Campeonato Catarinense

Campeonato Catarinense is the Brazilian State of Santa Catarina football league.

History

The Campeonato Catarinense top level had several different names since it started. From its first edition, in 1924, to 1985, it was called just Campeonato Catarinense (Santa Catarina Championship). From 1986 to 2003 it was named Campeonato Catarinense Primeira Divisão (Santa Catarina Championship First Division). In 2004 and in 2005 the competition name was Série A1, and since 2006, the competition is named Divisão Principal (Top Division).

Format

Divisão Principal

First stage
*Teams are divided into a groups of twelve teams.
*One round-robin, in which all teams from one group play games against all teams within the group.

Second stage
*Teams are divided into a groups of twelve teams.
*One round-robin, in which all teams from one group play games against all teams within the group.

Third stage
*Home-and-away playoffs with the top 2 teams of each stage.

The winner of the third stage is crowned the champion.

Clubs

Divisão Principal

*Avaí Futebol Clube
*Brusque Futebol Clube
*Associação Chapecoense de Futebol
*Criciúma Esporte Clube
*Figueirense Futebol Clube
*Sociedade Esportiva, Recreativa e Cultural Guarani
*Clube Atlético Hermann Aichinger
*Joinville Esporte Clube
*Grêmio Esportivo Juventus
*Clube Náutico Marcílio Dias
*Clube Atlético Metropolitano
*Associação Cultural, Recreativa e Esportiva Atlético Tubarão

List of Champions

Titles by Team

*Figueirense 15 times
*Avaí 13 times
*Joinville 12 times
*Criciúma 9 times
*América and Metropol 5 times
*Caxias and Chapecoense 3 times
*Carlos Renaux, Hercílio Luz and Olímpico 2 times
*Atlético Catarinense, Brusque, CIP, Comerciário, Externato, Ferroviário, Internacional de Lages, Lauro Müller, Marcílio Dias, Operário, Paula Ramos, Perdigão and Ypiranga 1 time

External links

* [http://www.fcf.com.br FCF Official Website]