Amapá Club

Founded in 1944, Amapá Club is the oldest football team in Amapá. It competed in the Amapá State Championship for decades and was one of the greatest historical rivals of Macapá football before ending its activities in 2015.

History

Amapá Club was born on February 23, 1944, in a meeting held at a residence situated in front of the first building of Macapá's City Hall. Founded by a group of ten local sports enthusiasts, among them Eloy Nunes Monteiro and Francisco Serrano, it became the oldest football club in the territory that would become the state of Amapá. With a crest inspired by Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, featuring a lone white star on a black background, and with a zebra as its mascot, the club became known by its supporters as the 'Zebra of Presidente Vargas Avenue'. The black and white colors in stripes became its trademark on Amapá's football fields. The club's sporting peak occurred throughout its amateur and semi-professional history, when it won ten titles in the Amapá State Championship (1945, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1987, 1988, and 1990), as well as four runner-up finishes (1991, 1993, 2005, and 2006). The most victorious period was the late 1980s, when the club was among the protagonists of state football. As the years passed, financial difficulties accumulated and the club gradually reduced its competitive activity. It played its last edition of the Amapá State Championship in 2008 and, after years without professional activity, definitively ended its operations in 2015, but remains in the affectionate memory of Amapá football as one of its founding institutions.