Macae

Macae Esporte Futebol Clube, commonly known as Macae, is a Brazilian professional football club in Macae, Rio de Janeiro. The team compete in Campeonato Carioca, the top tier of the Rio de Janeiro state football league.

History

The city's most popular team, the Macae Esporte Futebol Clube was founded on July 17, 1990 as Botafogo Futebol Clube. For eight years, the team only participated in amateur competitions and the first titles came in the middle of the decade, when he became a double champion in the municipality of Macae (1994 and 1995).

But it was from 1998 that the club began to show its "face" to the State of Rio, when the professionalization took place. And soon in its first season, the then Botafogo conquered the State of the Third Division. In that same year, the team finished runner-up of Copa Rio do Interior and one of the semifinalists of Copa Rio da Capital, being eliminated by Fluminense.

In 1999, already using the fancy name Macae Sports, the club disputed the State of the Second Division and ended up getting the runner-up. In the year 2000, the club made its second statutory change and, definitively, it was renamed Macae Esporte Futebol Clube. In 2002, alvianil was close to reaching the elite of Rio de Janeiro, but again it was runner-up in Second Division, a fact that was repeated in 2006. But it was in 2003 that the club entered the national scene, when playing for the first time the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie C.

In 2009, the club had one of its best seasons of its history. Macae was fifth in the Campeonato Carioca, behind only the four majors of the state. The campaign won a place in the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie D, a competition in which the club won the runner-up.

But it was in 2014 that Macae achieved its greatest glory in all its history. In addition to gaining access to Campeonato Brasileiro Serie B the following year, he won the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie C by drawing 3-3 with Paysandu.

This page also has a version in other languages :  Макаэ (russian)