Esporte Clube Pinheiros (PR)

Pinheiros
Full name Esporte Clube Pinheiros
Nickname(s) Alviceleste
Founded 1914
Dissolved 19 December 1989
(merged with Colorado Esporte Clube to form Paraná Clube)
Ground Vila Olímpica
Capacity 18,500
League Campeonato Paranaense

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.

History

Logos of Savóia Futebol Clube
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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro Lance Volume 1. Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A. 2001. p. 221. ISBN 85-88651-01-7.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "History of Paraná Clube". RSSSF. October 28, 2005. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  3. "Brazil 1981". RSSSF. June 22, 2003. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
  4. "Brazil 1985 (Taça de Ouro)". 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