Ferroviario

Ferroviario Atletico Clube, or Ferroviario as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Fortaleza in Ceara, 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 (Rede de Viacao Cearense, "Cearense Transit Net"), a railroad company, wanted to have a team playing in Campeonato Cearense. On May 9, 1933 the team was founded as Ferroviario Foot-Ball Club. The club changed its name to Ferroviario Atletico Clube after some time.

In 1937, Ferroviario 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, Ferroviario won the Campeonato Cearense without losing a single match.

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

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