2003 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

The 2003 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 47th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. The first edition with only a double round-robin and no playoffs, it began on March 29, 2003, and reached its end on December 14. The competition was won by Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, who completed a treble.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Season	2003
Dates	29 March – 14 December
Champions	Cruzeiro 1st Campeonato Brasileiro title 2nd Brazilian title
Relegated	Fortaleza Bahia
Copa Libertadores	Cruzeiro Santos São Paulo São Caetano Coritiba
Copa Sudamericana	Internacional Atlético Mineiro Flamengo Goiás Paraná Figueirense Grêmio
Matches played	552
Goals scored	1,593 (2.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dimba (31 goals)
Biggest home win	Goiás 7–0 Juventude (R6, 27 April)
Biggest away win	Bahia 0–7 Cruzeiro (R46, 14 December)
Average attendance	15,629
← 2002 2004 →

Format

The 24 teams played against each other twice. At the season finale, the team with the most accumulated points (3 for each win, 1 for a draw, none for a loss) was declared champion. The two lowest-placed teams were relegated to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B of the following year.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cruzeiro	46	31	7	8	102	47	+55	100	Qualified for 2004 Copa Libertadores and 2004 Copa Sudamericana
2	Santos	46	25	12	9	93	60	+33	87
3	São Paulo	46	22	12	12	81	67	+14	78
4	São Caetano	46	19	14	13	53	37	+16	74
5	Coritiba	46	21	10	15	67	58	+9	73
6	Internacional	46	20	10	16	59	57	+2	72	Qualified for 2004 Copa Sudamericana
7	Atlético Mineiro	46	19	15	12	76	62	+14	72
8	Flamengo	46	18	12	16	66	73	−7	66
9	Goiás	46	18	11	17	78	63	+15	65
10	Paraná	46	18	11	17	85	75	+10	65
11	Figueirense	46	17	14	15	62	54	+8	65
12	Atlético-PR	46	17	10	19	67	72	−5	61
13	Guarani	46	17	10	19	64	72	−8	61
14	Criciúma	46	17	9	20	57	69	−12	60
15	Corinthians	46	15	12	19	61	63	−2	59
16	Vitória	46	15	11	20	50	64	−14	56
17	Vasco	46	13	15	18	57	69	−12	54
18	Juventude	46	12	14	20	55	70	−15	53
19	Fluminense	46	13	11	22	52	77	−25	52
20	Grêmio[a]	46	13	11	22	54	68	−14	50	Qualified for 2004 Copa Sudamericana
21	Ponte Preta[b]	46	11	18	17	63	73	−10	50
22	Paysandu[c]	46	15	12	19	74	77	−3	49
23	Fortaleza (R)	46	12	13	21	58	74	−16	49	Relegation to Série B
24	Bahia (R)	46	12	10	24	59	92	−33	46

Source:
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Grêmio qualified to 2004 Copa Sudamericana due to a CONMEBOL ranking (São Paulo, Cruzeiro and Flamengo also qualified via CONMEBOL ranking).
2. Ponte Preta docked the points conquisted in the matches against Internacional and Juventude for the irregulate fielding of the player Roberto. Otherwise, Internacional won 2 points and Juventude won 3 points.
3. Paysandu docked 8 points due to irregularities fielding of the players Júnior Amorim and Aldrovani. In other way, three points won to Ponte Preta, three for São Caetano, two for Corinthians and two for Fluminense.

Results

Home \ Away	ATM	ATP	BAH	COR	CTB	CRI	CRU	FIG	FLA	FLU	FOR	GOI	GRE	GUA	INT	JUV	PAR	PAY	PON	SAN	SCA	SPA	VAS	VIT
Clube Atlético Mineiro	—	1–2	1–0	2–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	3–2	3–2	3–2	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–2	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–2	2–1	1–0
Club Atlético Paranaense	1–2	—	2–1	3–1	2–0	5–2	1–4	1–2	4–1	3–0	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	4–2	0–2	1–0	4–3	2–2	1–2
Esporte Clube Bahia	2–4	0–2	—	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–7	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–3	3–1	4–2	2–0	1–0	4–7	0–0	3–0	3–0	2–1
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista	0–3	2–3	1–2	—	0–1	3–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	1–1	6–1	3–0	1–1	0–3	1–2	0–0	4–0
Coritiba Foot Ball Club	2–2	2–0	3–2	1–0	—	2–0	3–4	1–0	5–0	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–4	2–0	0–2	1–1	1–1
Criciúma Esporte Clube	1–0	2–0	3–2	1–0	2–3	—	1–3	1–0	4–3	2–0	2–2	1–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–2	2–0	3–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–1
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube	0–0	5–2	5–2	1–1	2–2	2–0	—	1–0	2–0	5–2	2–0	4–1	3–0	4–1	3–2	1–2	5–1	2–1	3–0	3–0	2–2	1–1	4–1	1–0
Figueirense Futebol Clube	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–3	1–2	4–2	1–0	—	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–1	2–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	4–2	6–0	0–0	1–0	3–0	2–2	0–0	1–2
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo	3–2	2–1	6–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–2	—	4–1	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–3	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–1
Fluminense Football Club	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–2	1–1	2–2	3–0	0–1	—	1–1	2–3	2–0	5–2	3–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–2	1–4	2–1	1–3	0–0	2–0
Fortaleza Esporte Clube	4–3	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–2	1–1	4–1	3–1	—	1–0	2–2	3–0	3–0	3–1	5–3	1–2	2–3	0–0	1–1	0–2	0–1	1–0
Goiás Esporte Clube	1–1	4–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–0	0–3	1–1	6–1	0–1	—	1–1	3–0	3–1	7–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	3–0	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–1
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	3–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	0–1	—	3–1	0–0	1–4	0–2	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–0	1–2	4–3	2–1
Guarani Futebol Clube	2–2	1–0	3–2	0–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	5–3	2–0	2–1	3–2	2–0	—	3–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–3	1–2	0–1	0–1	4–2	2–2
Sport Club Internacional	3–3	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	—	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–1
Esporte Clube Juventude	1–0	4–0	1–0	6–1	2–1	3–1	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	—	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	0–0	1–1
Paraná Clube	1–1	3–0	3–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	1–3	1–1	6–2	2–0	4–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	4–0	1–2	—	4–2	3–2	1–2	1–1	4–2	3–3	2–0
Paysandu Sport Club	1–0	2–2	4–0	2–2	1–3	4–0	3–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	3–0	2–2	1–1	6–1	0–0	3–2	3–0	—	3–2	2–1	1–0	5–2	1–2	1–2
Associação Atlética Ponte Preta	2–1	2–2	1–0	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–0	0–2	2–1	0–2	1–4	1–0	4–0	4–4	—	3–4	0–0	1–2	2–2	1–1
Santos Futebol Clube	3–3	3–2	4–0	3–1	3–1	5–2	0–2	2–0	2–1	3–1	4–0	3–3	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	—	0–1	3–1	2–1	3–1
Associação Desportiva São Caetano	2–0	0–0	4–1	1–0	2–0	3–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	4–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	5–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–0	2–2	—	0–1	1–0	2–1
São Paulo Futebol Clube	2–2	2–0	2–2	3–0	1–0	0–0	2–4	3–2	1–3	1–0	3–1	1–0	3–1	3–3	0–2	3–1	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	—	3–1	3–1
Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	6–4	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–4	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	—	1–0
Esporte Clube Vitória	0–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–4	4–1	0–0	0–3	3–0	0–3	1–1	1–4	2–0	0–0	0–2	2–1	—

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

Atlético Mineiro

Curitiba

Campinas

Criciúma

Cruzeiro

Figueirense

Fortaleza

Grêmio

Goiás

Internacional

Juventude

Paysandu

São Caetano

São Paulo

Rio de Janeiro

Vitória

Bahia

Santos

Rio de Janeiro teams:
Flamengo
Fluminense
Vasco da Gama
São Paulo teams:
Corinthians
São Paulo
Campinas teams:
Guarani
Ponte Preta
Curitiba teams:
Atlético Paranaense
Coritiba
Paraná

Locations of the 2003 Série A teams

Top scorers

Pos.	Scorer	Club	Goals[1]
1	Dimba	Goiás	31
2	Renaldo	Paraná	30
3	Luís Fabiano	São Paulo	29
4	Alex	Cruzeiro	23
5	Víctor Aristizábal	Cruzeiro	22
6	Marcel	Coritiba	20
7	Ilan	Atlético-PR	16
8	Deivid	Cruzeiro	15
	Marquinhos	Paraná	15
	Wágner	Guarani	15
	Róbson	Paysandu	15

Coaching changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Fortaleza	Luis Carlos Cruz	3 April 2003	20th	Ferdinando Teixeira	3 April 2003
Bahia	Bobô	26 April 2003	23rd	Evaristo de Macedo	1 May 2003
São Paulo	Oswaldo de Oliveira	3 May 2003	9th	Roberto Rojas	4 May 2003
Figueirense	Vágner Benazzi	17 May 2003	22nd	Artur Neto	17 June 2003
Goiás	Candinho	25 May 2003	24th	Cuca	26 May 2003
Paraná	Cuca	25 May 2003	8th	Adilson Batista	27 May 2003
Grêmio	Tite	3 June 2003	21st	Darío Pereyra	8 June 2003
Fortaleza	Ferdinando Teixeira	15 June 2003	22nd	Luis Carlos Cruz	17 June 2003
Vitória	Joel Santana	24 June 2003	15th	Edinho	25 June 2003
Fluminense	Renato Gaúcho	11 July 2003	12th	Joel Santana	18 July 2003
Vasco	Antônio Lopes	13 July 2003	20th	Mauro Galvão	14 July 2003
Paraná	Adilson Batista	16 July 2003	9th	Edu Marangon	12 August 2003
Flamengo	Nelsinho Baptista	17 July 2003	15th	Oswaldo de Oliveira	21 July 2003
Atlético Mineiro	Celso Roth	21 July 2003	7th	Marcelo Oliveira	23 July 2003
Grêmio	Darío Pereyra	21 July 2003	22nd	Nestor Simionato	22 July 2003
Vitória	Edinho	27 July 2003	16th	Lori Sandri	4 August 2003
Atlético Paranaense	Vadão	4 August 2003	18th	Mário Sérgio	5 August 2003
Bahia	Evaristo de Macedo	7 August 2003	20th	Lula Pereira	18 August 2003
Figueirense	Artur Neto	12 August 2003	15th	Luiz Carlos Ferreira	12 August 2003
Fortaleza	Luis Carlos Cruz	17 August 2003	21st	Márcio Araújo	19 August 2003
Grêmio	Nestor Simionato	22 August 2003	24th	Adilson Batista	22 August 2003
Paraná	Edu Marangon	22 September 2003	16th	Saulo	23 September 2003
Figueirense	Luiz Carlos Ferreira	23 September 2003	12th	Dorival Júnior	25 September 2003
Corinthians	Geninho	29 September 2003	10th	Júnior	1 October 2003
Fluminense	Joel Santana	2 October 2003	22nd	Renato Gaúcho	2 October 2003
Flamengo	Oswaldo de Oliveira	12 October 2003	12th	Waldemar Lemos	14 October 2003
Corinthians	Júnior	13 October 2003	11th	Juninho Fonseca	14 October 2003
Bahia	Lula Pereira	25 October 2003	20th	Edinho	28 October 2003
Atlético Mineiro	Marcelo Oliveira	7 November 2003	7th	Procópio Cardoso	9 November 2003
Vitória	Lori Sandri	24 November 2003	16th	Nelsinho Goés	25 November 2003