a shopping mall in 1995, which was built in the following year where the stadium once was, across the street from Atlético's administrative headquarters.

Construction for the Independência (officially Estádio Raimundo Sampaio) started in 1947 in preparation for the
1950 FIFA World Cup, during which its first match was played. Originally the property of the State Government of Minas Gerais, ownership was transferred to Sete de Setembro FC in 1965, when the
Mineirão
Mineirão (), officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (''Governor Magalhães Pinto Stadium'') is the largest football stadium in the state of Minas Gerais. It was established in 1965, and it is located in Belo Horizonte.
It served as ...
was built, and the property passed to América in 1997, when it absorbed Sete de Setembro. Before the Mineirão, the stadium was the largest in Belo Horizonte – holding up to 30,000 people – and was preferred by Atlético over the older and smaller Antônio Carlos stadium. After the Mineirão's construction, however, Atlético did not use the ''Estádio do Horto'' (as it is also known) for decades, except for a brief spell in the late 1990s. The stadium was renovated in 2012, while the Mineirão was closed, having its capacity reduced to 23,018. In that year, Atlético announced a deal with BWA Arenas, the stadium manager. The club signed a contract to use the Independência as its home ground for 10 years, but moved back to the Mineirão in 2020.

Mineirão (officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto) opened in 1965, and quickly became the home of both Atlético and Cruzeiro, as its peak capacity of over 100,000 spectators surpassed any other stadium in Belo Horizonte or in the state. The property of the state of Minas Gerais, Mineirão was Atlético's home from its opening until it closed in 2010 for renovations prior to the
2014 FIFA World Cup. The club temporarily moved to
Arena do Jacaré in
Sete Lagoas and subsequently to Independência in 2012. Historically the club's home ground, Atlético's most important matches have all been played at the Mineirão. After the renovation, the Mineirão has an overall capacity of 61,846.
Cidade do Galo
Cidade do Galo ("Rooster City") is Clube Atlético Mineiro's training ground, located in Vespasiano, a municipality adjacent to Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Construction of the first training pitch started in 1982, but for almost three decades the facil ...
("Rooster City"), the club's main training facility since 2001, has been lauded as the best in Brazil and is considered one of the best in the world; it hosted the
Argentina national football team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Other facilities owned by the club include
Vila Olímpica ("Olympic Village"), the old training grounds opened in 1973 that hosted the ''Seleção'' in its preparation for the
1982 FIFA World Cup, and ''Labareda'', a leisure and health club in Belo Horizonte.
In 2015, Daniel Nepomuceno, the club president, announced that Atlético had a four-year project to build a new stadium in Belo Horizonte, with a 45,000 capacity. In 2017, the club's Deliberative Council approved the project to build the new stadium, in northeastern Belo Horizonte, named
Arena MRV
Arena MRV is a soccer stadium currently under construction, located in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. The arena belongs to Clube Atlético Mineiro, which will host its home games there.
History
The initial step to kick off the construct ...
. The construction is projected to cost R$410 million, and expected to be inaugurated on the third quarter of 2022.
Supporters

Atlético Mineiro was founded by upper-class students, but from an early age it opened its doors to players from every social class, nationality or ethnicity, which earned it a "people's club" status in Belo Horizonte and in the state. América, meanwhile, had a reputation as an elitist club, and Cruzeiro was strongly associated with the local Italian colony.
As a result of the popular support, the fans came to be collectively known as ''"A Massa"'' (Portuguese for "the mass"). According to a 2014 survey conducted by
IBOPE and ''
Lance!
''Lance!'' is a daily sports newspaper in Brazil, and its first edition was published in 1997. Its headquarters are located in Rio de Janeiro, and they print regional versions for some of the other Brazilian states.
History
Its tabloid format as ...
'', the club is the best-supported in Belo Horizonte and in Minas Gerais, and has the sixth largest fanbase in Brazil, with seven million supporters.
A 2014 survey by
Datafolha, however, shows Atlético as the second best-supported club in Minas Gerais and tenth in Brazil.
Atlético has many
''torcidas organizadas'' that support the club, the oldest being ''Dragões da FAO'', founded in 1969, and the largest and best-known being ''Galoucura''. Other notable groups include ''Galö Metal'', ''Movimento 105 Minutos'' and the ''Charanga'', a
brass band that plays during the club's home matches. Galoucura has historically developed alliances with other ''torcidas'' in Brazil, most notably
Palmeiras's ''Mancha Verde'' and
Vasco da Gama's ''Força Jovem''. After difficult but successful comebacks in 2013 and 2014, the fans have adopted the motto ''"Eu acredito"'' ("I believe") to support the club in against-the-odds situations. Squad number 12 is retired from the club's kits and dedicated to the fans.

Atlético has had the best average attendance in nine editions of the Série A since 1972, and has the second highest all-time average attendance in Brazilian football. The club also ranks second in all-time total attendance in the national league, with more than 13 million tickets sold in 581 home matches as of the 2014 season. The second leg of the
2013 Copa Libertadores finals between Atlético and Olimpia, played at the Mineirão and attended by 58,620 people, had the highest gate receipt revenue of all time in South American football, yielding million (€4.8 million at the time).
In 1999, the club introduced ''Galo de Prata'' ("Silver Rooster"), a trophy officially awarded by Atlético to sportspeople, illustrious supporters, artists, politicians, and organisations that somehow promote the club's name. Since the implementation of municipal and state laws in 2007 and 2008, ''Dia do Atleticano'' ("Atleticano Day") is officially celebrated in Belo Horizonte and Minas Gerais every year on 25 March, the day of the club's foundation. Atlético launched
TV Galo
TV Galo is a subscription-based and Internet channel, entirely dedicated to the Brazilian football team Atlético Mineiro. The channel offers Atlético Mineiro fans exclusive interviews with players and staff, in addition to coverage of training ...
in 2007, a
premium television channel that provides content for fans such as interviews with players and staff, coverage of training sessions and matches, footballing news, and other themed programming. Since 2012, the club has an affiliation programme called
Galo na Veia', in which supporters can become season ticket holders or pay an annual or monthly fees to buy match tickets at reduced price.
Rivalries
The local rivalry between Atlético and Cruzeiro, known as the ''
Clássico Mineiro
The Atlético Mineiro–Cruzeiro rivalry, known as the Clássico Mineiro ("Mineiro Derby") is an association football rivalry between Atlético Mineiro and Cruzeiro from Belo Horizonte. It is one of the fiercest in Brazilian and South American fo ...
'' ("Mineiro Derby"), exists since Cruzeiro's foundation (as Sociedade Esportiva Palestra Itália) in 1921. It strengthened in the 1940s, and became the biggest derby in Minas Gerais in the 1960s.
Atlético dominated the rivalry from its early days until the 1950s, but Cruzeiro rose in the 1960s to be a strong challenger, and the 1970s had divided honours. The 1980s were dominated by Atlético, while the 1990s and 2000s were favourable to Cruzeiro. The 2010s have the rivals competing at an even level. The clubs dissent over the number of matches and head-to-head record of the ''Clássico Mineiro'', but both teams' statistics show Atlético with most wins in the encounter. The only national final between the two clubs happened in the
2014 Copa do Brasil, when Atlético triumphed in a final match played at the Mineirão.
The ''Clássico''
's most extreme result was a
9–2 win by Atlético, in the 1927 Campeonato Mineiro.
Atlético versus América was known as the ''Clássico das Multidões'' ("Derby of the Masses") before the construction of the Mineirão, as they were the most popular clubs in the state. In their first years, América was known as an elitist club, while Atlético had popular appeal;
the former dominated the early years of the encounter, winning ten consecutive Campeonato Mineiro titles from 1916 to 1925. In the 1930s, Atlético pioneered
professionalization of football in Minas Gerais, whereas América resisted against it. From that time on, Galo became the major force between the two, with América suffering a setback as a result of its internal disagreements regarding professionalism.
Atlético also holds a rivalry with
Flamengo of
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of the same name, Brazil's List of Brazilian states by population, third-most populous state, and the List of largest citi ...
, with the first match between the clubs being played in 1929. Until regular national competitions were introduced in Brazilian football in
1959, however, the encounters were played at friendly level, since the clubs are from different states. The rivalry developed in the 1980s, rising from numerous controversial encounters between the two clubs in Campeonato Brasileiro and Copa Libertadores editions of the period. It remained through the following decades, and is considered the biggest interstate rivalry in Brazilian football.
Records and statistics
João Leite holds Atlético's official appearance record, with 684 matches in all competitions.
Reinaldo is the club's all-time leading goalscorer, with 255 goals, since joining the first squad in 1973. In the 1977 season, he scored 28 goals in 18 appearances, setting the club record for the most Campeonato Brasileiro goals in a season, and the league's best average goal-per-game record (1.55).
Dadá Maravilha is second in total goals, with 211, and the only other Atlético player to score over 200 goals. Argentine striker
Lucas Pratto is Atlético's all-time top foreign goalscorer, with 41 goals.
Telê Santana is Galo's longest-serving head coach, having taken charge of the team for 434 matches during three periods in the 1970s and 1980s. Nelson Campos is the club's longest-serving president, with nine years in the office in three terms.
The first official game in which Atlético participated was against
Yale for the 1915 Campeonato Mineiro, which the team won 5–0. The biggest victory ever recorded by Galo was 13–0, against Calafate in the 1927 Campeonato Mineiro. In the national league, the biggest win came against
Desportiva Ferroviária – 7–1 in the
1982 season. Atlético's biggest win in the Copa do Brasil, 11–0 against
Caiçara in
1991
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, is also the competition's record victory. The club's home attendance record – split-crowd derbies excepted – is 115,142, in a friendly against Flamengo at the Mineirão, in 1980. The record attendance in official matches is 113,749, achieved in a match against
Santos for the
1983 Brasileirão. Atlético holds the Brazilian record for longest unbeaten run at home, with 54 matches from 2011 to 2013. The signing of
André from
Dynamo Kyiv in 2012 is the club's most expensive purchase, costing around €8 million, while the record sale is the transfer of
Bernard to
Shakhtar Donetsk in 2013, which cost the Ukrainian club €25 million.
Organization and finances
As is the case for most Brazilian football clubs, Atlético Mineiro's
by-law defines the club as a
not-for-profit public utility organization, formed by associates (''sócios'').
The club's administrative powers are the General Assembly, the Deliberative Council, the Board, the Fiscal Council and the Ethics and Discipline Council. The General Assembly, composed of all associates, elects the Deliberative Council among its members every three years, which in turn elects and removes the club's Board, responsible for the executive management of the club.
[ Season ticket-holders and participants of the ]
Galo na Veia
' affiliation programme, called ''sócios-torcedores'', are not full club associates and cannot vote or be elected.
A study conducted by BDO in 2016 indicated that the club had a brand value of million (€143 million), making it the eighth most valuable in Brazil. In terms of annual turnover, Atlético ranked seventh in the country in 2015, earning R$244.6 million (€62.2 million), which represented a 37 per cent increase compared to the previous year. The club has a main sponsorship deal with Caixa Econômica Federal, worth R$12.5 million (€3.2 million) annually. Its kit sponsorship deal with Dryworld
Dryworld Brands Inc. OTC:IBGR is a Canadian athletic footwear and apparel company based in Victoria, BC, Canada. The company does independent lab testing at the Sport Innovation Centre (SPIN), a division of the Canadian Sport Institute.
History
T ...
, worth R$20 million (€5.1 million) per year, is the third biggest in the country.
The club's gross debt as of 2015 was R$496.5 million (€126.6 million), the third largest in Brazil, with a R$11.9 million (€3 million) deficit in the same year. The club's balance sheet in that year stated it experienced operational losses, and according to a study by Itaú BBA, Atlético operates in a dangerous "financial all-in". The majority of the club's debt is owed to the Federal Government of Brazil
The Federal Government of Brazil (''Governo Federal'') is the national government of the Federative Republic of Brazil, a republic in South America divided in 26 states and a federal district. The Brazilian federal government is divided in thr ...
, totaling R$286.6 million (€89.1 million); in 2015, Atlético and other clubs joined a government program for debt financing.
In popular culture
Atlético Mineiro and episodes in the club's history have appeared on films and other media. The music video
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing devi ...
for "É Uma Partida de Futebol" ("It's a Football Match"), by Brazilian rock band Skank, was filmed during a 1997 ''Clássico Mineiro'' match between Atlético and Cruzeiro; the video won three categories at the 1997 MTV Video Music Brazil awards. An Atlético match was also depicted in a Martian Manhunter comic book, by DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with their f ...
, in 2015. The protagonist in '' Memories of the Desert'', a 2014 Brazilian crime drama film, is a supporter of the club (as is the actor who portrayed him, Daniel de Oliveira).
A short film about goalkeeper Victor's iconic penalty-kick save against Tijuana in the 2013 Copa Libertadores was released in 2014; named ''A Dream You Dream Together Is Reality'', it was awarded the ''Guirlande D'Honneur'' by the FICTS at the " Sport Movies & TV - Milano International FICTS Fest". In the following year, ''O Dia do Galo
''O Dia do Galo'' ("''The Day of Galo''") is a 2014 Brazilian documentary film about the 2013 Copa Libertadores Finals. The film follows five supporters of Brazilian football club Atlético Mineiro in the day of the final match of the competition ...
'', a documentary that followed five Atlético supporters on the day of the final match of the same competition, was released in theatres as a feature film
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...
. The motion picture was one of the most watched Brazilian films of 2015, and won the Popular Jury award at the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes. ''O Imortal do Gelo'', a film about the club's 1950 tour to Europe, was released in 2015.
Honours
Atlético Mineiro's first trophy was the Taça Bueno Brandão, won in 1914. The club was the first winner of the Campeonato Mineiro, the state league of Minas Gerais, a competition it has won a record 47 times; it has also won the Taça Minas Gerais, a state cup, on five occasions. At national level, Atlético has won the Campeonato Brasileiro twice, while finishing second on five seasons; it has also won the Copa dos Campeões Estaduais, the Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros and the Copa do Brasil
The Copa do Brasil ( en, Brazil Cup) is a knockout football competition played by 92 teams, representing all 26 Brazilian states plus the Federal District. It is the Brazilian domestic cup and the Brazilian equivalent of the FA Cup, Taça d ...
once each, also finishing as runner-up once in the latter. In international competitions, Atlético has won the Copa Libertadores and the Recopa Sudamericana once each, and a record two Copa CONMEBOL trophies; the club has also finished as runner-up of the Copa CONMEBOL, the Copa de Oro and the Copa Master de CONMEBOL. The club has competed in the FIFA Club World Cup once, finishing in third place. The club's most recent title is the 2022 Campeonato Mineiro.
International
* Copa Libertadores
**Winner (1): 2013
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* Copa CONMEBOL
**Winner (2): 1992, 1997 (record)
* Recopa Sudamericana
**Winner (1): 2014
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Domestic
National
* Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian"), and also known as Brasileirão Assaí due to sponsorship with Assaí Atacadista, is a Br ...
**Winner (2): 1971, 2021
* Copa do Brasil
The Copa do Brasil ( en, Brazil Cup) is a knockout football competition played by 92 teams, representing all 26 Brazilian states plus the Federal District. It is the Brazilian domestic cup and the Brazilian equivalent of the FA Cup, Taça d ...
**Winner (2): 2014
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, 2021
* Supercopa do Brasil
**Winner (1): 2022
* Copa dos Campeões Estaduais
**Winner (1): 1937
* Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros
**Winner (1): 1978
* Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série B is commonly referred to as the Brasileirão Série B (Série B), and until 2022 was officially called Brasileirão Sportingbet by sponsorship reasons. It is the second tier of the Brazilian football league system ...
**Winner (1): 2006
State
* Campeonato Mineiro
**Winner (47): 1915, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2007
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, 2010, 2012
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, 2013
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, 2015, 2017
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, 2020, 2021, 2022 (record)
Other
* Taça Minas Gerais
**Winner (5): 1975, 1976, 1979, 1986, 1987 (shared record)
Players
First team squad
Other players with first team appearances
Out on loan
Management
Team management
Atlético Mineiro's technical and medical staff is composed of permanent members in all positions, except head coach and assistant coach.
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!scope=row , Head coach
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, Eduardo Coudet
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!scope=row , Director of football
, Rodrigo Caetano
, -
!scope=row , Football supervisor
, Carlos Alberto Isidoro
, -
!scope=row , Football general manager
, Victor Bagy
, -
!scope=row rowspan="4" , Assistant coach
, Lucas Gonçalves
Lucas Gonçalves da Silva (born 14 October 1981) is a Brazilian football manager. He is the current assistant manager of Atlético Mineiro.
Career
Born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Gonçalves graduated in Physical Education at the Univers ...
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, Éder Aleixo
, -
, Ariel Broggi
, -
, Diego Monarriz
Diego Oscar Monarriz (born 2 March 1968) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current assistant manager of Brazilian club Atlético Mineiro.
Career
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!scope=row rowspan="2" , Goalkeeping coach
, Rogério Maia
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, Danilo Minutti
, -
!scope=row rowspan="5" , Fitness coach
, Cristiano Nunes
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, Ricardo Seguins
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, Marcelo Luchesi
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, Octávio Manera
, -
, Guido Cretari
, -
!scope=row , Performance analysis coordinator
, Gustavo Nicoline
, -
!scope=row rowspan="3" , Performance analyst
, Paulo Castro
, -
, Matheus Dupin
, -
, Carlos Miguel Fernández
, -
!scope=row rowspan="4" , Doctor
, Rodrigo Barreiros
, -
, Otaviano Oliveira
, -
, Rodrigo Barreiros
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, Haroldo Aleixo
, -
!scope=row rowspan="4" , Physiotherapist
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, Guilherme Fialho
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, Bruno Leite
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, Vinícius Castro
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, Eugênio Araújo
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!scope=row , Physiologist
, Roberto Chiari
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!scope=row rowspan="2" , Nutritionist
, Evandro Vasconcelos
, -
, Bárbara Maciel
, -
!scope=row rowspan="4" , Masseur
, Belmiro
, -
, Alexandre William
, -
, Aluízio Carlos
, -
, Fabrício Carvalho
, -
!scope=row , Podiatrist
, Fabíola Efigênia
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!scope=row , Market coordinator
, Rodrigo Weber
, -
!scope=row rowspan="2" , Market analyst
, Fernando Ziskind
, -
, Edgard
, -
!scope=row rowspan="2" , Press secretary
, Cássio Arreguy
, -
, Guilherme D'Assumpção
, -
!scope=row rowspan="2" , Logistics manager
, Guilherme Ribeiro
, -
, Henrique Daimond
, -
!scope=row , Security superintendent
, Moacyr Guedes
, -
!scope=row rowspan="3", Security guard
, Willian Lobo
, -
, Antônio Carlos
, -
, Wanderson Dener
, -
!scope=row rowspan="3", Kit manager
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*Kitt, Indiana, US, formerly Kit
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People
* Kit (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Kit (surname)
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* Young animals ...
, Luciano Caxeado
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, Júlio Pacheco
, -
, Gilvan Felipe
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!scope=row rowspan="2", Field assistant
, Rubens Pinheiro
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, Ronald Rogério
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!scope=row , Administrative assistant
, Mateus Salomão
, -
Club board
The club's board took office on 4 January 2021, with its term ending on 31 December 2023.
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!scope=row , President
, Sérgio Coelho
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!scope=row , Vice-President
, José Murilo Procópio
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!scope=row , Presidential adviser
, Márcio André
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!scope=row , CEO
, Bruno Muzzi
, -
!scope=row , Competitions director
, Pedro Tavares
, -
!scope=row , Director of communications
, André Lamounier
, -
!scope=row , Medical director
, Rodrigo Lasmar
, -
!scope=row , Legal director
, Luiz Fernando Pimenta Ribeiro
, -
!scope=row , Director of finance
, Paulo Braz
, -
!scope=row , Director of finance - Subsidiaries
, Thiago Maia
, -
!scope=row , Director of infrastructure
, Rodrigo Messano
, -
!scope=row , Business director
, Leandro Figueiredo Magalhães
, -
!scope=row , Director of institutional relations
, Gabriel Guimarães
, -
!scope=row , Women's football director
, Fred Couto
, -
!scope=row , Engineering director
, Carlos Pinheiro
, -
!scope=row , Labareda director
, Idalmo Constantino da Silva
, -
!scope=row , Vila Olímpica director
, Hamilton Henrique de Freitas
Other departments
Futsal
Atlético Mineiro opened its futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is t ...
department in the 1960s, achieving victories at state level in the following decades, and winning the Taça Brasil in 1985. In the late 1990s, the team, named Atlético Pax de Minas for sponsorship reasons, was prominent at national and international level. With players such as Manoel Tobias, Falcão and Lenísio
Lenísio Teixeira Júnior (born 23 October 1976), commonly known as Lenísio, is a former Brazilian futsal player.
Honours
*1 FIFA World Cup (2008)
*1 runner FIFA World Cup (2000)
*2 Brazilian champion (1999 and 2002)
*1 Spanish cup (2003)
*3 B ...
in the squad, Atlético won the Brazilian Liga Futsal
The Liga Nacional de Futsal (LNF) is the premier futsal league in Brazil, and was created in 1996 with the purpose of setting up a championship with the best futsal teams of the country, corresponding to the Brazilian Football Championship Séri ...
twice, in 1997 and 1999, and the Intercontinental Futsal Cup in 1998, finishing as runner-up of both competitions in 2000. In the second leg of the 1999 Liga Futsal finals against Rio de Janeiro, the attendance at Mineirinho was 25,713, a world record in the sport. In 2000, the sponsorship deal with Pax de Minas ended and Atlético's professional senior futsal team folded in the following year, with the youth sectors remaining. The club's futsal department ceased operations in 2009.
American football
In March 2018, the club announced the creation of an American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...
team, a three-year partnership with Grupo Sada and BH Eagles, named Galo Futebol Americano. In its first season playing with this name in the Superliga Nacional de Futebol Americano
The Superliga Nacional de Futebol Americano (National American Football League, previously ''Liga Brasileira de Futebol Americano'', Brazilian American Football League) is an American football league in Brazil. It was created by eight teams which ...
, Brazil's American football league, the team won the Southeast Conference undefeated, and proceeded to win all matches in the playoffs, including the Brasil Bowl against João Pessoa Espectros.
Olympic sports
Atlético Mineiro had departments for other Olympic sports throughout its history, with the athletics and volleyball ones achieving notability. In 1983, runner João da Mata won the São Silvestre road race
The Saint Silvester Road Race ( pt, Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre) is a long-distance running event, the oldest and most prestigious street race in Brazil.
Regarded as the main international event in Latin American athletics, the Brazi ...
as an Atlético athlete. In 2007, Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot and Alice Timbilil won the male and female categories of the same race, and celebrated their victory with Atlético flags. The club's board stated that the athletes had been sponsored as a marketing strategy. Atlético's men's volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
department won the Minas Gerais Volleyball Championship a total of twelve times, ranking second in the state for most titles. The team had an especially successful period in the early 1980s, under the administrative management of Alexandre Kalil, who became club president in 2009.
See also
* Football in Brazil
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