[1] The interest to create a new team developed following the three football games that occurred in the summer of 1922, between Fayal Sport and the Casa Pia Atlético Clube.
[1] Further, at the time, a dissidence had developed against Fayal Sport, driving initiative for a new team.
Jaime Maria Soares de Melo, professor of Escola Normal da Horta, president of the Câmara Municipal and council administrator/provisioner of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia, was considered the Father of Atlético.
[1] It was during his term that club's anthem (with lyrics by Ana Adelina Bettencourt da Costa Nunes and music by maestro Francisco Xavier Simaria) was established, the team became public institution, and two years after its founding, an education and sport program was founded by the group.
[1] In the following 81 years the group became an important part of the sporting culture on the island.