2020 Campeonato Paranaense

The 2020 Campeonato Paranaense (officially the Campeonato Paranaense de Futebol Profissional da 1ª Divisão - Temporada 2020) was the 106th edition of the top division of football in the state of Paraná organized by FPF. The competition started on 18 January and ended on 5 August.

Campeonato Paranaense

Season	2020
Dates	18 January - 5 August
Champions	Athletico Paranaense (26th title)
Relegated	PSTC União
Copa do Brasil	Athletico Paranaense Cianorte Coritiba FC Cascavel
Série D	Cianorte FC Cascavel Rio Branco
Matches played	80
Goals scored	200 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bissoli Lucas Tocantins Nikão Pedrinho (6 goals each)
← 2019 2021 →

On 16 March 2020, FPF suspended the Campeonato Paranaense indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.^[1] Complying with the guidelines of the Governo do Estado do Paraná, the tournament resumed behind closed doors on 18 July 2020.^[2]

Athletico Paranaense, the defending champions, won their 26th title after defeating Coritiba 3–1 on aggregate.^[3]

Format

In the first stage, each team played the other eleven teams in a single round-robin tournament. The teams were ranked according to points.

If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Head-to-head results; 5. Fewest red cards; 6. Fewest yellow cards; 7. Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.^[4]

Top eight teams advanced to the quarter-finals of the final stages. The bottom two teams were relegated to the second division. Top three teams not already qualified for 2021 Série A, Série B or Série C qualified for 2021 Série D.^[5]

Final stage was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the best overall performance team hosting the second leg. If tied on aggregate, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.^[5] Top four teams qualified for the 2021 Copa do Brasil.

Participating teams

Club	Home city	2019 result	Titles (last)
Athletico Paranaense	Curitiba	1st	25 (2019)
Cascavel CR	Cascavel	9th	0
Cianorte	Cianorte	10th	0
Coritiba	Curitiba	3rd	38 (2017)
FC Cascavel	Cascavel	7th	0
Londrina	Londrina	4th	4 (2014)
Operário Ferroviário	Ponta Grossa	5th	1 (2015)
Paraná	Curitiba	6th	7 (2006)
PSTC	Cornélio Procópio	1st (Seg.)	0
Rio Branco	Paranaguá	8th	0
Toledo	Toledo	2nd	0
União	Francisco Beltrão	2nd (Seg.)	0

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Coritiba	11	7	3	1	24	10	+14	24	Advance to Quarter-finals
2	FC Cascavel	11	7	2	2	20	12	+8	23
3	Athletico Paranaense	11	7	1	3	22	13	+9	22
4	Operário Ferroviário	11	6	2	3	12	10	+2	20
5	Cianorte	11	5	3	3	15	10	+5	18
6	Londrina	11	4	3	4	14	16	−2	15
7	Rio Branco	11	3	5	3	12	11	+1	14
8	Paraná	11	3	4	4	9	8	+1	13
9	Cascavel CR	11	3	2	6	10	20	−10	11
10	Toledo	11	2	4	5	8	13	−5	10
11	PSTC	11	1	3	7	7	15	−8	6	Relegation to 2021 Campeonato Paranaense - Segunda Divisão
12	União	11	1	2	8	8	23	−15	5

Source: FPF

Final stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals							Finals
	6	Londrina	1	0	1
	3	Athletico Paranaense	1	5	6
								3	Athletico Paranaense	5	0	5
								2	FC Cascavel	1	0	1
	7	Rio Branco	0	0	0
	2	FC Cascavel	3	5	8
															3	Athletico Paranaense	1	2	3
															1	Coritiba	0	1	1
	5	Cianorte	0	2	2
	4	Operário Ferroviário	1	0	1
								5	Cianorte	2	0	2
								1	Coritiba	3	2	5
	8	Paraná	0	1	1
	1	Coritiba	1	2	3

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Paraná	1–3	Coritiba	0–1	1–2
Rio Branco	0–8	FC Cascavel	0–3	0–5
Londrina	1–6	Athletico Paranaense	1–1	0–5
Cianorte	2–1	Operário Ferroviário	0–1	2–0

Group A

Paraná	0–1	Coritiba
	Report	Robson 50'

19 July 2020

16:00

Estádio Vila Capanema, Curitiba^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 0

Referee: Rodolpho Toski Marques

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Coritiba	2–1	Paraná
Patrick Vieira 8' Igor Jesus 71'	Report	Fabrício 27' (pen.)

23 July 2020

21:00

Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba

Attendance: 0

Referee: Paulo Roberto Alves Júnior

Coritiba qualified for the semi-finals.

Group B

Rio Branco	0–3	FC Cascavel
	Report	Lucas Tocantins 1', 89' Magno Ribeiro 72' (pen.)

18 July 2020

14:00

Estádio Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 0

Referee: Leonardo Ferreira Lima

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FC Cascavel	5–0	Rio Branco
Adenilson 22' Lucas Tocantins 35' Henrique Santos 43' Oberdan 53' Sananduva 69'	Report

22 July 2020

18:00

Estádio Olímpico Regional Arnaldo Busatto, Cascavel

Attendance: 0

Referee: Robson Babinski

FC Cascavel qualified for the semi-finals.

Group C

Londrina	1–1	Athletico Paranaense
Júnior Pirambu 89'	Report	Léo Cittadini 47'

19 July 2020

18:00

Estádio Municipal Ubirajara Medeiros, Cornélio Procópio^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 0

Referee: Paulo Roberto Alves Júnior

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Athletico Paranaense	5–0	Londrina
Nikão 3', 20' Marquinhos Gabriel 6' Bissoli 39', 41'	Report

23 July 2020

17:00

Arena da Baixada, Curitiba

Attendance: 0

Referee: Rodolpho Toski Marques

Athletico Paranaense qualified for the semi-finals.

Group D

Cianorte	0–1	Operário Ferroviário
	Report	Douglas Coutinho 71'

18 July 2020

16:00

Estádio Municipal Olímpico Albino Turbay, Cianorte

Attendance: 0

Referee: Leonardo Sígari Zanon

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Operário Ferroviário	0–2	Cianorte
	Report	Maurício Ribeiro 19' Júnior Prego 73'

22 July 2020

20:00

Estádio Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa

Attendance: 0

Referee: Lucas Paulo Torezin

Cianorte qualified for the semi-finals.

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Notes

1. Originally scheduled to be played at Estádio Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa,^[2] FPF moved the match to Estádio Vila Capanema, Curitiba prior authorization from the Prefeitura Municipal de Curitiba.^[6]
2. As a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Governo do Estado do Paraná banned any professional football match in the coastal cities until 21 July 2020.^[7] Therefore, FPF moved the match from Estádio Nelson Medrado Dias, Paranaguá to Estádio Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa.^[2]
3. As a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Prefeitura de Londrina banned indefinitely any professional football match in Londrina.^[8] Therefore, FPF moved the match from Estádio do Café, Londrina to Estádio Municipal Ubirajara Medeiros, Cornélio Procópio.^[2]

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cianorte	2–5	Coritiba	2–3	0–2
Athletico Paranaense	5–1	FC Cascavel	5–1	0–0

Group E

Cianorte	2–3	Coritiba
Pelezinho 48' França 83'	Report	William Matheus 19', 43' Gabriel 22'

26 July 2020

16:00

Estádio Municipal Olímpico Albino Turbay, Cianorte

Attendance: 0

Referee: Leonardo Ferreira Lima

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Coritiba	2–0	Cianorte
Rafinha 56' Maurício Ribeiro 67' (o.g.)	Report

29 July 2020

20:00

Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba

Attendance: 0

Referee: Adriano Milczvski

Coritiba qualified for the finals.

Group F

Athletico Paranaense	5–1	FC Cascavel
Lucas Halter 23' Bissoli 34', 70' Nikão 46' Marquinhos Gabriel 59'	Report	Henrique Santos 44'

26 July 2020

18:00

Arena da Baixada, Curitiba

Attendance: 0

Referee: Leonardo Sígari Zanon

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FC Cascavel	0–0	Athletico Paranaense
	Report

29 July 2020

18:00

Estádio Olímpico Regional Arnaldo Busatto, Cascavel

Attendance: 0

Referee: Lucas Paulo Torezin

Athletico Paranaense qualified for the finals.

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Athletico Paranaense	3–1	Coritiba	1–0	2–1

Group G

Athletico Paranaense	1–0	Coritiba
Léo Cittadini 89'	Report

2 August 2020

16:00

Arena da Baixada, Curitiba

Attendance: 0

Referee: Paulo Roberto Alves Júnior

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Coritiba	1–2	Athletico Paranaense
Sabino 45+4' (pen.)	Report	Khellven 90+1' Nikão 90+2'

5 August 2020

20:00

Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba

Attendance: 0

Referee: Rodolpho Toski Marques

Overall table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Athletico Paranaense	17	11	3	3	36	16	+20	36	Champions and 2021 Copa do Brasil
2	Coritiba	17	11	3	3	33	16	+17	36	Runners-up and 2021 Copa do Brasil
3	FC Cascavel	15	9	3	3	29	17	+12	30	2021 Copa do Brasil and 2021 Série D
4	Cianorte	15	6	3	6	19	16	+3	21
5	Operário Ferroviário	13	7	2	4	13	12	+1	23
6	Londrina	13	4	4	5	15	22	−7	16
7	Rio Branco	13	3	5	5	12	19	−7	14	2021 Série D
8	Paraná	13	3	4	6	10	11	−1	13
9	Cascavel CR	11	3	2	6	10	20	−10	11
10	Toledo	11	2	4	5	8	13	−5	10
11	PSTC	11	1	3	7	7	15	−8	6	Relegation to 2021 Campeonato Paranaense - Segunda Divisão
12	União	11	1	2	8	8	23	−15	5

Source: FPF

Top goalscorers

No.	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bissoli	Athletico Paranaense	6
	Lucas Tocantins	FC Cascavel
	Nikão	Athletico Paranaense
	Pedrinho	Athletico Paranaense
5	Douglas Coutinho	Operário Ferroviário	5
	Pelezinho	Cianorte
	Rone	Cascavel CR
8	Magno Ribeiro	FC Cascavel	4
	Paulo Sérgio	FC Cascavel
	Rafinha	Coritiba
	Robson	Coritiba

References

1. "ATO DA PRESIDÊNCIA: Nº 09/2020" (in Portuguese). FPF. 16 March 2020.
2. "Campeonato Paranaense será retomado neste final de semana" (in Portuguese). FPF. 16 July 2020.
3. "Athletico é o Campeão Paranaense de 2020" (in Portuguese). FPF. 6 August 2020.
4. "REGULAMENTO GERAL DAS COMPETIÇÕES PROFISSIONAIS DE FUTEBOL ORGANIZADAS OU ADMINISTRADAS PELA FEDERAÇÃO PARANAENSE DE FUTEBOL TEMPORADA 2020" (PDF) (in Portuguese). FPF.
5. "CAMPEONATO PARANAENSE DE FUTEBOL PROFISSIONAL DA 1ª DIVISÃO TEMPORADA 2020 - REGULAMENTO ESPECÍFICO DA COMPETIÇÃO - REC" (in Portuguese). FPF.
6. "Em resposta à Câmara de Curitiba, PMC autoriza jogos do Paranaense" (in Portuguese). Câmara Municipal de Curitiba. 17 July 2020.
7. "NOTA – GOVERNO DO ESTADO – DECRETO 4942/20" (in Portuguese). Agência de Notícias do Paraná. 14 July 2020.
8. "Jornal Oficial do Município de Londrina N°4110" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Prefeitura de Londrina. 14 July 2020.