"Perpetual" Teams

Below, clubs are listed which were never out (relegated or licensed) from their state first division after first gaining admittance to it. This list works similarly to the Coventric! one, about national first divisions.

Founder members (participants of the first ever championship) are indicated in bold face.

Acre

1952: Atlético Acreano
2008: Plácido de Castro FC
2013: Galvez EC
2017: SC Humaitá

Alagoas

1999: Murici FC

Amapá

none

Amazonas

2014: Manaus FC

Bahia

1931: EC Bahia
2007: ECPP Vitória da Conquista
2012: SD Juazeirense

Ceará

2018: Floresta EC
2018: AD Iguatu
2019: Barbalha FC

Distrito Federal

1976: SE Gama
2001: Brasiliense FC
2018: Bolamense FC

Espírito Santo

2012: Real Noroeste CFC
2015: C Atlético Itapemirim

Goiás

1944: Goiás EC
2017: Iporá EC

Maranhão

1926: Sampaio Corrêa FC
2008: São José de Ribamar EC
2011: Cordino EC

Mato Grosso

2004: Luverdense EC
2016: AA Araguaia [*]
2019: Juara AC

[*] AA Araguaia has nothing to do with the older Araguaia AC

Mato Grosso do Sul

2006: CD Sete de Setembro
2013: Novoperário FC

Minas Gerais

1915: C Atlético M [*]
1921: Cruzeiro EC [*]
2013: Tombense FC

[*] Including the 2002 Superchampionship

Pará

1914: Paysandu SC
1998: São Raimundo EC
1999: Águia de Marabá FC
2013: Paragominas FC

Paraíba

2011: CSP

Paraná

1915: Coritiba FC [*]
2015: FC Cascavel [**]

[*] Including the 2002 Superchampionship
[**] FC Cascavel (founded in 2008) has nothing to do with the older Cascavel EC, SOREC,
Cascavel S/A and Cascavel CR

Pernambuco

1915: Santa Cruz FC
1916: C Náutico C
2017: Afogados da Ingazeira FC

Piauí

2016: AA Altos

Rio Grande do Norte

2014: Globo FC

Rio Grande do Sul

1994: ECRC Veranópolis

Rio de Janeiro

1906: Botafogo FR
1906: Fluminense FC
1912: CR Flamengo
1921: CR Vasco da Gama
2008: Macaé EFC
2008: Resende FC

Rondônia

1998: SC Genus de Porto Velho [*]
2016: Real D Ariquemes FC
2016: Rondoniense SC
2017: Barcelona FC
2018: Vilhenense EC
2019: Guaporé FC
2019: Porto Velho EC [**]

[*] SC Genus de Porto Velho was formerly named SC Genus Rondoniense<
[**] Porto Velho EC (founded in 2018) has nothing to do with the older Porto Velho FC

Roraima

none

Santa Catarina

1974: A Chapecoense F
1976: Joinville EC

São Paulo

1916: SE Palmeiras [*] [**]
2015: Red Bull Brasil
2016: Grêmio Novorizontino [***]

[*] Including the 2002 Superchampionship
[**] SE Palmeiras (founded in 1914 as SS Palestra Itália) has nothing to do with the older
AA Palmeiras
[***] Grêmio Novorizontino (founded in 2001) has nothing to do with the older GE Novorizontino

Sergipe

1966: AD Confiança [*]
1966: AO Itabaiana [*]
1966: CS Sergipe [*]
2017: AD Frei Paulistano

[*] Information available only from 1966 on

Tocantins

1993: Tocantinópolis EC
2017: SD Sparta
2019: Arsenal EC
2019: C Atlético Cerrado
2019: Força Jovem EC

About this document

Thanks to Antonio Jose Peres de Souza (antonio.souza@timnordeste.com.br), Natanael Duarte Neto (ndnrsssf@yahoo.com.br), Henrique Ribeiro (henriquemr@brfree.com.br), Pedro Varanda (florianovaranda@ig.com.br), Alan Roger (alan.roger@uol.com.br) and Carlos Santos (charles_br@ymail.com).

Prepared and maintained by Marcelo Leme de Arruda for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation and RSSSF Brazil

Authors: Marcelo Leme de Arruda (marcelo.leme.arruda@gmail.com)
Last updated: 28 Jun 2019

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