Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2012

Série A
master	Fluminense FC
Cup winners	Palmeiras São Paulo
Relegated	Sport Recife Palmeiras São Paulo Atlético Goianiense Figueirense FC
Teams	20th
Games	380
Gates	940  (ø 2.47 per game)
spectator	4,933,500  (ø 12,983 per game)
Top scorer	Fred (20 goals)
← Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2011 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2013 →
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2012 ↓

The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2012 was the 56th season of the Brazilian Série A .

Atlético Goianiense Atlético Mineiro Bahia Coritiba Cruzeiro Figueirense Gremio Internacional Nautico Ponte Preta Santos Sports São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Teams from Rio de Janeiro Botafogo Flamengo Fluminense Vasco da Gama Teams from São Paulo Corinthians Palmeiras Portuguesa São Paulo

An overview of the participating clubs

Venues

society	city	Stadion	capacity
Atlético Goianiense	Goiânia	Estádio Serra Dourada	41,574
Atlético Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	Estádio Independência	15,000
EC Bahia	Salvador da Bahia	Estádio de Pituaçu	32,157
Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro	Estádio Olímpico João Havelange	45,000
Corinthians	São Paulo	Estádio do Pacaembu	37,730
Coritiba FC	Curitiba	Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira	34,872
Cruzeiro	Belo Horizonte	Estádio Raimundo Sampaio	15,000
Figueirense	Florianópolis	Estádio Orlando Scarpelli	19,584
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Estádio Olímpico João Havelange	45,000
Fluminense	Rio de Janeiro	Estádio Olímpico João Havelange	45,000
Gremio	Porto Alegre	Estádio Olímpico Monumental	45,000
Internacional	Porto Alegre	Estádio Beira-Rio	56,000
Nautico	Recife	Estádio Eládio de Barros Carvalho	19,800
Palmeiras	São Paulo	Arena Barueri Estádio do Pacaembu	31,452 37,730
Ponte Preta	Campinas	Estádio Moisés Lucarelli	17,728
Portuguesa	São Paulo	Estádio do Canindé	21.004
FC Santos	Santos	Estádio Urbano Caldeira	16,798
Sao Paulo FC	São Paulo	Estádio do Morumbi	67,428
Sport Recife	Recife	Estádio Ilha do Retiro	30,520
CR Vasco da Gama	Rio de Janeiro	Estádio São Januário	24,585

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Fluminense	38	22nd	11	5	061:330	+28	77
2.	Atlético Mineiro	38	20th	12	6th	064:370	+27	72
3.	Gremio Porto Alegre	38	20th	11	7th	056:330	+23	71
4th	Sao Paulo FC	38	20th	6th	12	059:370	+22	66
5.	Vasco da Gama (P)	38	16	10	12	045:440	+1	58
6th	Corinthians São Paulo (M) 1	38	15th	12	11	051:390	+12	57
7th	Botafogo	38	15th	10	13	060:500	+10	55
8th.	FC Santos	38	13	14th	11	050:440	+6	53
9.	Internacional	38	13	13	12	044:400	+4	52
10.	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	38	15th	7th	16	047:510	−4	52
11.	Flamengo	38	12	14th	12	039:460	−7	50
12.	Nautico (N)	38	14th	7th	17th	044:510	−7	49
13.	Coritiba	38	14th	6th	18th	053:600	−7	48
14th	Ponte Preta (N)	38	12	12	14th	037:440	−7	48
15th	Bahia	38	11	14th	13	037:410	−4	47
16.	Portuguesa (N)	38	10	15th	13	039:410	−2	45
17th	Sport Recife (N) 2	38	10	11	17th	039:560	−17	41
18th	Palmeiras	38	9	7th	22nd	039:540	−15	34
19th	Atlético Goianiense	38	7th	9	22nd	037:670	−30	30th
20th	Figueirense	38	7th	9	22nd	039:720	−33	30th
Source: transfermarkt.de

	Qualified for the second round of the Copa Libertadores
	Qualified for the first round of the Copa Libertadores
	Relegated to the Série B
(M)	Champion of the previous year
(P)	Cup winner of the previous year
(N)	Last year's climber

¹ Qualified for the Copa Libertadores as the winner of the Copa Libertadores

² Qualified for the Copa Libertadores as cup winners

Crosstab

Source :

2012
Fluminense		0-0	2: 2	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1	1-0	3: 1	0-0	0: 2	1-0	2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	4-0	4: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 2	2: 2
Atlético Mineiro	3: 2		0-0	1-0	1-0	1-0	3: 2	2-0	3: 1	3: 2	1: 1	5: 1	1-0	2: 2	1: 1	2-0	2: 1	3-0	2: 2	6-0
Gremio Porto Alegre	1-0	0: 1		2: 1	2-0	2-0	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	2-0	2-0	0-0	1-0	3: 1	1: 2	3: 1	1-0	2: 1	4-0
Sao Paulo FC	1: 1	1-0	1: 2		0: 1	3: 1	4-0	1-0	1: 1	1-0	4: 1	2: 1	3: 1	3-0	1-0	3: 1	1-0	3-0	2-0	2-0
Vasco da Gama	1: 2	1: 1	2: 1	0: 2		0-0	1-0	2-0	1: 2	1: 3	1: 1	4: 2	2: 2	3: 2	0: 4	2-0	0: 3	3: 1	1-0	3: 1
Corinthians São Paulo	0: 1	1-0	3: 1	1: 2	1-0		1: 3	1: 1	1-0	2-0	3: 2	2: 1	5: 1	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	3-0	2: 1	1: 1	1: 1
Botafogo	1: 1	2: 3	0: 1	4: 2	3: 2	2: 2		0: 2	1: 1	2: 3	0-0	3: 1	2-0	1: 2	3-0	3-0	2-0	1: 2	4-0	1-0
FC Santos	1: 1	2: 2	4: 2	0-0	2-0	3: 2	0-0		1: 1	4: 2	2-0	0-0	2: 2	2: 1	1: 3	1: 3	0-0	3: 1	2: 2	2-0
Internacional	0: 1	3-0	0: 1	1-0	0-0	0: 2	1: 2	0-0		2: 1	4: 1	0-0	2-0	2: 1	3: 1	0: 2	2: 2	2: 1	4: 1	2: 3
Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	1: 1	2: 2	1: 3	2: 3	1: 1	2-0	1: 3	0: 4	0-0		1-0	3-0	2: 1	1: 2	3: 1	2-0	1-0	2: 1	0-0	1-0
Flamengo	0: 1	2: 1	1: 1	1-0	1-0	0: 3	2: 2	1-0	3: 3	1: 1		2-0	3: 1	0: 1	0-0	0-0	1: 1	1: 1	3: 2	1-0
Nautico	0: 2	1-0	1-0	3-0	1: 1	2: 1	3: 2	3-0	3-0	0-0	0: 1		3: 4	3-0	1-0	0-0	1-0	1-0	2-0	3: 2
Coritiba	0: 2	1-0	2: 1	1: 1	1: 2	1: 2	2: 3	1: 2	1-0	4-0	3-0	2: 1		1-0	2: 1	2-0	2: 3	1: 1	3-0	3-0
Ponte Preta	1: 2	0: 1	0-0	0-0	0-0	1-0	0-0	1-0	1-0	1-0	2: 2	2: 1	4: 1		0: 2	2: 1	1: 1	1-0	3: 1	2: 2
Bahia	0: 2	0-0	1: 1	1-0	1: 2	0-0	2-0	0-0	1: 1	0: 1	1: 2	1: 1	2: 2	1-0		0-0	2: 1	0: 1	1: 1	2: 1
Portuguesa	0: 2	1: 1	2: 2	1-0	0: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	1: 1	0: 2	0-0	3: 1	3-0	0-0	0: 1		5: 1	3-0	2-0	2-0
Sport Recife	1: 1	1: 4	1: 3	2: 4	0: 2	1: 1	2-0	2: 1	0: 2	2: 1	1: 1	0-0	1-0	3: 1	1: 1	2: 1		2: 1	0-0	0: 1
Palmeiras	2: 3	0: 1	0-0	1: 1	1: 1	0: 2	2: 2	1: 2	0: 1	2-0	1-0	3-0	0: 1	3-0	0: 2	1: 1	3: 1		1: 2	3: 1
Atlético Goianiense	1: 4	1: 1	0: 1	4: 3	0: 1	0: 2	1: 2	2: 1	3: 1	0: 2	1: 2	0: 1	1: 2	1: 1	0: 1	1: 1	0: 1	2: 1		3: 2
Figueirense	2: 2	3: 4	2: 4	0: 2	1: 1	1-0	0: 2	1: 3	0: 1	2-0	0: 2	2: 1	3: 1	0-0	1: 1	0-0	1: 1	1: 3	3: 1

List of goalscorers

Fred

Source:

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1		Fred	Fluminense	20th
2		Luís Fabiano	Sao Paulo FC	17th
3		Neymar	FC Santos	14th
		Aloísio	Figueirense
		Hernán Barcos	Palmeiras São Paulo
		Bruno Mineiro	Portuguesa
7th		Vágner Love	Flamengo	13
		Kieza	Nautico
9		Bernard	Atlético Mineiro	11
		Elkelson	Botafogo
11		Ronaldinho	Flamengo Atlético Mineiro	10
		Jô	Atlético Mineiro
		Marcelo Moreno	Gremio Porto Alegre
14th		Caio	Figueirense	9
		Alecandro	Vasco da Gama
		Wellington Paulista	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte
		Roger	Ponte Preta

The Fluminense FC championship team

Source:

1.

Fluminense FC

Goal: Diego Cavalieri (35 games / no goal); Ricardo Berna (3/0) Defense: Anderson (11/1); Bruno Vieira (27/1); Carlinhos (32/1); Digao (17/2); Elivelton (2/0); Gum (34/2); Igor Julião (1/0); Leandro Euzebio (19/3); Rafinha (1/0); Thiago Carleto (8/1); Wallace (18/1); Wellington Carvalho (1/0) Midfield: Deco (17/1); Diguinho (13/0); Edinho (33/0); Edwin Valencia (9/0); Fábio (8/0); Higor Leite (7/0); Jean (35/2); Lucas (1/0); Manuel Lanzini (6/1); Thiago Neves (29/5); Wagner (29/1) Attack: Biro Biro (1/0); Fred (28/20); Marcos Júnior (16/1); Matheus Carvalho (8/0); Michael (5/1); Rafael Sóbis (21/3); Rafael Moura (3/0); Samuel (23/5); Wellington Nem (27/6)

Awards

Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão

Source:

• Best player: Fred
• Eleven of the season: Diego Cavalieri - Marcos Rocha , Leonardo Silva , Réver , Bruno Cortês - Carlinhos , Paulinho , Jean , Ronaldinho , Lucas - Fred , Neymar
• Best player (fan voting): Ronaldinho
• Best newcomer: Bernard
• Best coach: Abel Braga
• Best referee: Nielson Nogueira Dias

Bola de Ouro

• Best player: Ronaldinho

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Table in transfermarkt.de , accessed on May 27, 2013.
2. ↑ Cross table at Transfermarkt.de (accessed on May 27, 2013)
3. ↑ List of goalscorers at Transfermarkt.de (accessed on May 27, 2013)
4. ↑ Squad of Fluminense FC at Soccerway.com (accessed May 27, 2013)
5. ↑ The winners on the website of the Brazilian Football Association ( Memento of November 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese, accessed on May 27, 2013)