2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C

The 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C was a football competition held in Brazil, equivalent to the third division. The competition started on 14 April and ended on 22 September 2018.[1]

Campeonato Brasileiro Série C

Season	2018
Champions	Operário Ferroviário (1st title)
Promoted	Botafogo-SP Bragantino Cuiabá Operário Ferroviário
Relegated	Joinville Juazeirense Salgueiro Tupi
Matches played	194
Goals scored	456 (2.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Caio Dantas (11 goals)
Biggest home win	Atlético Acreano 5–0 Juazeirense R5, 13 May Cuiabá 5–0 Joinville R14, 14 July
Biggest away win	Remo 0–3 Confiança R6, 20 May Ypiranga 0–3 Botafogo-SP R8, 3 June Tupi 0–3 Bragantino R11, 23 June ABC 0–3 Santa Cruz R12, 1 July Atlético Acreano 0–3 Confiança R17, 5 August Botafogo-SP 0–3 Cuiabá Semifinals 2nd leg, 8 September
Highest attendance	34,474 Santa Cruz 1–0 Operário Ferroviário Quarter-finals 1st leg, 19 August
Lowest attendance	96 Ypiranga 3–0 Cuiabá R16, 29 July
Total attendance	605,023
Average attendance	3,119
← 2017 2019 →

Twenty teams competed in the tournament, twelve returning from the 2017 season, four promoted from the 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D (Operário Ferroviário, Globo, Atlético Acreano and Juazeirense),[2] and four relegated from the 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B (Luverdense, Santa Cruz, ABC and Náutico).[3]

Botafogo-SP, Bragantino, Cuiabá and Operário Ferroviário qualified for the semi-finals and were promoted to the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B.[4]

Operário Ferroviário won the title after defeating Cuiabá in the final.[5]

Teams

ABC

Atlético Acreano

Botafogo-PB

Botafogo-SP

Bragantino

Confiança

Cuiabá

Globo

Joinville

Juazeirense

Luverdense

Náutico

Operário Ferroviário

Remo

Salgueiro

Santa Cruz

Tombense

Tupi

Volta Redonda

Ypiranga

Location of teams in 2018 Série C

Pos. Relegated from 2017 Série B 17º Luverdense 18º Santa Cruz 19º ABC 20º Náutico

Pos. Promoted from 2017 Série D 1º Operário Ferroviário 2º Globo 3° Atlético Acreano 4º Juazeirense

Number of teams by state

Number of teams	State	Team(s)
3	Pernambuco	Náutico, Salgueiro and Santa Cruz
2	Mato Grosso	Cuiabá and Luverdense
	Minas Gerais	Tombense and Tupi
	Rio Grande do Norte	ABC and Globo
	São Paulo	Botafogo-SP and Bragantino
1	Acre	Atlético Acreano
	Bahia	Juazeirense
	Pará	Remo
	Paraíba	Botafogo-PB
	Paraná	Operário Ferroviário
	Rio de Janeiro	Volta Redonda
	Rio Grande do Sul	Ypiranga
	Santa Catarina	Joinville
	Sergipe	Confiança

Personnel

Team	Home city	Manager
ABC	Natal	Ranielle Ribeiro
Atlético Acreano	Rio Branco	Álvaro Miguéis
Botafogo-PB	João Pessoa	Evaristo Piza
Botafogo-SP	Ribeirão Preto	Léo Condé
Bragantino	Bragança Paulista	Marcelo Veiga
Confiança	Aracaju	Betinho
Cuiabá	Cuiabá	Itamar Schülle
Globo	Ceará-Mirim	Higor César
Joinville	Joinville	Pedrinho Maradona
Juazeirense	Juazeiro	Evandro Guimarães
Luverdense	Lucas do Rio Verde	Maico Gaúcho
Náutico	Recife	Márcio Goiano
Operário Ferroviário	Ponta Grossa	Gerson Gusmão
Remo	Belém	Netão
Salgueiro	Salgueiro	Sérgio China
Santa Cruz	Recife	Roberto Fernandes
Tombense	Tombos	Eugênio Souza
Tupi	Juiz de Fora	Aílton Ferraz
Volta Redonda	Volta Redonda	Moacir Júnior
Ypiranga	Erechim	Márcio Nunes

Group stage

In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). 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 (if the tie is only between two teams). If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would be used (except if both teams shared the same stadium); 5. Fewest red cards; 6. Fewest yellow cards; 7. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 15).[6]

The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stages.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Náutico	18	9	4	5	26	22	+4	31	Advance to Final stages
2	Atlético Acreano	18	9	3	6	25	22	+3	30
3	Santa Cruz	18	7	7	4	22	13	+9	28
4	Botafogo-PB	18	6	8	4	22	17	+5	26
5	Confiança	18	5	8	5	24	25	−1	23
6	Remo	18	6	4	8	18	20	−2	22
7	Globo	18	4	10	4	19	19	0	22
8	ABC	18	6	3	9	18	24	−6	21
9	Juazeirense	18	4	7	7	16	20	−4	19	Relegation to 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D
10	Salgueiro	18	3	8	7	11	19	−8	17

Source: CBF

Results

Home \ Away	ABC	AAC	BOT	CON	GLO	JZE	NAU	REM	SAL	STA
ABC	—	0–1	2–0	4–0	1–3	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–3
Atlético Acreano	3–0	—	1–0	0–3	1–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1
Botafogo-PB	2–0	1–0	—	2–0	1–1	2–2	4–0	1–3	0–0	2–0
Confiança	2–2	0–0	2–2	—	0–0	1–1	2–3	0–2	3–0	1–1
Globo	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	—	1–1	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–2
Juazeirense	2–2	4–0	1–1	0–1	2–0	—	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
Náutico	2–0	3–1	2–0	2–4	2–0	1–0	—	3–2	3–0	1–1
Remo	1–0	2–2	0–0	0–3	1–0	3–0	1–1	—	0–1	0–0
Salgueiro	3–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	—	0–0
Santa Cruz	0–0	3–1	2–3	4–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	—

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

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Botafogo-SP	18	10	5	3	30	14	+16	35	Advance to Final stages
2	Operário Ferroviário	18	10	5	3	25	17	+8	35
3	Cuiabá	18	10	2	6	32	21	+11	32
4	Bragantino	18	8	5	5	21	16	+5	29
5	Luverdense	18	7	3	8	27	25	+2	24
6	Tombense	18	6	4	8	17	17	0	22
7	Ypiranga	18	6	4	8	25	27	−2	22
8	Volta Redonda	18	6	2	10	18	25	−7	20
9	Tupi	18	6	2	10	19	30	−11	20	Relegation to Série D
10	Joinville	18	4	2	12	13	35	−22	14

Source: CBF

Results

Home \ Away	BOT	BRA	CUI	JEC	LUV	OPE	TOM	TUP	VRE	YPI
Botafogo-SP	—	1–1	0–0	3–0	3–1	2–2	1–0	4–2	2–0	2–0
Bragantino	0–2	—	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–1
Cuiabá	2–1	0–1	—	5–0	1–0	4–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	1–2
Joinville	0–2	0–2	2–3	—	4–2	1–3	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–0
Luverdense	1–2	3–1	1–3	2–0	—	1–0	2–0	3–0	4–1	2–2
Operário Ferroviário	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–2	—	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–1
Tombense	0–0	1–0	3–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	—	0–1	1–0	2–0
Tupi	1–1	0–3	1–3	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	—	2–1	4–1
Volta Redonda	1–0	2–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–2	2–3	—	3–2
Ypiranga	0–3	1–1	3–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	5–1	2–2	—

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

Final Stages

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:[6]

• Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the second leg (Regulations Article 17).
• If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (Regulations Article 16).

Starting from the semi-finals, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the tournament. The teams were ranked according to overall points. If tied on overall points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Overall wins; 2. Overall goal difference; 3. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 17).[6]

Bracket

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Finals
	Bragantino	3	1	4
	Náutico	1	1	2
							Bragantino	0	0	0 (2)
							Operário Ferroviário (p)	0	0	0 (4)
	Santa Cruz	1	0	1
	Operário Ferroviário	0	3	3
													Operário Ferroviário	3	1	4
													Cuiabá	3	0	3
	Cuiabá	2	2	4
	Atlético Acreano	0	2	2
							Cuiabá	0	3	3
							Botafogo-SP	0	0	0
	Botafogo-PB	1	0	1 (3)
	Botafogo-SP (p)	0	1	1 (4)

Quarter-finals

The matches were played between 18 and 27 August 2018.[7]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bragantino	4–2	Náutico	3–1	1–1
Santa Cruz	1–3	Operário Ferroviário	1–0	0–3
Cuiabá	4–2	Atlético Acreano	2–0	2–2
Botafogo-PB	1–1 (3–4 p)	Botafogo-SP	1–0	0–1

Group C

Bragantino v Náutico

18 August 2018	Bragantino	3–1	Náutico	Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid, Bragança Paulista
16:00	Vitinho  28' Marquinhos  45+1' Fabiano  54'	Report	Ortigoza  73'	Attendance: 3,624 Referee: Anderson Daronco (Rio Grande do Sul)

Náutico v Bragantino

26 August 2018	Náutico	1–1	Bragantino	Arena Pernambuco, São Lourenço da Mata
17:00	Wallace Pernambucano  83'	Report	Matheus Peixoto  33'	Attendance: 27,469 Referee: Wagner do Nascimento Magalhães (Rio de Janeiro)

Bragantino won 4–2 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals

Group D

Santa Cruz v Operário Ferroviário

19 August 2018	Santa Cruz	1–0	Operário Ferroviário	Estádio do Arruda, Recife
17:00	Vítor  45'	Report		Attendance: 49,476 Referee: Wagner do Nascimento Magalhães (Rio de Janeiro)

Operário Ferroviário v Santa Cruz

26 August 2018	Operário Ferroviário	3–0	Santa Cruz	Estádio Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa
15:00	Alisson  21' Schumacher  72' Dione  78'	Report		Attendance: 6,477 Referee: Raphael Claus (São Paulo)

Operário Ferroviário won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals

Group E

Cuiabá v Atlético Acreano

20 August 2018	Cuiabá	2–0	Atlético Acreano	Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá
21:00	Alê  36' Edson Borges  87'	Report		Attendance: 24,895 Referee: Raphael Claus (São Paulo)

Atlético Acreano v Cuiabá

27 August 2018	Atlético Acreano	2–2	Cuiabá	Florestão, Rio Branco
21:00	Rafael Barros  81' Diego  87'	Report	Alê  47' Bruno Sávio  73'	Attendance: 6,740 Referee: Luiz Flávio de Oliveira (São Paulo)

Cuiabá won 4–2 on aggregate and advanced to the semi-finals

Group F

Botafogo-PB v Botafogo-SP

19 August 2018	Botafogo-PB	1–0	Botafogo-SP	Almeidão, João Pessoa
19:00	Juninho  65'	Report		Attendance: 10,330 Referee: Wilton Sampaio (Goiás)

Botafogo-SP v Botafogo-PB

26 August 2018	Botafogo-SP	1–0 (4–3 p)	Botafogo-PB	Estádio Santa Cruz, Ribeirão Preto
19:00	Caio Dantas  90+3'	Report		Attendance: 23,950 Referee: Dewson Fernando Freitas da Silva (Pará)
	Penalties
	Tchô Caio Dantas Yuri Éverton Santos Felipe Augusto		Gedeílson Leandro Kivel Daniel Nazaré Juninho Marcos Aurélio

Tied 1–1 on aggregate, Botafogo-SP won on penalties and advanced to the semi-finals

Semi-finals

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Host
2	Operário Ferroviário	20	11	5	4	28	18	+10	38	2nd leg
4	Bragantino	20	9	6	5	25	18	+7	33	1st leg
1	Botafogo-SP	20	11	5	4	31	15	+16	38	2nd leg
3	Cuiabá	20	11	3	6	36	23	+13	36	1st leg

Source: CBF

The matches were played between 1 and 9 September 2018.[8]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bragantino	0–0 (2–4 p)	Operário Ferroviário	0–0	0–0
Cuiabá	3–0	Botafogo-SP	0–0	3–0

Group G

Bragantino v Operário Ferroviário

1 September 2018	Bragantino	0–0	Operário Ferroviário	Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid, Bragança Paulista
16:00		Report		Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Igor Junio Benevenuto (Minas Gerais)

Operário Ferroviário v Bragantino

9 September 2018	Operário Ferroviário	0–0 (4–2 p)	Bragantino	Estádio Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa
15:30		Report		Attendance: 4,524 Referee: Bráulio da Silva Machado (Santa Catarina)
	Penalties
	Bruno Batata Schumacher Cleyton Dione		Robertinho Rafael Chorão Guilherme Mattis Marquinhos

Tied 0–0 on aggregate, Operário Ferroviário won on penalties and advanced to the finals

Group H

Cuiabá v Botafogo-SP

2 September 2018	Cuiabá	0–0	Botafogo-SP	Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá
19:00		Report		Attendance: 24,008 Referee: Sávio Pereira Sampaio (Distrito Federal)

Botafogo-SP v Cuiabá

8 September 2018	Botafogo-SP	0–3	Cuiabá	Estádio Santa Cruz, Ribeirão Preto
17:00		Report	Jenison  3', 74' Danilo  34'	Attendance: 11,366 Referee: Bruno Arleu de Araújo (Rio de Janeiro)

Cuiabá won 3–0 on aggregate and advanced to the finals

Finals

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Host
1	Cuiabá	22	12	4	6	39	23	+16	40	2nd leg
2	Operário Ferroviário	22	11	7	4	28	18	+10	40	1st leg

Source: CBF

The matches were played on 16 and 22 September 2018.[9]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Operário Ferroviário	4–3	Cuiabá	3–3	1–0

Group I

Operário Ferroviário v Cuiabá

16 September 2018	Operário Ferroviário	3–3	Cuiabá	Estádio Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa
15:30	Dione  1' Erick  45' Robinho  90'	Report	Marino  49', 64' Jenison  66'	Attendance: 5,439 Referee: Leandro Vuaden (Rio Grande do Sul)

Cuiabá v Operário Ferroviário

22 September 2018	Cuiabá	0–1	Operário Ferroviário	Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá
19:00		Report	Bruno Batata  54'	Attendance: 41,311 Referee: Marcelo de Lima Henrique (Rio de Janeiro)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Caio Dantas	Botafogo-SP	11
2	Felipe Augusto	Botafogo-SP	9
	Léo Ceará	Confiança
	Marino	Cuiabá
5	Rafael Barros	Atlético Acreano	8
6	Eduardo	Atlético Acreano	7
	Eduardo Ramos	Cuiabá
	Jenison	Cuiabá
	José Ortigoza	Náutico
10	Marcos Aurélio	Botafogo-PB	6
	Neto	Atlético Acreano
	Patrick Carvalho	Tupi
	Paulo Renê	Luverdense
	Pipico	Santa Cruz
	Robinho	Náutico
	Romarinho	Globo

Source:CBF[10]

References

1. "CAMPEONATO BRASILEIRO DA SÉRIE C TABELA BÁSICA / EDIÇÃO 2018" (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF. 7 February 2018.
2. "Conheça os semifinalistas da Série D 2017" (in Portuguese). CBF. 15 August 2017.
3. "Empate dramático salva o Guarani, rebaixa o Luverdense e fecha Z-4 da Série B" (in Portuguese). Globo. 17 November 2017.
4. "Série B de 2019: os quatro times que subiram por meio da Série C" (in Portuguese). CBF. 28 August 2018.
5. "Operário-PR vence o Cuiabá, consolida ascensão e coroa campanha com título da Série C" (in Portuguese). Globo. 22 September 2018.
6. "Regulamento Específico da Competição - Campeonato Brasileiro da Série C 2018" (PDF). CBF.
7. "Brasileiro Série C tem datas das quartas de final definidas" (in Portuguese). CBF. 13 August 2018.
8. "Tabela detalhada das semifinais do Campeonato Brasileiro Série C 2018" (in Portuguese). CBF. 28 August 2018.
9. "Datas e horários das finais da Série C" (in Portuguese). CBF. 10 September 2018.
10. "Artilharia - Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol - Série C" (in Portuguese). CBF.