AmÃ©rica Futebol Clube (RN)

The América Futebol Clube (also América de Natal, in lists usually América -RN ) is a football club based in Natal, the capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte. The club colors, founded in 1915 clubs, red and white, and the logo are derived from the same FC America from Rio de Janeiro. The brazil usual mascot is a dragon ( Dragão ). A nickname of the club is derived from América Mecão ( " Great America "). The main rival of the Americas is also from Natal upcoming ABC FC.

The club was relegated in the 2008 season from the Série A, the top league of Brazil, from.

History

Just four years after the founding of America 1919 won the first national championship of Rio Grande do Norte. Since then, the club was in every decade in this competition succeed a few times. Between 1979 and 1982, even four times in a row and 1974 undefeated.

Between 1960 and 1965, América participated in any game mode in part to focus on the construction of his home club in the district of Tyrol. The plant is currently estimated (2008 ) to a value of 20 million BRL.

In 1973 the club won the Taça Almir de Albuquerque for the first time a nationwide tournament. By winning the Copa América 1998 Nordeste, the first and only club from Rio Grande do Norte, who won a national contest was also a starting place in the Copa Conmebol in 1998, an earlier, the UEFA Cup oriented South American tournament. There, however, the Dragons already eliminated in the first round against FC Sampaio Corrêa from São Luís capital of the state of Maranhão.

In 1968 América for the first time in a national competition, the Taça Brasil, the predecessor of the current Cup competition, in part. From 1973 to 1983 America was continuously top notch but then began a descent one of the club in the years 1987, 1988 and 1990 was even drift into the low ranks.

It took 14 years for the North Brazilians in 1997 were again top notch and in the meantime created the first league, the Série A ascended. After only two seasons América had to go take the course in the Série B 1998. 2007 América returned once in the Série A back, but it was followed by the immediate re descent.

Stadium

América plays its home games at the Estádio Dr. João Cláudio Vasconcelos urban Machado, named Machadão from. Named after a President of the Federal Association football and sports journalists took stadium after the opening in 1972 up to 52,000 spectators. Since the last renovation in 2007 the official capacity of 35,000 spectators. The stadium is also sometimes used by local rivals ABC.

Achievements

Campeonato do Nordeste: 1998
Almir Taça de Albuquerque: 1973

State championship of Rio Grande do Norte ( 32x): 1919, 1920, 1922, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1931, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2002, 2003