2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

The Serie B of the Brazilian Championship 2017 was a football competition held in Brazil, equivalent to the second division. It was contested by 20 clubs, between 12 May and 25 November.^[1] The top four teams were promoted to Série A in 2018 and the bottom four were relegated to Série C in 2018.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Season	2017
Champions	América Mineiro (2nd Title)
Promoted	América Mineiro Internacional Paraná Ceará
Relegated	Luverdense Santa Cruz Náutico ABC
Top goalscorer	16 goals Mazinho, Oeste Bergson, Paysandu
Biggest home win	Luverdense 4–0 Brasil de Pelotas R7, 13 June Paraná 4–0 Santa Cruz R17, 29 July
Biggest away win	Guarani 0–4 Paraná R25, 19 September
Highest attendance	56,005 Ceará 1–0 ABC R38, 25 November
Lowest attendance	119 Náutico 1–2 Vila Nova R37, 18 November
Total attendance	2,195,450
Average attendance	5,950
← 2016 2018 → All statistics correct as of 22:38, 4 December 2017 (UTC).

América Mineiro were crowned champions.

Teams

Pos. Relegated from 2016 Serie A 17º Internacional 18º Figueirense 19º Santa Cruz 20º América Mineiro

Pos. Promoted from 2016 Serie C 1º Boa Esporte 2º Guarani 3° Juventude 4º ABC

ABC

América Mineiro

Boa Esporte

Brasil de Pelotas

Ceará

CRB

Criciúma

Figueirense

Guarani

Londrina

Luverdense

Juventude

Internacional

Náutico
Santa Cruz

Oeste

Paraná

Paysandu

Goiás
Vila Nova

Location of teams in 2017 Série B

Number of teams by state

Number of teams	State	Team(s)
3	Rio Grande do Sul	Brasil de Pelotas, Internacional, and Juventude
2	Goiás	Goiás and Vila Nova
	Minas Gerais	América Mineiro and Boa Esporte
	Paraná	Londrina and Paraná
	Pernambuco	Náutico and Santa Cruz
	São Paulo	Guarani and Oeste
	Santa Catarina	Figueirense and Criciúma
1	Alagoas	CRB
	Ceará	Ceará
	Mato Grosso	Luverdense
	Rio Grande do Norte	ABC
	Pará	Paysandu

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ABC	Ranielle Ribeiro	Rinat	Caixa
América Mineiro	Enderson Moreira	Lupo	Caixa
Boa Esporte	Sidney Moraes	Embratex	None
Brasil de Pelotas	Clemer	Topper	Caixa
Ceará	Marcelo Chamusca	Penalty	Caixa
CRB	Mazola Júnior	Rinat	Caixa
Criciúma	Grizzo	Embratex	Caixa
Figueirense	Milton Cruz	Adidas	Caixa
Goiás	Hélio dos Anjos	Topper	Caixa
Guarani	Lisca	Topper	IESCAMP
Internacional	Odair Hellmann	Nike	Banrisul
Juventude	Antônio Carlos Zago	19Treze (homemade)	Banrisul
Londrina	Claudio Tencati	Karilu	Caixa
Luverdense	Júnior Rocha	Kanxa	Sicredi
Náutico	Roberto Fernandes	Topper	Caixa
Oeste	Roberto Cavalo	Deka	None
Paraná Clube	Matheus Costa	Topper	Racco
Paysandu	Marquinhos Santos	Lobo (homemade)	Caixa
Santa Cruz	Adriano Teixeira	Cobra Coral (homemade)	MRV
Vila Nova	Hemerson Maria	Rinat	Caixa

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date	Position in table	Incoming manager
Goiás	Sérgio Soares	Sacked[2][3]	27 May	17th	Sílvio Criciúma[4]
Internacional	Antônio Carlos Zago	Sacked[5]	28 May	17th	Guto Ferreira[6]
Criciúma	Deivid	Sacked[7][8]	30 May	20th	Luiz Carlos Winck
Santa Cruz	Vinícius Eutrópio	Sacked[9]	10 June	7th	Givanildo Oliveira
CRB	Léo Condé	Sacked[10]	13 June	16th	Dado Cavalcanti
Náutico	Waldemar Lemos	Sacked[11]	14 June	20th	Beto Campos[12]
Figueirense	Márcio Goiano	Sacked[13]	14 June	14th	Marcelo Cabo[14]
Boa Esporte	Julinho Camargo	Sacked[15]	15 June	19th	Nedo Xavier
Ceará	Givanildo Oliveira	Sacked	16 June	8th	Marcelo Chamusca
Paysandu	Marcelo Chamusca	Signed by Ceará	18 June	10th	Marquinhos Santos
Paraná	Cristian de Souza	Sacked	14 July	14th	Lisca
Goiás	Sílvio Criciúma	Mutual consent	19 July	15th	Argel Fucks
ABC	Geninho	Sacked	19 July	19th	Márcio Fernandes
Brasil de Pelotas	Rogério Zimmermann	Sacked	19 July	16th	Clemer
Figueirense	Marcelo Cabo	Sacked	30 July	18th	Milton Cruz
Náutico	Beto Campos	Sacked	30 July	20th	Roberto Fernandes
ABC	Márcio Fernandes	Sacked	21 August	20th	Itamar Schülle[16]
Goiás	Argel Fucks	Mutual consent	25 August[17][18]	15th	Sílvio Criciúma
Santa Cruz	Givanildo Oliveira	Sacked[19][20]	26 August	18th	Marcelo Martelotte
Guarani	Vadão	Sacked[21]	29 August	18th	Marcelo Cabo
Paraná	Lisca	Sacked	2 September	5th	Matheus Costa
Goiás	Sílvio Criciúma	Mutual consent[22]	16 September	17th	Hélio dos Anjos
CRB	Dado Cavalcanti	Sacked	17 September	13th	Mazola Júnior
Criciúma	Luiz Carlos Winck	Sacked	18 September	8th	Beto Campos
Guarani	Marcelo Cabo	Sacked	9 October	15th	Lisca
ABC	Itamar Schülle	Sacked	18 October	20th	Ranielle Ribeiro
Juventude	Gilmar Dal Pozzo	Sacked[23][24]	21 October	8th	Antônio Carlos Zago
Boa Esporte	Nedo Xavier	Mutual consent[25]	9 November	17th	Sidney Moraes
Internacional	Guto Ferreira	Sacked[26]	11 November	2nd	Odair Hellmann
Criciúma	Beto Campos	Sacked[27]	15 November	10th	Grizzo
Santa Cruz	Marcelo Martelotte	Sacked[28]	15 November	18th	Adriano Teixeira

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	América Mineiro (C, P)	38	20	13	5	46	25	+21	73	Promotion to 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
2	Internacional (P)	38	20	11	7	54	26	+28	71
3	Ceará (P)	38	19	10	9	46	32	+14	67
4	Paraná (P)	38	18	10	10	49	28	+21	64
5	Londrina	38	18	8	12	56	46	+10	62
6	Oeste	38	14	17	7	43	31	+12	59
7	Vila Nova	38	15	13	10	38	30	+8	58
8	Brasil de Pelotas	38	15	6	17	43	50	−7	51
9	Juventude	38	13	12	13	35	38	−3	51
10	Boa Esporte	38	12	14	12	40	42	−2	50
11	Paysandu	38	13	9	16	41	41	0	48
12	Figueirense	38	12	12	14	44	49	−5	48
13	Criciúma	38	12	12	14	41	46	−5	48
14	Goiás	38	12	9	17	35	46	−11	45
15	CRB	38	12	9	17	35	50	−15	45
16	Guarani	38	11	11	16	36	46	−10	44
17	Luverdense (R)	38	10	14	14	38	40	−2	44	Relegation to 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C
18	Santa Cruz (R)	38	8	13	17	43	54	−11	37
19	ABC (R)	38	9	7	22	28	49	−21	34
20	Náutico (R)	38	8	8	22	29	51	−22	32

Updated to match(es) played on 25 November 2017. Source: CBF, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) head-to-head results; 6) least red cards received; 7) least yellow cards received; 8) draw.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ABC	AME	BOA	BRP	CEA	CRB	CRI	FIG	GOI	GUA	INT	JUV	LON	LUV	NAU	OES	PAR	PAY	SCR	VIL
ABC		0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–3	3–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0
América Mineiro	2–0		2–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	4–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0
Boa Esporte	2–1	2–2		2–1	4–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–2	0–1
Brasil de Pelotas	3–0	0–0	0–0		2–3	2–0	3–2	1–2	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	3–0
Ceará	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1		1–0	3–1	2–2	0–1	2–2	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–3	2–0
CRB	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–0		1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–3	2–2	2–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–2
Criciúma	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–0		1–1	1–0	3–2	2–3	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–1
Figueirense	2–0	1–2	0–2	2–0	0–2	3–1	2–2		1–1	2–1	1–2	2–2	3–1	2–3	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–1
Goiás	1–2	1–1	4–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	0–1		1–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	2–1	0–2
Guarani	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	1–0		0–2	2–0	2–3	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–4	2–0	2–0	0–0
Internacional	1–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	3–0	3–0	2–0		1–1	3–1	1–0	4–2	2–0	0–0	3–2	2–0	1–1
Juventude	3–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–0	2–1		0–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–0
Londrina	3–1	0–0	2–2	4–1	3–2	4–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–3	2–2		3–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1
Luverdense	1–0	0–3	0–1	4–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–2	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0		3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1
Náutico	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–0	2–3	2–0	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–0		1–1	1–2	1–3	0–0	1–2
Oeste	1–1	0–0	4–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	3–0	4–1	0–0	1–0		2–0	1–3	2–0	2–2
Paraná	1–0	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	1–2		0–0	4–0	1–0
Paysandu	2–0	0–1	0–0	2–3	1–2	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–0		4–2	1–1
Santa Cruz	2–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	3–0	2–1	0–0	5–2	1–3	0–0	2–3	2–2	0–0	1–2		1–0
Vila Nova	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	0–0	3–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	3–2	1–2	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 25 November 2017. Source: CBF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

As of 25 November 2017 ^[29]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mazinho	Oeste	16
	Bergson	Paysandu
3	Henan	Figueirense	12
4	Jonatas Belusso	Londrina	11
	Tiago Marques	Juventude
	Alan Mineiro	Vila Nova
7	Lucão	Criciúma	10
	William Pottker	Internacional
	Thaciano	Boa Esporte
	Rodolfo	Boa Esporte

Attendances

Average home attendances

Pos.	Team	GP	Total	High	Low	Average
1	Internacional	19	443,240	33,193	8,882	23,328
2	Ceará	19	390,551	56,005	3,457	20,555
3	Paraná	19	205,167	39,414	2,127	10,798
4	Vila Nova	16[a]	116,598	20,550	818	7,287
5	Goiás	14[b]	86,839	12,586	1,263	6,203
6	Paysandu	19	117,057	12,582	3,010	6,161
7	CRB	19	107,217	13,151	2,284	5,643
8	Santa Cruz	19	78,394	20,415	251	4,126
9	Juventude	19	77,945	10,799	2,162	4,102
10	Figueirense	19	76,751	7,852	1,971	4,040
11	Guarani	17[c]	63,723	8,673	1,502	3,748
12	Brasil de Pelotas	19	62,923	8,006	1,793	3,312
13	América Mineiro	19	60,745	15,115	952	3,197
14	ABC	19	59,380	7,172	888	3,125
15	Londrina	19	55,434	6,568	495	2,918
16	Criciúma	19	54,429	9,087	1,131	2,865
17	Oeste	19	53,217	10,205	971	2,801
18	Náutico	18[d]	45,231	11,579	119	2,513
19	Luverdense	19	23,350	4,243	212	1,229
20	Boa Esporte	19	17,259	3,602	323	908
-	Total	369	2,195,450	56,005	119	5,950

Updated for games played on 25 November 2017. Paying spectators only.

1. Vila Nova's games in rounds 16, 18 and 20 were behind closed doors.
2. Goiás' games in rounds 15, 17, 19, 21 and 23 were behind closed doors.
3. Guarani's first two home games were behind closed doors
4. Náutico's first home game was behind closed doors

Source: Boletim Financeiro