2012 Campeonato Capixaba

Campeonato Capixaba de Futebol

Season	2012
Champions	Aracruz
Relegated	Colatina Serra
Copa do Brasil	Aracruz
Série D	Aracruz
← 2011 2013 →

The 2012 Campeonato Capixaba de Futebol was the 96th season of Espírito Santo's top professional football league. The competition began on January 21 and ended on May 5. Aracruz won the championship for the 1st time, while Colatina and Serra were relegated.

Format

The tournament consists of a double round-robin format, in which all ten teams play each other twice. The four better-placed teams will face themselves in playoffs matches. The bottom two teams on overall classification will be relegated. Only the champion will qualify for the 2013 Copa do Brasil.

Participating teams

Club	Home city	2011 result	Home Ground
Aracruz	Aracruz	5th	Bambu
Colatina	Colatina	6th	Justiniano de Melo e Silva
Conilon	Jaguaré	1st (2nd division)	Estádio Conilon
Espírito Santo	Anchieta	7th	Estádio Joaquim Viana Ramalheti
Linhares	Linhares	3rd	Estádio Joaquim Calmon
Real Noroeste	Águia Branca	2nd (2nd division)	Estádio José Olímpio da Rocha
Rio Branco	Vitória	1st	Estádio Engenheiro Alencar Araripe
Serra	Serra	8th	Estádio do Sernamby
São Mateus	São Mateus	4th	Robertão
Vitória-ES	Vitória	2nd	Salvador Costa

First stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rio Branco-ES (A)	18	10	3	5	36	23	+13	33	Advances to the Semifinals
2	Aracruz (A)	18	9	6	3	28	20	+8	33
3	Vitória-ES (A)	18	9	4	5	23	15	+8	31
4	Conilon (A)	18	8	6	4	40	23	+17	30
5	São Mateus	18	8	2	8	17	23	−6	26
6	Linhares	18	9	3	6	27	19	+8	024^1
7	Real Noroeste	18	6	4	8	21	23	−2	22
8	Espírito Santo	18	5	3	10	15	26	−11	18
9	Colatina (R)	18	3	8	7	21	27	−6	17	Relegated
10	Serra (R)	18	3	1	14	14	20	−6	10

Updated to games played on 08 December 2012.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1.Linhares was docked 6 points for using an irregular player
(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

Home \ Away^[1]	ARA	COL	CON	EPS	LIN	RNT	RBC	SMA	SER	VIT
Aracruz		2–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Colatina	2–3		1–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0	2–3	1–0
Conilon	1–1	6–3		5–0	1–1	2–1	2–3	3–0	4–0	1–1
Espírito Santo	2–0	0–0	0–3		2–0	3–1	0–2	0–0	3–0	0–2
Linhares	2–3	1–0	2–1	1–0		0–0	0–2	4–1	5–0	1–0
Real Noroeste	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–2		1–2	2–0	3–1	1–1
Rio Branco-ES	3–3	0–0	5–1	2–1	3–2	1–0		1–2	1–2	1–0
São Mateus	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0		1–0	2–1
Serra	2–2	1–2	2–5	2–3	1–3	2–0	1–5	3–4		0–3
Vitória-ES	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	2–0

Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stage

	Semifinals							Finals
	1	Rio Branco	1	2	3
	4	Conilon	2	4	6
								4	Conilon	2	1	3
								2	Aracruz	1	4	5
	2	Aracruz	1	1	2*
	3	Atlético	1	1	2

Semifinals

First leg

Vitória v Aracruz

April 15, 2012 16:00 UTC−03:00

Vitória	1–1	Aracruz
Mineiro  23'	Report	Euler  52'

Salvador Costa, Vitória Attendance: 1163

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Conilon v Rio Branco

April 15, 2012 20:00 UTC−03:00

Conilon	2-1	Rio Branco
Paulinho Pimentel  68' Edu  80'	Report	Ronicley  57'

Centro Esportivo Conilon, Jaguaré Attendance: 1912

Second leg

Aracruz v Vitória

April 20, 2012 19:30 UTC−03:00

Aracruz	1–1	Vitória
David  30'	Report	Mineiro  67'

Estádio Eugênio Antônio Bitti, Aracruz Attendance: 3423

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Rio Branco v Conilon

April 21, 2012 16:00 UTC−03:00

Rio Branco	2-4	Conilon
Leandro  77' Ronicley  90+1'	Report	Paulinho Pimentel  42', 86' Ricardo Paraíba  84' Marcos Alagoano  84'

Estádio Rei Pelé, Maceió Attendance: 1787

Finals

First leg

Conilon v Aracruz

April 28, 2012

Conilon	2–1	Aracruz
Edu Léo		Euler

Second leg

Aracruz v Conilon

May 5, 2012

Aracruz	4–1	Conilon
Cal Santos Nei Gilmar David		Paulinho Pimentel

References