2010 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

The 2010 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 54th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top-level of professional football in Brazil. It began on May 8 and ended on December 5. Flamengo came as the defending champion having won the 2009 season.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Season	2010
Champions	Fluminense 2nd Campeonato Brasileiro title 3rd Brazilian title
Relegated	Vitória Guarani Goiás Grêmio Prudente
Copa Libertadores	Fluminense Cruzeiro Corinthians Grêmio
Copa Sudamericana	Atlético Paranaense Botafogo São Paulo Palmeiras Vasco da Gama Ceará Atlético Mineiro Flamengo
Matches played	380
Goals scored	978 (2.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jonas (23 goals)
Biggest home win	Avaí 6–1 Grêmio Prudente (May 9)
Biggest away win	Avaí 0–3 Fluminense (June 5) Guarani 0–3 Internacional (July 14) Goiás 0–3 Fluminense (August 25) Palmeiras 0–3 Atlético Goianiense (August 26) Avaí 0–3 Grêmio (September 19) São Paulo 0–3 Goiás (September 25) Vitória 0–3 Grêmio (October 2) Fluminense 0–3 Santos (October 6) São Paulo 1-4 Fluminense (November 21) Goiás 1–4 Santos (November 21) Grêmio Prudente 0–3 Internacional (December 2)
Highest scoring	Avaí 6–1 Grêmio Prudente (May 9) Vitória 4–3 Atlético Mineiro (May 26) Corinthians 3–4 Atlético Goianiense (October 10) São Paulo 4–3 Santos (October 17) Cruzeiro 3–4 Atlético Mineiro (October 24)
Longest winning run	5 games: Botafogo (August 1–August 28) Cruzeiro (September 1–September 18)
Longest unbeaten run	15 games: Fluminense (May 26–September 5)
Longest losing run	6 games: Goiás (August 14–September 8)
Highest attendance	76,205: Vasco da Gama 2–2 Fluminense (August 22)[1]
Lowest attendance	674: Grêmio Prudente 4–1 Goiás (November 7)[1]
Average attendance	14,839[1]
← 2009 2011 →

Format

For the eighth consecutive season, the tournament was in a double round-robin system. The team with most points was declared the champion. The bottom-four teams were relegated for the following season.

International qualification

The Série A served as a qualifier to CONMEBOL's 2011 international tournaments. Since Internacional won the 2010 Copa Libertadores, the top-two teams in the standings qualified to the Second Stage of the 2011 Copa Libertadores.

The format used then also specified that the next two best teams in the standings qualify to the First Stage, if the 2011 Copa Sudamericana isn't conquered by a Brazilian club. If that happens, the fourth placed team will not qualify to the Libertadores. Santos, as the winner of the 2010 Copa do Brasil, has an automatic berth to the Second Stage of the competition. The next eight best teams in the standings earn berths to the Second Stage of the 2011 Copa Sudamericana.^[2]

Team information

Last season, Coritiba, Santo André, Náutico, and Sport were relegated after finishing in the last four position in the standings. There were replaced by four-time champion Vasco da Gama, one-time champion Guarani, Ceará, and Atlético Goianiense, the top-four finishers of the 2009 Série B.

During the off-season, Barueri-based club Grêmio Recreativo Barueri, simply known as Barueri, moved to Presidente Prudente, thus changed their name to Grêmio Prudente Futebol.

During the championship, some clubs' venues were transferred to secondary stadia as their home venues are being reformed in preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be held in Brazil.

Atlético Goianiense

Atlético Mineiro

Avaí

Ceará

Cruzeiro

Grêmio

Goiás

Internacional

São Paulo Metro Area

Rio de Janeiro

Vitória

Atlético Paranaense

Grêmio Prudente

Rio de Janeiro teams:
Botafogo
Flamengo
Fluminense
Vasco da Gama
São Paulo Metro Area teams:
Corinthians
Guarani
Palmeiras
Santos
São Paulo

Locations of the 2010 Série A teams

Team	City	Stadium	Capacity
Atlético Goianiense	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	45,000
Atlético Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Arena do Jacaré Ipatingão	75,783 25,000 20,500
Atlético Paranaense	Curitiba	Arena da Baixada	28,327
Avaí	Florianópolis	Ressacada	19,000
Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro	Engenhão	46,931
Ceará	Fortaleza	Castelão	60,326
Corinthians	São Paulo	Pacaembu	37,952
Cruzeiro	Belo Horizonte	Mineirão Arena do Jacaré Ipatingão Parque do Sabiá	75,783 25,000 20,500 50,000
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Maracanã Raulino de Oliveira Engenhão	87,238 21,000 46,931
Fluminense	Rio de Janeiro	Maracanã Engenhão	87,238 46,931
Goiás	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	45,000
Grêmio	Porto Alegre	Olímpico	45,000
Grêmio Prudente	Presidente Prudente	Prudentão	44,414
Guarani	Campinas	Brinco de Ouro	40,988
Internacional	Porto Alegre	Beira-Rio	56,000
Palmeiras	São Paulo	Palestra Itália Arena Barueri Pacaembu	29,876 16,417 37,952
Santos	Santos	Vila Belmiro Pacaembu	20,120 37,952
São Paulo	São Paulo	Morumbi	67,428
Vasco da Gama	Rio de Janeiro	São Januário	20,150
Vitória	Salvador	Barradão	32,000

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Atlético Goianiense	Renê Simões	Super Bolla	Banco BMG
Atlético Mineiro	Dorival Júnior	Topper	Banco BMG
Atlético Paranaense	Sérgio Soares	Umbro	Philco
Avaí	Vagner Benazzi	Fanatic	Intelbras
Botafogo	Joel Santana	Fila	Neo Química Genéricos
Ceará	Dimas Filgueiras (caretaker)	Penalty	Neo Química Genéricos
Corinthians	Tite	Nike	Neo Química Genéricos
Cruzeiro	Cuca	Reebok	Banco BMG
Flamengo	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	Olympikus	Batavo
Fluminense	Muricy Ramalho	Adidas	Unimed
Goiás	Artur Neto	Lotto	Neo Química Genéricos
Grêmio	Renato Gaúcho	Puma	Banrisul
Grêmio Prudente	Fábio Giuntini	Kanxa	Grupo Localfrio
Guarani	Vágner Mancini	Lupo Sport	CPN Engenharia
Internacional	Celso Roth	Reebok	Banrisul
Palmeiras	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Adidas	Fiat
Santos	Marcelo Martelotte (caretaker)	Umbro	Seara Alimentos
São Paulo	Paulo César Carpegiani	Reebok	Banco BMG
Vasco da Gama	PC Gusmão	Penalty	Eletrobras
Vitória	Antônio Lopes	Penalty	Grupo OAS

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Vasco da Gama	Vágner Mancini	Sacked	March 25	Pre-season	Gaúcho (caretaker)	March 26
Goiás	Jorginho	Sacked	April 19	Pre-season	Émerson Leão	April 24
Flamengo	Andrade	Sacked	April 23	Pre-season	Rogério Lourenço	April 24
Palmeiras	Antônio Carlos Zago	Sacked	May 18	7th	Jorge Parraga (caretaker)	May 19
Vasco da Gama	Gaúcho (caretaker)	Replaced	May 18	16th	Celso Roth	May 18
Atlético Paranaense	Leandro Niehues	Sacked	May 25	17th	Leandro Niehues (caretaker)	May 25
Internacional	Jorge Fossati	Sacked	May 28	18th	Enderson Moreira (caretaker)	May 29
Atlético Paranaense	Leandro Niehues (caretaker)	Replaced	May 31	19th	Paulo César Carpegiani	May 31
Cruzeiro	Adílson Batista	Resigned	June 2	6th	Cuca	June 8
Atlético Goianiense	Geninho	Resigned	June 7	20th	Roberto Fernandes	June 14
Vasco da Gama	Celso Roth	Left to sign with Internacional	June 12	19th	PC Gusmão	June 13
Internacional	Enderson Moreira (caretaker)	Replaced	June 12	16th	Celso Roth	June 12
Ceará	PC Gusmão	Left to sign with Vasco da Gama	June 13	2nd	Estevam Soares	June 13
Palmeiras	Jorge Parraga (caretaker)	Replaced	June 13	10th	Luis Felipe Scolari	June 13
Avaí	Péricles Chamusca	Left to sign with Al-Arabi	July 1	12th	Antônio Lopes	July 5
Corinthians	Mano Menezes	Left to sign with Brazil	July 24	2nd	Adílson Batista	July 24
Atlético Goianiense	Roberto Fernandes	Sacked	July 30	20th	Renê Simões	August 1
São Paulo	Ricardo Gomes	Contract expired	August 5	9th	Sérgio Baresi	August 10
Grêmio	Silas	Sacked	August 8	18th	Renato Gaúcho	August 10
Ceará	Estevam Soares	Sacked	August 8	3rd	Mário Sérgio	August 9
Vitória	Ricardo Silva	Sacked	August 9	16th	Toninho Cecílio	August 9
Grêmio Prudente	Toninho Cecílio	Left to sign with Vitória	August 9	14th	Antônio Carlos Zago	August 17
Goiás	Émerson Leão	Sacked	August 27	20th	Jorginho	August 29
Flamengo	Rogério Lourenço	Sacked	August 27	10th	Silas	August 29
Ceará	Mário Sérgio	Sacked	September 8	11th	Dimas Filgueiras (caretaker)	September 10
Vitória	Toninho Cecílio	Sacked	September 8	15th	Ricardo Silva	September 9
Grêmio Prudente	Antônio Carlos Zago	Sacked	September 10	19th	Marcelo Rospide	September 10
Avaí	Antônio Lopes	Sacked	September 20	16th	Vagner Benazzi	October 10
Santos	Dorival Júnior	Sacked	September 21	6th	Marcelo Martelotte (caretaker)	September 21
Atlético Mineiro	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	Sacked	September 23	18th	Dorival Júnior	September 25
Grêmio Prudente	Marcelo Rospide	Resigned	September 27	20th	Fábio Giuntini	October 5
Atlético Paranaense	Paulo César Carpegiani	Left to sign with São Paulo	October 3	5th	Sérgio Soares	October 4
São Paulo	Sérgio Baresi	Replaced	October 3	11th	Paulo César Carpegiani	October 3
Flamengo	Silas	Sacked	October 4	15th	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	October 5
Vitória	Ricardo Silva	Sacked	October 7	14th	Antônio Lopes	October 7
Corinthians	Adílson Batista	Mutual consent	October 10	3rd	Tite	October 17
Goiás	Jorginho	Sacked	November 8	19th	Artur Neto	November 8

Foreign players

The match squad must have no more than 3 Foreign Players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Dual Nationality Player	Former Players
Atlético Goianiense
Atlético Mineiro	Édison Méndez	Jayro Campos	Julio César Cáceres			Pedro Benítez
Atlético Paranaense	Federico Nieto	Joffre Guerrón	Iván González			Javier Toledo Edwin Valencia
Avaí
Botafogo	Germán Herrera	Sebastián Abreu
Ceará
Corinthians	Matías Defederico
Cruzeiro	Ernesto Farías	Walter Montillo				Javier Reina Joffre Guerrón
Flamengo	Claudio Maldonado	Gonzalo Fierro	Cristian Martinez	Dejan Petković
Fluminense	Darío Conca	Ezequiel González	Edwin Valencia	Deco	Emerson Sheik
Goiás
Grêmio
Grêmio Prudente
Guarani
Internacional	Andrés D'Alessandro	Pablo Guiñazú	Roberto Abbondanzieri	Bruno Silva	Gonzalo Sorondo
Palmeiras	Jorge Valdivia					Pablo Armero
Santos					Rodrigo Possebon
São Paulo
Vasco da Gama	Julio Irrazábal
Vitória	Julián Viáfara

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fluminense	38	20	11	7	62	36	+26	71	2011 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2	Cruzeiro	38	20	9	9	53	38	+15	69
3	Corinthians	38	19	11	8	65	41	+24	68	2011 Copa Libertadores First Stage
4	Grêmio	38	17	12	9	68	43	+25	63
5	Atlético Paranaense	38	17	9	12	43	45	−2	60	2011 Copa Sudamericana Second Stage
6	Botafogo	38	14	17	7	54	42	+12	59
7	Internacional	38	16	10	12	48	41	+7	58	2011 Copa Libertadores Second Stage[a]
8	Santos	38	15	11	12	63	50	+13	56	2011 Copa Libertadores Second Stage[b]
9	São Paulo	38	15	10	13	54	54	0	55	2011 Copa Sudamericana Second Stage
10	Palmeiras	38	12	14	12	42	43	−1	50
11	Vasco da Gama	38	11	16	11	43	45	−2	49
12	Ceará	38	10	17	11	35	44	−9	47
13	Atlético Mineiro	38	13	6	19	52	64	−12	45
14	Flamengo	38	9	17	12	41	44	−3	44
15	Avaí	38	11	10	17	49	58	−9	43
16	Atlético Goianiense	38	11	9	18	51	57	−6	42
17	Vitória	38	9	15	14	42	48	−6	42	Relegation to Série B
18	Guarani	38	8	13	17	33	53	−20	37
19	Goiás	38	8	9	21	41	68	−27	33
20	Prudente	38	7	10	21	39	64	−25	28[c]

Source: ^[3]
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
Notes:

1. Internacional qualified as the 2010 Copa Libertadores champion.
2. Santos qualified as the 2010 Copa do Brasil champion.
3. Grêmio Prudente was docked 3 points due to fielding a suspended player.

Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A 2010 champion
Fluminense Third title

Results

Home \ Away	ACG	CAM	CAP	AVA	BOT	CEA	COR	CRU	FLA	FLU	GOI	GRE	GPR	GUA	INT	PAL	SAN	SPA	VAS	VIT
Atlético Goianiense		2–3	1–2	2–2	0–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	1–3	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–2	1–1	2–0	4–1
Atlético Mineiro	3–2		3–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	4–1	1–3	3–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	1–2	1–2	2–2	2–3	2–1	2–3
Atlético Paranaense	2–1	2–1		1–0	3–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0
Avaí	3–0	0–0	0–1		0–0	5–0	3–2	1–2	2–2	0–3	4–1	0–3	6–1	1–0	0–1	4–2	3–2	0–0	2–0	0–0
Botafogo	3–2	3–0	1–1	1–0		1–0	2–2	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	3–3	2–0	1–1	1–0
Ceará	0–0	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–2		0–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–2	1–0
Corinthians	3–4	1–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	2–2		1–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	0–1	3–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	4–2	3–0	2–0	2–1
Cruzeiro	3–0	3–4	0–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0		1–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	4–2	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–2	3–1	0–1
Flamengo	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–2		3–3	1–2	1–1	3–1	2–1	3–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–2
Fluminense	1–0	5–1	3–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–1		1–1	2–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	1–1	0–3	2–2	1–0	2–1
Goiás	1–3	1–3	0–2	1–0	4–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–3		0–2	1–2	3–1	2–3	1–1	1–4	2–1	0–0	1–0
Grêmio	2–0	2–1	3–1	3–0	3–0	5–1	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–2	2–0		4–0	1–0	2–2	1–2	1–2	4–2	1–1	1–1
Grêmio Prudente	1–0	4–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	4–1	2–0		4–2	0–3	0–1	1–2	2–3	1–2	0–0
Guarani	0–1	0–0	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–3	1–0		0–3	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–1
Internacional	1–1	1–0	4–1	2–3	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	3–0		1–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–1
Palmeiras	0–3	0–2	2–0	4–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	2–3	0–1	1–2	3–2	4–2	0–0	1–0	2–0		2–1	0–2	0–0	1–0
Santos	4–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	2–3	4–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–3	3–1	1–0	1–1		1–0	4–0	1–1
São Paulo	2–1	4–0	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–2	2–2	2–0	1–4	0–3	3–1	1–1	2–1	1–3	1–0	4–3		0–0	2–0
Vasco da Gama	2–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	3–2	3–3	2–1	0–1	3–2	0–0	3–1	1–1		1–0
Vitória	0–0	4–3	1–0	3–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–3	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–1	4–2	3–2	4–2

Source: ^[4]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Pos[5]	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals
1	Jonas	Brazilian	Grêmio	23
2	Neymar	Brazilian	Santos	17
3	Bruno César	Brazilian	Corinthians	14
4	Elias	Brazilian	Atlético Goianiense	12
	Obina	Brazilian	Atlético Mineiro	12
6	Sebastián Abreu	Uruguayan	Botafogo	11
	André Lima	Brazilian	Grêmio	11
8	Alecsandro	Brazilian	Internacional	10
	Diego Tardelli	Brazilian	Atlético Mineiro	10
	Kléber	Brazilian	Palmeiras2	10
	Washington	Brazilian	Fluminense1	10
	Wesley Morais	Brazilian	Grêmio Prudente	10
	Zé Eduardo	Brazilian	Santos	10

• ¹ Two goals scored for São Paulo
• ² Two goals scored for Cruzeiro