What if your team had never won a game playing away from home outside its own state?

That is the reality for fans of Piauí-based Parnahyba.

There have been 41 matches, with 11 draws and 30 losses, since 1991, the year it played in Série B for the first and only time in its history.

The 35-year drought also includes matches in the Copa do Brasil (nine appearances in total), Série C (two), Copa do Nordeste (one), and Série D, the tournament Tubarão do Litoral is playing for the sixth time in its history.

The drought was extended last Saturday (18) with the loss to Maracanã, from Ceará, in the Fourth Division.

With one point in three rounds, Parnahyba sits sixth in Group A6.

It debuted with a draw against Moto Club in Maranhão, but then came a home loss to Iguatu (CE) before another stumble outside Piauí.

It now has two matches in front of its home fans against Maranhão sides Sampaio Corrêa (4/26) and IAPE (5/3).

The next chance to (finally) win away from home will be against IAPE, in the first match of the second half of the Série D group stage. The game is scheduled for May 10.

The Piauí club has been in poor form since the start of the season.

Its state championship campaign ended with three draws and seven losses, culminating in relegation after finishing eighth and last.

Parnahyba Sport Club will turn 113 on May 1. It is the oldest local football club still in activity.

It has won 13 Piauiense titles, five of them in the professional era (since 1963).

Those titles came in 1916, 1919, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1940, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012, and 2013.

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