Londrina Esporte Clube
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| Full name | Londrina Esporte Clube | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Tubarão (Shark) | ||
| Founded | 1956 | ||
| Ground | Café, Londrina, Brazil (Capacity: 45,000) |
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| Chairman | Cláudio Canuto | ||
| Manager | Cláudio Tencatti | ||
| League | – | ||
| 2009 | Campeonato Brasileiro Série D, eliminated in third stage | ||
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Londrina Esporte Clube, or Londrina as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Londrina in Paraná, founded on April 5, 1956. The club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B in 1980, won the state championship three times, and competed several times in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Londrina's home is the 45,000-person capacity Café stadium.
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[edit] History
Londrina was founded by a group of sportsmen that, after watching a friendly match between Nacional and Vasco da Gama in Rolândia, decided that they would not need to go to Rolândia to watch football. Instead, they founded a club in their own city. The club was founded on April 5, 1956. They chose blue and white to be Londrina's colors.[1]
In 1969, Londrina's two clubs, Londrina Futebol e Regatas and Paraná Esporte Clube merged into Londrina Esporte Clube.[2] Red and white, city of Londrina colors, became the new club's colors. In 1972, Carlos Antônio Franchello returned to the presidency of the club, and restored blue and white as the club's colors.[3]
In 2008, Londrina won the Copa Paraná for the first time, after beating Cianorte in the final.[4] The club also competed in the same season's Recopa Sul-Brasileira.[4] Londrina was eliminated in the Recopa Sul-Brasileira in the semifinals after a penalty shootout, by Brusque.[5]
[edit] Achievements
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- 1980
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- 1962, 1981, 1992
- Copa Paraná: 1
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- 2008
[edit] Campeonato Brasileiro Série A participations
The club competed in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982,[1] and in 1986.[6] Londrina's best campaign was in 1977, when the club finished in the fourth place.[1]
[edit] Stadium
Londrina's stadium is Estádio do Café,[1] inaugurated in 1976,[7] with a maximum capacity of 45,000 people.[1] However, Vitorino Gonçalves Dias stadium, with a maximum capacity of 13,000 people is owned by Londrina, and sometimes is also used by the club.[8]
[edit] Noted players
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e "Londrina Esporte Clube" (in Portuguese). Arquivo de Clubes. http://www.arquivodeclubes.com/pr/londrina.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro Lance Volume 1. Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A. 2001. p. 199. ISBN 85-88651-01-7.
- ^ "Londrina - História" (in Portuguese). FutebolPR. http://www2.uol.com.br/futebolpr/londrina/londrina.shtml. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ a b "Londrina encerra jejum e conquista título nos pênaltis" (in Portuguese). Gazeta Esportiva. 2008-12-04. http://www.gazetaesportiva.net/ge_noticias/bin/noticia.php?chid=114&nwid=294491. Retrieved 2008-12-04.[dead link]
- ^ "Recopa Sul-brasileira: Brusque faz final contra Sorocaba" (in Portuguese). Futebol Interior. 2008-12-05. http://www.futebolinterior.com.br/news.php?id_news=65423. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
- ^ "Brazil 1986 Championship - Copa Brasil". RSSSF. 2008-02-04. http://paginas.terra.com.br/esporte/rsssfbrasil/tables/br1986.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
- ^ "Estádio Jacy Scaff" (in Portuguese). Templos do Futebol. http://mavalem.sites.uol.com.br/pr/Londrina1.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ "Estádio Vitorino Gonçalves Dias" (in Portuguese). Templos do Futebol. http://mavalem.sites.uol.com.br/pr/Londrina2.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
[edit] External links
- (Portuguese) Londrina Esporte Clube's official Website
