Clube Atlético Mineiro is a football club based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil that competes in Campeonato Brasileiro, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the premier state league of Minas Gerais. Since its founding in 1908, the club has had 46 different presidents, including acting ones. The club is formally a civil association, managed by a Board which is elected for a three-year term by a Deliberative Council.[1]
Club founder Margival Mendes Leal was Atlético Mineiro's first president in 1908.[2] Nelson Campos is Atlético's longest-serving president, with a total of nine years in the office in three terms. Alexandre Kalil is the president under whom the club has won the most official trophies, with six. Sérgio Coelho is the club's president since 2021.[3]
Below is the official presidential history of Clube Atlético Mineiro, starting from club-founder Margival Mendes Leal in 1908.[4]
Italics denote an acting president.
No. | Name | From | To | Club honours |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Margival Mendes Leal | 1908 | 1910 | |
2 | Aleixanor Alves Pereira | 1911 | 1911 | |
3 | Jair Pinto dos Reis | 1912 | 1913 | |
4 | João Luís Moretzsohn | 1914 | 1914 | |
5 | Roberto Xavier Azevedo | 1915 | 1916 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
6 | Nilo Rosemburg | 1917 | 1918 | |
7 | Jorge Dias Pena | 1918 | 1918 | |
8 | Antônio Antunes | 1919 | 1919 | |
9 | Álvaro Felicíssimo Xavier | 1919 | 1920 | |
10 | Alfredo Furtado | 1921 | 1922 | |
– | Roberto Xavier Azevedo | 1923 | 1923 | |
– | Alfredo Furtado | 1924 | 1925 | |
11 | Leandro Castilho de Moura Costa | 1926 | 1930 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
12 | Anibal Matos | 1931 | 1931 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
13 | Afonso Ferreira Paulino | 1932 | 1932 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
14 | Thomaz Naves | 1933 | 1938 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro, 1 Copa dos Campeões Estaduais |
15 | Casildo Quintino dos Santos | 1939 | 1939 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
16 | Sálvio Noronha | 1940 | 1940 | |
17 | Hélio Soares de Moura | 1940 | 1941 | |
18 | Olímpyo Mourão de Miranda | 1941 | 1942 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
19 | Alberto Pinheiro | 1943 | 1944 | |
20 | Edward Nogueira | 1945 | 1945 | |
21 | Gregoriano Canedo | 1946 | 1949 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
22 | Geraldo Vasconcelos | 1949 | 1949 | |
23 | Osvaldo Silva | 1949 | 1949 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
24 | José Cabral | 1950 | 1951 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
25 | José Francisco de Paula Júnior | 1952 | 1953 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
26 | Mário de Andrade Gomes | 1954 | 1955 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
– | José Francisco de Paula Júnior | 1956 | 1957 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
27 | Nelson Campos | 1958 | 1959 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
28 | Antônio Álvares da Silva | 1960 | 1960 | |
29 | Edgard Neves | 1961 | 1961 | |
30 | Fábio Fonseca e Silva | 1962 | 1963 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
31 | José Ramos Filho | 1964 | 1964 | |
32 | Lauro Pires de Carvalho | 1964 | 1965 | |
33 | Eduardo Catão Magalhães Pinto | 1966 | 1967 | |
– | Fábio Fonseca e Silva | 1967 | 1967 | |
34 | Carlos Alberto de Vasconcelos Naves | 1968 | 1969 | |
– | Nelson Campos | 1970 | 1973 | 1 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
35 | Rubens Silveira | 1973 | 1973 | |
36 | Walmir Pereira da Silva | 1974 | 1979 | 3 Campeonato Mineiro, 1 Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros |
37 | Elias Kalil | 1980 | 1985 | 5 Campeonato Mineiro |
38 | Marum Patrus de Souza | 1986 | 1986 | |
– | Nelson Campos | 1986 | 1988 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
39 | Afonso Araújo Paulino | 1989 | 1994 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro, 1 Copa CONMEBOL |
40 | Paulo Cury | 1995 | 1998 | 1 Copa CONMEBOL, 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
41 | Nélio Brant | 1999 | 2001 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
42 | Ricardo Annes Guimarães | 2001 | 2006 | 1 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B |
43 | Luís Otávio Ziza Valadares | 2007 | 2008 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
44 | Alexandre Kalil | 2008 | 2014 | 3 Campeonato Mineiro, 1 Copa Libertadores, 1 Recopa Sudamericana, 1 Copa do Brasil |
45 | Daniel Nepomuceno | 2014 | 2017 | 2 Campeonato Mineiro |
46 | Sérgio Sette Câmara | 2017 | 2020 | 1 Campeonato Mineiro |
47 | Sérgio Coelho | 2021 | Present | 1 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, 4 Campeonato Mineiro, 1 Copa do Brasil, 1 Supercopa do Brasil |