Clube Atlético Linense

Not to be confused with Real Balompédica Linense.

Linense

Full name	Clube Atlético Linense
Nickname(s)	Elefante da Noroeste (Northwestern Elephant)
Founded	12 June 1927; 97 years ago (1927-06-12)
Ground	Gilbertão
Capacity	15,770[1]
President	José Hugo Gentil Moreira
Head coach	Xandão
League	Campeonato Paulista Série A2
2024 [pt]	Paulista Série A2, 10th of 16
Home colors Away colors

Clube Atlético Linense, commonly referred to as Linense, is a Brazilian professional association football club based in Lins, São Paulo. The team competes in the Campeonato Paulista Série A2, the second tier of the São Paulo state football league.

Founded on June 12, 1927, it was reorganized on February 11, 1930. Their colors are red, white and black. They won the Campeonato Paulista Second Division in 1952, and the Série A-2 (Second Division) in 2010, returning to the First Division in 2011, what has not happened since 1957.

They are the club that showed Leivinha, idol of Portuguesa, Palmeiras, the Brazil national team and Atlético Madrid, was also the club that held the first international transfer of Brazilian striker Americo Murolo trading with Italy. Has one of the most curious football mascots of São Paulo state, which it is intimately connected. Some episodes characteristic of the players involved a parade of circus elephants on site after winning the league's second division in 1952. In 2000, there was a parade of elephants from the track's premises Estádio Gilberto Siqueira Lopes.

The club announced the launch of a professional basketball team, which will begin playing in the second tier division of São Paulo state basketball. In January 2015, it is also expected that Clube Atlético Linense will join Liga Ouro, the second division of Brazil's national basketball league known as NBB.

Current squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Júnior Oliveira 2 DF  BRA Gedeílson 4 DF  BRA Magno Alves 5 MF  BRA Maycon 6 DF  BRA Thiago Feltri 7 MF  BRA Henrique Santos 8 MF  BRA Diego Silva 9 FW  BRA Raphaël Carioca 10 MF  BRA Thiago Humberto 11 FW  BRA Carlos André 13 DF  BRA Felipe Costa 14 DF  BRA Wellington 15 MF  BRA Pedro Demarchi 16 FW  BRA Lucas Machado (on loan from Londrina) 17 DF  BRA João Paulo 18 FW  ARG Franco

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  BRA Wellisson 20 FW  BRA Raul 21 DF  BRA Vinicius Silva 22 DF  BRA Rodrigo Salgado 23 FW  BRA Luan 25 MF  BRA Kássio 26 MF  BRA Diego Felipe 27 DF  BRA Lucas Newiton (on loan from Grêmio Novorizontino) 28 MF  BRA Balestra 29 MF  BRA Mateus Melo 30 GK  BRA Igor 31 FW  BRA Juan 32 DF  BRA Mateus Bolt 33 MF  ARG Alvaro 35 GK  BRA Jonatas

Supporters

The supporters of the Clube Atlético Linense is, in proportional terms, one of the largest in Brazil. A poll conducted by TV TEM, the local affiliate of Rede Globo, found that only in the city of Lins, whose estimated population in 2007 was 70,000 inhabitants, there are approximately 45,00 fans known as atleticanos. The team is also known to regularly carry more than 15% of its population, i.e. 12,000 people at a football stadium, an achievement considered unique in the whole national territory.

Honours

• Copa Paulista
  • Winners (1): 2015
• Campeonato Paulista Série A2
  • Winners (2): 1952, 2010
• Campeonato Paulista Série A3
  • Winners (1): 2021

References

1. "CNEF – Cadastro Nacional de Estádios de Futebol" (PDF). Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (in Portuguese). Archived (PDF) from the original on December 12, 2018.

External links

• Official website