Season 2012 Start date 2012 Goals scored 628 | Location Brazil Matches played 202 | |
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Highest scoring Botafogo–SP 2–6 Palmeiras (8 goals) Similar | ||
The 2012 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 (officially the Paulistão Chevrolet 2012 for sponsorship reasons) was the 111th season of São Paulo's top professional football league.
Contents
- Format
- Teams
- League table
- Results
- Top goalscorers
- Scoring
- Discipline
- Player of the Season
- Young Player of the Season
- Countryside Best Player of the Season
- Top scorer of the Season
- References
The finals were played between Santos and Guarani. Santos won 7–2 on aggregate. It was the third consecutive year that they won, the first time since 1968, when the same Santos won three years in a row for the last time (1966/1967/1968).
Format
The top eight teams in the First Stage qualifies to the Quarter-Finals. The bottom four teams will be relegated to the Série A2. Quarter and Semi-Finals will be played in one-legged matches. The best-four teams not qualified to the Semi-Finals not from the city of São Paulo or Santos FC, will compete in the Campeonato do Interior.
Teams
São Bernardo, Barueri, Noroeste and Santo André were relegated to the Campeonato Paulista Série A2 after finishing in the bottom four spots of the table at the end of the 2011 season. Santo André were relegated after they played the finals in the 2010 season against Santos, being runner-up. The four relegated teams were replaced by XV de Piracicaba, Comercial, Guarani and Catanduvese, that were promoted from 2011 Série A2. Comercial return to play in the first division after 25 years away from it while XV de Piracicaba, Guarani and Catanduvense, are back after playing the last time in the years: 1995, 2009 and 1993 respectively.
League table
Updated to games played on 15 April 2012.
Source: Futpédia and UOL Esporte
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored; 4th less red cards; 5th less yellow cards ; 6th raffle;
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results
Updated to games played on 15 April 2012.
Source: Futpédia
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.
Top goalscorers
Source UOL Esporte and Futebol Paulista
Last updated: 13 May 2012
Scoring
Discipline
Player of the Season
The Player of the Year was awarded to Neymar.
Young Player of the Season
The Young Player of the Year was awarded to Romarinho.
Countryside Best Player of the Season
The Countryside Best Player of the Year was awarded to Fumagalli.
Top scorer of the Season
The Top scorer award went to Neymar, who scored 20 goals.