Club Athletico Paranaense

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Athletico Paranaense

Full name	Club Athletico Paranaense
Nickname(s)	Furacão (Hurricane) Paranaense El Paranaense Rubro-Negro (Red and Black)
Founded	March 26, 1924 (97 years ago) (1924-03-26)
Ground	Arena da Baixada
Capacity	42,372
President	Mario Celso Petraglia
Manager	António Oliveira
League	Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Campeonato Paranaense
2020 2020	Série A, 9th of 20 Paranaense, 1st of 12 (champions)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Athletico Paranaense (commonly known as Athletico and formerly known as Atlético Paranaense) is a Brazilian football team from the city of Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, founded on March 26, 1924. The team won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Brazil's top football division, in 2001, the Copa Sudamericana in 2018 and the Copa do Brasil in 2019.

History[]

The club was founded in 1924 through the merger of International Football Club and América Futebol Clube, two traditional clubs in Curitiba.^[1]

The club's first match, a friendly one, was played on April 6, when Athletico Paranaense beat Universal FC 4–2.^[2]

Athletico Paranaense has participated in the Copa Libertadores, in 2000, 2002, 2005, 2014, 2017 and 2019. In 2005, Athletico Paranaense was the runner-up of the competition being defeated in the finals by São Paulo.^[3]

A survey taken in 2005 by Paraná Pesquisas Institute showed that Athletico Paranaense has the largest number of supporters in Curitiba.^[4]

In 2006 and 2018 Club Athletico Paranaense had a good performance in the Copa Sudamericana, reaching the semifinals after defeating high-profile teams like Argentina's River Plate and Uruguay's Nacional. They finally won the competition in 2018 defeating Colombia's Junior in the final.

In 2007, the team partnered with the American MLS club FC Dallas. In 2010 they also announced a partnership with Vitesse Arnhem in the Netherlands.^{[citation needed]}

On 15 February 2015 the club signed Indian winger Romeo Fernandes on loan from Dempo S.C. and through this contract he became the first and only Indian footballer to play in a South American top-tier league.^[5][6][7] Zico, then FC Goa coach played a key role behind this contract.

Team colors and uniform[]

Originally in 1924 Athletico used to play using a horizontally striped in red and black shirt, along with white shorts and red and black socks.^{[citation needed]}

In 1989 Athletico's administrators wanted to differentiate the team's uniform from the other red and black teams in Brazil (mainly speaking of Flamengo, Sport Recife and Vitória), so they changed the home shirt to be vertically striped in red and black (the team kept playing with white socks and white shorts). In 1996 Athletico changed the color of the socks and the shorts from white to black.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2018, Athletico's administrators changed the club's crest to be four alternating red and black diagonal stripes which decreased in size from top to bottom, resembling a hurricane, echoing the club's nickname. The Club also changed their name from 'Clube Atlético Paranaense' to its original name in the Portuguese orthography when it was founded, 'Club Athletico Paranaense', which some^[who?] believe to be a move in order to further differentiate themselves from Atlético Mineiro, another prominent Brazilian club. The club also changed the kits: the home kit, which had been a red and black vertically-striped shirt, black shorts and black socks for twenty-two years became a predominantly red shirt, with a black collar, and the four diagonal stripes from the crest enlarged and going across both the front and back of the lower third of the shirt in black. The shorts and socks remain black. The away strip released with this kit was a white shirt with a black collar. In place of the four diagonal stripes were eight thin diagonal lines in the place of the outline of the larger ones seen on the home shirt; these too were black. The shorts and socks were white.^[8]

Stadium[]

The home stadium is the Estádio Joaquim Américo Guimarães, built in 1914 and renovated several times is traditionally known as Arena da Baixada. Besides hosting important club games, Arena da Baixada also hosted 4 World Cup games in 2014 and other events like the 2017 FIVB Volleyball World League, the UFC 198: Werdum vs. Miocic and many music concerts. Arena da Baixada is also the only stadium in South America with a retractable roof and was the first to use artificial turf (with FIFA approval).^{[citation needed]}

Partnerships[]

• Orlando City SC (MLS) – The technical partnership connects City with a club with a training facility and one of Brazil's academies.^[9]
• All India Football Federation (AIFF) – On 13 November 2014, Paranaense signed a partnership with AIFF, the governing body of Indian football, on a contract lasting till the end of 2015.^[10] The idea was presented by Technical director Rob Baan. Its main motive would be to help India for "development of a strong Indian side in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.^[11]

Current squad[]

First team[]

As of 31 August 2021^[12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Santos 2 DF  COL Nicolás Hernández 5 DF  BRA Marcinho 6 DF  BRA Márcio Azevedo 8 DF  BRA Nicolas 10 MF  BRA Jádson 11 MF  BRA Nikão 13 DF  BRA Khellven 14 DF  BRA Edu 16 DF  BRA Abner Vinícius 17 FW  BRA Guilherme Bissoli 18 MF  BRA Léo Cittadini 19 FW  BRA Jáderson 21 FW  BRA Matheus Babi 25 MF  BRA Richard (on loan from Corinthians) 26 MF  BRA Erick

No. Pos. Nation Player 27 DF  BRA Zé Ivaldo 30 DF  BRA Luan Patrick 32 FW  BRA Pedro Rocha (on loan from Spartak Moscow) 34 DF  BRA Pedro Henrique 37 DF  BRA Lucas Fasson 38 FW  BRA Vinicius Mingotti 44 DF  BRA Thiago Heleno (captain) 55 MF  BRA Fernando Canesin 70 MF  BRA Bruno Leite 79 FW  BRA Renato Kayzer 80 FW  URU David Terans 88 MF  BRA Christian 96 FW  BRA Carlos Eduardo (on loan from Palmeiras) 98 GK  BRA Anderson 99 GK  BRA Bento

Under-23 squad[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  BRA 29 FW  BRA Julimar 33 DF  BRA Lucas Halter 35 MF  BRA 40 DF  BRA João Victor 41 MF  BRA 43 MF  BRA Ramon

No. Pos. Nation Player 47 DF  BRA Kleiton 50 GK  BRA 77 MF  BRA Kawan — DF  BRA — DF  BRA — FW  BRA Elias Carioca

Out on loan[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  COL Felipe Aguilar (at Atlético Nacional until 30 June 2022) — DF  BRA Wálber (at Vasco da Gama until 30 November 2021) — MF  BRA (at Figueirense until 31 December 2021) — MF  BRA Denner (at Chapecoense until 31 December 2021) — MF  BRA Jorginho (at Ceará until 31 December 2021) — MF  BRA Léo Gomes (at Chapecoense until 31 December 2021)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  BRA Matheus Anjos (at Ponte Preta until 31 December 2021) — FW  BRA Fabinho (at Chapecoense until 31 December 2021) — FW  BRA Jajá (at CRB until 31 December 2021) — FW  BRA (at Joinville until 31 December 2021) — FW  BRA Reinaldo (at CSA until 31 December 2021) — FW  BRA Yago (at CSA until 31 December 2021)

Personnel[]

Current technical staff[]

Role	Name
Manager	António Oliveira
Fitness coach	Túlio Flôres
Goalkeeping coach	Felipe Faria
Goalkeeping coach	Marcelo Grimaldi
Under-23 manager	Bruno Lazaroni
Under-23 fitness coach	Fabio Eiras
Under-23 goalkeeping coach	Douglas Neso

• Last updated: 26 March 2021
• Source: [2]

Management[]

Position	Staff
President
1st Vice-president	Fernando Cesar Corrales
2nd Vice-president	Lauri Antônio Pick

• Last updated: December 28, 2019
• Source: [3]

Honours[]

International[]

• Copa Sudamericana

Winner (1): 2018

• J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship

Winner (1): 2019

National[]

• Série A

Winner (1): 2001

• Copa do Brasil

Winner (1): 2019

• Seletiva Libertadores^[13]

Winner (1): 1999

• Série B

Winner (1): 1995

Regional[]

• Campeonato Paranaense

Winners (26): 1925, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1936, 1940, 1943, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020

• Copa Paraná

Winners (2): 1998, 2003

History in competitions[]

^{[citation needed]}

Brazilian League

Year		1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Pos.		*	*	28th	9th	28th	29th	44th	62nd	11th
Year	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Pos.	*	*	32nd	4th	11th	*	18th	20th	19th	18th
Year	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Pos.	*	17th	15th	24th	*	*	8th	12th	16th	9th
Year	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Pos.	13th	1st	14th	12th	2nd	6th	13th	12th	13th	14th
Year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Pos.	5th	17th	*	3rd	8th	10th	6th	11th	7th	5th

Copa Libertadores

Year	2000	2002	2005	2014	2017	2019
Pos.	9th	Group stage	Runners Up	Group stage	Round Of 16	Round Of 16

Copa Sudamericana

Year			2006	2007	2008	2009	2018
Pos.			3rd	19th	12th	1st stage	Champions

(*): Not participated

Head coaches[]

See also[]

• Alex Oprey

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Club Athletico Paranaense.

• Official Site (in Portuguese, English, and German)
• Unofficial Site (in Portuguese)
• List of all matches played