2016 Campeonato Catarinense

The 2016 Campeonato Catarinense is the 93rd season of Santa Catarina's top professional football league. The competition began in January and will end in May.

Campeonato Catarinense - Divisão Principal
Season2016
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Format

First stage
  • All ten teams play a round-robin playing once against each other team.
  • The best team in this stage qualifies to the Final Stage.
Second stage
  • All ten teams play a round-robin playing once against each other team.
  • The best team in this stage qualifies to the Final Stage.
Semifinal stage
  • The two teams that won the first and the second stage are joined by the two best teams in the overall standings.
  • Home-and-away playoffs between the teams.
Finals
  • Home-and-away playoffs between the winners of the first and second stages.
  • The winner of the Finals is crowned champion.[1]
Relegation

Teams

ClubHome city
AvaíFlorianópolis
BrusqueBrusque
CamboriúCamboriú
ChapecoenseChapecó
CriciúmaCriciúma
FigueirenseFlorianópolis
GuaraniPalhoça
Inter de LagesLages
JoinvilleJoinville
MetropolitanoBlumenau

First phase

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Chapecoense7610123+919Final stages
2Criciúma7421107+314
3Internacional de Lages7331128+412
4Avaí7322127+511
5Brusque723289−19
6Metropolitano7223713−68
7Joinville7142810−27
8Figueirense7124610−45
9Guarani de Palhoça704369−34
10Camboriú7034813−53
Updated to match(es) played on 26 February 2016. Source: First Phase Standings
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

References