Sociedade Esportiva Unaí Itapuã, commonly known as Unaí, is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian football club based in Unaí

Unaí

Unaí is a city and municipality in northern Minas Gerais state, Brazil, postal code 38610-000.-Location:Unaí is located southeast of Brasília and the Federal District and is linked to that important urban nucleus by highway BR 251, which also connects with BR 040 at Paracatu...

, Minas Gerais state

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

. Despite the fact that the club is from Minas Gerais, the club competes in the Campeonato Brasiliense

Campeonato Brasiliense

The Campeonato Brasiliense, also known as Campeonato Metropolitano de Brasília or Campeonato Candango, is the football league of the Distrito Federal, Brazil....

 due to its proximity to Brasília

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

 city.

History

The club was founded on June 5, 1966 as Unaí Esporte, finishing in the second place in the Campeonato Mineiro Third Level

Campeonato Mineiro (lower levels)

The Campeonato Mineiro lower levels are the football tournaments for the Minas Gerais clubs that do not play in the Campeonato Mineiro First Division. The competitions are organized by the Minas Gerais Football Federation...

 in 1993, after losing the competition to Araguari. Due to financial problems, the club folded. The club was founded again on July 3, 2002.

Stadium

Sociedade Esportiva Unaí Itapuã play their home games at Estádio Urbano Adjuto. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 4,000 people.