América Futebol Clube is a football club from Joinville, with a population of more than half a million the largest city of the south Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

The club, founded on 14 June 1914, won between 1947 and 1971 five times the state championship of Santa Catarina, the Campeonato Catarinense.

In 1976 a merger of the football operations with the traditional rivals Caxias FC gave birth to the Joinville Esporte Clube, which since has won more than ten state championships.

Altogether América won the title 15 times, the same number as Caxcias FC which was founded in 1920 and shared the primacy in Joinville from circa the mid-1920s.

Beto Fuscão, later a star of Grêmio FBPA in Porto Alegre and SE Palmeiras of São Paulo who played nine times for Brazil was with América from 1971 to 1972.