 For eight years, the team only participated in amateur competitions and the first titles came in the middle of the decade, when he became a double champion in the municipality of Macaé (1994 and 1995).But it was from 1998 that the club began to show its "face" to the State of Rio, when the professionalization took place.And soon in its first season, the then Botafogo conquered the State of the Third Division.