1997 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Season	1997
Champions	América-MG
Promoted	América-MG Ponte Preta
Relegated	Mogi Mirim Sergipe Moto Club Central Goiatuba
Top goalscorer	Tupãzinho (América-MG) - 13
Biggest home win	América-MG 5-0 Tuna Luso (November 9, 1997)
Biggest away win	Moto Club 1-4 Gama (August 17, 1997)
Highest scoring	Tuna Luso 5-3 Moto Club (August 13, 1997)
← Série B 1996 Série B 1998 →

The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 1997, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from August 9 to December 7, 1997. The competition had 25 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série A and five were relegated to Série C. The competition was won by América-MG.

América-MG finished the final phase group with the most points, and was declared 1999 Brazilian Série B champions, claiming the promotion to the 1998 Série A along with Ponte Preta, the runners-up. The five worst ranked teams in each group (Mogi Mirim, Sergipe, Moto Club, Central and Goiatuba) were relegated to play Série C in 1998.

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	1996 Season
ABC	Natal	Machadão	22nd in Série B
América-MG	Belo Horizonte	Independência	5th in Série B
Americano	Rio de Janeiro	Godofredo Cruz	13th in Série B
Atlético-GO	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	12th in Série B
Botafogo-SP	Ribeirão Preto	Santa Cruz	2nd in Série C
Ceará	Fortaleza	Castelão	19th in Série B
Central	Caruaru	Lacerdão	25th in Série B
CRB	Maceió	Pajuçara	20th in Série B
Desportiva	Cariacica	Engenheiro Araripe	11th in Série B
Gama	Gama	Bezerrão	17th in Série B
Goiatuba	Goiatuba	Divino Garcia Rosa	23rd in Série B
Joinville	Joinville	Ernestão	15th in Série B
Londrina	Londrina	Café	4th in Série B
Mogi Mirim	Mogi Mirim	Wilson Fernandes de Barros	6th in Série B
Moto Club	São Luís	Castelão	8th in Série B
Náutico	Recife	Aflitos	3rd in Série B
Paysandu	Belém	Curuzú	21st in Série B
Ponte Preta	Campinas	Moisés Lucarelli	18th in Série B
Remo	Belém	Mangueirão	18th in Série B
Santa Cruz	Recife	Arruda	9th in Série B
Tuna Luso	Belém	Francisco Vasques	16th in Série B
Sergipe	Aracaju	João Hora	24th in Série B
Vila Nova	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	1st in Série C
Volta Redonda	Volta Redonda	Raulino de Oliveira	14th in Série B
XV de Piracicaba	Piracicaba	Barão de Serra Negra	10th in Série B

First phase

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners, runners-up advance to the Round of 16
	Teams relegated to the Série C 1998

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Gama	8	4	3	1	12	5	+7	15
Tuna Luso	8	4	3	1	9	5	+4	15
Atlético-GO	8	2	3	3	7	9	-2	9
Remo	8	2	2	4	8	8	0	8
Moto Club	8	1	3	4	10	19	−9	6

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ceará	8	5	2	1	8	7	+1	17
Paysandu	8	4	2	2	12	7	+5	14
ABC	8	3	3	2	9	6	+3	12
Santa Cruz	8	2	1	5	6	12	-6	7
Central	8	1	2	5	8	11	−3	5

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
CRB	8	4	1	3	10	10	0	13
América-MG	8	4	1	3	9	11	-2	13
Vila Nova	8	3	3	2	13	8	+5	12
Náutico	8	3	2	3	11	11	0	11
Sergipe	8	1	3	4	9	12	−3	6

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ponte Preta	8	5	2	1	11	4	+7	17
Desportiva	8	4	2	2	5	3	+2	14
Americano	8	3	3	2	8	8	0	12
Botafogo-SP	8	3	1	4	11	14	−3	10
Goiatuba	8	0	2	6	2	8	−6	2

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Londrina	8	5	1	2	12	8	+4	16
Joinville	8	4	2	2	11	9	+2	14
XV de Piracicaba	8	3	2	3	11	14	-3	11
Volta Redonda	8	2	2	4	10	11	−1	8
Mogi Mirim	8	1	3	4	10	12	−2	6

Second phase

Teams			Scores
Team 1	Points	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	Agg.
ABC	1:7	Gama	2:2	0:3	1:3	3:8
Vila Nova	4:4	Ceará	2:0	1:1	0:1	3:2
Americano	3:6	CRB	2:1	0:2	1:5	3:8
XV de Piracicaba	1:7	Ponte Preta	1:1	1:2	0:1	2:4
Náutico^1	4:4	Londrina	2:1	0:1	1:1	3:3
América-MG	7:1	Desportiva	2:0	1:1	2:1	5:2
Paysandu	4:4	Tuna Luso	2:1	0:0	0:4	2:5
Atlético-GO	0:6	Joinville	1:2	1:2	—	2:4

¹Náutico qualified after defeating Londrina on a penalty shoot-out.

Third phase

Key to colours in group tables
	Teams that advanced to the Final phase

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ponte Preta	6	3	2	1	14	9	+5	11
Náutico	6	3	1	2	12	9	+3	10
CRB	6	3	1	2	10	12	-2	10
Gama	6	0	2	4	6	12	−6	2

Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
América-MG	6	4	1	1	13	4	+9	13
Vila Nova	6	4	0	2	7	6	+1	12
Joinville	6	1	2	3	7	9	-2	5
Tuna Luso	6	1	1	4	6	14	-8	4

Final phase

Time P J V E D GP GC SG 1 América-MG 13 6 4 1 1 7 1 6 2 Ponte Preta 11 6 3 2 1 6 6 0 3 Náutico 8 6 2 2 2 9 6 +3 4 Vila Nova 1 6 0 1 5 3 12 -9

AMG NAU PON VIL América-MG — 2-0 0-0 1-0 Náutico 0-2 — 3-0 4-0 Ponte Preta 1-0 1-1 — 1-0 Vila Nova 0-2 1-1 2-3 —

	Promoted to Série A 1998

Final standings

P	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Promotion or relegation
1.	América-MG	46	23	14	4	5	34	18	+16	Promoted to 1999 Série A
2.	Ponte Preta	46	23	13	7	3	35	21	+14
3.	Náutico	33	23	9	6	8	35	29	+6	Reached Final phase group
4.	Vila Nova	29	23	8	5	10	26	28	-2
5.	CRB	29	17	9	2	6	28	25	+3	Reached Third phase
6.	Joinville	25	16	7	4	5	22	20	+2
7.	Gama	24	17	6	6	5	26	20	+6
8.	Tuna Luso	23	17	6	5	6	20	21	-1
9.	Ceará	21	11	6	3	2	10	10	0	Reached the Second phase
10.	Londrina	19	11	6	2	3	15	11	+4
11.	Paysandu	18	11	5	3	3	14	12	+2
12.	Desportiva	15	11	4	3	4	7	8	-1
13.	Americano	15	11	4	3	4	11	14	-3
14.	ABC	13	11	3	4	4	12	14	-2
15.	XV de Piracicaba	12	11	3	3	5	13	18	-5
16.	Atlético-GO	9	10	2	3	5	9	13	-4
17.	Botafogo-SP	10	8	3	1	4	11	14	-3
18.	Remo	8	8	2	2	4	8	8	0
19.	Volta Redonda	8	8	2	2	4	10	11	-1
20.	Santa Cruz	7	8	2	1	5	6	12	0
21.	Mogi Mirim	6	8	1	3	4	10	12	-2	Relegated to 1998 Série C
22.	Sergipe	6	8	1	3	4	9	12	-3
23.	Moto Club	6	8	1	3	4	10	19	-9
24.	Central	5	8	1	2	5	8	11	-3
25.	Goiatuba	2	8	0	2	6	2	8	-6

Sources

• "Brazil Second Level 1997". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2014-02-06.