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| Full name | Clube Atlético Linense | |||
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| Nickname | Elefante da Noroeste (Northwestern Elephant) | |||
| Founded | 12 June 1927; 98 years ago (1927-06-12) | |||
| Ground | Gilbertão | |||
| Capacity | 15,770[1] | |||
| President | José Hugo Gentil Moreira | |||
| Head coach | Xandão | |||
| League | Campeonato Paulista Série A2 | |||
| 2025 [pt] | Paulista Série A2, 12th of 16 | |||
Clube Atlético Linense, commonly referred to asLinense, is aBrazilian professionalassociation football club based inLins,São Paulo. The team competes in theCampeonato Paulista Série A2, the second tier of theSão Paulostate football league.
Founded on June 12, 1927, it was reorganized on February 11, 1930. Their colors are red, white and black. They won theCampeonato Paulista Second Division in 1952, and theSérie A-2 (Second Division) in 2010, returning to theFirst Division in 2011, what has not happened since 1957.
They are the club that showedLeivinha, idol ofPortuguesa,Palmeiras, theBrazil national team andAtlético Madrid, was also the club that held the first international transfer of Brazilian strikerAmerico 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 premisesEstádio 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.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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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 ofRede Globo, found that only in the city ofLins, 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.
