O Britânia Sport Club foi um clube de Curitiba fundado em 1914 que venceu sete vezes o Campeonato Paranaense, seis delas seguidas entre 1918 e 1923, e foi extinto em 1971.
Britânia Sport Club
Britânia Sport Club was a football club from Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, founded in 1914. Known as Tigre, it was one of the great champions of Paraná in the 1920s and ceased to exist in 1971.
History
Britânia was founded on November 19, 1914, from the merger between Leão Foot-Ball Club and Tigre Foot-Ball Club, and became known as Tigre. The club dominated Paraná football in the 1920s: it won the Paraná State Championship from 1918 to 1923, six times in a row, and became champion again in 1928, totaling seven state titles. It also won the Curitiba Championship in 1923 and 1928. Britânia also won seven editions of the Torneio Início of Paraná (1919, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1933, 1959 and 1961). Its stadium was Estádio Paula Soares, with a capacity of about 4,000 people. The club was dissolved in 1971.