Club Athletico Paranaense
| Full name | Club Athletico Paranaense | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Furacão (Hurricane) Rubro-Negro (Red and Black) El Paranaense (The Paranaense) | |||
| Founded | 26 March 1924 | |||
| Ground | Arena da Baixada | |||
| Capacity | 42,372 | |||
| President | Mario Celso Petraglia | |||
| Manager | Odair Hellmann | |||
| League | Campeonato Brasileiro Série B Campeonato Paranaense | |||
| 2024 2024 | Série A, 17th of 20 (relegated) Paranaense, 1st of 12 (champions) | |||
| Website | athletico.com.br | |||
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Club Athletico Paranaense (abbreviated CAP, commonly known as Athletico Paranaense and up to 2019 known as Atlético Paranaense) is a Brazilian football team from the city of Curitiba, capital city of the Brazilian state of Paraná, founded on 26 March 1924.
The team's mostly important titles have been winning the 2001 Série A, the Copa Sudamericana in 2018 and 2021 making it the only team from Paraná to win international titles. It won the Copa do Brasil in 2019. In the Copa Libertadores, they have finished runner-up twice, in 2005 and 2022.
They are considered the strongest team in Brazil outside of the Big 12, at times even surpassing them.