Jaraguá

Grêmio Esportivo Juventus plays the other side of Jaraguá do Sul.

The black, red and yellow strip nods to the town's German settler stock, and the club still goes by Leão do Vale, lion mascot included. It came closest as runner-up in 2011, 2012 and 2014, then again in 2025, when Guarani de Palhoça beat it in the final.

Between those finals the club's history has been stop-start rather than steady. It spent 2016 and 2017 in the Série B before going down, then dropped out of senior football altogether in 2023. It came back to the Série C in 2024 and went through that campaign unbeaten, enough to earn promotion back to the Série B for 2026. That return started badly: an 8-1 defeat to Juventus was followed by the Brazilian Football Integrity Unit suspending seven Jaraguá players over suspected match-fixing, a scandal that overshadowed the club's first weeks back at that level.

Home games are played at what is now called Arena Botafogo Start Bet, a ground that holds only around a thousand spectators — enough to clear the minimum the Série B requires, little more. It began, in April 2008, under a different name altogether: Associação Catarinense de Futebol Arte, before the club took the name Sport Club Jaraguá in March 2011.