América played its home games at Estádio Orestes Thá had a maximum capacity of 5,000 people.

[citation needed] The club was formed founded on 24 May 1914 and in 1915 took part in the championship of the Liga Sportiva Paranaense.

In 1917 América merged with the runner-up of the state's first championship in 1915, Paraná Sport Club, founded in 1912 in Ponte Grossa by employees of the American South Brazilian Engineering Company, to form the América Paraná Sport Club with seat in Curitiba.

In 1918 the club finished on the fifth place amongst six participants and in February 1919, before start of the new championship, the merger was undone.

After América did not participate in the 1923 championship it merged before the 1924 competition with the Internacional Sport Club, created itself in 1921 through a merger of the states first champions in 1915, the Internacional Futebol Clube and the Centro Hipico Paranaense, to form today's Clube Atlético Paranaense.