2017 Campeonato Brasiliense

The 2017 Campeonato Brasiliense was the 42nd edition of the Campeonato Brasiliense, the main division of soccer of the Federal District, Brazil. The competition, which was organized by the Brasiliense Football Federation, was played between January 30 and May 7 by twelve teams from DF, Goiás and Minas Gerais. The championship awarded two places for the 2018 Copa do Brasil and the 2018 Copa Verde, as well as two places for the 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.

Campeonato Brasiliense

Season	2017
Champions	Brasiliense
Relegated	Brasília Taguatinga
Matches played	33
Goals scored	85 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Romarinho (13 goals) (Ceilândia)
Biggest home win	Gama 5–0 Santa Cruz (R6, 2 March)
Biggest away win	Brasília 0–5 Luziânia (R9, 12 March)
Highest attendance	3,021 Gama 2-0 Atlético Taguatinga
← 2016 2018 → All statistics correct as of 21:16, 21 April 2017 (UTC).

Regulation

The championship was played in four stages: qualifying round, quarter finals, semifinals and final. In the first phase, the twelve teams played each other in first leg games, totaling eleven rounds. The eight teams with the most points scored in the first round advanced to the quarter-finals, while the last two teams were relegated to the second division in 2018. From then on, teams faced a knockout system until the championship game of 2017.

The champion and runner-up won places in two national championships: the 2018 Brasileirão Série D (unless one of them is already playing in Série A, Série B, or Série C, or already assured qualification to Série D) and the 2018 Copa do Brasil, and the teams in third and fourth place won places in the 2018 Copa Verde.

Tiebreaker

If there was a tie in the number of points won between two or more teams in the qualifying round, the following tiebreaker criteria were applied successively:

1. Highest number of wins
2. Highest goal difference
3. Highest number of goals for
4. Lowest number of red cards
5. Smallest number of yellow cards

In the playoffs of the knockout stages, a draw will occur after the 180 minutes of play, the match will be defined by means of penalties of maximum penalties.

Participating teams

Team	City	In 2016	Stadium (I send in 2017)	Capacity[1]	Titles
Clube Atlético Taguatinga	Taguatinga	9º	Serejão	27,000	0
Brasília Futebol Clube	Brasília	5º	Serejão	27 000	8 (last in 1987)
Brasiliense Futebol Clube	Taguatinga	3º	Abadião[2]	4 000	8 (last in 2013)
Ceilândia Esporte Clube	Ceilândia	2º	Abadião	4 000	2 (last in 2012)
Bosque Formosa Esporte Clube	Formosa (Goiás state)	10º	Diogão	6 000	0
Sociedade Esportiva do Gama	Gama	4º	Bezerrão	20 000	11 (last in 2015)
Associação Atlética Luziânia	Luziânia (Goiás state)	1º	Serra do Lago	21 564	2 (last in 2016)
Paracatu Futebol Clube	Paracatu (Minas Gerais state)	6º	Frei Norberto	8 000	0
Paranoá Esporte Clube	Paranoá	2º (B)	JK	8,000	0
Real Futebol Clube	Núcleo Bandeirante	1º (B)	Metropolitana	3 000	0
Sociedade Esportiva Santa Maria	Santa Maria	7º	Bezerrão	20 000	0
Sobradinho Esporte Clube	Sobradinho	8º	Augustinho Lima	15,000	2 (last in 1986)

First phase

Classification

Pos	M	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	1	Ceilândia	11	7	3	1	18	7	+11	24	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	1	Brasiliense	11	7	3	1	16	7	+9	24
3	2	Gama	11	6	4	1	17	8	+9	22
4		Sobradinho	11	3	7	1	19	17	+2	16
5		Santa Maria	11	4	3	4	13	10	+3	15
6		Paracatu	11	4	3	4	14	13	+1	15
7		Real	11	3	5	3	11	11	0	14
8		Luziânia	11	3	3	5	11	11	0	12
9	1	Formosa	11	3	2	6	14	18	−4	11
10	1	Paranoá	11	3	2	6	7	20	−13	11
11		Brasília	11	2	1	8	14	26	−12	7	Relegated to 2018 Campeonato Brasiliense Segunda Divisão
12		Atlético Taguatinga	11	1	4	6	13	21	−8	7

Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final phase

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Finals
	Paracatu	1	1	2 (3)
	Gama	0	2	2 (2)
							Paracatu	1	1	2
							Ceilândia	1	2	3
	Luziânia	1	0	1
	Ceilândia	5	1	6
													Ceilândia	2	1	3
													Brasiliense	2	2	4
	Santa Maria	1	0	1 (2)
	Sobradinho	0	1	1 (3)
							Sobradinho	1	1	2
							Brasiliense	2	4	6
	Real	0	2	2
	Brasiliense	3	1	4

Campeonato Brasiliense 2017 champion
Brasiliense 9th title

Brasiliense and Ceilândia qualify for 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.
Brasiliense and Ceilândia qualify for 2018 Copa do Brasil.
Brasiliense and Ceilândia qualify for 2018 Copa Verde.

References

1. "Cadastro Nacional de Estádios de Futebol (Rev. 3)" (PDF). CBF. 13 January 2012. p. 51. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-17. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
2. "Brasiliense passará a atuar no estádio Abadião em 2016". Futebol Interior. 28 November 2015. Archived from the original on 12 December 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.