2011 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

The 2011 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the Brasileirão Petrobras 2011 for sponsorship reasons) was the 55th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top-level of professional football in Brazil. It began on May 21 and was scheduled to end on December 4.^[3] Fluminense comes in as the defending champion having won the 2010 season.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Season	2011
Champions	Corinthians 5th Campeonato Brasileiro title 5th Brazilian title
Relegated	Atlético Paranaense Ceará América-MG Avaí
Copa Libertadores	Santos (title holder) Corinthians Fluminense Flamengo Internacional
Copa Sudamericana	São Paulo Figueirense Coritiba Botafogo Palmeiras Grêmio Atlético Goianiense Bahia
Matches played	380
Goals scored	1,017 (2.68 per match)
Top goalscorer	Borges (23 goals)
Biggest home win	Cruzeiro 6-1 Atlético Mineiro (December 4)^[1] Coritiba 5–0 Botafogo (September 11)^[1] Cruzeiro 5–0 Avaí (August 13)^[1] Palmeiras 5–0 Avaí (June 19)^[1] Corinthians 5–0 São Paulo (June 16)^[1]
Biggest away win	Atlético Mineiro 0–4 Internacional (June 30)^[1] Figueirense 0-4 Fluminense (November 20)^[1]
Highest scoring	Santos 4–5 Flamengo (July 27)^[1] Fluminense 5-4 Grêmio (November 16)^[1]
Longest winning run	7 games — Corinthians (June 12–July 28)
Longest unbeaten run	16 games — Flamengo (May 21–August 18)
Longest winless run	12 games - Cruzeiro (August 28-current)
Longest losing run	5 games — Botafogo (November 5–current)
Highest attendance	63,871 — October 2, 2011 (São Paulo 1-2 Flamengo)^[2]
Lowest attendance	732 — July 31, 2011 (América (MG) 1-3 Coritiba)^[2]
Average attendance	14,600^[2]
← 2010 2012 →

Format

For the ninth consecutive season, the tournament will be played in a double round-robin system. The team with most points will be declared the champion. The bottom-four teams will be relegated for the following season.

International qualification

The Série A will serve as a qualifier to CONMEBOL's 2012 international tournaments. The top-two teams in the standings will qualify to the Second Stage of the 2012 Copa Libertadores, while the next third and fourth place in the standings will qualify to the First Stage. The next eight best teams in the standings will earn berths to the Second Stage of the 2012 Copa Sudamericana.

Team information

Vitória, Guarani, Goiás and Grêmio Prudente were relegated to the 2011 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B after finishing in the bottom four spots of the table at the end of the 2010 season. Goiás were relegated to the Série B after eleven seasons of continuous membership in the top football league of Brazil, while Vitória ended a three-year tenure in Série A and Grêmio Prudente ended a two-year appearance. Guarani made their immediate return to the second level.

The four relegated teams were replaced by four 2010 Série B sides. Champions Coritiba, made their immediate return to Série A, runners-up Figueirense, who returned after two years, third placed Bahia, who returned to the top flight after seven seasons at lower levels, and fourth placed América Mineiro, who returned to the league for the first time in eight years.

 

 

Atlético Goianiense

 

Atlético Paranaense

 

Avaí

 

Bahia

 

Ceará

 

Coritiba

 

Figueirense

 

Grêmio

 

Internacional

 

Belo Horizonte

 

São Paulo Metro Area

 

Rio de Janeiro

 

Belo Horizonte teams:
América (MG)
Atlético Mineiro
Cruzeiro
Rio de Janeiro teams:
Botafogo
Flamengo
Fluminense
Vasco da Gama
São Paulo Metro Area teams:
Corinthians
Palmeiras
Santos
São Paulo

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Locations of the 2011 Série A teams

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
América (MG)	Belo Horizonte	Arena do Jacaré Parque do Sabiá (3 matches) Morenão (one match)	18,000 50,000 45,000
Atlético Goianiense	Goiânia	Serra Dourada	50,049
Atlético Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	Arena do Jacaré Ipatingão (4 matches)	18,000 20,500
Atlético Paranaense	Curitiba	Arena da Baixada	28,237
Avaí	Florianópolis	Ressacada	19,000
Bahia	Salvador	Pituaçu	31,677
Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro	Engenhão São Januário (2 matches) Raulino de Oliveira (one match)	44,000 22,150 20,255
Ceará	Fortaleza	Presidente Vargas	20,600
Corinthians	São Paulo	Pacaembu Fonte Luminosa (one match)	37,952 20,287
Coritiba	Curitiba	Couto Pereira	38,000
Cruzeiro	Belo Horizonte	Arena do Jacaré Parque do Sabiá (3 matches) Ipatingão (one match)	18,000 50,000 20,500
Figueirense	Florianópolis	Orlando Scarpelli	19,069
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Engenhão Moacyrzão (4 matches)	44,000 15,000
Fluminense	Rio de Janeiro	Engenhão Raulino de Oliveira (3 matches) São Januário (one match)	44,000 20,255 22,150
Grêmio	Porto Alegre	Olímpico	45,000
Internacional	Porto Alegre	Beira-Rio	56,000
Palmeiras	São Paulo	Canindé (10 matches) Pacaembu (6 matches) Prudentão (one match) Teixeirão (one match) Arena Barueri (one match)	21,004 37,952 44,414 32,936 31,452
Santos	Santos	Vila Belmiro Pacaembu (4 matches)	21,256 37,952
São Paulo	São Paulo	Morumbi Arena Barueri (one match) Vail Chaves (one match)	67,428 31,452 19,900
Vasco da Gama	Rio de Janeiro	São Januário Engenhão (3 matches)	22,150 44,000

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager^1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt main sponsor
América (MG)	Givanildo Oliveira	Gabriel Santos	Kanxa	Fiat
Atlético Goianiense	Hélio dos Anjos	Márcio	Super Bolla	SKY
Atlético Mineiro	Cuca	Réver	Topper	BMG Bank
Atlético Paranaense	Antônio Lopes	Paulo Baier	Umbro	Philco
Avaí	Toninho Cecílio	William	Fanatic	Intelbras
Bahia	Joel Santana	Titi	Lotto	OAS
Botafogo	Caio Júnior	Sebastián Abreu	Fila	Hypermarcas
Ceará	Dimas Filgueiras	Fabrício	Penalty	Hypermarcas
Corinthians	Tite	Alessandro	Nike	Hypermarcas
Coritiba	Marcelo Oliveira	Pereira	Lotto	BMG Bank
Cruzeiro	Vágner Mancini	Fábio	Reebok	BMG Bank
Figueirense	Jorginho	João Paulo	Fila	Taschibra
Flamengo	Vanderlei Luxemburgo	Ronaldinho	Olympikus	Procter & Gamble
Fluminense	Abel Braga	Fred	Adidas	Unimed
Grêmio	Celso Roth	Fábio Rochemback	Topper	Banrisul
Internacional	Dorival Júnior	Bolívar	Reebok	Banrisul
Palmeiras	Luiz Felipe Scolari	Marcos Assunção	Adidas	Fiat
Santos	Muricy Ramalho	Edu Dracena	Umbro	BMG Bank
São Paulo	Émerson Leão	Rogério Ceni	Reebok	BMG Bank
Vasco da Gama	Ricardo Gomes/Cristóvão Borges	Juninho Pernambucano	Penalty	Eletrobras

• ¹ According to current revision League managers

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Santos	Adílson Batista	Sacked	February 27	Pre-season	Muricy Ramalho	April 8
Fluminense	Muricy Ramalho	Resigned	March 13	Pre-season	Abel Braga	June 8
Ceará	Dimas Filgueiras	Contract ended	March 31	Pre-season	Vágner Mancini	April 1
Atlético Goianiense	Renê Simões	Sacked	April 1	Pre-season	Paulo César Gusmão	April 3
Atlético Paranaense	Geninho	Sacked	April 4	Pre-season	Adílson Batista	April 5
Internacional	Celso Roth	Sacked	April 8	Pre-season	Falcão	April 14
Bahia	Vágner Benazzi	Sacked	April 10	Pre-season	Renê Simões	April 14
Avaí	Silas	Left to sign with Al-Arabi	June 8	20th	Alexandre Gallo	June 14
Cruzeiro	Cuca	Sacked	June 19	18th	Joel Santana	June 20
Grêmio	Renato Gaúcho	Sacked	June 30	12th	Júlio Camargo	July 2
Atlético Paranaense	Adílson Batista	Sacked	July 2	20th	Renato Gaúcho	July 4
São Paulo	Paulo César Carpegiani	Sacked	July 7	3rd	Adílson Batista	July 16
América (MG)	Mauro Fernandes	Sacked	July 11	18th	Antônio Lopes	July 12
Internacional	Falcão	Sacked	July 18	8th	Dorival Júnior	August 12
Atlético Goianiense	Paulo César Gusmão	Personal problems	July 21	17th	Hélio dos Anjos	August 12
América (MG)	Antônio Lopes	Resigned	August 1	20th	Givanildo Oliveira	August 2
Grêmio	Júlio Camargo	Sacked	August 4	15th	Celso Roth	August 4
Atlético Mineiro	Dorival Júnior	Sacked	August 7	14th	Cuca	August 8
Avaí	Alexandre Gallo	Sacked	August 18	19th	Toninho Cecílio	August 22
Vasco da Gama	Ricardo Gomes	Health problems (temporarily)	August 28	4th	Cristóvão Borges (caretaker)	August 29
Atlético Paranaense	Renato Gaúcho	Resigned	September 1	19th	Antônio Lopes	September 1
Cruzeiro	Joel Santana	Sacked	September 2	11th	Emerson Ávila	September 2
Bahia	René Simões	Sacked	September 2	16th	Joel Santana	September 4
Ceará	Vágner Mancini	Sacked	September 11	15th	Estevam Soares	September 14
Cruzeiro	Emerson Ávila	Sacked	September 26	16th	Vágner Mancini	September 26
São Paulo	Adílson Batista	Sacked	October 16	6th	Émerson Leão	October 24
Ceará	Estevam Soares	Sacked	October 23	17th	Dimas Filgueiras	October 24
Avaí	Toninho Cecílio	Sacked	November 14	20th	Edson Neguinho (caretaker)	November 14
Botafogo	Caio Júnior	Sacked	November 17	5th	Flavio Tenius (caretaker)	November 17

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Corinthians (C)	38	21	8	9	53	36	+17	71	2012 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
2	Vasco da Gama	38	19	12	7	57	40	+17	69	2012 Copa Libertadores Second Stage^[a]
3	Fluminense	38	20	3	15	60	51	+9	63	2012 Copa Libertadores Second Stage
4	Flamengo	38	15	16	7	59	47	+12	61	2012 Copa Libertadores First Stage
5	Internacional	38	16	12	10	57	43	+14	60
6	São Paulo	38	16	11	11	57	46	+11	59	2012 Copa Sudamericana Second Stage
7	Figueirense	38	15	13	10	46	45	+1	58
8	Coritiba	38	16	9	13	57	41	+16	57
9	Botafogo	38	16	8	14	52	49	+3	56
10	Santos	38	15	8	15	55	55	0	53	2012 Copa Libertadores Second Stage^[b]
11	Palmeiras	38	11	17	10	43	39	+4	50	2012 Copa Sudamericana Second Stage
12	Grêmio	38	13	9	16	49	57	−8	48
13	Atlético Goianiense	38	12	12	14	50	45	+5	48
14	Bahia	38	11	13	14	43	49	−6	46
15	Atlético Mineiro	38	13	6	19	50	60	−10	45
16	Cruzeiro	38	11	10	17	48	51	−3	43
17	Atlético Paranaense	38	10	11	17	38	55	−17	41	Relegation to Série B
18	Ceará	38	10	9	19	47	64	−17	39
19	América Mineiro	38	8	13	17	51	69	−18	37
20	Avaí	38	7	10	21	45	75	−30	31

Updated to match(es) played on December 4, 2011. Source: ^[2]
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) Champions
Notes:

1. Vasco da Gama is qualified for the second stage of the 2012 Copa Libertadores as the 2011 Copa do Brasil champion.
2. Santos is qualified for the second stage of the 2012 Copa Libertadores as the 2011 Copa Libertadores champion.

Results

Home \ Away	AMG	ACG	CAM	CAP	AVA	BAH	BOT	CEA	COR	CTB	CRU	FIG	FLA	FLU	GRE	INT	PAL	SAN	SPA	VAS
América Mineiro		1–2	0–0	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	4–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	0–0	2–3	3–0	2–2	2–4	1–1	1–2	1–1	4–1
Atlético Goianiense	5–1		1–0	0–3	0–1	0–1	2–0	4–1	0–1	3–1	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–1
Atlético Mineiro	2–0	2–2		3–0	2–0	2–0	4–0	1–1	2–3	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	0–4	2–1	2–1	0–1	1–2
Atlético Paranaense	2–2	2–1	0–1		0–0	0–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–0	2–2	3–2	1–0	2–2
Avaí	2–2	2–2	1–3	3–0		2–2	3–2	1–2	3–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–2	1–3^[a]	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–2
Bahia	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–2		1–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	3–3	3–0	1–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	4–3	0–2
Botafogo	4–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	2–1	2–2		4–0	0–2^[b]	3–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	2–2	4–0
Ceará	4–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	0–3	3–0	2–2		0–1	3–2	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–3	0–2	1–3
Corinthians	2–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–2		2–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	2–0	3–2	1–0^[a]	0–0	1–3	5–0	2–1
Coritiba	3–1	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	5–0	3–1	1–0		2–1	3–0	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	3–4	5–1
Cruzeiro	0–0	3–2	6–1	1–1	5–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–1		2–4	0–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–3	0–3
Figueirense	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–0	1–0		2–2	0–4	0–0^[b]	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–1
Flamengo	2–1	1–4	4–1	1–2	4–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–1	0–0		3–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–0
Fluminense	1–2	3–2	0–2	3–1	3–1	0–1	1–2	4–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	3–0	0–1		5–4	2–0	1–0	3–2	0–2	1–2
Grêmio	1–1	2–2	2–2	4–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	1–3	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–3	4–2	2–1		2–1	2–2	1–0^[c]	1–0	1–1
Internacional	4–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	4–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	3–2	4–1	2–2	1–2	1–0		2–2	3–3	0–3	3–0
Palmeiras	1–1	2–0	3–2	1–0	5–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–2	0–0^[b]	1–2	0–0	0–3		3–0	1–0	1–1
Santos	1–0^[c]	1–1	2–1	4–1	3–1	1–1	2–0^[c]	1–0	0–0^[c]	2–3	1–0	2–3	4–5	2–1^[c]	0–1	1–1	1–0		1–1	2–0
São Paulo	3–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	2–0	3–0	0–2	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	3–1	0–0	1–1	4–1		0–2
Vasco da Gama	3–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	2–2	2–0	0–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	4–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on December 4, 2011. Source: ^[2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. These matches, previously scheduled for July 28 (v. Corinthians), and July 24 (v. Avaí) were delayed to July 14 and July 21, respectively, because of the Audi Cup 2011.
2. These matches previously scheduled for July 17 were postponed to July 20, because of the Brazil v Paraguay, by 2011 Copa América.
3. These matches previously scheduled for June 18 (v. Corinthians), June 26 (v. América), July 7 (v. Fluminense), July 24 (v. Grêmio), and September 4 (v. Botafogo) were postponed to August 10, July 2, August 24, October 5 and October 19, respectively, because of the 2011 Copa Libertadores Finals, 2011 Copa América, 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, and friendly Brazil v Ghana.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Nationality	Club	Goals
1	Borges	Brazilian	Santos	23
2	Fred	Brazilian	Fluminense	22
3	Deivid	Brazilian	Flamengo	15
4	Leandro Damião	Brazilian	Internacional	14
	Ronaldinho	Brazilian	Flamengo	14
	William	Brazilian	Avaí	14
7	Sebastián Abreu	Uruguayan	Botafogo	13
	Kempes	Brazilian	América-MG	13
	Neymar	Brazilian	Santos	13
10	Anselmo	Brazilian	Atlético Goianiense	12
	Liédson	Portuguese	Corinthians	12
	Walter Montillo	Argentine	Cruzeiro	12
	Thiago Neves	Brazilian	Flamengo	12

References

1. "Brasileirão 2011 Stats". Footballzz. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
2. [Campeonato Brasileiro Série A] (in Portuguese). Brazilian Football Confederation. Archived from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
3. [2011 Schedule] (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 14, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2010.

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