Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2002

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2002
master	Criciúma EC
Climbers	Criciúma EC, Fortaleza EC in the Série A 2003
Relegated	Americano FC (RJ) , Botafogo FC (SP) , Sampaio Corrêa FC , Guarany SC , XV de Novembro , CA Bragantino in the Série C 2003
Teams	26th
Games	339
Gates	970  (ø 2.86 per game)
Top scorer	Vinícius ( Fortaleza EC ) 22 goals
← Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2001 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2003 →
^ Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2002 Série C ↓

The Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2002 was the 23rd season of the second football league in Brazil .

Season course

The competition started its season on August 11, 2002 and ended on December 7, 2002. The championship was organized by the national association CBF . At the end of the season, the Criciúma EC celebrated the championship.

The competition was held in four phases. In the first round , the 26 clubs competed against each other in a group. A return leg was not planned. The best eight clubs moved on to the next round. The last six places in the table meant relegation to the Série C.

In the second round , the eight clubs met in a knockout round. From this quarter-finals onwards, the decisions were made in the first and second leg. The master and the runner-up rose to the first division in 2003 .

Attendees

The J. Malucelli Futebol qualified as 21st of the 2001 season but was excluded. For this, the third of the Série C 2001, the Guarany SC , followed.

The participants were:

State	club	qualification	Result
Alagoas	Clube de Regatas Brasil	6th series B 2001	9.
Amazon	São Raimundo EC (AM)	11th series B 2001	19th
Ceará	Ceará SC	8. Series B 2001	13.
	Fortaleza EC	10th series B 2001	Vice champion ▲
	Guarany SC	3rd series C 2001	24. Descent ▼
Goiás	AA Anapolina	17th series B 2001	17th
	Vila Nova FC	13th series B 2001	15th
Maranhão	Sampaio Corrêa FC	20th series B 2001	23rd descent ▼
Minas Gerais	America Mineiro	27. Series A 2001	7th
Pará	Clube do Remo	19th series B 2001	8th.
Paraná	Londrina EC	15th series B 2001	18th
Pernambuco	Náutico capibaribe	5th series B 2001	20th
	Santa Cruz FC	25th series A 2001	3.
	Sport Recife	28th series A 2001	5.
Rio de Janeiro	Americano FC (RJ)	14th series B 2001	21. Descent ▼
Rio Grande do Norte	América FC (RN)	12th series B 2001	10.
Rio Grande do Sul	SER Caxias do Sul	3rd series B 2001	14th
Santa Catarina	Avaí FC	4th series B 2001	6th
	Criciúma EC	22nd series B 2001	Master ▲
	Joinville EC	9th series B 2001	12.
São Paulo	CA Bragantino	16th series B 2001	26. Descent ▼
	Botafogo FC (SP)	26th series A 2001	22. Descent ▼
	Etti Jundiaí Futebol	1st series C 2001	4th
	Mogi Mirim EC	2nd series C 2001	11.
	União São João EC	7th series B 2001	16.
	EC XV de Novembro (Piracicaba)	18th series B 2001	25. Descent ▼

1 round

In the first round , the 26 clubs competed against each other in a group. A return leg was not planned. The best eight clubs moved on to the next round. The last six places in the table meant relegation to the Série C.

The ranking resulted from:

• Number of points
• Number of victories
• Goal difference
• Goals scored
• Direct comparison

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Criciúma EC	25th	16	3	6th	045:340	+11	51
2.	Sport Recife	25th	15th	5	5	038:210	+17	50
3.	Fortaleza EC	25th	15th	3	7th	048:240	+24	48
4th	Santa Cruz FC	25th	13	8th	4th	046:240	+22	47
5.	Avaí FC	25th	14th	4th	7th	039:200	+19	46
6th	America Mineiro	25th	12	4th	9	049:360	+13	40
7th	Etti Jundiaí Futebol	25th	11	6th	8th	037:270	+10	39
8th.	Clube do Remo	25th	11	5	9	037:350	+2	38
9.	Clube de Regatas Brasil	25th	10	8th	7th	035:320	+3	38
10.	América FC (RN)	25th	10	6th	9	046:350	+11	36
11.	Mogi Mirim EC	25th	11	2	12	037:390	−2	35
12.	Joinville EC	25th	10	4th	11	036:440	−8	34
13.	= Ceará SC	25th	9	6th	10	035:270	+8	33
14th	SER Caxias do Sul	25th	9	6th	10	031:240	+7	33
15th	Vila Nova FC	25th	9	6th	10	040:350	+5	33
16.	União São João EC	25th	9	6th	10	032:400	−8	33
17th	AA Anapolina	25th	8th	9	8th	033:350	−2	33
18th	Londrina EC	25th	8th	9	8th	038:200	+18	33
19th	São Raimundo EC (AM)	25th	10	2	13	034:370	−3	32
20th	Náutico capibaribe	25th	9	5	11	038:350	+3	32
21st	Americano FC (RJ)	25th	9	5	11	034:360	−2	32
22nd	Botafogo FC (SP)	25th	8th	6th	11	036:600	−24	30th
23.	Sampaio Corrêa FC	25th	7th	4th	14th	025:500	−25	25th
24.	Guarany SC	25th	5	5	15th	028:510	−23	20th
25th	XV de Novembro	25th	5	4th	16	019:440	−25	19th
26th	CA Bragantino	25th	4th	5	16	023:540	−31	17th

	Second round qualification
	Relegated Série C 2003

Quarter finals

date		total		First leg	Return leg
November 15/19	Etti Jundiaí Futebol	3: 2	Sport Recife	1: 1	2: 1
November 15/19	America Mineiro	0: 2	Fortaleza EC	0-0	0: 2
11/15/20/11	Avaí FC	2: 3	Santa Cruz FC	1: 1	1: 2
11/16/20/11	Clube do Remo	2: 5	Criciúma EC	2: 1	0: 4

Semifinals

date		total		First leg	Return leg
11/23/26/11	Santa Cruz FC	0: 4	Criciúma EC	0: 1	0: 3
11/23/26/11	Etti Jundiaí Futebol	3: 8	Fortaleza EC	1: 6	2: 2

final

First leg

Fortaleza EC		Criciúma EC
	November 30, 2002 in Estádio Plácido Aderaldo Castelo ( Fortaleza ) Result: 2: 0 (1: 0) Spectators: 55,010 Referee: Wagner Tardelli Match report
	Jéferson - Marcão, Erandir , Ronaldo Angelim , Chiquinho, Kel , Dude, Juninho Cearense 56th , Sérgio, Clodoaldo 88th , Vinícius Reserve Finazzi 56th , Dino 88th Coach: Luiz Carlos Cruz	Fabiano Borges , Paulo Baier , Cametá, Luciano, Luciano Almeida 62. , Cléber Gaúcho , Sandro , Juca , Dejair , Delmer 85. , Tico 69. Reserve Douglas 62. , Ânderson Lobão 69. , Walter 85. Coach: Edson Gaúcho
	1: 0 20 ′ Vinícius 2: 0 59 ′ Finazzi
	Dude	Cléber Gaúcho, Sandro, Luciano Almeida, Luciano, Paulo Baier

Return leg

Criciúma EC		Fortaleza EC
	December 7, 2002 in Estádio Heriberto Hülse ( Criciúma ) Result: 4: 1 (1: 0) Referee: Paulo César de Oliveira Match report
	Fabiano Borges - Cléber Gaúcho , Cametá, Luciano - Paulo Baier , Cléber 68. , Juca , Dejair , Luciano Almeida 74. - Ânderson Lobão 46. , Delmer Reserve Tico 46th , Edinho 68th , Sandro 74th Coach: Edson Gaúcho	Jéferson - Marcão, Erandir , Ronaldo Angelim , Chiquinho - Sérgio, Dino 61. , Kel , Juninho Cearense 33. - Clodoaldo 70. , Vinícius Reserve Alyson 33. , Finazzi 61. , Rogério 70. Coach: Luiz Carlos Cruz
	1: 0 45 + 1 ′ Paulo Baier 2: 0 55 ′ Dejair 3: 0 59 ′ Paulo Baier 4: 1 78 ′ Paulo Baier	3: 1 69 ′ ( penalty ) Vinícius
	Cléber, Luciano Almeida, Paulo Baier	Finazzi, Marcão
		Chiquinho (36th)
	Delmer, Juca (90.)	Finazzi, Vinícius (90.)

List of goalscorers

Pl.	Nat.	player	club	Gates
1		Vinícius	Fortaleza EC	22nd
2		Marquinhos Rato	Clube de Regatas Brasil	17th
3		Janderson Espíndola	AA Anapolina	14th
		Delmo	São Raimundo EC (AM)	14th
5		Baré	São Raimundo EC (AM)	12
6th		Carlo André	América FC (RN)	11
		Clodoaldo	Fortaleza	11
		Graphite	Santa Cruz FC	11
		Jaílson	Santa Cruz FC	11
		Mota	Ceará SC	11

Closing table

The table was used to determine the placement of the individual teams in the season. At times it was used by the association to determine an eternal ranking list. It is made up of all the games played. In the sorting, reaching the respective final phase has priority over the points scored.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Criciúma EC	31	20th	3	8th	058:390	+19	63
2.	Fortaleza EC	31	18th	5	8th	061:310	+30	59
3.	Santa Cruz FC	29	14th	9	6th	049:300	+19	51
4th	Etti Jundiaí Futebol	29	12	8th	9	043:370	+6	44
5.	Sport Recife	27	15th	6th	6th	040:240	+16	51
6th	Avaí FC	27	14th	5	8th	041:230	+18	47
7th	America Mineiro	27	12	5	10	049:380	+11	41
8th.	Clube do Remo	27	12	5	10	039:400	−1	41
9.	Clube de Regatas Brasil	25th	10	8th	7th	035:320	+3	38
10.	América FC (RN)	25th	10	6th	9	046:350	+11	36
11.	Mogi Mirim EC	25th	11	2	12	037:390	−2	35
12.	Joinville EC	25th	10	4th	11	036:440	−8	34
13.	= Ceará SC	25th	9	6th	10	035:270	+8	33
14th	SER Caxias do Sul	25th	9	6th	10	031:240	+7	33
15th	Vila Nova FC	25th	9	6th	10	040:350	+5	33
16.	União São João EC	25th	9	6th	10	032:400	−8	33
17th	AA Anapolina	25th	8th	9	8th	033:350	−2	33
18th	Londrina EC	25th	8th	9	8th	038:200	+18	33
19th	São Raimundo EC (AM)	25th	10	2	13	034:370	−3	32
20th	Náutico capibaribe	25th	9	5	11	038:350	+3	32
21st	Americano FC (RJ)	25th	9	5	11	034:360	−2	32
22nd	Botafogo FC (SP)	25th	8th	6th	11	036:600	−24	30th
23.	Sampaio Corrêa FC	25th	7th	4th	14th	025:500	−25	25th
24.	Guarany SC	25th	5	5	15th	028:510	−23	20th
25th	XV de Novembro	25th	5	4th	16	019:440	−25	19th
26th	CA Bragantino	25th	4th	5	16	023:540	−31	17th

	Promoted to Série A 2003
	Participants semi-finals
	Participants 2nd round
	Relegated Série C 2003

Web links

• Summary on rsssfbrasil.com
• Summary on bolanaarea.com
• Summary on fussballzz.de
• Match report on tribunapr.com.br from December 7, 2002, page in portug., Accessed on October 10, 2019