Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense, usually known simply as Catanduvense, or as GEC, was a
Brazilian football club from
Catanduva
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History
Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense was founded on February 5, 1970, two years after another club from Catanduva, named
Catanduva Esporte Clube, folded, adopting blue and white as its official colors. The club also inherited Cataduva EC'S spot in
Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão
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, which was São Paulo state's third level.
[Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense history at Grêmio Catanduvense de Futebol website]
The club won the
Campeonato Paulista Second Level in 1974,
[1974 Campeonato Paulista Second Level at RSSSF](_blank)
but there was no promotion to the first level at the time.
Catanduvense competed in the
Campeonato Paulista Second Level in 1988, and adopted red and white as its official colors, which were also Catanduva Esporte Clube's original colors. After a good campaign, the club finished as the runner-up,
only behind
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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A left wingback, Luxemburgo represented Flamengo, Internacional and Botafogo before retiring in 1980. He subsequently be ...
's
Bragantino,
[ ] the club was promoted to the following year's
top level.
The club competed in the São Paulo state top level for the first time in 1989,
finishing in the 8th position of its group.
In the same year, Catanduvense disputed the
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
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, In the first stage, the club was in the same group of
América (SP),
Botafogo
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Goiânia
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Goiatuba and
Uberlândia
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, and finished in the second position. In the second stage, the club was eliminated by Bragantino, after a 0–1 defeat at home in the first leg, and a 1–1 draw in
Bragança Paulista
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. Catanduvense's final position in the competition was 27th.
[1989 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B at RSSSF](_blank)
The club was deeply in debt in 1993, and folded.
Honours
*
Campeonato Paulista Série A2
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2025 Série A2
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There a ...
** Winners (1): 1974
Stadium
Catanduvense's home matches were usually played at
Municipal Sílvio Salles stadium,
[Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense at Times Brasileiros]
which has a maximum capacity of 14,800 people and was built in 1988.
Memorable matches
References
External links
at ''Times Brasileiros'' (archived 23 July 2006)
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Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense
Association football clubs established in 1970
Association football clubs disestablished in 1993
Defunct football clubs in São Paulo (state)
1970 establishments in Brazil
1993 disestablishments in Brazil