Independente Esporte Clube
Independente Esporte Clube, commonly known as Independente-AP () or simply Independente, is a Brazilian multi-sport club based in Santana, Amapá. The club is most notable for its association football team, that plays in the Campeonato Amapaense, the top division in the Amapá state football league system. The club's traditional rivals are Santana, and games between the two are known as the ''Clássico do Porto''. They won the Campeonato Amapaense five times. History The club was founded on 19 January 1962. They won the Campeonato Amapaense in 1982, 1983, 1989, 1995, and in 2001. Stadium Independente Esporte Clube play their home games at Estádio Antônio Vilela, nicknamed ''Vilelão''. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 5,000 people. Honours Regional * Torneio de Integração da Amazônia ** Winners: 1989 ** Runners-up: 1990 State * Campeonato Amapaense The Campeonato Amapaense, commonly known simply as Amapazão, or Amapazão Sicredi for sponsorship reasons ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zerão
Estádio Olímpico Milton de Souza Corrêa (), commonly known as Zerão , is a multi-purpose stadium located in Macapá, Brazil. It is used mostly for soccer, football matches and hosts the home matches of Esporte Clube Macapá, Oratório Recreativo Clube, Trem Desportivo Clube, Santos Futebol Clube (AP) and São Paulo Futebol Clube (AP). The stadium has a maximum capacity of 13,680 people and was built in 1990. The name (and the fame) come from the common belief that the midfield line lies exactly on the Equator—zero latitude—thus causing each team to defend one Hemispheres of the Earth, hemisphere. It is actually approximately 50 meters north of the equator, with the equator itself lying at the far southern end of the field. Overview The stadium has a maximum capacity of 10,000 people and was built in 1990. The name (and the fame) came from the circumstance that the stadium lies on the Equator, zero latitude. The midfield line is aligned with the nearby Marco Zero Monument, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brazilian Football Confederation
The Brazilian Football Confederation (, CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil. It was founded on Monday, 8 June 1914, as , and renamed Confederação Brasileira de Desportos in 1916. The football confederation, as known today, separated from other sports associations on 24 September 1979. The CBF has its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The confederation owns a training center, named Granja Comary, located in Teresópolis. It was announced on 29 September 2007, that the CBF would launch a women's league and cup competition in October 2007 following pressure from FIFA president Sepp Blatter during the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China. The confederation reported a budget of $265.6 million ( R$1.5 billion) for 2024, and a projection of $398.4 million (R$2.25 billion) for 2025. Association staff References External links Official website CBFat YouTube CBFat X CBFat Facebook CBFat Instagram CBFat Flickr Other Brazilat FIFA site {{Authority ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Football In Brazil
Association football, Football is the most popular sport in Brazil and a prominent part of the country's national identity. The Brazil national football team has won the FIFA World Cup five times, the most of any team, in 1958 FIFA World Cup, 1958, 1962 FIFA World Cup, 1962, 1970 FIFA World Cup, 1970, 1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002. Brazil and Germany national football team, Germany are the only teams to succeed in qualifying for all the World Cups for which they entered the qualifiers; Brazil is the only team to participate in every World Cup competition ever held. Brazil has also won an Olympic gold medal, at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Brazil hosted the 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cup. It also hosted the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship, 2000 FIFA Club World Cup. Pelé won three World Cups (he was injured during most of the 1962 World Cup). Some of the most promine ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sports Club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and may play other similar clubs on occasion, watched mostly by family and friends, to large commercial organisations with professional players which have teams that regularly compete against those of other clubs and sometimes attract very large crowds of paying spectators. Clubs may be dedicated to a single sport or to several (multi-sport clubs). The term "athletics club" is sometimes used for a general sports club, rather than one dedicated to athletics proper. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's Turner movement, first realised at Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin in 1811, was the origin of the modern sports clubs. Organization Larger sports clubs are characterized by having professional and amateur departments in various sports such as bike pol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Santana, Amapá
Santana () is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality located in the southeast of the state of Amapá in Brazil. Its population is 123,096 and its area is , which makes it the smallest municipality of Amapá. Santana is a suburb of Macapá, the state capital, and the two cities make up the Metropolitan Area of Macapá. Its location is nearly on the equator. The planet's second longest river, the Amazon River, Amazon is to the south. Santana was historically a part of Macapá. In 1981 it was elevated to the category of a District of Macapá. It became a separate municipality in the state of Amapá on 1 January 1982. History The history of Santana began in 1753 when Ilha de Santana, an island in the Amazon River in front of the city of Santana, became an official settlement. The settlement on the coast started to develop in the 1950s when manganese was discovered in Serra do Navio. Santana has developed into the main harbour and industrial centre for the state, and has become t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amapá
Amapá (; ) is one of the 26 federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil. It is in the North Region, Brazil, North Region of Brazil. It is Federative units of Brazil#List, the second-least populous state and the eighteenth-largest state by area. Located in the far northern part of the country, Amapá is bordered clockwise by French Guiana to the north for 730 km, the Atlantic Ocean to the east for 578 km, Pará to the south and west, and Suriname to the northwest for 63 km. The capital and largest city is Macapá. The state has 0.4% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for only 0.22% of the Brazilian gross domestic product, GDP. In the colonial period the region was called Portuguese Guiana and was part of Portuguese Empire, Portugal's State of Brazil. Later, the region was distinguished from the other The Guianas, Guianas. Amapá was once part of Pará, but became a separate territory in 1943, and the decision to make it a state was made in 1988. The first state legis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Campeonato Amapaense
The Campeonato Amapaense, commonly known simply as Amapazão, or Amapazão Sicredi for sponsorship reasons, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of Amapá Amapá (; ) is one of the 26 federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil. It is in the North Region, Brazil, North Region of Brazil. It is Federative units of Brazil#List, the second-least populous state and the eighteenth-largest state by area .... It is run by the Amapá Football Federation (FAF). List of champions Following is the list with all state champions of Amapá: Amateur era ;Names change Professional era Titles by team Teams in bold stills active. By city References External linksRSSSF Brasil {{Brazilian Football Competitions Amapaense ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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State Football Leagues In Brazil
The Brazilian states football championships ( or simply ''Estaduais'') are the professional adult male Football in Brazil, football competitions in Brazil that take place between January and April for the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast, Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West, Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeast and South Region, Brazil, South regions. In some states from the North Region, Brazil, North Region, however, it takes place in May or June. One such league, the Campeonato Paulista, which started in 1902, is the oldest football competition in Brazil. All professional football clubs in Brazil play in a state championship, but not all qualify for the Brazilian football league system, national league. The state championships were the first professional competitions formed in Brazil; due to Economy of Brazil, economic and Geography of Brazil, geographic reasons, and especially long distances between the country's main cities and different states, each of the federa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Santana Esporte Clube
Santana Esporte Clube, commonly referred to as Santana (), is a Brazilian football club based in Santana, Amapá. The team competes in the Campeonato Amapaense, the top division in the Amapá state football league system. They won the Campeonato Amapaense seven times. The club's traditional rivals are Independente, and games between the two are known as the ''Clássico do Porto''. Santana is the fifth-best ranked team from Amapá in CBF's national club ranking, being placed 236th overall. History The club was founded on September 25, 1955. They won the Campeonato Amapaense in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1985. Stadium Santana Esporte Clube play their home games at Estádio Municipal de Santana. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 5,000 people. Honours State * Campeonato Amapaense ** Winners (7): 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1985 ** Runners-up (4): 1976, 2009, 2010, 2020 Women's Football * Campeonato Amapaense de Futebol Feminino The Campeonato A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Torneio De Integração Da Amazônia
The Torneio de Integração da Amazônia was a football competition organized by the Brazilian Football Confederation The Brazilian Football Confederation (, CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil. It was founded on Monday, 8 June 1914, as , and renamed Confederação Brasileira de Desportos in 1916. The football confederation, as known today, sepa ... with the intention to integrate the Amazonian region and to develop the football in the region. Format In 2003, the eight participating clubs were divided in the first stage in two groups of four teams each, the winner of each group played the final. All stages of the competition were played in single-legged games. List of champions Statistics Titles by team Titles by state References External linksRSSSF Brasil {{DEFAULTSORT:Integracao Da Amazonia Defunct football competitions in Brazil ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |