1992 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 1992, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from February 9 to July 11, 1992. The competition had 32 clubs and twelve of them were promoted to Série A. The competition was won by Paraná.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Season	1992
Champions	Paraná
Promoted	Paraná Vitória Criciúma Santa Cruz Remo América-MG Fortaleza União São João Grêmio Ceará Desportiva Ferroviária Coritiba
Goals scored	583
Average goals/game	2,10
Top goalscorer	Saulo (Paraná) - 12 goals
Biggest home win	Grêmio 7-1 Operário-MT (8 April 1992)
Biggest away win	Operário-MT 1-5 São José (March 18, 1992)
← Série B 1991 Série B 1994 →

First phase

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Santa Cruz	14	6	7	1	18	6	+12	19	Promoted to Série A and Qualified to Second phase.
2	Ceará	14	5	7	2	11	10	+1	17
3	Fortaleza	14	6	4	4	15	11	+4	16
4	Campinense	14	5	5	4	12	14	−2	15
5	Picos	14	3	8	3	10	14	−4	14
6	CSA	14	6	1	7	16	14	+2	13
7	ABC	14	3	4	7	10	16	−6	10
8	Central	14	3	2	9	12	19	−7	8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Remo	14	9	1	4	30	12	+18	19	Promoted to Série A and Qualified to Second phase.
2	Vitória	14	6	5	3	18	9	+9	17
3	Desportiva Ferroviária	14	7	3	4	16	16	0	16[a]
4	Anapolina	14	6	3	5	15	16	−1	15
5	Confiança	14	5	3	6	12	17	−5	13
6	Itaperuna	14	4	5	5	18	23	−5	13
7	Americano	14	4	4	6	15	17	−2	12
8	Taguatinga	14	1	4	9	14	28	−14	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

1. 1 point deducted?

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Criciúma	14	7	2	5	15	9	+6	16	Promoted to Série A and Qualified to Second phase.
2	Coritiba	14	6	4	4	11	9	+2	16
3	União São João	14	5	4	5	12	10	+2	14
4	Juventus	14	5	4	5	11	9	+2	14
5	Botafogo-SP	14	5	4	5	10	10	0	14
6	Noroeste	14	5	3	6	13	20	−7	13
7	Bangu	14	4	5	5	9	9	0	13
8	Joinville	14	4	4	6	6	11	−5	12

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	América-MG	14	6	6	2	12	5	+7	18	Promoted to Série A and Qualified to Second phase.
2	Paraná	14	5	8	1	17	10	+7	18
3	Grêmio	14	6	5	3	22	13	+9	17
4	São José	14	6	4	4	22	13	+9	16
5	Ponte Preta	14	5	6	3	15	13	+2	16
6	Londrina	14	5	3	6	15	16	−1	13
7	Operário-MS	14	2	6	6	13	19	−6	10
8	Operário-MT	14	1	2	11	11	38	−27	4

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Second phase

Originally, the 2nd phase would be disputed in knockout style. The teams would be matched according to their record in the first phase, so the matches would be:

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Santa Cruz	–	União São João	–	–
Criciúma	-	Fortaleza	–	–
Ceará	–	Coritiba	–	–
Remo	-	Grêmio	–	–
América-MG	–	Desportiva Ferroviária	–	–
Paraná	-	Vitória	–	–

However, to reduce the costs, the 2nd phase was changed and the teams were assigned in groups according to their geographical position. To compensate, clubs with advantage in original rules (Santa Cruz, Criciúma, Ceará, Remo, América and Paraná) earned an extra point.

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification
1	Remo	6	2	4	0	6	3	+3	1	9	Qualified
2	Santa Cruz	6	1	3	2	5	9	−4	1	6
3	Fortaleza	6	2	2	2	7	5	+2	0	6
4	Ceará	6	0	5	1	5	6	−1	1	6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification
1	Vitória	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	0	9	Qualified
2	América-MG	6	2	2	2	7	6	+1	1	7
3	União São João	6	2	3	1	4	3	+1	0	7
4	Desportiva Ferroviária	6	0	2	4	4	10	−6	0	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification
1	Criciúma	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	1	9	Qualified
2	Paraná	6	3	2	1	7	6	+1	1	9
3	Grêmio	6	2	1	3	7	7	0	0	5
4	Coritiba	6	0	3	3	4	10	−6	0	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Third phase

Once more, the rules were changed. For unknown reasons, Fortaleza went to court claiming to have the right to have a berth. Instead of 6 teams qualifying to the 3rd phase, 2 more berths were created. CBF invited Fortaleza and Grêmio, that had the best record among the eliminated. Grêmio forfeited their berth to the 3rd phase alleging financial reasons, União São João won the berth.

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vitória	6	4	1	1	7	1	+6	9	Qualified
2	Santa Cruz	6	3	0	3	6	4	+2	6
3	Fortaleza	6	3	0	3	8	10	−2	6
4	Remo	6	1	1	4	4	10	−6	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Paraná	6	1	5	0	1	0	+1	7	Qualified
2	Criciúma	6	2	3	1	5	3	+2	7
3	América-MG	6	1	3	2	3	6	−3	5
4	União São João	6	1	3	2	5	5	0	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Santa Cruz	2–4	Paraná	1–2	1–2
Criciúma	3-4	Vitória	2–1	1–3

Finals

First leg

5 July 1992 (1992-07-05)

Paraná	2 – 1	Vitória
Adoílson 16' (p), 43'		Alex Alves 77'

Pinheirão, Curitiba (PR)

Attendance: 18,472

Second leg

11 July 1992 (1992-07-11)

Vitória	0 – 1	Paraná
		Saulo 54'

Fonte Nova, Salvador (BA)

Attendance: 60,442

Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas