2012 Campeonato Capixaba

The 2012 Campeonato Capixaba de Futebol was the 96th season of Espírito Santo's top professional football league. The competition began on January 21 and ended on May 5. Aracruz won the championship for the 1st time, while Colatina and Serra were relegated.

Campeonato Capixaba de Futebol

Season	2012
Champions	Aracruz
Relegated	Colatina Serra
Copa do Brasil	Aracruz
Série D	Aracruz
← 2011 2013 →

Format

The tournament consists of a double round-robin format, in which all ten teams play each other twice. The four better-placed teams will face themselves in playoffs matches. The bottom two teams on overall classification will be relegated. Only the champion will qualify for the 2013 Copa do Brasil.

Participating teams

Club	Home city	2011 result	Home Ground
Aracruz	Aracruz	5th	Bambu
Colatina	Colatina	6th	Justiniano de Melo e Silva
Conilon	Jaguaré	1st (2nd division)	Estádio Conilon
Espírito Santo	Anchieta	7th	Estádio Joaquim Viana Ramalheti
Linhares	Linhares	3rd	Estádio Joaquim Calmon
Real Noroeste	Águia Branca	2nd (2nd division)	Estádio José Olímpio da Rocha
Rio Branco	Vitória	1st	Estádio Engenheiro Alencar Araripe
Serra	Serra	8th	Estádio do Sernamby
São Mateus	São Mateus	4th	Robertão
Vitória-ES	Vitória	2nd	Salvador Costa

First stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rio Branco-ES (A)	18	10	3	5	36	23	+13	33	Advances to the Semifinals
2	Aracruz (A)	18	9	6	3	28	20	+8	33
3	Vitória-ES (A)	18	9	4	5	23	15	+8	31
4	Conilon (A)	18	8	6	4	40	23	+17	30
5	São Mateus	18	8	2	8	17	23	−6	26
6	Linhares	18	9	3	6	27	19	+8	24[a]
7	Real Noroeste	18	6	4	8	21	23	−2	22
8	Espírito Santo	18	5	3	10	15	26	−11	18
9	Colatina (R)	18	3	8	7	21	27	−6	17	Relegated
10	Serra (R)	18	3	1	14	14	20	−6	10

Updated to match(es) played on 08 December 2012. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Linhares was docked 6 points for using an irregular player.

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	COL	CON	EPS	LIN	RNT	RBC	SMA	SER	VIT
Aracruz		2–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Colatina	2–3		1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–3	1–0
Conilon	1–1	6–3		5–0	1–1	2–1	2–3	3–0	4–0	1–1
Espírito Santo	2–0	0–0	0–3		2–0	3–1	0–2	0–0	3–0	0–2
Linhares	2–3	1–0	2–1	1–0		0–0	0–2	4–1	5–0	1–0
Real Noroeste	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–2		1–2	2–0	3–1	1–1
Rio Branco-ES	3–3	0–0	5–1	2–1	3–2	1–0		1–2	1–2	1–0
São Mateus	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0		1–0	2–1
Serra	2–2	1–2	2–5	2–3	1–3	2–0	1–5	3–4		0–3
Vitória-ES	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stage

	Semifinals							Finals
	1	Rio Branco	1	2	3
	4	Conilon	2	4	6
								4	Conilon	2	1	3
								2	Aracruz	1	4	5
	2	Aracruz	1	1	2*
	3	Vitória	1	1	2

Semifinals

First leg

April 15, 2012

16:00 UTC−03:00

Vitória	1–1	Aracruz
Mineiro 23'	Report	Euler 52'

Salvador Costa, Vitória

Attendance: 1163

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April 15, 2012

20:00 UTC−03:00

Conilon	2-1	Rio Branco
Paulinho Pimentel 68' Edu 80'	Report	Ronicley 57'

Centro Esportivo Conilon, Jaguaré

Attendance: 1912

Second leg

April 20, 2012

19:30 UTC−03:00

Aracruz	1–1	Vitória
David 30'	Report	Mineiro 67'

Estádio Eugênio Antônio Bitti, Aracruz

Attendance: 3423

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April 21, 2012

16:00 UTC−03:00

Rio Branco	2-4	Conilon
Leandro 77' Ronicley 90+1'	Report	Paulinho Pimentel 42', 86' Ricardo Paraíba 84' Marcos Alagoano 84'

Estádio Rei Pelé, Maceió

Attendance: 1787

Finals

First leg

April 28, 2012

Conilon	2–1	Aracruz
Edu Léo		Euler

Second leg

May 5, 2012

Aracruz	4–1	Conilon
Cal Santos Nei Gilmar David		Paulinho Pimentel