1996 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 1996, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from August 8 to December 8, 1996. The competition had 25 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série A and three were to be relegated to Série C. The competition was won by União São João.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Season	1996
Champions	União São João
Promoted	União São João América-RN
Top goalscorer	Maurício (Santa Cruz) - 13 goals
Biggest home win	Volta Redonda 5-0 Londrina (August 28, 1996)
Biggest away win	Ponte Preta 0-4 Mogi Mirim (August 18, 1996)
Highest scoring	Joinville 5-3 Atlético-GO (September 22, 1996) Mogi Mirim 5-3 Ponte Preta (September 8, 1996)
← Série B 1995 Série B 1997 →

União São João finished the final phase group with the most points, and was declared 1996 Brazilian Série B champions, claiming the promotion to the 1997 Série A along with América-RN, the runners-up. The three worst ranked teams (Goiatuba, Sergipe and Central) were originally relegated to play Série C in 1997. However, with the cancellation of the relegations of Fluminense and Bragantino in the Série A, the three teams were kept in the Série B for 1997.

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	1995 Season
ABC	Natal	Machadão	5th in Série C[1]
América-MG	Belo Horizonte	Independência	did not participate[2]
América-RN	Natal	Machadão	16th in Série B
Americano	Campos dos Goytacazes	Godofredo Cruz	12th in Série B
Atlético-GO	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	4th in Série C[3]
Ceará	Fortaleza	Castelão	7th in Série B
Central	Caruaru	Lacerdão	4th in Série B
CRB	Maceió	Pajuçara	20th in Série B
Desportiva	Cariacica	Engenheiro Araripe	10th in Série B
Gama	Gama	Bezerrão	3rd in Série C[4]
Goiatuba	Goiatuba	Divino Garcia Rosa	11th in Série B
Joinville	Joinville	Ernestão	6th in Série C[5]
Londrina	Londrina	Café	13th in Série B
Mogi Mirim	Mogi Mirim	Wilson Fernandes de Barros	3rd in Série B
Moto Club	São Luís	Castelão	17th in Série B
Náutico	Recife	Aflitos	19th in Série B
Paysandu	Belém	Curuzú	23rd in Série A
Ponte Preta	Campinas	Moisés Lucarelli	23rd in Série B[6]
Remo	Belém	Mangueirão	5th in Série B
Santa Cruz	Recife	Arruda	9th in Série B
Tuna Luso	Belém	Francisco Vasques	14th in Série B
Sergipe	Aracaju	João Hora	6th in Série B
União São João	Araras	Herminião	24th in Série A
Volta Redonda	Volta Redonda	Raulino de Oliveira	2nd in Série C
XV de Piracicaba	Piracicaba	Barão da Serra Negra	1st in Série C

First phase

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Remo	8	4	3	1	14	9	+5	15	Advance to the Round of 16
Moto Club	8	2	4	2	9	8	+1	10
Tuna Luso	8	2	4	2	7	7	0	10
Ceará	8	2	3	3	6	10	−4	9
Paysandu	8	2	2	4	10	12	−2	8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
Santa Cruz	8	5	2	1	16	8	+8	17	Advance to the Round of 16
América-RN	8	4	2	2	8	8	0	14
Náutico	8	3	3	2	10	11	−1	12
CRB	8	2	2	4	10	10	0	8
Central	8	1	1	6	9	16	−7	4	Relegated to the Série C 1997

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
XV de Piracicaba	8	4	2	2	13	7	+6	14	Advance to the Round of 16
União São João	8	4	1	3	12	11	+1	13
Desportiva	8	3	3	2	11	9	+2	12
Americano	8	3	2	3	11	9	+2	11
Sergipe	8	1	2	5	6	17	−11	5	Relegated to the Série C 1997

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
América-MG	8	6	1	1	13	7	+6	19	Advance to the Round of 16
Atlético-GO	8	3	2	3	10	10	0	11
Joinville	8	3	1	4	13	11	+2	10
Gama	8	2	3	3	8	9	−1	9
ABC	8	2	1	5	6	13	−7	7

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
Mogi Mirim	8	5	2	1	18	6	+12	17	Advance to the Round of 16
Volta Redonda	8	3	2	3	11	8	+3	11
Londrina	8	3	2	3	8	15	−7	11
Ponte Preta	8	2	3	3	13	17	−4	9
Goiatuba	8	1	3	4	6	10	−4	6	Relegated to the Série C 1997

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Second phase

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Joinville	2–3	Remo	1–2	1–1
Londrina	3–1	XV de Piracicaba	1–1	2–0
Moto Club	3–1	Santa Cruz	2–0	1–1
Atlético-GO	3–4	América-RN	3–2	0–2
Tuna Luso	1–4	Mogi Mirim	0–0	1–4
Volta Redonda	1–4	União São João	1–1	0–3
Americano	2–3	América-MG	2–2	0–1
Náutico	3–3(p)	Desportiva	2–1	1–2

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Londrina	1–1(p)	Remo	1–0	0–1
Moto Club	0–4	América-RN	0–0	0–4
União São João	1–1(p)	Mogi Mirim	0–1	1–0
Náutico	4–2	América-MG	3–0	1–2

Final phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion		USJ	ARN	NAU	LON
1	União São João	6	3	2	1	11	8	+3	11	Promoted to Série A 1998			3–1	1–1	1–1
2	América-RN	6	3	0	3	8	12	−4	9			2–1		1–0	2–1
3	Náutico	6	2	2	2	10	6	+4	8			1–2	4–1		3–0
4	Londrina	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5			1–1	3–1	1–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	União São João	18	9	4	5	28	21	+7	31	Promoted to 1997 Série A
2	América-RN	18	9	3	6	24	23	+1	30
3	Náutico	18	7	5	6	27	22	+5	26	Reached Final phase group
4	Londrina	18	6	5	7	20	28	−8	23
5	América-MG	12	8	2	2	18	13	+5	26	Reached Third phase
6	Mogi Mirim	12	7	3	2	23	8	+15	24
7	Remo	12	6	4	2	18	12	+6	22
8	Moto Club	12	3	6	3	12	13	−1	15
9	Santa Cruz	10	5	3	2	17	11	+6	18	Reached the Second phase
10	XV de Piracicaba	10	4	3	3	14	10	+4	15
11	Desportiva	10	4	3	3	14	12	+2	15
12	Atlético-GO	10	4	2	4	13	14	−1	14
13	Americano	10	3	3	4	13	12	+1	12
14	Volta Redonda	10	3	3	4	12	12	0	12
15	Joinville	10	3	2	5	15	14	+1	11
16	Tuna Luso	10	2	5	3	8	11	−3	11
17	Gama	8	2	3	3	8	9	−1	9
18	Ponte Preta	8	2	3	3	13	17	−4	9
19	Ceará	8	2	3	3	6	10	−4	9
20	CRB	8	2	2	4	10	10	0	8
21	Paysandu	8	2	2	4	10	12	−2	8
22	ABC	8	2	1	5	6	13	−7	7
23	Goiatuba	8	1	3	4	6	10	−4	6	Relegated to 1997 Série C
24	Sergipe	8	1	2	5	6	17	−11	5
25	Central	8	1	1	6	9	16	−7	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}