The team competes in the Campeonato Carioca Série A2, the second tier of the Rio de Janeiro state football league.

Olaria is one of the small clubs from Rio de Janeiro that have managed to remain active in the shade of the four big ones (Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama).

[5] In 1999, an enterprise called Sport News assumed the club's football section for a short time period.

[1] In 2000, Olaria was in the White Module (which was the equivalent of a third level) of that season's Série A, named Copa João Havelange.

This stadium is often rented to the big clubs (notably Flamengo) when they are unable to play at the Maracanã or at the Engenhão.