2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

The 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B was a football competition held in Brazil, equivalent to the second division.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Season	2018
Champions	Fortaleza (1st title)
Promoted	Avaí CSA Fortaleza Goiás
Relegated	Boa Esporte Juventude Paysandu Sampaio Corrêa
Matches played	380
Goals scored	846 (2.23 per match)
Top goalscorer	17 goals Dagoberto (Londrina)
Biggest home win	Brasil de Pelotas 5–0 Vila Nova R35, 6 November
Biggest away win	CRB 0–4 Avaí R6, 15 May Paysandu 0–4 Ponte Preta R20, 7 August Juventude 0–4 CSA R38, 24 November
Highest attendance	57,223 Fortaleza 1–0 Paysandu R32, 20 October Fortaleza 4–1 Juventude R37, 15 November
Lowest attendance	42 Boa Esporte 0–1 Brasil de Pelotas R36, 9 November
Total attendance	1,942,401
Average attendance	5,250
← 2017 2019 →

Twenty teams competed in the tournament, twelve returning from the 2017 season, four promoted from the 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C (CSA, Fortaleza, São Bento and Sampaio Corrêa).^[1] and four relegated from the 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (Coritiba, Avaí, Ponte Preta and Atlético Goianiense).^[2]

The top four teams were promoted to the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Fortaleza became the first club to be promoted after a 1–2 win against Atlético Goianiense on 3 November 2018.^[3] Goiás was promoted on 17 November,^[4] and Avaí and CSA on 24 November.^[5]

Teams

Atlético Goianiense

Avaí

Boa Esporte

Brasil de Pelotas

CRB
CSA

Coritiba

Criciúma

Figueirense

Fortaleza

Goiás
Vila Nova

Guarani

Juventude

Londrina

Oeste

Paysandu

Ponte Preta

Sampaio Corrêa

São Bento

Location of teams in 2018 Série B

Pos. Relegated from 2017 Série A 17º Coritiba 18º Avaí 19º Ponte Preta 20º Atlético Goianiense

Pos. Promoted from 2017 Série C 1º CSA 2º Fortaleza 3° São Bento 4º Sampaio Corrêa

Number of teams by state

Number of teams	State	Team(s)
4	São Paulo	Guarani, Oeste, Ponte Preta and São Bento
3	Goiás	Atlético Goianiense, Goiás and Vila Nova
	Santa Catarina	Avaí, Criciúma and Figueirense
2	Alagoas	CRB and CSA
	Paraná	Coritiba and Londrina
	Rio Grande do Sul	Brasil de Pelotas and Juventude
1	Ceará	Fortaleza
	Maranhão	Sampaio Corrêa
	Minas Gerais	Boa Esporte
	Pará	Paysandu

Venues

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Atlético Goianiense	Goiânia	Olímpico Pedro Ludovico	13,500
		Antônio Accioly	5,000
Avaí	Florianópolis	Ressacada	17,826
Boa Esporte	Varginha	Melão	15,471
Brasil de Pelotas	Pelotas	Bento Freitas	18,000
Coritiba	Curitiba	Couto Pereira	40,502
CRB	Maceió	Rei Pelé	17,126
Criciúma	Criciúma	Heriberto Hülse	19,900
CSA	Maceió	Rei Pelé	17,126
Figueirense	Florianópolis	Orlando Scarpelli	19,584
Fortaleza	Fortaleza	Castelão	63,903
Goiás	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	42,000
		Olímpico Pedro Ludovico	13,500
Guarani	Campinas	Brinco de Ouro	29,130
Juventude	Caxias do Sul	Alfredo Jaconi	19,924
Londrina	Londrina	Café	31,000
Oeste	Barueri	Arena Barueri	31,452
Paysandu	Belém	Curuzú	16,200
		Olímpico do Pará	45,007
Ponte Preta	Campinas	Moisés Lucarelli	19,728
		Nabi Abi Chedid (Bragança Paulista)[6]	17,128
		Fonte Luminosa (Araraquara)[7]	21,441
Sampaio Corrêa	São Luís	Castelão	40,149
São Bento	Sorocaba	Walter Ribeiro	13,772
Vila Nova	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	42,000

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt main sponsor
Atlético Goianiense	Wagner Lopes	Numer	Caixa
Avaí	Geninho	Umbro	Caixa
Boa Esporte	Tuca Guimarães	Embratex	None
Brasil de Pelotas	Rogério Zimmermann	Topper	Caixa
Coritiba	Argel Fucks	1909	Caixa
CRB	Roberto Fernandes	Rinat	Caixa
Criciúma	Mazola Júnior	Embratex	Caixa
CSA	Marcelo Cabo	None	None
Figueirense	Rogério Micale	Adidas	Caixa
Fortaleza	Rogério Ceni	None	None
Goiás	Ney Franco	Topper	Caixa
Guarani	Marco Antônio Ribeiro	Topper	None
Juventude	Luiz Carlos Winck	19Treze	Banrisul
Londrina	Roberto Fonseca	Karilu Sports	Caixa
Oeste	Roberto Cavalo	Deka	Consigaz
Paysandu	João Brigatti	None	Caixa
Ponte Preta	Gilson Kleina	Adidas	Caixa
Sampaio Corrêa	Marcinho Guerreiro	Numer	None
São Bento	Marquinhos Santos	Joma	JCB
Vila Nova	Hemerson Maria	Rinat	Caixa

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date	Position in table	Incoming manager
CRB	Mazola Júnior[8]	Resigned	13 April	19th	Júnior Rocha[9]
Coritiba	Sandro Forner[10]	Sacked	15 April	20th	Eduardo Baptista[11]
Avaí	Claudinei Oliveira[12]		19 April	17th	Geninho[13]
Boa Esporte	Sidney Moraes[14]		4 May	20th	Daniel Paulista[15]
Goiás	Hélio dos Anjos[16]		6 May	18th	Ney Franco[17]
Sampaio Corrêa	Francisco Diá[18]		8 May	16th	Roberto Fonseca[19]
Criciúma	Argel Fucks[20]		9 May	19th	Mazola Júnior[21]
Ponte Preta	Doriva[22]		29 May	15th	João Brigatti[23]
Brasil de Pelotas	Clemer[24]		17 June	18th	Gilmar Dal Pozzo[25]
Boa Esporte	Daniel Paulista[26]		24 June	20th	Ney da Matta[27]
São Bento	Paulo Roberto Santos[28]		25 June	8th	Marquinhos Santos[29]
CRB	Júnior Rocha[30]		27 June	18th	Doriva[31]
Londrina	Marquinhos Santos[32]	Signed by São Bento	28 June	15th	Sérgio Soares[32]
Paysandu	Dado Cavalcanti[33]	Sacked	12 July	15th	Guilherme Alves[34]
Sampaio Corrêa	Roberto Fonseca[35]		26 July	19th	Paulo Roberto Santos[36]
Londrina	Sérgio Soares[37]		4 August	15th	Roberto Fonseca[38]
Coritiba	Eduardo Baptista[39]		10 August	10th	Tcheco[40]
Paysandu	Guilherme Alves[41]		25 August	16th	João Brigatti[42]
Juventude	Julinho Camargo[43]		26 August	13th	Luiz Carlos Winck[44]
Brasil de Pelotas	Gilmar Dal Pozzo[45]		29 August	18th	Rogério Zimmermann[45]
Ponte Preta	João Brigatti[46]	Replaced	2 September	9th	Marcelo Chamusca[46]
Sampaio Corrêa	Paulo Roberto Santos[47]	Resigned	5 September	19th	Marcinho Guerreiro[48]
Figueirense	Milton Cruz[49]	Sacked	10 September	8th	Rogério Micale[50]
CRB	Doriva[51]		16 September	17th	Roberto Fernandes[52]
Coritiba	Tcheco[53]	Replaced	16 September	11th	Argel Fucks[53]
Ponte Preta	Marcelo Chamusca[54]	Sacked	26 September	11th	Gilson Kleina[55]
Boa Esporte	Ney da Matta[56]		8 October	20th	Tuca Guimarães[57]
Atlético Goianiense	Claudio Tencati[58]		13 October	7th	Wagner Lopes[59]
Guarani	Umberto Louzer[60]		13 November	9th	Marco Antônio Ribeiro[61]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Fortaleza (C, P)	38	21	8	9	54	33	+21	71	Promotion to 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
2	CSA (P)	38	17	11	10	51	37	+14	62
3	Avaí (P)	38	16	13	9	50	32	+18	61
4	Goiás (P)	38	18	6	14	54	50	+4	60
5	Ponte Preta	38	16	12	10	42	30	+12	60
6	Atlético Goianiense	38	16	11	11	57	51	+6	59
7	Vila Nova	38	14	15	9	41	36	+5	57
8	Londrina	38	15	10	13	45	42	+3	55
9	Guarani	38	14	12	12	44	39	+5	54
10	Coritiba	38	13	13	12	40	44	−4	52
11	Brasil de Pelotas	38	13	11	14	36	35	+1	50
12	CRB	38	12	12	14	35	39	−4	48
13	São Bento	38	11	14	13	41	41	0	47
14	Criciúma	38	11	14	13	45	49	−4	47
15	Figueirense	38	11	13	14	48	51	−3	46
16	Oeste	38	9	19	10	36	40	−4	46
17	Paysandu (R)	38	10	13	15	42	53	−11	43	Relegation to 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C
18	Sampaio Corrêa (R)	38	10	8	20	32	47	−15	38
19	Juventude (R)	38	7	14	17	27	48	−21	35
20	Boa Esporte (R)	38	7	9	22	26	49	−23	30

Source: CBF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) head-to-head results; 6) least red cards received; 7) least yellow cards received; 8) draw.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	ATG	AVA	BOA	BDP	CTB	CRB	CRI	CSA	FIG	FOR	GOI	GUA	JUV	LON	OES	PAY	PON	SCO	SBE	VIL
Atlético Goianiense	—	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	2–2	3–4	1–2	1–3	3–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	2–2
Avaí	0–0	—	2–0	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	3–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–0
Boa Esporte	0–2	0–2	—	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	2–0	0–2	0–2	1–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	0–2
Brasil de Pelotas	1–2	1–1	2–0	—	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–3	0–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	5–0
Coritiba	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	—	1–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	2–0
CRB	3–1	0–4	2–1	1–1	1–1	—	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	0–1
Criciúma	1–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	2–2	3–3	—	1–3	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	4–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0
CSA	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–0	3–0	—	1–4	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	4–1	5–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–2
Figueirense	2–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	0–0	3–2	1–2	—	1–3	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	2–3	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–1
Fortaleza	0–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	2–2	—	3–0	2–1	4–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–0
Goiás	2–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	0–2	3–1	—	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–3
Guarani	2–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–3	2–3	0–2	—	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–3	2–0	0–0	1–1
Juventude	2–2	1–3	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–4	0–0	0–3	3–5	1–0	—	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	0–1
Londrina	4–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	3–2	1–2	4–2	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–3	1–2	0–1	—	3–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–2
Oeste	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–3	0–1	0–0	0–0	—	2–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–0
Paysandu	2–5	2–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	2–3	1–0	3–3	1–0	4–3	—	0–4	0–1	1–1	1–2
Ponte Preta	1–3	2–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	—	0–0	2–1	1–1
Sampaio Corrêa	2–3	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–3	0–1	2–3	1–0	1–0	1–3	0–2	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	—	2–1	0–0
São Bento	2–1	0–1	0–0	1–1	5–2	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	2–1	—	2–2
Vila Nova	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–2	0–1	3–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–0	—

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

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dagoberto	Londrina	17
2	Lucão	Goiás	16
3	Gustavo Henrique	Fortaleza	14
4	Renato	Avaí	12
5	Alan Mineiro	Vila Nova	11
	André Luis	Ponte Preta
	Willians Santana	CRB
8	Élton	Figueirense	10
	Rafael Longuine	Guarani
10	Guilherme Parede	Coritiba	9
	Júnior Brandão	Atlético Goianiense

Source: CBF