| Clubname: | Potiguar |
| Nickname: | Time Macho Príncipe Alvirrubro Mossoroense Maior do interior |
| Fullname: | Associação Cultural e Desportiva Potiguar |
| Ground: | Nogueirão |
| Capacity: | 25,000 |
| Chairman: | Benjamim Machado |
| Manager: | Emanoel Sacramento |
| Website: | http://www.potiguardemossoro.com.br/ |
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Associação Cultural e Desportiva Potiguar, commonly known as Potiguar or as Potiguar de Mossoró, are a Brazilian football team from Mossoró.[1] They won the Campeonato Potiguar once and competed in the Série A twice.
Potiguar is currently ranked fourth among Rio Grande do Norte teams in CBF's national club ranking at 157th place overall. They are the best placed team in the state from outside of Greater Natal.[2]
They were founded on 11 February 1945, as Esporte Clube Potuguar by a group of sportsmen.[3] They fused with Associação Desportiva Potiguar on June 19, 1953.[1] The club won the Campeonato Potiguar in 2004.[3] Potiguar competed in the Série A in 1979, when they were eliminated in the first stage.[4] The club was eliminated in Copa João Havelange's first stage of the Green module in 2000.[5]
See main article: Nogueirão.
They play their home games at the Nogueirão stadium.[3] The stadium has a maximum capacity of 25,000 people.[6]
The derby between Potiguar and Baraúnas is known as Potiba.[7]