Avaí FC

Avaí Futebol Clube (Portuguese pronunciation: [avaˈi]) is a Brazilian football team from Florianópolis in Santa Catarina, founded on 1 September 1923. Their home stadium is Estádio Aderbal Ramos da Silva, also known as Ressacada, with a capacity of 17,800.^[2] They play in blue and white shirts, shorts and socks.

Avaí

Full name	Avaí Futebol Clube
Nickname(s)	Leão da Ilha (Lion of the Island) Time da Raça (Team of Bravery)
Founded	1 September 1923; 101 years ago (1923-09-01)
Ground	Ressacada
Capacity	17,800[1]
President	Júlio César Heerdt
Head coach	Enderson Moreira
League	Campeonato Brasileiro Série B Campeonato Catarinense
2024 2024 [pt]	Série B, 10th of 20 Catarinense, 3rd of 12
Website	avai.com.br
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

History

The club was founded after a businessman called Amadeu Horn gave football kits to a group of boys. The boys played a match against a team called Humaitá, and won. On 1 September 1923, at Amadeu Horn's house, the club was founded, known as Avahy Football Club at the time. The team was named Avahy after the Battle of Avay, in the Paraguayan War. In the following year, it became the first Santa Catarina State Championship champion.

Avaí has played in the Brazilian First Division ("Série A") eleven times: 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. In 1998, they won their only national title, the Brazilian Third Division ("Série C"). From 1999 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014, they played in the Série B with their best campaigns being the third place attained in 2004 (when Avaí reached the Final Four, but could not be promoted to the First Division because only the two best placed teams were promoted) and 2008.

In 2008 they finished 3rd in the championship and were promoted to the First Division for the first time in 30 years. In its first year playing in Série A, Avaí finished in 6th place, thus qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana. This has been the best participation ever by a club from the State of Santa Catarina in the Brazilian first division. The team eventually was relegated in 2011, and returned to the Série A in 2014, when the team won the promotion in the last round. Avaí won the most Santa Catarina State Championship titles in the 20th Century (13), and is currently the all-time record state champions (18), same as cross-bridge rivals Figueirense.

Rivals

Avaí's greatest rival is Figueirense.

Club colors and nickname

The club colors are blue and white, and it is known as "The Lion of the Island" (because 90% of the Florianópolis territory is established on an island).

Competitions record

Série A

Year	Position	Year	Position
1974	39th	2010	15th
1976	36th	2011	20th
1977	43rd	2015	17th
1979	90th	2017	18th
2009	6th	2019	20th

Série B

Year	Position	Year	Position	Year	Position	Year	Position
1980	61st	1999	8th	2004	3rd	2012	7th
1984	32nd	2000	15th	2005	8th	2013	10th
1986	24th	2001	4th	2006	13th	2014	4th
1988	12th	2002	6th	2007	15th	2016	2nd
1989	83rd	2003	11th	2008	3rd	2018	3rd
2020	9th	2021	4th

Série C

Year	Position
1987	13th
1995	58th
1996	34th
1997	6th
1998	1st

Copa do Brasil

Year	Position	Year	Position
1989	18th	2010	13th
1998	38th	2011	4th
1999	23rd	2013	33rd
2000	59th	2014	25th
2007	16th

Copa Sudamericana

Year	Position
2010	14th

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• 9 seasons in Série A
• 19 seasons in Série B
• 5 seasons in Série C

Stadium

Main article: Estádio da Ressacada

Avaí's stadium is Estádio Aderbal Ramos da Silva (though it's mostly referred to as Ressacada), and it was inaugurated in 1983. It has a maximum capacity of 17,800 people, but its record crowd was 32,000 at the 1988 State Championship final.^[3] Before 1983, Avaí's stadium was Estádio Adolfo Konder (which has been subsequently demolished).

Players

First team squad

As of 2 May 2025

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Igor Bohn 2 DF  BRA Raylan (on loan from Cuiabá) 5 MF  BRA Barreto 7 FW  BRA Hygor 8 MF  BRA João Vitor (on loan from CSP) 9 FW  BRA Vágner Love 10 MF  BRA Marquinhos Gabriel 11 FW  BRA Alef Manga 13 DF  BRA Gabriel Dias 14 DF  BRA Eduardo Brock 16 MF  BRA Jamerson 17 MF  BRA Tedesco 20 FW  BRA Gaspar 21 GK  BRA Otávio 22 GK  BRA Douglas Friedrich 31 GK  BRA César Augusto 32 FW  BRA Léo Reis

No. Pos. Nation Player 33 DF  BRA Mário Sérgio 34 DF  BRA Wanderson 35 DF  BRA Pedrão (on loan from Cruzeiro) 37 FW  BRA Rigley 40 MF  ECU Robert Burbano 41 FW  BRA Thayllon 63 DF  BRA Marcos Vinícius 66 DF  BRA Mateus Quaresma 77 MF  BRA Zé Ricardo 78 MF  BRA Andrey 80 MF  BRA João Pedro (on loan from Vasco da Gama) 90 MF  BRA Mendes 93 MF  BRA Judson 94 FW  BRA Emerson Negueba (on loan from Cuiabá) 95 DF  BRA Jonathan Costa 98 FW  BRA Renan Júnior 99 FW  BRA Cléber

Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  BRA João Paulo 25 DF  BRA Natanael

No. Pos. Nation Player 28 MF  BRA Ronaldo Henrique

Youth team

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  BRA Bruno Baldini 18 MF  BRA Fellype Gabryel

No. Pos. Nation Player 76 DF  BRA Devid (on loan from São-Carlense)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  BRA João Pedro (at Taquaritinga until 30 April 2025) — MF  BRA Jean Lucas (at Operário Ferroviário until 30 November 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  BRA Maurício Garcez (at Juventude until 31 December 2025)

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in football

No.	Player	Nationality	Position	Reason
88	Cléber Santana	Brazil	Midfielder	Posthumous [4]

Technical staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Gilmar Dal Pozzo

Honours

Official tournaments

National
Competitions	Titles	Seasons
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C	1	1998
State
Competitions	Titles	Seasons
Campeonato Catarinense	19	1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1973, 1975, 1988, 1997, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2019, 2021, 2025
Copa Santa Catarina	1	1995
Campeonato Catarinense Série B	1	1994

•   record

Others tournaments

International

• International Triangular Tournament (1): 1975

Inter-state

• Torneio Integração Paraná-Santa Catarina (1): 1972
• Torneio Ivo Reis Montenegro (1): 1975

State

• Taça Governador do Estado (2): 1983, 1985
• Torneio Início do Campeonato Catarinense (3): 1925, 1926, 1936

City

• Campeonato Citadino de Florianópolis (20): 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1933, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1995
• Torneio Início de Florianópolis (13): 1925, 1926, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1963

Runners-up

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série B (1): 2016
• Campeonato Catarinense (10): 1925, 1940, 1949, 1951, 1972, 1977, 1985, 1992, 1999, 2017
• Recopa Catarinense (2): 2020, 2022

Youth team

• Copa Votorantim Sub-15 (2): 2019, 2020

Affiliated clubs

The following club is currently affiliated with Avaí FC:

• Odisha FC (2021–present)^[5][6]

See also

• Avaí FC (women)