Grêmio Catanduvense

Football stopped in Catanduva in 1993, when Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense folded under debt after more than two decades on the pitch. The city tried twice to fill the gap, first with Catanduva Esporte Clube, then with Clube Atlético Catanduvense, before a new club took the old name and carried it forward: Grêmio Catanduvense de Futebol, formed on 8 March 1999.

It kept the blue and white the original Grêmio had worn from 1970, setting aside the red the club had switched to in its final years. Progress was slow but real. A runner-up finish in the Campeonato Paulista Segunda Divisão in 2006 and a run to the quarter-finals of the Copa Paulista in 2008 built toward promotion in 2011, when Grêmio Catanduvense reached the Campeonato Paulista Série A1 and played there the following season, its highest level yet.

The club is known locally as O Bruxo, the Wizard, and its meetings with Catanduva Futebol Clube carry the name Clássico Feiticeiro. Ricardo Oliveira, who went on to play for the Brazil national team, came through Grêmio Catanduvense.

Home games are played at the Estádio Municipal Silvio Salles, which holds over 16,000. The club went quiet for a stretch before returning to activity in 2022, still without a major title to its name since the 1999 refoundation.