2019 Campeonato Pernambucano

The 2019 Campeonato Pernambucano (officially the Pernambucano da Série A1 de 2019) was the 105th edition of the state championship of Pernambuco organized by FPF. The championship began on 19 January and ended on 21 April.^[1]

Campeonato Pernambucano

Season	2019
Champions	Sport (42nd title)
Relegated	América Flamengo de Arcoverde
2020 Copa do Brasil	Afogados Náutico Sport Santa Cruz (via RNC)
2020 Copa do Nordeste	Sport Santa Cruz (via RNC)
2020 Pré-Copa do Nordeste	Náutico (via RNC)
2020 Série D	Afogados Central Salgueiro
Matches played	54
Goals scored	153 (2.83 per match)
Best Player	Ezequiel
Top goalscorer	Hernane (9 goals)
Total attendance	202,966 (3,759 per match)
← 2018 2020 →

In the Finals, Sport and the defending champions Náutico tied 2–2 on aggregate. Sport won on penalties to win their 42nd Campeonato Pernambucano title. As champions, Sport qualified for the 2020 Copa do Brasil and 2020 Copa do Nordeste.^[2]

Náutico and Afogados qualified for 2020 Copa do Brasil as runners-up and third placed team, respectively.

Santa Cruz (best second-team in the 2019 RNC) qualified for the 2020 Copa do Nordeste. Náutico qualified for the 2020 Pré-Copa do Nordeste via RNC.

Teams

Ten teams were competing, nine returning from the 2018 and Petrolina, promoted as champions of 2018 Pernambucano A2 Championship.^[3]

Club	City	Stadium	Coordinates	Capacity[4]
Afogados	Afogados da Ingazeira	Valdemar Viana de Araújo	7.7585°S 37.6334°W / -7.7585; -37.6334 (Estádio Valdemar Viana de Araújo)	1,735
América	Recife	Ademir Cunha (Paulista)[1]	7.9459°S 34.8904°W / -7.9459; -34.8904 (Estádio Ademir Cunha)	12,000
Central	Caruaru	Lacerdão	8.2786°S 35.9752°W / -8.2786; -35.9752 (Lacerdão)	19,478
Flamengo de Arcoverde	Arcoverde	Áureo Bradley	8.4199°S 37.0583°W / -8.4199; -37.0583 (Estádio Municipal Áureo Bradley)	3,000
Náutico	Recife	Aflitos	8.0406°S 34.8990°W / -8.0406; -34.8990 (Estádio dos Aflitos)	22,856
Petrolina	Petrolina	Paulo de Souza Coelho	9.3911°S 40.5034°W / -9.3911; -40.5034 (Estádio Paulo de Souza Coelho)	5,000
Salgueiro	Salgueiro	Cornélio de Barros	8.0761°S 39.1194°W / -8.0761; -39.1194 (Estádio Cornélio de Barros)	12,070
Santa Cruz	Recife	Arruda[2]	8.0267°S 34.8933°W / -8.0267; -34.8933 (Estádio do Arruda)	60,044
Sport	Recife	Ilha do Retiro	8.0629°S 34.9051°W / -8.0629; -34.9051 (Estádio Ilha do Retiro)	32,983
Vitória das Tabocas	Vitória de Santo Antão	Arena Pernambuco (São Lourenço da Mata)[3]	8.0406°S 35.0104°W / -8.0406; -35.0104 (Arena Pernambuco)	44,300

¹ América played their home match against Sport (Feb. 3) at Arena Pernambuco.^[5]

² Santa Cruz played their home matches against América (Jan. 20)^[6] and Afogados (Jan. 29)^[7] at Arena Pernambuco.

³ Vitória das Tabocas played their home matches at Arena Pernambuco instead of their regular stadium Severino Cândido Carneiro, Vitória de Santo Antão.^[8]

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows.^[9]

First Stage
Round 1:	19–20 January
Round 2:	23–24 and 30 January
Round 3:	27 and 29–30 January
Round 4:	3, 6 and 13 February
Round 5:	10, 16 February and 6 March
Round 6:	17 and 23–24 February
Round 7:	26–28 February
Round 8:	10 and 13–14 March
Round 9:	17 March
Final Stages
Quarter-finals	20, 24 and 27 March
Semi-finals	3 and 7 April
Third place match	13 April
	First leg	Second leg
Finals	14 April	21 April

First stage

In the first stage, each team played the other nine teams in a single round-robin tournament. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Head-to-head; 5. Fewest red cards; 6. Fewest yellow cards; 7. Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.^[10]

Top eight teams advanced to the quarter-finals of the final stages. The two teams with the lowest number of points were relegated to the 2020 Campeonato Pernambucano A2. Top three teams not already qualified for 2020 Série A, Série B or Série C qualified for 2020 Série D.^[11]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sport	9	7	0	2	21	7	+14	21	Advance to final stages
2	Náutico	9	6	1	2	18	8	+10	19
3	Santa Cruz	9	5	2	2	12	8	+4	17
4	Salgueiro	9	5	1	3	21	15	+6	16	Advance to final stages and qualify for Série D
5	Central	9	5	1	3	12	9	+3	16
6	Afogados	9	3	3	3	13	17	−4	12
7	Vitória das Tabocas	9	2	3	4	8	14	−6	9	Advance to final stages
8	Petrolina	9	2	2	5	5	13	−8	8
9	América	9	0	1	8	3	16	−13	1	Relegation to Pernambucano A2
10	Flamengo de Arcoverde[a]	9	2	2	5	13	19	−6	−5

Source: FPF
Notes:

1. Flamengo de Arcoverde were deducted thirteen points for fielding the ineligible player Júnior Silva.^[12][13]

Results

Home \ Away	AFO	AME	CEN	FLA	NAU	PET	SAL	SAN	SPO	VIT
Afogados	—	—	—	2–1	1–3	1–0	2–2	—	—	—
América	1–2	—	1–2	—	0–1	—	—	—	0–2	—
Central	1–1	—	—	—	2–1	0–1	3–2	—	1–2	—
Flamengo de Arcoverde	—	2–1	0–2	—	—	—	—	1–1	—	1–1
Náutico	—	—	—	4–2	—	5–0	1–0	0–0	—	2–0
Petrolina	—	0–0	—	2–0	—	—	—	1–2	—	0–0
Salgueiro	—	3–0	—	4–3	—	2–1	—	2–0	—	6–1
Santa Cruz	4–1	3–0	1–0	—	—	—	—	—	1–0	—
Sport	3–1	—	—	2–3	3–1	3–0	4–0	—	—	—
Vitória das Tabocas	2–2	1–0	0–1	—	—	—	—	3–0	0–2	—

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

Final stages

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:^[10]

• Quarter-finals, semi-finals and third place match were played on a single-leg basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the leg.
  • If tied, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.
• Finals were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the second leg.
  • If tied on aggregate, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.
• Extra time would be not played and away goals rule would be not used in final stages.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Finals
	2	Náutico	3
	7	Vitória das Tabocas	0
						2	Náutico	2
						6	Afogados	0
	3	Santa Cruz	1 (1)
	6	Afogados (p)	1 (3)
											2	Náutico	0	2	2 (3)
											1	Sport (p)	1	1	2 (4)
	1	Sport	4
	8	Petrolina	0
						1	Sport	3			Third place
						4	Salgueiro	1
	4	Salgueiro	2								4	Salgueiro	2
	5	Central	1								6	Afogados	3

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sport	4–0	Petrolina
Náutico	3–0	Vitória das Tabocas
Santa Cruz	1–1 (1–3 p)	Afogados
Salgueiro	2–1	Central

Matches

Sport	4–0	Petrolina
Luan 35' Hernane 42' (pen.) Leandrinho 58' Ezequiel 81'	Report

24 March 2019

16:00

Estádio Ilha do Retiro, Recife

Attendance: 13,003

Referee: Péricles Bassols Pegado Cortez

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Náutico	3–0	Vitória das Tabocas
Assis 13' Luiz Henrique 27' Wallace Pernambucano 74' (pen.)	Report

20 March 2019

21:30

Estádio dos Aflitos, Recife

Attendance: 4,180

Referee: Diego Fernando Silva de Lima

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Santa Cruz	1–1	Afogados
Allan Dias 65'	Report	Rodrigo 44'
Penalties
Pipico Neto Costa Patrick Vieira Allan Dias	1–3	Douglas Jader Márcio Thalison

27 March 2019

19:15

Estádio do Arruda, Recife

Attendance: 3,259

Referee: Deborah Cecília Cruz Correia

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Salgueiro	2–1	Central
Müller Fernandes 67' Willian Anicete 90+3'	Report	Marlon 19'

20 March 2019

19:00

Estádio Cornélio de Barros, Salgueiro

Attendance: 1,235

Referee: Luiz Cláudio Sobral

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sport	3–1	Salgueiro
Náutico	2–0	Afogados

Matches

Sport	3–1	Salgueiro
Hernane 19', 53' Ronaldo 90'	Report	Igor João 71'

7 April 2019

16:00

Estádio Ilha do Retiro, Recife

Attendance: 22,117

Referee: Diego Fernando Silva de Lima

Sport qualified for the 2020 Copa do Brasil.

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Náutico	2–0	Afogados
Luiz Henrique 42' Assis 84'	Report

3 April 2019

19:15

Estádio dos Aflitos, Recife

Attendance: 11,962

Referee: Gilberto Rodrigues Castro Júnior

Náutico qualified for the 2020 Copa do Brasil.

Third place match

Salgueiro	2–3	Afogados
Tarcísio 33' Müller Fernandes 35'	Report	Diego Ceará 17' Madson 36' Luciano Grafite 86'

13 April 2019

20:00

Estádio Cornélio de Barros, Salgueiro

Attendance: 925

Referee: Diego Fernando Silva de Lima

Afogados qualified for the 2020 Copa do Brasil.

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Náutico	2–2 (3–4 p)	Sport	0–1	2–1

Matches

Náutico	0–1	Sport
	Report	Ezequiel 80'

14 April 2019

16:00

Estádio dos Aflitos, Recife

Attendance: 14,211

Referee: Wilton Sampaio (Goiás)

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Sport	1–2	Náutico
Guilherme 17' (pen.)	Report	Diego Silva 39' Jiménez 81'
Penalties
Élton Norberto Rafael Thyere Ronaldo	4–3	Wallace Pernambucano Rafael Oliveira Jiménez Hereda Diego Silva

21 April 2019

16:00

Estádio Ilha do Retiro, Recife

Attendance: 27,017

Referee: Ricardo Marques (Minas Gerais)

Sport qualified for the 2020 Copa do Nordeste.

2019 Campeonato Pernambucano Champions
Sport 42nd title

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Hernane	Sport	9
2	Diego Ceará	Afogados	6
	Müller Fernandes	Salgueiro
4	Willian Anicete	Salgueiro	5
5	Allan Dias	Santa Cruz	4
	Erikys Júnior	Flamengo de Arcoverde
	Ezequiel	Sport
	Guilherme	Sport
	Leandro Costa	Central
	Pedro Maycon	Flamengo de Arcoverde
	Rodrigo	Afogados
	Wallace Pernambucano	Náutico

Source:FPF^[14]

2019 Campeonato Pernambucano team

The 2019 Campeonato Pernambucano team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.

Pos. Player Team GK Mailson Sport DF Hereda Náutico DF Rafael Thyere Sport DF Adryelson Sport DF Sander Sport MF Josa Náutico MF Charles Sport MF Guilherme Sport FW Ezequiel a Sport FW Hernane b Sport FW Wallace Pernambucano Náutico Head coach Guto Ferreira Sport Breakthrough player Thiago Náutico a.^ Best player b.^ Top scorer

Mailson Rafael Thyere Adryelson Hereda Sander Josa Charles Ezequiel Wallace Pernambucano Guilherme Hernane

Head coach Guto Ferreira

Source:Globo^[15]