After a period of inactivity, the club became professional in 1967, playing in the Campeonato Mineiro Segunda Divisão but being knocked out after a judicial decision.

[1] In 1983, Pouso Alegre won the Campeonato Mineiro de Futebol Amador, after previously winning the Copa Sul Mineira earlier in the year.

In the following season, the club returned to a professional status, and won promotion to the Campeonato Mineiro in 1988 after a court intervention.

[1] Back in 2009, Pouso Alegre played one season in the Segunda Divisão (third level) before returning to inactivity.

[1] Pouso Alegre won the Segunda Divisão in 2019,[2] and achieved a second consecutive promotion in 2020 after winning the Módulo II.