Atletico Acreano is a Brazilian professional football club based in Rio Branco, Acre. The team competes in the Serie D, the fourth tier of Brazilian football. as well as in the Campeonato Acreano, the top flight of the Acre state football league.
History
The club was founded in 1952, under the name "Beirut" for Syrian-Lebanese traders. Among them are Augusto Hidalgo de Lima, Foch Jardim, Roberto Sanches Mubarac, Lourival Pinho, Pereira de Lima, Goldwasser Pereira Santos, Silvio Ferrante, Mario D'Avila Maciel, Rufino Farias Vieira, Fernando Andrade Pessoa, among others.
Several other families had an important passage and that are parts of the club's history, such as Diogenes, Pinho, Ribeiro, Frota, and Patriota.
With great values, Atletico Acreano began to dominate the Segundo Distrito. The passion that the blue and white team caused, soon received the slogan "Gloria de um Povo, orgulho de Uma Cidade". (The glory of a people, proud of a city).