2016 Campeonato Paulista

Campeonato Paulista - Série A1

Season	2016
Relegated	Água Santa Mogi Mirim XV de Piracicaba Oeste Capivariano Rio Claro
Matches played	156
Goals scored	408 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Roger (11 goals)
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The 2016 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 is the 115th season of São Paulo's top professional football league.

Format

• In the first stage the twenty teams are drawn, with seeding, into four groups of five teams each, with each team playing once against the fifteen clubs from the other three groups. After each team has played fifteen matches, the top two teams of each group qualify for the quarter-final stage.
• After the completion of the first stage, the six clubs with the lowest number of points, regardless of the group, will be relegated to the Campeonato Paulista Série A2.
• If the four clubs with the lowest number of points are from the same group, the best third-placed club from the other groups will qualify for the quarter-final stage.
• Quarter-finals and semi-finals are played in a single match, with the best placed first stage team playing at home. The finals are played in a two-legged home and away fixture, with the best placed first stage team playing the second leg at home.
• In case of a draw in any knockout stage, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. Higher number of wins;
2. Superior goal difference;
3. Higher number of goals scored;
4. Fewest red cards received;
5. Fewest yellow cards received;
6. Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.

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Teams

Club	Home city	Manager	2015 result
Água Santa	Diadema	Márcio Bittencourt	4th (Série A2)
Audax	Osasco	Fernando Diniz	9th
Botafogo-SP	Ribeirão Preto	Márcio Fernandes	7th
Capivariano	Capivari	Roberto Fernandes	14th
Corinthians	São Paulo	Tite	3rd
Ferroviária	Araraquara	Ricardo Moraes	1st (Série A2)
Ituano	Itu	Tarcísio Pugliese	11th
Linense	Lins	Moacir Júnior	16th
Mogi Mirim	Mogi Mirim	Flávio Araújo	12th
Novorizontino	Novo Horizonte	Guilherme	2nd (Série A2)
Oeste	Itápolis	Serjão	3rd (Série A2)
Palmeiras	São Paulo	Cuca	2nd
Ponte Preta	Campinas	Alexandre Gallo	5th
Red Bull Brasil	Campinas	Mauricio Barbieri	6st
Rio Claro	Rio Claro	Sérgio Guedes	15th
Santos	Santos	Dorival Júnior	1st
São Bento	Sorocaba	Paulo Roberto Santos	10th
São Bernardo	São Bernardo do Campo	Sérgio Soares	13th
São Paulo	São Paulo	Edgardo Bauza	4th
XV de Piracicaba	Piracicaba	Luiz Carlos Ferreira	8th

Source: Futebol Paulista

First stage

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals
Six bottom teams (independent of group) are relegated

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Santos (Q)	15	9	5	1	28	14	+14	32
São Bento (Q)	15	7	6	2	21	11	+10	27
Linense (E)	15	4	8	3	21	19	+2	20
Botafogo-SP (E)	15	4	7	4	15	14	+1	19
Oeste (R)	15	3	4	8	13	20	−7	13

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Palmeiras (Q)	15	7	3	5	25	17	+8	24
São Bernardo (Q)	15	6	5	4	22	21	+1	23
Ponte Preta (E)	15	6	4	5	22	16	+6	22
Ituano (E)	15	6	4	5	19	19	0	22
Novorizontino (E)	15	5	6	4	24	21	+3	21

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Audax (Q)	15	7	3	5	24	21	+3	24
São Paulo (Q)	15	6	4	5	17	14	+3	22
Ferroviária (E)	15	5	2	8	19	21	−2	17
XV de Piracicaba (R)	15	3	6	6	12	19	−7	15
Capivariano (R)	15	2	4	9	14	29	−15	10

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Corinthians (Q)	15	11	2	2	26	8	+18	35
Red Bull Brasil (Q)	15	7	1	7	24	22	+2	22
Água Santa (R)	15	4	4	7	17	29	−12	16
Mogi Mirim (R)	15	4	3	8	12	23	−11	15
Rio Claro (R)	15	2	3	10	9	26	−17	9

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

A1

Santos

2

A2

São Bento

0

A1

Santos

2 (3)

B1

Palmeiras

2 (2)

B1

Palmeiras

2

B2

São Bernardo

0

A1

Santos

1

C1

Audax

1

D1

Corinthians

4

D2

Red Bull Brasil

0

D1

Corinthians

2 (1)

C1

Audax

2 (4)

C1

Audax

4

C2

São Paulo

1

Note : Semifinal bracklet depend on general table: 1 vs 4 ; 2 vs 3

General table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Santos	18	10	7	1	33	17	+16	37	Qualified to Final
2	Audax	18	8	5	5	31	25	+6	29
3	Corinthians	17	12	3	2	32	10	+22	39	Eliminated in semifinals
4	Palmeiras	17	8	4	5	29	19	+10	28
5	São Bento	16	7	6	3	21	13	+8	27	Eliminated in quarterfinals
6	São Bernardo	16	6	5	5	22	23	−1	23
7	Red Bull Brasil	16	7	1	8	24	26	−2	22
8	São Paulo	16	6	4	6	18	18	0	22
9	Ponte Preta	15	6	4	5	22	16	+6	22
10	Ituano	15	6	4	5	19	19	0	22
11	Novorizontino	15	5	6	4	24	21	+3	21
12	Linense	15	4	8	3	21	19	+2	20
13	Botafogo-SP	15	4	7	4	15	14	+1	19
14	Ferroviária	15	5	2	8	19	21	−2	17
15	Água Santa (R)	15	4	4	7	16	28	−12	16	Relegation to  2017 Campeonato Paulista Série A2
16	Mogi Mirim (R)	15	4	3	8	12	23	−11	15
17	XV de Piracicaba (R)	15	3	6	6	12	19	−7	15
18	Oeste (R)	15	3	4	8	13	19	−6	13
19	Capivariano (R)	15	2	4	9	17	34	−17	10
20	Rio Claro (R)	15	2	3	10	9	26	−17	9

Updated to games played on 1 May 2016.
Source: Soccerway.com
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.
(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.

Top scorers

As of 25 April 2016

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1.	Roger	Red Bull Brasil	11
2.	Rodrigo Andrade	Audax	8
	Alecsandro	Palmeiras
3.	William Pottker	Linense	7
	Wellington Paulista	Ponte Preta
	Gabriel	Santos

References

1. "Regulamento do Paulistão 2015" (PDF). FPF.

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