Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, commonly referred to as ASA de Arapiraca or ASA, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Arapiraca, Alagoas. It competes in the Série D, the fourth tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Alagoano, the top flight of the Alagoas state football league.
History Arapiraca was led by Mayor Dr. Coaracy da Mata Fonseca, and despite its small size, the city was on the cusp of progress. The local fair was already distinguishing itself throughout the Brazilian Northeast. The construction of the railway by the Camilo Colier company required the labor of many workers, who sought leisure activities on their days off. In response to employee requests, the company's management built a soccer field. The team formed took the name Ferroviário, with black and white as its colors. Sundays became busier as residents flocked to the field. However, with the completion of the railway, the team disbanded and the Sunday afternoons lost their recreational outlet.
Businessmen and city officials were not content with the void caused by the lack of football. After several discussions, on 25 September 1952, the Associação Sportiva de Arapiraca, was the ASA that emerged from the entrepreneurial force of Mr. Antônio Pereira Rocha, the first president. In 1977, the club began to be called Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, remaining the same ASA.
The club is the third largest state champion in Alagoas, with 7 titles. In the national scenario, the club was runner-up of Campeonato Brasileiro Série C after losing to América Mineiro in 2009. In 2013, reached the final of the Copa do Nordeste, but was defeated to Campinense.
In 2002, ASA gained prominence by eliminating Palmeiras still in the first round of Copa do Brasil.
Symbols
Crest The emblem has as its base structure three concentric circles (representing the union of the crowd), with the motto - Agremiação Sportiva Arapiraquense, in the core of the shield, the sinister, an oval geometric figure representing a leaf of bipartisan (smoke green) and white (mature smoke) and in this, the name ASA. On the right, suggesting a line where the smoke is exposed to the sun for its drying in the field, having in the central part, symbolizing Arapiraca, the "radiant star", an integral part of the hymn of the municipality, by the poet and educator Pedro de França Reis.
Nicknames The club finished as runner-up in the Campeonato Alagoano in 1967 and 1970, and began touring the Northeast Region of Brazil. ASA, then little known outside Alagoas, won a number of these matches with Acebílio as its leading player. The nickname "Phantom of Alagoas" (Fantasma das Alagoas) dates from this period.
Stadium ASA's home matches are usually played at Fumeirão, which has a maximum capacity of 17,000 people.
Current squad
Honours
Official tournaments
Inter-stateCompetitionsTitlesSeasonsCopa Alagipe 12005StateCompetitionsTitlesSeasonsCampeonato Alagoano71953, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011Copa Alagoas 32015, 2020, 2021
Others tournaments
State Copa Maceió (1): 2005 Campeonato do Interior (1): 1953
Runners-up Campeonato Brasileiro Série C (1): 2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D (1): 2026 Copa do Nordeste (1): 2013 Campeonato Alagoano (13): 1957, 1967, 1970, 1979, 1991, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Copa Alagoas (2): 2005, 2023
References
External links Official Site