2023 Campeonato Paulista

The 2023 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 was the 122nd season of São Paulo's top professional football league. The competition was played from 15 January to 9 April 2023.^[1]

Campeonato Paulista - Série A1

Season	2023
Dates	14 January – 9 April 2023
Champions	Palmeiras
Relegated	São Bento Ferroviária
Matches played	104
Goals scored	230 (2.21 per match)
Top goalscorer	Róger Guedes Giuliano Galoppo (8 goals each)
Biggest home win	São Paulo 5–1 Internacional de Limeira Santos 4–0 Portuguesa Red Bull Bragantino 5–1 Ituano Palmeiras 4–0 Água Santa
Biggest away win	Internacional de Limeira 0–5 Guarani
Highest scoring	São Paulo 5–1 Internacional de Limeira Guarani 1–5 São Bernardo Red Bull Bragantino 5–1 Ituano
Longest winning run	São Bernardo (7 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Palmeiras (14 games)
Longest winless run	2 teams (8 games)
Longest losing run	Internacional de Limeira (5 games)
← 2022 2024 →

Palmeiras won their 25th title, having beaten Água Santa 5−2 on aggregate.

Format

• In the first stage the sixteen seeded teams were drawn into four groups of four teams each, with each team playing once against the twelve clubs from the other three groups. After each team has played twelve matches, the top two teams of each group qualified for the quarter-final stage.^[2]
• After the completion of the first stage, the two clubs with the lowest number of points, regardless of the group, were relegated to the Campeonato Paulista Série A2.^[2]
• Quarter-finals and semi-finals were played in a single match, with the best placed team playing at home.^[2]
• The finals were played in a two-legged home and away fixture, with the best placed team playing the second leg at home.^[2]
• In case of a draw in any knockout stage, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out.^[2]
• The two highest-placed teams not otherwise qualified qualified for the 2024 Copa do Brasil.^[2]
• The top three highest-placed teams in the general table at the end of the competition who are not playing in any level of the national Brazilian football league system qualified for the 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.^[2]

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. Higher number of wins;
2. Superior goal difference;
3. Higher number of goals scored;
4. Fewest red cards received;
5. Fewest yellow cards received;
6. Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.

TV partners

The broadcasting rights of the 2023 Campeonato Paulista were acquired by Record TV for the second consecutive year, with their streaming app Play Plus also transmitting the matches live. Aside of that, the streaming platforms HBO Max and Estádio TNT Sports (owned by TNT) and the Paulistão official YouTube channel and app (Paulistão Play) also broadcast the matches live.^[3] On 28 October 2022, TNT also announced the transmission of some matches in their paid TV channel, with pay-per-view channel Premiere also transmitting some matches.^[4]

Teams

Água Santa

Botafogo

Corinthians

Ferroviária

Guarani

Inter de Limeira

Ituano

Mirassol

Palmeiras

Portuguesa

Bragantino

Santos

Santo André

São Bento

São Bernardo

São Paulo

Location of teams in 2023 Campeonato Paulista

Club	Home city	Manager	2022 result
Água Santa	Diadema	Thiago Carpini	14th
Botafogo	Ribeirão Preto	Adilson Batista	9th
Corinthians	São Paulo (Tatuapé)	Fernando Lázaro	3rd
Ferroviária	Araraquara	Elano	11th
Guarani	Campinas	Moisés Moura (caretaker)	7th
Internacional de Limeira	Limeira	Pintado	12th
Ituano	Itu	Gilmar Dal Pozzo	5th
Mirassol	Mirassol	Ricardo Catalá	10th
Palmeiras	São Paulo (Perdizes)	Abel Ferreira	1st
Portuguesa	São Paulo (Pari)	Gilson Kleina	1st (Série A2)
Red Bull Bragantino	Bragança Paulista	Pedro Caixinha	4th
Santo André	Santo André	Matheus Costa	8th
Santos	Santos	Odair Hellmann	13th
São Bernardo	São Bernardo do Campo	Márcio Zanardi	6th
São Bento	Sorocaba	Paulo Roberto Santos	2nd (Série A2)
São Paulo	São Paulo (Morumbi)	Rogério Ceni	2nd

First stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Red Bull Bragantino	12	6	2	4	15	10	+5	20	Knockout stage
2	Botafogo	12	4	2	6	14	17	−3	14
3	Santos	12	3	5	4	14	17	−3	14
4	Internacional de Limeira	12	3	2	7	4	18	−14	11

Source: Soccerway

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	São Paulo	12	7	2	3	23	10	+13	23	Knockout stage
2	Água Santa	12	7	2	3	13	9	+4	23
3	Mirassol	12	4	3	5	14	14	0	15
4	Guarani	12	4	2	6	14	14	0	14

Source: Soccerway

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Corinthians	12	6	4	2	19	10	+9	22	Knockout stage
2	Ituano	12	3	3	6	11	18	−7	12
3	São Bento (R)	12	2	4	6	5	14	−9	10	Relegation to Série A2
4	Ferroviária (R)	12	2	3	7	11	18	−7	9

Source: Soccerway
(R) Relegated

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Palmeiras	12	8	4	0	18	5	+13	28	Knockout stage
2	São Bernardo	12	8	2	2	21	9	+12	26
3	Santo André	12	4	2	6	9	14	−5	14
4	Portuguesa	12	2	4	6	10	18	−8	10

Source: Soccerway

Knockout stage

The knockout stage of the 2023 Campeonato Paulista commenced on 11 March 2023 with the quarter-finals and ended on 9 April 2023 with the final. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.

Round dates

Round	First leg	Second leg
Quarter-finals	11–13 March 2023	–
Semi-finals	19–20 March 2023	–
Finals	2 April 2023	9 April 2023

Format

The quarter-finals will be played in a single match at the stadium of the better-ranked team in the first phase. If no goals were scored during the match, the tie will be decided via a penalty shoot-out. The semi-finals will be played with the same format as the quarter-finals. The finals will be played over two legs, with the team having the better record in matches from the previous stages hosting the second leg.

Qualified teams

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Red Bull Bragantino	Botafogo
B	São Paulo	Água Santa
C	Corinthians	Ituano
D	Palmeiras	São Bernardo

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

D1

Palmeiras

1

D2

São Bernardo

0

D1

Palmeiras

1

C2

Ituano

0

C1

Corinthians

1 (6)

C2

Ituano

1 (7)

D1

Palmeiras

1

4

5

B2

Água Santa

2

0

2

B1

São Paulo

0 (5)

B2

Água Santa

0 (6)

B2

Água Santa

1 (4)

A1

Red Bull Bragantino

1 (2)

A1

Red Bull Bragantino

2

A2

Botafogo

0

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Palmeiras	1−0	São Bernardo
Corinthians	1−1 (6–7 p)	Ituano
Red Bull Bragantino	2–0	Botafogo
São Paulo	0−0 (5–6 p)	Água Santa

11 March 2023

19:00 UTC-03:00

Palmeiras	1–0	São Bernardo
Rony 42'	Report

Allianz Parque, São Paulo

Attendance: 39,258

Referee: Edina Alves Batista

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12 March 2023

16:00 UTC-03:00

Corinthians	1–1	Ituano
Paulinho 35'	Report	Raí Ramos 26'
Penalties
Fábio Santos Giuliano Fausto Vera Yuri Alberto Róger Guedes Maycon Bruno Méndez Fagner Gil	6–7	Eduardo Person José Aldo Rafael Pereira Raí Ramos Claudinho Jefferson Paulino Lucas Siqueira Mário Sérgio Felipe Saraiva

Neo Química Arena, São Paulo

Attendance: 43,888

Referee: Raphael Claus

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12 March 2023

19:30 UTC-03:00

Red Bull Bragantino	2–0	Botafogo
Bruninho 15', 84'	Report

Estádio Nabi Abi Chedid, Bragança Paulista

Attendance: 4,867

Referee: Flávio Rodrigues de Souza

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13 March 2023

20:00 UTC-03:00

São Paulo	0–0	Água Santa
	Report
Penalties
Luciano Alisson Alan Franco Pablo Maia Caio Paulista Rodrigo Nestor Jhegson Méndez	5–6	Bruno Mezenga Reginaldo Patrick Allan Patrick Brey Gabriel Inocêncio Kadi Thiaguinho

Allianz Parque, São Paulo

Attendance: 39,454

Referee: Vinícius Gonçalves Dias Araújo

Semi-finals

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Palmeiras	1–0	Ituano
Água Santa	1−1 (4–2 p)	Red Bull Bragantino

19 March 2023

16:00 UTC-03:00

Palmeiras	1–0	Ituano
Murilo 58'	Report

Allianz Parque, São Paulo

Attendance: 40,664

Referee: Flávio Rodrigues de Souza

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20 March 2023

21:00 UTC-03:00

Água Santa	1–1	Red Bull Bragantino
Lucas Tocantins 51'	Report	Alerrandro 9'
Penalties
Bruno Mezenga Luan Dias Cristiano Reginaldo Júnior Todinho	4–2	Juninho Capixaba Sorriso Praxedes Thiago Borbas

Vila Belmiro, Santos

Attendance: 11,507

Referee: Raphael Claus

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Palmeiras	5–2	Água Santa	1–2	4–0

First leg

2 April 2023

16:00 UTC-03:00

Água Santa	2–1	Palmeiras
Bruno Mezenga 44', 90+2'	Report	Endrick 53'

Arena Barueri, Barueri

Attendance: 22,896

Referee: Edina Alves Batista

Second leg

9 April 2023

16:00 UTC-03:00

Palmeiras	4–0	Água Santa
Gabriel Menino 15', 27' Endrick 34' José López 73'	Report

Allianz Parque, São Paulo

Attendance: 41,444

Referee: Raphael Claus

2023 Campeonato Paulista champions
Palmeiras 25th title

Overall table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Palmeiras (C, Q)	16	11	4	1	25	7	+18	37	Finalists
2	Água Santa (Q, D)	16	8	4	4	16	15	+1	28
3	Red Bull Bragantino (Q)	14	7	3	4	18	11	+7	24	Eliminated in the Semi-finals
4	Ituano (Q)	14	3	4	7	12	20	−8	13
5	São Bernardo (Q)	13	8	2	3	21	10	+11	26	Eliminated in the Quarter-finals
6	São Paulo	13	7	3	3	23	10	+13	24
7	Corinthians	13	6	5	2	20	11	+9	23
8	Botafogo	13	4	2	7	14	19	−5	14
9	Mirassol	12	4	3	5	14	14	0	15
10	Guarani	12	4	2	6	14	14	0	14
11	Santo André (D)	12	4	2	6	9	14	−5	14
12	Santos	12	3	5	4	14	17	−3	14
13	Inter de Limeira (D)	12	3	2	7	4	18	−14	11
14	Portuguesa	12	2	4	6	10	18	−8	10
15	São Bento (R)	12	2	4	6	5	14	−9	10	Relegation to Série A2
16	Ferroviária (R)	12	2	3	7	11	18	−7	9

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference; 4th goals scored; 5th head-to-head results; 6th least red cards received; 7th least yellow cards received; 8th draw.
(C) Champions; (D) Qualification for the 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D; (Q) Qualification for the 2024 Copa do Brasil; (R) Relegated

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Róger Guedes	Corinthians	8
	Giuliano Galoppo	São Paulo
3	Bruno Mezenga	Água Santa	7
4	John Kennedy	Ferroviária	6
	Rony	Palmeiras