| Full name | Clube Atlético Linense | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Elefante da Noroeste | |||
| Founded | June 12, 1927 | |||
| Stadium | Estádio Gilberto Siqueira Lopes, Lins (Capacity: 15,000) |
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| Chairman | Rogério Camara | |||
| Head coach | Odair Patriarca | |||
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The Clube Atlético Linense is a traditional Brazilian football club from the city of Lins, interior of São Paulo state, in Brazil. Founded on June 12, 1927, was reorganized on February 11, 1930. Their colors are red, white and black. They won the Campeonato Paulista Second Division in 1952, and the Série A-2 (Second Division) in 2010, returning to the First Division in 2011, what has not happened since 1957.
They are the club that showed Leivinha, idol of Portuguesa, Palmeiras, the Brazilian national team and Atletico Madrid, was also the club that held the first international transfer of Brazilian striker Americo Murolo trading with Italy. Has one of the most curious football mascots of São Paulo state, with which it is intimately connected. Some episodes characteristic of the players involved a parade of circus elephants on site after winning the league's second division in 1952. In 2000, there was a parade of elephants from the track's premises Estádio Gilberto Siqueira Lopes.
The supporters of the Clube Atlético Linense is, in proportional terms, one of the largest in Brazil. A poll conducted by TV TEM, the local affiliate of Rede Globo, found that only in the city of Lins, whose estimated population in 2007 was 70,000 inhabitants, there are approximately 45,00 fans known as atleticanos. The team is also known to regularly carry more than 15% of its population, ie 12,000 people at a football stadium made considered unique in the whole national territory.