Ferroviário Atlético Clube (CE)

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Ferroviário

Full name	Ferroviário Atlético Clube
Nickname(s)	Tubarão da Barra (Barra's Shark) Ferrão (Big Iron) Time Proletário (Proletarian Team)
Founded	May 9, 1933 (88 years ago) (1933-05-09)
Ground	Vila Olímpica Elzir Cabral Estádio Presidente Vargas
Capacity	4,200 (Elzir Cabral) 20,268 (Presidente Vargas)
President	Walmir Araújo
Head coach	Francisco Diá
League	Campeonato Brasileiro Série C Campeonato Cearense
2019 2020	Série C, 10th Cearense, 3rd
Website	Club website
Home colors Away colors Third colors

Radio and TV block at Vila Olímpica Elzir Cabral

Ferroviário Atlético Clube, or Ferroviário as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Fortaleza in Ceará, founded on May 9, 1933. The team name means "railroad worker" in Portuguese.

Home stadium is the Elzir Cabral stadium, capacity 8,000.

History[]

The club was founded after two amateur soccer teams, named Matapasto and Jurubeba fused, and after RVC (, "Cearense Transit Net"), a railroad company, wanted to have a team playing in Campeonato Cearense. On May 9, 1933 the team was founded as Ferroviário Foot-Ball Club. The club changed its name to Ferroviário Atlético Clube after some time.

In 1937, Ferroviário won its first title, the Campeonato Cearense Second Division, being promoted to the following year's first division. In 1945, the club won its first state championship, the Campeonato Cearense, after beating Maguari 3-1 in the final. In 1968, Ferroviário won the Campeonato Cearense without losing a single match.

On December 6, 2005, a Ferroviário player, Alessandro, died during a training at Vila Olímpica Elzir Cabral.

Achievements[]

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série D:
  • Winners (1): 2018
• Campeonato Cearense:
  • Winners (9): 1945, 1950, 1952, 1968, 1970, 1979, 1988, 1994, 1995
• :
  • Winners (1): 1937

Ultras[]

There are several groups supporting Ferroviário, like:

• Torcida Falange Coral

Symbols[]

The team colors, as well as the logos and kits are very similar to São Paulo ones. Ferroviários's mascot is a shark.

Vila Olímpica Elzir Cabral at night

External links[]

• (in Portuguese) Official website
• (in Portuguese) Ultras Resistência Coral