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ACD Potiguar
ID: team_147718
About
Associação Cultural e Desportiva Potiguar, commonly known as Potiguar or as Potiguar de Mossoró, are a Brazilian football team from Mossoró. They won the Campeonato Potiguar once and competed in the Série A twice. Potiguar is currently ranked fourth among Rio Grande do Norte teams in CBF's national club ranking at 157th place overall. They are the best placed team in the state from outside of Greater Natal. They were founded on 11 February 1945, as Esporte Clube Potuguar by a group of sportsmen. They fused with Associação Desportiva Potiguar on June 19, 1953. The club won the Campeonato Potiguar in 2004. Potiguar competed in the Série A in 1979, when they were eliminated in the first stage. The club was eliminated in Copa João Havelange's first stage of the Green module in 2000. The derby between Potiguar and Baraúnas is known as Potiba.
Home Venue
Nogueirão
Estádio Leonardo Nogueira, usually known as Nogueirão, is a multi-use stadium located in Mossoró, Brazil. It is used mostly for football matches and hosts the home matches of the two most important teams of the city Associação Cultural Esporte Clube Baraúnas and Potiguar de Mossoró. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 25,000 people and was built in 1967. Nogueirão is owned by the Liga Desportiva Mossoroense (Mossoró City Sporting League). The stadium is named after Manoel Leonardo Nogueira, who was the president of the city's Liga Municipal de Esportes (Municipality's Sport League) and was responsible for the stadium's construction. In 1967, the works on Nogueirão were completed. The inaugural match was played on June 4 of that year, when Ceará beat Mossoró City Combined Team 2–0. Ceará's Mozart scored the first goal of the stadium. The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 18,063, set on August 11, 1985 when Flamengo beat Baraúnas 3–2.
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