Promoted to the main squad on 11 March 2008 by manager Renato Portaluppi,[2] he made his debut fifteen days later by coming on as a substitute for Darío Conca in a 4–1 Campeonato Carioca home routing of Mesquita.

[3] Maicon made his Série A debut on 18 May 2008, replacing Léo Itaperuna in a 2–0 home loss against Náutico.

[7] He made his debut abroad ten days later, replacing goalscorer Dmitri Sychev in a 3–0 home win against Krylia Sovetov Samara.

A regular starter in the following campaigns, he scored a brace in a 4–0 home routing of Anzhi Makhachkala on 5 November 2016.

On 16 June 2017, after seven years in Russia, Maicon moved to Turkey after agreeing to a contract with Antalyaspor, effective as of 1 July.