| Season | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Santos (20th title) |
| Relegated | Portuguesa Guaratinguetá Catanduvense Comercial |
| Matches | 202 |
| Goals | 628 (3.11 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Neymar (20) |
| Biggest home win | Santos 6–1Ponte Preta Santos 5–0Guaratinguetá Santos 5–0Catanduvense |
| Biggest away win | Botafogo–SP 2–6Palmeiras Guaratinguetá 0–4Mirassol Linense 0–4XV de Piracicaba |
| Highest scoring | Botafogo–SP 2–6Palmeiras (8 goals) |
| Longest winning run | 8 games São Paulo (11th round - 18th round) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 14 games Palmeiras (1st round - 14th round) |
| Longest winless run | 13 games Comercial (5th round - 17th round) |
| Longest losing run | 7 games XV de Piracicaba (6th round - 12th round) |
| Highest attendance | 53,749[1] Santos 4–2Guarani |
| Lowest attendance | 278[2] São Caetano 2–2Mirassol |
←2011 2013 → | |
The2012Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 (officially thePaulistãoChevrolet 2012 for sponsorship reasons)[3] was the 111th season ofSão Paulo's top professionalfootball league.
The finals were played betweenSantos andGuarani. Santos won 7–2 onaggregate.[4] It was the third consecutive year that they won. This had happened for the first time since 1968, when Santos won three years in a row for the last time (1966/1967/1968).
The top eight teams in the First Stage qualifies to the Quarter-Finals. The bottom four teams will be relegated to theSérie A2. Quarter and Semi-Finals will be played in one-legged matches.The best-four teams not qualified to the Semi-Finals not from the city ofSão Paulo orSantos FC, will compete in the Campeonato do Interior.[5]
São Bernardo,Barueri,Noroeste andSanto André were relegated to theCampeonato Paulista Série A2 after finishing in the bottom four spots of the table at the end of the2011 season.[6]Santo André were relegated after they played the finals in the2010 season againstSantos, being runner-up.The four relegated teams were replaced byXV de Piracicaba,Comercial,Guarani andCatanduvese, that were promoted from 2011 Série A2.[7]Comercial return to play in the first division after 25 years away from it[8] while XV de Piracicaba, Guarani and Catanduvense, are back after playing the last time in the years: 1995, 2009 and 1993 respectively.
| Club | Home city | 2011 result |
|---|---|---|
| Botafogo–SP | Ribeirão Preto | 13th |
| Bragantino | Bragança Paulista | 15th |
| Catanduvense | Catanduva | 4th (Série A2) |
| Comercial | Ribeirão Preto | 3rd (Série A2) |
| Corinthians | São Paulo(Tatuapé) | 2nd |
| Guarani | Campinas | 2nd (Série A2) |
| Guaratinguetá | Guaratinguetá | 12th |
| Ituano | Itu | 16th |
| Linense | Lins | 14th |
| Mirassol | Mirassol | 7th |
| Mogi Mirim | Mogi Mirim | 11th |
| Oeste | Itápolis | 6th |
| Palmeiras | São Paulo(Perdizes) | 3rd |
| Paulista | Jundiaí | 10th |
| Ponte Preta | Campinas | 5th |
| Portuguesa | São Paulo(Pari) | 8th |
| Santos | Santos | 1st |
| São Caetano | São Caetano do Sul | 9th |
| São Paulo | São Paulo(Morumbi) | 4th |
| XV de Piracicaba | Piracicaba | 1st (Série A2) |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corinthians | 19 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 11 | +17 | 46 | Advanced to theKnockout stage |
| 2 | São Paulo | 19 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 42 | 21 | +21 | 43 | |
| 3 | Santos | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 46 | 18 | +28 | 39 | |
| 4 | Guarani | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 18 | +8 | 36 | |
| 5 | Palmeiras | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 37 | 24 | +13 | 36 | |
| 6 | Mogi Mirim | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 22 | +10 | 35 | |
| 7 | Bragantino | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 29 | |
| 8 | Ponte Preta | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 31 | +3 | 28 | |
| 9 | Mirassol | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 25 | Advanced to theCampeonato do Interior |
| 10 | Oeste | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 32 | 30 | +2 | 25 | |
| 11 | Linense | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 31 | 40 | −9 | 23 | |
| 12 | São Caetano | 19 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 25 | −1 | 23 | |
| 13 | Paulista | 19 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 26 | 29 | −3 | 22 | |
| 14 | Ituano | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 34 | −9 | 20 | |
| 15 | Botafogo–SP | 19 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 24 | 40 | −16 | 19 | |
| 16 | XV de Piracicaba | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 23 | 29 | −6 | 18 | |
| 17 | Portuguesa | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 29 | −7 | 18 | Relegated to theSérie A2 |
| 18 | Guaratinguetá | 19 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 43 | −21 | 15 | |
| 19 | Catanduvense | 19 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 36 | −17 | 13 | |
| 20 | Comercial | 19 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 37 | −19 | 12 |
| Home \ Away | BRP | BRG | CAT | COM | COR | GUA | GTG | ITU | LIN | MIR | MOG | OES | PAL | PTA | PON | POR | SAN | SCA | SPA | PIR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botafogo-SP | 1–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–6 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 2–3 | 2–1 | |||||||||||
| Bragantino | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 | |||||||||||
| Catanduvense | 2–4 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | |||||||||||
| Comercial | 2–1 | 3–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | |||||||||||
| Corinthians | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| Guarani | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | |||||||||||
| Guaratinguetá | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 2–2 | |||||||||||
| Ituano | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–4 | |||||||||||
| Linense | 1–3 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 0–4 | |||||||||||
| Mirassol | 3–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 4–2 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| Mogi Mirim | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | |||||||||||
| Oeste | 2–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–3 | ||||||||||
| Palmeiras | 2–2 | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 3–2 | ||||||||||
| Paulista | 0–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| Ponte Preta | 5–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | ||||||||||
| Portuguesa | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| Santos | 2–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 6–1 | ||||||||||
| São Caetano | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| São Paulo | 4–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| XV de Piracicaba | 2–3 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Corinthians | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Ponte Preta | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Ponte Preta | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Guarani | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Guarani | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Palmeiras | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Guarani | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Santos | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | São Paulo | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Bragantino | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | São Paulo | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Santos | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Santos | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Mogi Mirim | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 4–1 | Bragantino |
| Santos | 2–0 | Mogi Mirim |
| Corinthians | 2–3 | Ponte Preta |
| Guarani | 3–2 | Palmeiras |
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 1–3 | Santos |
| Guarani | 3–1 | Ponte Preta |
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guarani | 2–7 | Santos | 0–3 | 2–4 |
| Mogi Mirim | 3 – 2 | Oeste |
|---|---|---|
| Renê Júnior Hernane | Report | Wanderson Roger |
| Bragantino | 1 – 1 | Mirassol |
|---|---|---|
| Fernando Gabriel | Report | Gilsinho |
| Penalties | ||
| Fernando Gabriel Giancarlo Romarinho Léo Jaime | 4–2 | |
| Bragantino | 2 – 4 | Mogi Mirim |
|---|---|---|
| Victor Ferraz André Astorga | Report | João Paulo Felipe Ronei |
| Mogi Mirim | 4 – 2 | Bragantino |
|---|---|---|
| Fernandinho Luciano Castan Edson Ratinho Henrnane | Report | Giancarlo Léo Jaime |
SourceUOL Esporte andFutebol Paulista
Last updated: 13 May 2012
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santos | Botafogo | 4–1[16] | 9 February 2012 | |
| São Paulo | Paulista | 3–1[17] | 16 February 2012 | |
| Bragantino | Catanduvense | 3–1[18] | 26 February 2012 | |
| Santos | Guaratinguetá | 5–0[19] | 29 March 2012 | |
| Santos | São Paulo | 3–1[20] | 29 April 2012 |
The Player of the Year was awarded to Neymar.[26]
The Young Player of the Year was awarded toRomarinho.[26]
The Countryside Best Player of the Year was awarded toFumagalli.[26]
The Top scorer award went toNeymar, who scored 20 goals.[26]