2018 Copa Paulista

The 2018 Copa Paulista was the 20th edition of São Paulo State Cup. 27 teams participate in the tournament. The winner gets to choose between a qualification spot for the 2019 Copa do Brasil or the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D. The spot not chosen by the winners will be taken by the second-placed team. ^[1]

2018 Copa Paulista

Tournament details
Country	São Paulo (state), Brazil
Teams	27
Final positions
Champions	Votuporanguense
Runners-up	Ferroviária
Tournament statistics
Matches played	218
Goals scored	501 (2.3 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Felipe Henrique Jose dos Santos (Olímpia) Leonardo Luiz e Castro (Red Bull Brasil)
← 2017 Copa Paulista 2019 Copa Paulista →

Votuporanguense defeated Ferroviária on the finals to win their first title. ^[2] As champions, Votuporanguense chose to qualify to the 2019 Copa do Brasil and thus Ferroviária qualified to the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.

Format

First Stage: The clubs will be divided into four groups according to their location. The top four of each group will advance to the second stage.

Second Stage: The 16 clubs will be divided into four groups of four. The winner and runners-up of each group will advance to the Knockout stage.

Each stage will be played in a double round-robin format.

Qualified teams

• Água Santa
• Atibaia
• Audax
• Batatais
• Bragantino
• Desportivo Brasil
• Ferroviária
• Inter de Limeira
• Ituano
• Juventus
• Mirassol
• Nacional
• Noroeste
• Novorizontino
• Olímpia
• Penapolense
• Portuguesa
• Red Bull Brasil
• Rio Claro
• Santo André
• Santos
• São Bernardo
• São Caetano
• Taboão da Serra
• Taubaté
• Votuporanguense
• XV de Piracicaba

First stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mirassol	10	6	3	1	13	4	+9	21
2	Olímpia	10	6	3	1	14	7	+7	21
3	Votuporanguense	10	5	1	4	12	7	+5	16
4	Novorizontino	10	3	4	3	11	10	+1	13
5	Penapolense	10	2	1	7	5	22	−17	7
6	Batatais	10	1	2	7	7	12	−5	5

Source: ^[3]

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ferroviária	12	6	4	2	15	9	+6	22
2	Red Bull Brasil	12	4	7	1	16	9	+7	19
3	XV de Piracicaba	12	4	5	3	15	14	+1	17
4	Rio Claro	12	3	5	4	7	9	−2	14
5	Inter de Limeira	12	3	4	5	11	13	−2	13
6	Noroeste	12	3	4	5	11	16	−5	13
7	Desportivo Brasil	12	2	5	5	7	12	−5	11

Source: ^[3]

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	São Caetano	12	7	5	0	14	3	+11	26
2	Taubaté	12	7	3	2	16	9	+7	24
3	Santo André	12	6	3	3	12	6	+6	21
4	São Bernardo	12	5	3	4	11	8	+3	18
5	Santos	12	4	2	6	16	18	−2	14
6	Bragantino	12	2	4	6	13	19	−6	10
7	Água Santa	12	0	2	10	6	25	−19	2

Source: ^[3]

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ituano	12	8	2	2	25	14	+11	26
2	Atibaia	12	7	1	4	24	17	+7	22
3	Juventus	12	6	2	4	16	12	+4	20
4	Audax	12	6	1	5	15	13	+2	19
5	Portuguesa	12	5	3	4	11	10	+1	18
6	Nacional	12	4	1	7	15	19	−4	13
7	Taboão da Serra	12	0	2	10	15	36	−21	2

Source: ^[3]

Second stage

Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mirassol	6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11
2	Red Bull Brasil	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9
3	Santo André	6	2	2	2	8	10	−2	8
4	Audax	6	1	1	4	5	8	−3	4

Source: ^[4]

Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ferroviária	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	15
2	Olímpia	6	3	1	2	7	9	−2	10
3	São Bernardo	6	2	1	3	8	9	−1	7
4	Juventus	6	0	2	4	3	11	−8	2

Source: ^[4]

Group 7

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Votuporanguense	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13
2	Atibaia	6	2	3	1	6	5	+1	9
3	Rio Claro	6	0	5	1	4	5	−1	5
4	São Caetano	6	0	3	3	3	6	−3	3

Source: ^[4]

Group 8

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Novorizontino	6	3	2	1	7	6	+1	11
2	Taubaté	6	2	4	0	8	6	+2	10
3	XV de Piracicaba	6	2	2	2	6	6	0	8
4	Ituano	6	1	0	5	6	9	−3	3

Source: ^[4]

Final stage

Bracket

	Quarterfinals						Semifinals						Finals
	Novorizontino	1	2	3
	Ferroviária (a)	1	2	3
							Ferroviária	2	2	4
							Red Bull Brasil	0	2	2
	Red Bull Brasil	1	3	4
	Mirassol	1	2	3
													Ferroviária	1	1	2 (3)
													Votuporanguense (p)	1	1	2 (5)
	Atibaia	2	1	3
	Olímpia	1	1	2
							Atibaia	1	0	1
							Votuporanguense	1	3	4
	Votuporanguense	4	0	4
	Taubaté	2	1	3