Joinville Esporte Clube

Joinville was founded on 29 January 1976, after América-SC football department and Caxias football department fused. The club's Golden Age was in the 1980s, when the club won eight state championships in a row. Joinville's largest win was on 31 October 1976, when the club beat Ipiranga of Tangará 11–1 at Estádio Municipal de Tangará. The club won the Copa Santa Catarina in 2009, and then the Recopa Sul-Brasileira in the same year, after beating Serrano Centro-Sul 3–2 in the final. They won the Copa Santa Catarina again in 2011. Joinville also won the Série C in 2011, after beating CRB 3–1 and 4–0 in the final. The club won the Copa Santa Catarina for the third time in 2012. In 2014, the club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, returning to the Série A after 29 years of absence. Joinville were relegated to the Serie B in 2015 after coming in last place in the Serie A, and then relegated once again to Serie C in 2016. After 3 years without national division, Joinville secured their place in 2025 Serie D. In 2026, the year of its fiftieth anniversary, Joinville went through a major crisis in the championship, with intense fan protests against the board and the squad. The club was fined in R$ 20,000 reais and lost three field orders by the Sports Court of Justice of Santa Catarina state (Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva do Estado de Santa Catarina, TJD-SC) after the fans threw bombs and flares onto the pitch in the first round of the relegation quadrangular, in the 4-2 defeat…

Official tournaments

S shared record

Others tournaments

State

Taça Santa Catarina (1): 1980 Taça Governador do Estado (3): 1981, 1982, 1984

Runners-up

Campeonato Catarinense (8): 1989, 1990, 1996, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016 Copa Santa Catarina (5): 1995, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2025