Linense

Clube Atlético Linense, commonly referred to as Linense, is a Brazilian professional association football club based in Lins, São Paulo. The team competes in the Campeonato Paulista Série A2, the second tier of the São Paulo state football league.

Founded on June 12, 1927, it was reorganized on February 11, 1930. Their colors are red, white and black. They won the Campeonato Paulista Second Division in 1952, and the Série A-2 (Second Division) in 2010, returning to the First Division in 2011, what has not happened since 1957.

They are the club that showed Leivinha, idol of Portuguesa, Palmeiras, the Brazil national team and Atlético Madrid, was also the club that held the first international transfer of Brazilian striker Americo 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 premises Estádio 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.

**Linense** er en brasiliansk fodboldklub med base i Lins, São Paulo. Klubben blev grundlagt i 1927 og spiller i øjeblikket i den brasilianske Serie D, den fjerde række i brasiliansk fodbold.

**Historie:**

* Klubben blev grundlagt den 12. juni 1927 under navnet **Clube Atlético Linense**.
* Linense vandt deres første Paulista Campeonato do Interior-titel i 1951.
* Klubben nåede finalen i den brasilianske Serie C i 2009, men tabte til Ituiutaba.
* I 2020 vandt Linense Campeonato Paulista Série A2 og blev forfremmet til Serie D.

**Stadion:**

* Linense spiller sine hjemmekampe på **Estádio Gilberto Siqueira Lopes**, også kendt som **Gilbertão**.
* Stadionet har en kapacitet på 15.770 tilskuere.

**Bemærkelsesværdige spillere:**

* **Zé Roberto** (tidligere Brasilien-landsholdsspiller)
* **Amaral** (tidligere Palmeiras-spiller)
* **Dida** (tidligere AC Milan-målmand)
* **Müller** (tidligere São Paulo-spiller)
* **Rodriguinho** (tidligere Corinthians-spiller)