Esporte Clube Pinheiros (PR)

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Esporte Clube Pinheiros, commonly known as Pinheiros, was a Brazilian football club from Curitiba.[1] The club won three times the state championship, the Campeonato Paranaense, and competed twice in the national championship.

Pinheiros
Full nameEsporte Clube Pinheiros
Nickname(s)Alviceleste
Leão da Vila Guaíra
Founded1914
Dissolved19 December 1989; 34 years ago (1989-12-19)
(merged with Colorado Esporte Clube to form Paraná Clube)
GroundVila Olímpica
Capacity18,500
LeagueCampeonato Paranaense

History edit

     

Logos of Savóia Futebol Clube
 
EC Água Verde
Esporte Club Água Verde

Savóia Futebol Clube were founded in 1914, while Esporte Club Água Verde were founded in 1915.[2] Savóia and Água Verde merged in 1920 to form Savóia-Água Verde.[2] Savóia-Água Verde were renamed to Savóia Futebol Clube in 1921,[2] and then renamed to Esporte Clube Brasil in 1942,[2] and after the World War II, the club were renamed to Esporte Clube Água Verde.[2]

To distinguish itself from its local rivals, the Coritiba, the club changed its colors in 1960 to blue and white. In 1971 followed the renaming of the club to Esporte Clube Pinheiros, after the Pinheiro-do-Paraná, an araucaria, the symbol tree of the state of Paraná.[2]

Pinheiros won the state championship, the Campeonato Paranaense in 1967 as Água Verde, and in 1984 and in 1987 as Pinheiros.[1] The club participated in the national Brazilian Championship, the Série A in 1981 and in 1985, finishing statistically as 34th, respectively as 21st of 44 teams.[3][4] In its last year of existence Pinheiros also qualified for the main competition of the Brazilian cup, the Copa do Brasil, where the team lost in July 1989 in the first round – 32 clubs – with 0–1 and 1–2 to Mixto EC from Cuiabá in Mato Grosso.[5]

On December 19, 1989, Pinheiros joined forces with local rivals Colorado Esporte Clube to form Paraná Clube.[6]

Titles edit

  • Campeonato Paranaense (3): 1967, 1984, 1987
  • José Milani Cup (1): 1973
  • Cidade de Curitiba – Troféu Clemente Comandulli (1): 1977 [7]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro Lance Volume 1. Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A. 2001. p. 221. ISBN 85-88651-01-7.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "History of Paraná Clube". RSSSF. October 28, 2005. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  3. ^ "Brazil 1981". RSSSF. June 22, 2003. Archived from the original on May 29, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  4. ^ "Brazil 1985 (Taça de Ouro)". Archived from the original on May 29, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  5. ^ RSSSF Brasil: Brazil Cup 1989
  6. ^ "Colorado Esporte Clube" (in Portuguese). Flapédia. May 10, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  7. ^ City of Curitiba / Clemente Comandulli Cup