2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

The 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the Brasileirão Assaí 2018 for sponsorship reasons) was the 62nd season of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top level of professional football in Brazil, and the 15th edition in a double round-robin since its establishment in 2003. The season began on 14 April 2018 and ended on 2 December 2018. The top six teams as well as the 2018 Copa do Brasil champions qualified to the Copa Libertadores. The next six best-placed teams not qualified for Copa Libertadores qualified for the Copa Sudamericana and the last four were relegated to Série B in 2019.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Season	2018
Dates	14 April – 2 December 2018
Champions	Palmeiras (10th title)
Relegated	Sport América Mineiro Vitória Paraná
Copa Libertadores	Palmeiras Cruzeiro (cup winners) Flamengo Internacional Grêmio São Paulo Atlético Mineiro Atlético Paranaense (Copa Sudamericana winners)
Copa Sudamericana	Botafogo Santos Bahia Fluminense Corinthians Chapecoense
Matches played	380
Goals scored	827 (2.18 per match)
Top goalscorer	Gabriel Barbosa (18 goals)
Biggest home win	Atlético-PR 5–1 Chapecoense (15 April 2018) Grêmio 5–1 Santos (6 May 2018) Atlético-PR 4–0 Vitória (29 July 2018) Grêmio 4–0 Vitória (12 August 2018) Grêmio 4–0 Botafogo (1 September 2018) Atlético-PR 4–0 América-MG (6 October 2018) Fluminense 4–0 Paraná (8 October 2018) Atlético-PR 4–0 Sport (14 October 2018) Palmeiras 4–0 América-MG (21 November 2018)
Biggest away win	Paraná 0–4 Corinthians (22 April 2018) Paraná 0–4 Flamengo (21 October 2018)
Highest scoring	Santos 5–2 Vitória (3 June 2018) Atlético-MG 5–2 Fluminense (10 June 2018) Vitória 3–4 Botafogo (23 September 2018) Atlético-MG 5–2 Sport (30 September 2018) Grêmio 3–4 Sport (27 October 2018)
Longest unbeaten run	Palmeiras (23 games)
← 2017 2019 →

Palmeiras won their 10th title, which is the most titles in the tournament.

Teams

Atlético Paranaense

Bahia

Ceará

Chapecoense

Grêmio

Internacional

Paraná

Santos

Sport

Vitória

São Paulo

Rio de Janeiro

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte teams:
América Mineiro
Atlético Mineiro
Cruzeiro
Rio de Janeiro teams:
Botafogo
Flamengo
Fluminense
Vasco da Gama
São Paulo teams:
Corinthians
Palmeiras
São Paulo

Location of teams in 2018 Série A

Twenty teams competed in the league – the top sixteen teams from the previous season, as well as four teams promoted from the Série B.

América Mineiro became the first club to be promoted after a 1–2 win against Figueirense on 11 November 2017.^[1] Internacional was promoted on 14 November 2017,^[2] and Paraná and Ceará were promoted on 18 November 2017.^[3][4]

Pos. Relegated from 2017 Série A 17º Coritiba 18º Avaí 19º Ponte Preta 20º Atlético Goianiense

Pos. Promoted from 2017 Série B 1º América Mineiro 2º Internacional 3° Ceará 4º Paraná

Number of teams by state

Number of teams	State	Team(s)
4	Rio de Janeiro	Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama
	São Paulo	Corinthians, Palmeiras, Santos and São Paulo
3	Minas Gerais	América Mineiro, Atlético Mineiro and Cruzeiro
2	Bahia	Bahia and Vitória
	Paraná	Atlético Paranaense and Paraná
	Rio Grande do Sul	Grêmio and Internacional
1	Ceará	Ceará
	Pernambuco	Sport
	Santa Catarina	Chapecoense

Stadiums and locations

Team	Location	State	Stadium	Capacity
América Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	Independência	23,018
Atlético Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	Independência	23,018
Atlético Paranaense	Curitiba	Paraná	Arena da Baixada	42,370
Bahia	Salvador	Bahia	Arena Fonte Nova	47,907
Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Olímpico Nilton Santos	44,661
Ceará	Fortaleza	Ceará	Arena Castelão (6 matches) Presidente Vargas (4 matches)	63,903 20,268
Chapecoense	Chapecó	Santa Catarina	Arena Condá	20,089
Corinthians	São Paulo	São Paulo	Arena Corinthians	47,605
Cruzeiro	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	Mineirão	61,846
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Maracanã	78,838
Fluminense	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Maracanã Mané Garrincha (one match)	78,838 72,788
Grêmio	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul	Arena do Grêmio	55,662
Internacional	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul	Beira-Rio	50,128
Palmeiras	São Paulo	São Paulo	Allianz Parque Pacaembu (one match)	43,713 37,730
Paraná	Curitiba	Paraná	Vila Capanema	17,140
Santos	Santos	São Paulo	Vila Belmiro Pacaembu (3 matches)	16,068 37,730
São Paulo	São Paulo	São Paulo	Morumbi	72,039
Sport	Recife	Pernambuco	Ilha do Retiro Arena Pernambuco (one match)	32,983 44,300
Vasco da Gama	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	São Januário Mané Garrincha (one match)	24,584 72,788
Vitória	Salvador	Bahia	Barradão	34,535

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt main sponsor
América Mineiro	Givanildo Oliveira	Rafael Lima	Lupo	Caixa
Atlético Mineiro	Levir Culpi	Léo Silva	Topper	Caixa
Atlético Paranaense	Tiago Nunes	Thiago Heleno	Umbro	Caixa
Bahia	Enderson Moreira	Tiago	Esquadrão	Caixa
Botafogo	Zé Ricardo	Rodrigo Lindoso	Topper	Caixa
Ceará	Lisca	Rafael Pereira	Topper	Caixa
Chapecoense	Claudinei Oliveira	Wellington Paulista	Umbro	Aurora
Corinthians	Jair Ventura	Various	Nike	Vacant
Cruzeiro	Mano Menezes	Henrique	Umbro	Caixa
Flamengo	Dorival Júnior	Réver	Adidas	Caixa
Fluminense	Fábio Moreno	Gum	Under Armour	Valle Express
Grêmio	Renato Gaúcho	Maicon	Umbro	Banrisul
Internacional	Odair Hellmann	Andrés D'Alessandro	Nike	Banrisul
Palmeiras	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Bruno Henrique	Adidas	Crefisa
Paraná	Dado Cavalcanti	Leandro Vilela	Topper	Caixa
Santos	Cuca	Renato	Umbro	Caixa
São Paulo	André Jardine	Hudson	Adidas	Banco Inter
Sport	Milton Mendes	Durval	Under Armour	Caixa
Vasco da Gama	Alberto Valentim	Martín Silva	Diadora	Vacant
Vitória	Joao Burse (caretaker)	Willian Farias	Topper	Caixa

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Sport	Nelsinho Baptista	Resigned	24 April[5]	17th	Claudinei Oliveira	25 April[6]
Ceará	Marcelo Chamusca	Sacked	20 May[7]	19th	Jorginho	21 May[8]
Corinthians	Fábio Carille	Signed by Al-Wehda	22 May[9]	4th	Osmar Loss	23 May[9]
Vasco da Gama	Zé Ricardo	Resigned	2 June[10]	12th	Valdir Bigode (caretaker)	2 June[11]
Bahia	Guto Ferreira	Sacked	3 June[12]	18th	Cláudio Prates (caretaker)	4 June[12]
Ceará	Jorginho	Resigned	4 June[13]	20th	Lisca	4 June[14]
Vasco da Gama	Valdir Bigode	End of caretaker tenure	6 June	13th	Jorginho	7 June[15]
Fluminense	Abel Braga	Resigned	16 June[16]	12th	Marcelo Oliveira	22 June[17]
América Mineiro	Enderson Moreira	Signed by Bahia	16 June[18]	13th	Ricardo Drubscky	19 June[19]
Bahia	Cláudio Prates	End of caretaker tenure	16 June	17th	Enderson Moreira	16 June[18]
Botafogo	Alberto Valentim	Resigned	19 June[20]	9th	Marcos Paquetá	26 June[21]
Atlético Paranaense	Fernando Diniz	Sacked	25 June[22]	18th	Tiago Nunes	27 June[23]
América Mineiro	Ricardo Drubscky		24 July[24]	17th	Adílson Batista	24 July[24]
Santos	Jair Ventura		26 July	15th	Cuca	29 July
Palmeiras	Roger Machado		26 July[25]	6th	Luiz Felipe Scolari	26 July[26]
Vitória	Vágner Mancini		28 July	16th	Paulo César Carpegiani	14 August
Botafogo	Marcos Paquetá		1 August	11th	Zé Ricardo	3 August
Chapecoense	Gilson Kleina		6 August	16th	Guto Ferreira	6 August
Sport	Claudinei Oliveira	Resigned	12 August	14th	Eduardo Baptista	15 August
Vasco da Gama	Jorginho	Sacked	13 August	15th	Alberto Valentim	27 August
Paraná	Rogério Micale		14 August	20th	Claudinei Oliveira	15 August
Corinthians	Osmar Loss	Resigned	5 September	8th	Jair Ventura	6 September
Sport	Eduardo Baptista	Sacked	24 September	14th	Milton Mendes	26 September
Flamengo	Mauricio Barbieri		28 September	4th	Dorival Júnior	28 September
Chapecoense	Guto Ferreira		15 October	17th	Claudinei Oliveira	16 October
Paraná	Claudinei Oliveira	Signed by Chapecoense	16 October	20th	Dado Cavalcanti	17 October
Atlético Mineiro	Thiago Larghi	Sacked	17 October	6th	Levir Culpi	17 October
América Mineiro	Adílson Batista		10 November	18th	Givanildo Oliveira	11 November
Fluminense	Marcelo Oliveira		29 November	14th	Fábio Moreno	29 November

Foreign players

The clubs can have a maximum of five foreign players in their Campeonato Brasileiro squads per match, but there is no limit of foreigners in the clubs' squads.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6
América Mineiro
Atlético Mineiro	Juan Cazares	Tomás Andrade	Yimmi Chará	David Terans	Martín Rea
Atlético Paranaense	Lucho González	Anderson Plata
Bahia	Agustín Allione
Botafogo	Joel Carli	Junior Fernández	Leonardo Valencia	Rodrigo Aguirre
Ceará	Javier Reina	Jown Cardona
Chapecoense	Héctor Canteros	Nery Bareiro	Agustín Doffo	Diego Torres	Edgardo Orzuza
Corinthians	Ángel Romero	Emerson Sheik1	Sergio Díaz	Ángelo Araos
Cruzeiro	Giorgian De Arrascaeta	Ariel Cabral	Lucas Romero	Federico Mancuello	Hernán Barcos
Flamengo	Gustavo Cuéllar	Miguel Trauco	Orlando Berrío	Marlos Moreno	Fernando Uribe	Robert Piris Da Motta
Fluminense	Guillermo de Amores	Junior Sornoza	Bryan Cabezas
Grêmio	Walter Kannemann
Internacional	Andrés D'Alessandro	Nicolás López	Víctor Cuesta	Jonathan Álvez	Martín Sarrafiore	Paolo Guerrero
Palmeiras	Miguel Borja	Alejandro Guerra	Nicolás Freire	Gustavo Gómez
Paraná	Marcelo Báez	Jorge González
Santos	Jonathan Copete	Bryan Ruiz	Carlos Sánchez	Derlis González
São Paulo	Santiago Tréllez	Robert Arboleda	Gonzalo Carneiro	Joao Rojas
Sport
Vasco da Gama	Martín Silva	Maxi López	Andrés Ríos	Leandro Desábato	Oswaldo Henríquez
Vitória	Marcelo Meli	Marcelo Benítez	Walter Bou

• ¹ Players holding Brazilian dual nationality.

Standings

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Palmeiras (C)	38	23	11	4	64	26	+38	80	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage
2	Flamengo	38	21	9	8	59	29	+30	72
3	Internacional	38	19	12	7	51	29	+22	69
4	Grêmio	38	18	12	8	48	27	+21	66
5	São Paulo	38	16	15	7	46	34	+12	63	Qualification for Copa Libertadores second stage
6	Atlético Mineiro	38	17	8	13	56	43	+13	59
7	Atlético Paranaense	38	16	9	13	54	37	+17	57	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage[a]
8	Cruzeiro	38	14	11	13	34	34	0	53	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage[b]
9	Botafogo	38	13	12	13	38	46	−8	51	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage
10	Santos	38	13	11	14	46	40	+6	50
11	Bahia	38	12	12	14	39	41	−2	48
12	Fluminense	38	12	9	17	32	46	−14	45
13	Corinthians	38	11	11	16	34	35	−1	44
14	Chapecoense	38	11	11	16	34	50	−16	44
15	Ceará	38	10	14	14	32	38	−6	44
16	Vasco da Gama	38	10	13	15	41	48	−7	43
17	América Mineiro (R)	38	10	10	18	30	47	−17	40	Relegation to Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
18	Sport[c] (R)	38	11	9	18	35	57	−22	39
19	Vitória (R)	38	9	10	19	36	63	−27	37
20	Paraná (R)	38	4	11	23	18	57	−39	23

Source: CBF
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; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Atlético Paranaense qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2018 Copa Sudamericana.
2. Cruzeiro qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2018 Copa do Brasil.
3. Sport were deducted three points for the late payment of salary of player Gabriel.

Results

Home \ Away	AMG	CAM	CAP	BAH	BOT	CEA	CHA	COR	CRU	FLA	FLU	GRE	INT	PAL	PAR	SAN	SPA	SPT	VAS	VIT
América Mineiro	—	1–3	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	2–2	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	1–3	3–0	2–1	2–1
Atlético Mineiro	0–0	—	3–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–3	1–0	1–0	0–1	5–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–0	5–2	0–0	2–1
Atlético Paranaense	4–0	1–2	—	2–0	2–1	2–2	5–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	2–1	2–2	1–3	3–0	2–0	0–1	4–0	1–0	4–0
Bahia	1–0	2–2	0–0	—	3–3	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	4–1
Botafogo	1–0	0–3	2–0	0–1	—	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–1
Ceará	2–2	2–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	—	3–1	2–1	0–1	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–0
Chapecoense	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	—	2–1	2–0	3–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1
Corinthians	1–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	—	2–0	0–3	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–0
Cruzeiro	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	3–0	1–0	—	0–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–1	3–0
Flamengo	2–0	2–1	1–2	2–0	2–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	—	3–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	4–1	1–1	1–0
Fluminense	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	—	0–1	0–3	1–0	4–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0
Grêmio	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–2	4–0	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	—	0–0	0–2	2–0	5–1	2–1	3–4	2–1	4–0
Internacional	2–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	—	0–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	0–0	3–1	2–1
Palmeiras	4–0	3–2	2–0	3–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	—	3–0	3–2	3–1	2–3	1–0	3–2
Paraná	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–4	1–1	0–4	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	—	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–1
Santos	0–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	—	0–0	3–0	1–1	5–2
São Paulo	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	—	0–0	2–1	3–0
Sport	0–2	3–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–3	—	2–1	0–0
Vasco da Gama	4–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–4	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–3	2–0	3–2	—	2–3
Vitória	1–0	1–0	1–2	2–2	3–4	2–1	1–0	2–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–3	0–3	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	—

Source: CBF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Attendance

Average home attendances

As of 1 December 2018

Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.^[27]

Pos.	Team	Stadium	GP	Cumulative	Average
1	Flamengo	Maracanã	19	895,641	47,139
2	São Paulo	Morumbi	19	652,080	34,320
3	Palmeiras	Allianz Parque	19	614,764	32,356
4	Corinthians	Arena Corinthians	19	595,973	31,367
5	Ceará	Castelão	19	533,482	28,078
6	Internacional	Beira-Rio	19	526,319	27,701
7	Grêmio	Arena do Grêmio	19	423,016	22,264
8	Bahia	Fonte Nova	19	366,985	19,315
9	Atletico Mineiro	Independência	19	326,363	17,177
10	Vasco da Gama	São Januário	19	282,720	14,880
11	Fluminense	Maracanã	19	274,702	14,458
12	Cruzeiro	Mineirão	19	257,146	13,534
13	Botafogo	Nilton Santos	19	219,811	11,569
14	Sport	Ilha do Retiro	19	217,132	11,428
15	Santos	Vila Belmiro	19	200,925	10,575
16	Atletico Paranaense	Arena da Baixada	19	200,830	10,570
17	Chapecoense	Arena Condá	19	178,429	9,391
18	Vitória	Barradão	19	174,439	9,181
19	Paraná	Vila Capanema	19	118,218	6,222
20	America Mineiro	Independência	19	93,043	4,897
–	Total		380	7,152,235	18,821

Season statistics

Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Gabriel Barbosa Santos 18 2 Ricardo Oliveira Atlético Mineiro 13 3 Pablo Atlético Paranaense 12 Diego Souza São Paulo 5 Leandro Pereira Chapecoense 11 Nicolás López Internacional 7 Lucas Paquetá Flamengo 10 Yago Pikachu Vasco da Gama Leandro Damião Internacional Éverton Grêmio Pedro Fluminense Willian Palmeiras Source: Globoesporte.com

Assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Dudu Palmeiras 15 2 Éverton São Paulo 8 3 Yimmi Chará Atlético Mineiro 7 4 Luan Grêmio 6 Everaldo Fluminense Giorgian De Arrascaeta Cruzeiro Nicolás López Internacional Éverton Ribeiro Flamengo Nikão Atlético Paranaense Raphael Veiga Atlético Paranaense Leonardo Valencia Botafogo Juan Cazares Atlético Mineiro Maxi López Vasco da Gama Dodô Santos Source: ESPN Deportes

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Rodrygo	Santos	Vitória	5–2	3 June 2018	[28]
Ángel Romero	Corinthians	Vasco da Gama	4–1	29 July 2018	[29]
Gabriel Barbosa	Santos	Vasco da Gama	3–0	1 September 2018	[30]

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Santos	Atlético Paranaense	15
2	Vanderlei	Santos	14
3	Júlio César	Fluminense	13
	Éverson	Ceará
5	Marcelo Grohe	Grêmio	12
	Sidão	São Paulo
	Weverton	Palmeiras
8	Diego Alves	Flamengo	11
	Douglas Friedrich	Bahia
	Victor	Atlético Mineiro

Source: FoxSports.com

Awards

Team of the year

Pos. Player Club GK Marcelo Lomba Internacional DF Mayke Palmeiras DF Pedro Geromel Grêmio DF Víctor Cuesta Internacional DF Renê Flamengo MF Rodrigo Dourado Internacional MF Bruno Henrique Palmeiras MF Lucas Paquetá Flamengo MF Giorgian De Arrascaeta Cruzeiro FW Dudu Palmeiras FW Gabriel Barbosa Santos

M. Lomba P. Geromel V. Cuesta Mayke Renê B. Henrique R. Dourado De Arrascaeta L. Paquetá G. Barbosa Dudu

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Manager of the Year	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Palmeiras
Player of the Year	Dudu	Palmeiras
Goal of the Year	Éverton Ribeiro, round 37 vs. Cruzeiro (8')	Flamengo
Fan-Selected Player of the Year	Gustavo Cuéllar	Flamengo
Young Player of the Year	Pedro	Fluminense
Fair Play Team of the Year	Corinthians	–
Referee of the Year	Raphael Claus	–

Source Globo
Last updated: 3 December 2018