Nacional Atlético Clube

Nacional Atlético Clube, commonly referred to as Nacional, is a Brazilian football team based in São Paulo, in the district of Barra Funda. The team competes in the Campeonato Paulista Série A3, the third tier of the São Paulo state football league.

Nacional was founded on 16 February 1919 as an association football club by employees of the British owned São Paulo Railway Company as São Paulo Railway Athletic Club, changing its name in 1946 when the Fourth Brazilian Republic was established and it nationalized the railways. The club is also known as NAC, Naça and Ferroviário, and its mascot is a locomotive. Since 1975, the club focuses on youth programs for football, volleyball, futsal, boxing, basketball, and button football, with a senior football team that has usually been relegated to the lower tiers of the São Paulo state football league system. A traditional rivalry existed with Juventus, in the nearby Mooca district of São Paulo, with their matches known as the Juvenal.