History
Employees of Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana (Sorocabana Railroad), based in Itu founded on May 24, 1947 the Associação Atlética Sorocabana. In the 1960s, the club changed its name to Ferroviário Atlético Ituano and in the 1990s the club changed its name to Ituano Futebol Clube.
In 1977 a group of sportsmen of Itu unified the football of the city around Ferroviário Atlético Ituano (FAI) and reactivated the Liga Ituana de Futebol (Ituano Football League) and in 1978, the club played in the Third Division of Federação Paulista de Futebol's Campeonato Paulista.
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