América Futebol Clube

América Futebol Clube is a football club from Joinville, with a population of more than half a million the largest city of the south Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The club, founded on 14 June 1914, won between 1947 and 1971 five times the state championship of Santa Catarina, the Campeonato Catarinense. In the national level, América took part in second level of the national championship of 1971, where it finished on the 15th place. In 1976 a merger of the football operations with the traditional rivals Caxias FC gave birth to the Joinville Esporte Clube, which since has won more than ten state championships.