2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C

The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série C 2004, the third level of Brazilian National League, was played from August 1 to November 28, 2004. The competition had 64 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série B.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série C

Season	2004
Champions	União Barbarense
Promoted	União Barbarense Gama
Matches played	238
Goals scored	605 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	10 goals: Frontini (União Barbarense) Marciano (Limoeiro) Vítor (Gama)
Biggest home win	Moto Club 7-1 Tuna Luso (September 4, 2004) Gama 7-1 Limoeiro (November 28, 2004)
Biggest away win	Ji-Paraná 0-5 União Esporte Clube (September 4, 2004)
← 2003 2005 →

União Barbarense finished the final phase group with most points and was declared 2004 Brazilian Série C champions, claiming the promotion to the 2005 Série B along with Gama, the runners-up.

Participating teams

• Rio Branco (AC)
• Juventus (AC)[1]
• Corinthians (AL)
• Coruripe (AL)
• Trem (AP)
• Ypiranga (AP)[2]
• Grêmio Coariense (AM)
• Nacional Futebol Clube (AM)
• Atlético (BA)
• Catuense (BA)
• Ferroviário (CE)
• Limoeiro (CE)
• CFZ (DF)
• Gama (DF)
• Paranoá (DF)
• Rio Branco (ES)[3]
• Desportiva (ES)[3]
• CRAC (GO)
• Jataiense (GO)
• Moto Club (MA)
• Sampaio Corrêa (MA)
• Cuiabá (MT)
• União (MT)
• CENE (MS)
• Chapadão (MS)
• Ipatinga (MG)
• Tupi (MG)
• Villa Nova (MG)
• Castanhal (PA)
• Tuna Luso (PA)
• Campinense (PB)
• Treze (PB)
• Cianorte (PR)
• Iraty (PR)
• Nacional (PR)
• Itacuruba (PE)
• Porto (PE)
• Parnahyba (PI)
• River (PI)
• América (RJ)
• Americano (RJ)
• Friburguense (RJ)
• Portuguesa (RJ)
• Potiguar (RN)
• Baraúnas (RN)
• Esportivo (RS)
• Novo Hamburgo (RS)
• Ulbra (RS)
• União Cacoalense (RO)[4]
• Ji-Paraná (RO)
• Atlético Roraima (RR)
• São Raimundo (RR)[2]
• América (SP)
• Atlético Sorocaba (SP)
• Portuguesa Santista (SP)
• Rio Branco (SP)
• União Barbarense (SP)
• União São João (SP)
• Hermann Aichinger (SC)
• Lages (SC)
• Confiança (SE)
• Sergipe (SE)
• Gurupi (TO)
• Palmas (TO)

Stages of the competition

First stage

Teams promoted to the second stage

Group 1 (AC-AM)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Grêmio Coariense	4	2	2	0	6	4	+2	8	Qualified for second stage
2	Rio Branco	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	4
3	Nacional-AM	4	0	3	1	6	7	−1	3

Source:

Group 2 (AP-RR)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlético Roraima	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	Qualified for second stage
2	Trem	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	2

Source:

Group 3 (MT-RO)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	União	4	3	0	1	10	2	+8	9	Qualified for second stage
2	Cuiabá	4	3	0	1	6	3	+3	9
3	Ji-Paraná	4	0	0	4	0	11	−11	0

Source:

Group 4 (DF-TO)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Gama	6	2	3	1	11	6	+5	9	Qualified for second stage
2	Palmas	6	2	3	1	8	9	−1	9
3	Gurupi	6	2	1	3	4	8	−4	7
4	CFZ-DF	6	1	3	2	7	7	0	6

Source:

Group 5 (MA-PA)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sampaio Corrêa	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10	Qualified for second stage
2	Moto Club	6	3	0	3	17	15	+2	9
3	Castanhal	6	3	0	3	15	12	+3	9
4	Tuna Luso	6	2	1	3	8	15	−7	7

Source:

Group 6 (CE-PI)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Limoeiro	6	4	1	1	14	8	+6	13	Qualified for second stage
2	Parnahyba	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8
3	Ferroviário-CE	6	2	1	3	6	7	−1	7
4	River	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5

Source:

Group 7 (PB-RN)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Treze	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11	Qualified for second stage
2	Campinense	6	2	3	1	7	6	+1	9
3	Potiguar	6	2	1	3	5	7	−2	7
4	Baraúnas	6	1	2	3	7	9	−2	5

Source:

Group 8 (AL-PE)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Porto	6	4	0	2	11	5	+6	12	Qualified for second stage
2	Itacuruba	6	3	1	2	6	8	−2	10
3	Coruripe	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7
4	Corinthians-AL	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5

Source:

Group 9 (BA-SE)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Confiança	6	3	1	2	4	4	0	10	Qualified for second stage
2	Sergipe	6	2	2	2	3	2	+1	8
3	Atlético	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8
4	Catuense	6	1	3	2	2	3	−1	6

Source:

Group 10 (ES-MG)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Villa Nova	6	4	0	2	9	5	+4	12	Qualified for second stage
2	Serra	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	11
3	Ipatinga	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5
4	Estrela do Norte	6	1	2	3	6	10	−4	5

Source:

Group 11 (GO-MS)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CRAC	6	3	3	0	8	3	+5	12	Qualified for second stage
2	CENE	6	2	3	1	11	5	+6	9
3	Chapadão	6	1	2	3	4	8	−4	5
4	Jataiense	6	1	2	3	5	12	−7	5

Source:

Group 12 (DF-MG-RJ)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Americano	6	4	0	2	8	3	+5	12	Qualified for second stage
2	Ceilândia	6	3	1	2	7	7	0	10[lower-alpha 1]
3	Tupi	6	2	1	3	5	9	−4	7
4	Friburguense	6	1	2	3	5	6	−1	5

Source:
Notes:

1. Won the berth in judicial dispute against Paranoá

Group 13 (RJ-SP)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Atlético Sorocaba	6	5	1	0	10	4	+6	16	Qualified for second stage
2	Portuguesa Santista	6	3	1	2	6	5	+1	10
3	Portuguesa-RJ	6	1	3	2	3	5	−2	6
4	América-RJ	6	0	1	5	1	6	−5	1

Source:

Group 14 (SP)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	União Barbarense	6	4	2	0	7	3	+4	14	Qualified for second stage
2	Rio Branco	6	1	4	1	5	4	+1	7
3	América-SP	6	1	2	3	4	7	−3	5
4	União São João	6	0	4	2	3	5	−2	4

Source:

Group 15 (PR-SC)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iraty	6	4	2	0	8	2	+6	14	Qualified for second stage
2	Hermann Aichinger	6	1	4	1	7	4	+3	7
3	Nacional-PR	6	2	0	4	8	15	−7	6
4	Cianorte	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5

Source:

Group 16 (RS-SC)

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ulbra	6	4	1	1	8	5	+3	13	Qualified for second stage
2	Novo Hamburgo	6	4	0	2	8	6	+2	12
3	Esportivo	6	1	2	3	9	12	−3	5
4	Lages	6	1	1	4	8	10	−2	4

Source:

Second stage

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Trem	2–4	Grêmio Coariense	0–1	2–3
Rio Branco-AC	5–0	Atlético Roraima	5–0	0–0
Palmas	6–3	União	4–2	2–1
Cuiabá	3–6	Gama	2–4	1–2
Parnahyba	1–1(a)	Sampaio Corrêa	1–1	0–0
Moto Club	0–2	Limoeiro	0–0	0–2
Itacuruba	3–3(a)	Treze	2–2	1–1
Campinense	2–5	Porto	1–3	1–2
Serra	4–4(a)	Confiança	4–3	0–1
Sergipe	2–3	Villa Nova	2–1	0–2
Rio Branco-SP	3–3(a)	Atlético Sorocaba	1–0	2–3
Portuguesa Santista	2–5	União Barbarense	1–0	1–4
Novo Hamburgo	3–3(a)	Iraty	3–1	0–2
Hermann Aichinger	4–3	Ulbra	2–1	2–2
Ceilândia	3–4	CRAC	2–2	1–2
CENE	3–5	Americano	1–0	2–5

Third stage

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Grêmio Coariense	4–4(p)	Rio Branco-AC	3–1	1–3
Palmas	1–3	Gama	0–0	1–3
Sampaio Corrêa	4–4(a)	Limoeiro	3–2	1–2
Porto	3–3(p)	Treze	1–2	2–1
Villa Nova	2–2(p)	Confiança	2–0	0–2
Rio Branco-SP	1–5	União Barbarense	0–2	1–3
Iraty	2–2(a)	Hermann Aichinger	1–0	1–2
CRAC	1–4	Americano	1–1	0–3

Fourth stage

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gama	4–2	Rio Branco-AC	2–0	2–2
Limoeiro	1–1(p)	Treze	1–0	0–1
Americano	1–0	Villa Nova	1–0	0–0
Iraty	1–2	União Barbarense	0–1	1–1

Final stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		UBR	GAM	AMR	LIM
1	União Barbarense (P)	6	5	0	1	11	6	+5	15			2–1	1–0	3–2
2	Gama (P)	6	3	1	2	17	10	+7	10		1–4		1–0	7–1
3	Americano	6	1	2	3	4	6	−2	5		0–1	2–2		1–0
4	Limoeiro	6	1	1	4	7	17	−10	4		2–0	1–5	1–1

Source: rsssf.com
(P) Promoted to Série B 2005.

References

1. Originally placed in Group A but withdrew before the start of the championship
2. Originally placed in Group B but withdrew before the start of the championship
3. On Aug 10, Desportiva and Rio Branco were replaced for Serra and Estrela do Norte, the best placed teams (champion and runner-up, respectively) in the Espírito Santo 2004 state championship, who claimed their berths in the Superior Sportive Court (STJD).
4. Originally placed in Group C but withdrew before the start of the championship