Esporte Clube Boa Vontade

Boa Vontade
Full name	Esporte Clube Boa Vontade
Nickname(s)	Leão do Bairro de Fátima; BV
Founded	June 1, 1957
Ground	Estádio Nhozinho Santos, São Luís, Maranhão state, Brazil
Capacity	12,891
Home colours	Away colours

Esporte Clube Boa Vontade, commonly known as Boa Vontade, is a Brazilian men's and women's football club based in São Luís, Maranhão state. The men's team competed once in the Série C and the women's team competed twice in the Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino.

History

The club was founded on June 6, 1957.^[1]

Boa Vontade competed in the Série C in 1995, and won the Torneio da Integração in 2005.

The club competed in the Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino in 2008, when they were eliminated in the Semifinals by Sport, and in 2009, when they were eliminated in the First Round by Tiradentes.

Esporte Clube Boa Vontade play their home games at Estádio Nhozinho Santos.^[1] The stadium has a maximum capacity of 16,500 people.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Rodolfo Rodrigues (2009). Escudos dos Times do Mundo Inteiro. Panda Books. p. 50.
^ "CNEF – Cadastro Nacional de Estádios de Futebol" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Confederação Brasileira de Futebol. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 10, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2011.