The 2018 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 was the 117th season of São Paulo's top professional football league.
Format In the first stage the sixteen teams are drawn, with seeding, into four groups of four teams each, with each team playing once against the twelve clubs from the other three groups. After each team has played twelve matches, the top two teams of each group qualify for the quarter-final stage. After the completion of the first stage, the two clubs with the lowest number of points, regardless of the group, will be relegated to the Campeonato Paulista Série A2. Quarter-finals, semi-finals and 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: Higher number of wins; Superior goal difference; Higher number of goals scored; Fewest red cards received; Fewest yellow cards received; Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.
Teams Club Home city Manager 2017 result Botafogo-SP Ribeirão PretoLéo Condé Bragantino Bragança Paulista Marcelo Veiga Corinthians São Paulo (Tatuapé)Fábio Carille Ferroviária Araraquara PC Oliveira Ituano Itu Vinícius Bergantin Linense Lins Márcio Fernandes Mirassol Mirassol Moisés Egert Novorizontino Novo Horizonte Doriva Palmeiras São Paulo (Perdizes)Roger Machado Ponte Preta Campinas Eduardo Baptista Red Bull Brasil Campinas Ricardo Catalá Santo André Santo André Sérgio Soares Santos Santos Jair Ventura São Bento Sorocaba Paulo Roberto Santos São Caetano São Caetano do Sul Pintado São Paulo São Paulo (Morumbi)Diego Aguirre Source: Futebol Paulista
First stage Key to colours in group tablesGroup winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finalsTwo bottom teams (independent of group) are relegated
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
Bracket
Campeonato Paulista2018 ChampionCorinthians29th Title
General table
Awards Team of the year
Pos. Player Club GK JailsonPalmeiras DF Marcos RochaPalmeiras DF Fabián BalbuenaCorinthians DF Antônio CarlosPalmeiras DF Victor LuisPalmeiras MF Felipe MeloPalmeiras MF RodriguinhoCorinthians MF Lucas LimaPalmeiras FW DuduPalmeiras FW Miguel BorjaPalmeiras FW GabrielSantos MAN Roger MachadoPalmeiras
Player of the Season The Player of the Year was awarded to Jailson.
Young Player of the Season The Young Player of the Year was awarded to Rodrygo.
Countryside Best Player of the Season The Countryside Best Player of the Year was awarded to Bruno Moraes.
Top scorer of the Season The top scorer of the season was Miguel Borja, who scored seven goals.
Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1. Miguel BorjaPalmeiras72. Bruno MoraesBotafogo-SP5 Matheus PeixotoBragantino3. DuduPalmeiras4 GabrielSantos JuninhoNovorizontino KenoPalmeiras RodriguinhoCorinthians SafiraNovorizontino WillianPalmeiras WilsonLinense
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