2002 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
Season	2002
Champions	Criciúma
Promoted	Criciúma Fortaleza
Relegated	Americano Botafogo-SP Sampaio Corrêa Guarany de Sobral XV de Piracicaba Bragantino
Goals scored	970
Average goals/game	2.86
Top goalscorer	Vinícius (Fortaleza) - 22
← Série B 2001 Série B 2003 →

The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2002, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from August 11 to December 7, 2002. The competition had 26 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série A and six were relegated to Série C.The competition was won by Criciúma.

Criciúma defeated Fortaleza in the finals, and was declared 2002 Brazilian Série B champions, claiming the promotion to the 2003 Série A along with Fortaleza, the runners-up. The six worst ranked teams in the first round ( Americano, Botafogo-SP, Sampaio Corrêa, Guarany de Sobral, XV de Piracicaba and Bragantino) were relegated to play Série C in 2003.

Format

The 26 teams played against each other once. The eight best placed teams qualified to the quarter-finals, in which the eight-placed team played against the first-placed team, the seventh-placed team played against the second-placed team, the sixth-placed team played against the third-placed team, and the fifth-placed team played against the fourth-placed team. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals were played over two legs. The six worst teams in the first stage were relegated to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C of the following year.

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	2001 Season
América Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	Independência	27th in Série A
América de Natal	Natal	Machadão	12th in Série B
Americano	Rio de Janeiro	Godofredo Cruz	14th in Série B
Anapolina	Anápolis	Jonas Duarte	17th in Série B
Avaí	Florianópolis	Ressacada	4th in Série B
Botafogo-SP	Ribeirão Preto	Santa Cruz	26th in Série A
Bragantino	Bragança Paulista	Nabi Abi Chedid	16th in Série B
Caxias	Caxias do Sul	Centenário	3rd in Série B
Ceará	Fortaleza	Castelão	8th in Série B
CRB	Maceió	Pajuçara	6th in Série B
Criciúma	Criciúma	Heriberto Hülse	22nd in Série B
Fortaleza	Fortaleza	Castelão	9th in Série B
Guarany de Sobral	Sobral	Junco	3rd in Série C^[1]
Joinville	Joinville	Ernestão	9th in Série B
Jundiaí	Jundiaí	Jayme Cintra	1st in Série C
Londrina	Londrina	Café	15th in Série B
Mogi Mirim	Mogi Mirim	Vail Chaves	2nd in Série C
Náutico	Recife	Aflitos	5th in Série B
Remo	Belém	Mangueirão	19th in Série B
Santa Cruz	Recife	Arruda	25th in Série A
São Raimundo	Manaus	Ismael Benigno	11th in Série B
Sampaio Corrêa	São Luís	Castelão	20th in Série B
Sport	Recife	Ilha do Retiro	28th in Série A
União São João	Araras	Herminião	7th in Série B
Vila Nova	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	13th in Série B
XV de Piracicaba	Piracicaba	Barão de Serra Negra	18th in Série B

First stage

P	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Promotion or relegation
1.	Criciúma	51	25	16	3	6	45	34	+11	Qualified to Quarterfinals
2.	Sport	50	25	15	5	5	38	21	+17
3.	Fortaleza	48	25	15	3	7	48	24	+24
4.	Santa Cruz	47	25	13	8	4	46	24	+22
5.	Avaí	46	25	14	4	7	39	20	+19
6.	América Mineiro	40	25	12	4	9	49	36	+13
7.	Jundiaí	39	25	11	6	8	37	27	+10
8.	Remo	38	25	11	5	9	37	35	+2
9.	CRB	38	25	10	8	7	35	32	+3
10.	América-RN	36	25	10	6	9	46	35	+11
11.	Mogi Mirim	35	25	11	2	12	37	39	-2
12.	Joinville	34	25	10	4	11	36	44	-8
13.	Ceará	33	25	9	6	10	35	27	+8
14.	Caxias	33	25	9	6	10	31	24	+7
15.	Vila Nova	33	25	9	6	10	40	35	+5
16.	União São João	33	25	9	6	10	32	40	-8
17.	Anapolina	33	25	8	9	8	33	35	-2
18.	Londrina	33	25	8	9	8	28	30	-2
19.	São Raimundo	32	25	10	2	13	34	37	-3
20.	Náutico	32	25	9	5	11	38	35	+3
21.	Americano	32	25	9	5	11	34	36	-2	Relegated to 2003 Série C
22.	Botafogo-SP	30	25	8	6	11	36	60	-24
23.	Sampaio Corrêa	25	25	7	4	14	25	50	-25
24.	Guarany de Sobral	20	25	5	5	15	28	51	-23
25.	XV de Piracicaba	19	25	5	4	16	19	44	-25
26.	Bragantino	17	25	4	5	16	23	54	-31

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jundiaí	3–2	Sport	2–1	1–1
América Mineiro	0–2	Fortaleza	0–0	0–2
Avaí	2–3	Santa Cruz	1–1	1–2
Remo	2–5	Criciúma	2–1	0–4

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jundiaí	3–8	Fortaleza	1–6	2–2
Santa Cruz	0–4	Criciúma	0–1	0–3

Finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3–4	Criciúma	2–0	1–4

Sources

http://www.rsssf.com/tablesb/braz2-02.html

References

↑ gained a berth in the Série B after Malutrom withdrew.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

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