| | Atlético Mineiro   | |  | | |  | | Web site: http://www.atletico.com.br/
Founded: 1908
Nickname: Galo (The Rooster)
Stadium: Estádio Magalhães Pinto (Mineirão)
Stadium Address: Avenida Abrahão Caram 1001, Belo Horizonte 31275
League:  Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
Clube Atlético Mineiro was founded on March 25, 1908 by 22 middle-class boys from Belo Horizonte. The boys decided that the club's name would be Athletico Mineiro Foot Ball Club, and the kit would be a white shirt with a green horizontal strip on the chest. Soon after, they decided to change the kit to the black/white stripped shirt which is used nowadays.
| | | | | | Atlético Paranaense | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.atleticopr.com.br/
Founded: 1924
Nickname: Furacão (Hurricane)
Stadium: Estádio Joaquim Américo Guimarães (Arena da Baixada)
Stadium Address: Rua Buenos Aires 1270, Curitiba 80250
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Winner of cup(s): 
History:
Atlético Paranaense was born as the result of a merge between the two Curitiba traditional teams, Internacional and América. The merge was announced on March 21, 1924 and formalized five days later, on March 26.
| | | | | | Avaí | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Barueri | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Botafogo | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.botafogo.com.br
Founded: 1904
Nickname: Fogão
Stadium: Estádio Olímpico João Havelange
Stadium Address: Rua Arquias Cordeiro, Rio de Janeiro 20770
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
On July 1, 1894, the Club de Regatas Botafogo, a rowing club, was founded. The name was meant to evoke neighbourhood where the club was. The colours of the club were black and white, and its symbol the Lone Star, or the "Estrela D'alva", the first star to appear on the sky (not really a star , but the planet Venus).
| | | | | | Corinthians | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.corinthians.com.br
Founded: 1910
Nickname: Timão (The Great Team)
Stadium: Estádio Municipal Paulo Machado de Carvalho (Pacaembu)
Stadium Address: Praça Charles Miller, São Paulo 01234
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 
Winner of cup(s):  
History:
On September 1, 1910, a group of labourers in the neighborhood of Bom Retiro decided to create their own club. Their idea was to found a football team in which anyone could display his abilities in the sport, since back then, in the beginning of the 20th century, football in Brazil was considered to be an elitist sport, played mainly by British descendants and people who worked for British companies.
| | | | | | Coritiba | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Cruzeiro | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.cruzeiro.com.br
Founded: 1921
Nickname: A Raposa (The Fox)
Stadium: Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto (Mineirão)
Stadium Address: Avenida Abrahão Caram 1001, Belo Horizonte 31275
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Winner of cup(s): 
History:
Cruzeiro was born off a political administrative crisis at Yale, one of the first sporting clubs of Belo Horizonte, a city where already some Italian immigrants militated. The Italians in Belo Horizonte, wanted to follow the example of the Italians in São Paulo, who had established a football club, the Palestra Itália, now Palmeiras. The people of Belo Horizonte wanted the Italian colony in Minas Gerais to have its own club as well.
| | | | | | Flamengo | | | | |  | | Web site: http://flamengo.globo.com/
Founded: 1895
Nickname: Rubro-Negro
Stadium: Estádio José Bastos Padilha (Gávea)
Stadium Address: Avenida Borges de Medeiros 997, Rio de Janeiro 22430
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 
Winner of cup(s): 
History:
It was founded on November 15, 1895 as a rowing club. Its most popular sport - football - started when a group of dissatisfied players from the Fluminense Football Club (note that at the time Flamengo did not compete in football) broke away from the club following a fight with the board.
| | | | | | Fluminense  | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.fluminense.com.br
Founded: 1902
Nickname: Tricolor Carioca
Stadium: Estádio Manoel Schwartz (Laranjeiras)
Stadium Address: Rua Alvaro Chaves 41, Rio de Janeiro 22231
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
Oscar Cox introduced football to Rio. He played in Switzerland during his studies in Lausanne. When he returned to Rio, aged 22, he gathered a group of men who also wanted to play this yet relatively unknown sport. After playing some matches in Rio and in São Paulo, they decided to found a club. The foundation meeting took place on 21 July 1902.
| | | | | | Goiás | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.goiasesporteclube.com.br
Founded: 1943
Nickname: Periquito (The Parrot)
Stadium: Estádio Serra Dourada
Stadium Address: Jardim Goiás, Goiânia 74115
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Winner of cup(s): 
History:
On April 6, 1943, in a meeting among friends at Lino Barsi's home, Goiás Esporte Clube was founded.
| | | | | | Grêmio | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.gremio.net
Founded: 1903
Nickname: Imortal Tricolor (Three-Colored Immortal)
Stadium: Estádio Olímpico Monumental
Stadium Address: Largo dos Campeões, Porto Alegre 90880
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
On September 7, 1903, Sport Club Rio Grande, the first Brazilian football team, played an exhibition match in Porto Alegre. An entrepreneur from Sorocaba, São Paulo called Cândido Dias, watched the match and became enchanted by the sport. During the match, the ball deflated. As the owner of the only football of Porto Alegre, he lent his ball to the players, and the match was resumed. After the match, he learned from the players instructions about football and how to found a club. On September 15, 1903, 32 people, including Cândido Dias, met at Salão Grau restaurant and founded the club.
| | | | | | Internacional | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.internacional.com.br/
Founded: 1909
Nickname: Colorado (The Red)
Stadium: Estádio José Pinheiro Borda (Beira-Rio)
Stadium Address: Avenida Padre Cacique 891, Porto Alegre 90810
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Winner of cup(s): 
History:
Early in the 20th Century, three young men from São Paulo who had recently arrived in Porto Alegre wanted to play soccer. But were not admitted at any club in town, because they were newcomers in Porto Alegre so they decided to found their own club. On the night of Monday, April 4, 1909, in the basement of a house, and driven by three men (brothers Henrique and José Poppe Leão, and Luiz Madeira Poppe) 40 young men (twice more people than expected to attend the reunion) founded Sport Club Internacional.
| | | | | | Náutico | | | | |  | | Web site: http://nauticonet.com.br/index.php
Founded: 1901
Nickname: Timbu (Opossum)
Stadium: Estádio Eládio de Barros Carvalho (Aflitos)
Stadium Address: Avenida Conselheiro Rosa e Silva 1086, Recife 50070
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
After the end of the War of Canudos, the rowing increased its popularity among the Recife people, being disputed many competitions along the Capibaribe river. One rowing group, commanded by João Victor da Cruz Alfarra, prepared a boat race to entertain General Artur Costa and his soldiers, who fought in the war. The boat race was disputed on November 21, 1897. After this competition, a year later, another rowing group was formed, by warehouse employees at Duque de Caxias and Rangel streets. They founded a club called Clube dos Pimpões. The other group members, who organized the rowing competition in the previous year, became encouraged, and in 1898 they played against Club dos Pimpões several times at Casa dos Banhos.
On April 7, 1901 these two rival groups of rowing players joined and founded Clube Náutico Capibaribe.
Only since 1905 Náutico started its football department, and the first team was set in the following year, and was formed by Englishmen, but they played only on Sundays at Campo de Santana or at Derby prairie. Náutico were known as "the club of the riches" as in its start it didn't allow Negros to play in its football team.
| | | | | | Palmeiras | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.palmeiras.com.br
Founded: 1914
Nickname: Verdão (Big Green)
Stadium: Estádio Palestra Italia (Parque Antártica)
Stadium Address: Rua Turiassu 1840, São Paulo 05005
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
Palmeiras was founded by four Italian men who were members of the Italian-speaking community of São Paulo and was initially named Società Sportiva Palestra Italia. Its original colors were red, white and green (those of Italy). The name change occurred during World War II.
| | | | | | Santo André | | | | |  | | | | | | | | Santos | | | | |  | | Web site: http://santos.globo.com/
Founded: 1912
Nickname: Peixe (The Fish)
Stadium: Estadio Urbano Caldeira - Vila Belmiro
Stadium Address: Rua Princesa Isabel, Santos 11075
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
It was founded as 'Santos Foot-Ball Club' on April 14, 1912, through the initiative of three sports enthusiasts from Santos.
| | | | | | São Paulo | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.saopaulofc.net
Founded: 1935
Nickname: O Mais Querido (The Most Loved)
Stadium: Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo (Morumbi)
Stadium Address: Praça Roberto Gomes Pedrosa 1, São Paulo 05653
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
History:
In 1900, the Clube Atlético Paulistano is founded. After winning several championships, due to the football professionalization, they decided to end their activities in this sport, as did Associação Atlética das Palmeiras. Then, the players and the supporters of both teams founded the São Paulo Futebol Clube on January 25, 1930.
| | | | | | Sport Club do Recife | | | | |  | | Web site: http://www.meusport.com/
Founded: 1905
Nickname: Leão, Papai da Cidade, Leão do Norte
Stadium: Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho (Ilha de Retiro)
Stadium Address: Praça da Bandeira, Recife 50070
League: Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Winner of cup(s): 
History:
On May 13, Sport Club do Recife was founded by Guilherme de Aquino Fonseca after a meeting between the 23 founders at Associação dos Empregados do Comércio (In English "Commerce Employees Association") of Pernambuco, who loaned their great hall to the newly-formed club.
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