The first appearance in the Série A1 (top level of Pernambuco Football) was in 2002.

The biggest competitor of Petrolina is the 1º de Maio Esporte Clube, also a club of Petrolina.

[1] They started to feature in a senior competition in the following year, playing in the Campeonato Pernambucano Série A2, and achieved promotion to the Campeonato Pernambucano in 2001, as champions.

Petrolina qualified to the 2008 Série C after Ypiranga withdrew from the competition, but were knocked out in the first phase.

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