2002 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Season	2002
Champions	Criciúma
Promoted	Criciúma Fortaleza
Relegated	Americano Botafogo-SP Sampaio Corrêa Guarany de Sobral XV de Piracicaba Bragantino
Goals scored	970
Average goals/game	2.86
Top goalscorer	Vinícius (Fortaleza) - 22
← Série B 2001 Série B 2003 →

The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2002, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from August 11 to December 7, 2002. The competition had 26 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série A and six were relegated to Série C.The competition was won by Criciúma.

Criciúma defeated Fortaleza in the finals, and was declared 200s Brazilian Série B champions, claiming the promotion to the 2003 Série A along with Fortaleza, the runner-ups. The six worst ranked teams in the first round ( Americano, Botafogo-SP, Sampaio Corrêa, Guarany de Sobral, XV de Piracicaba and Bragantino) were relegated to play Série C in 2003.

Format

The 26 teams played against each other once. The eight best placed teams qualified to the quarter-finals, in which the eight-placed team played against the first-placed team, the seventh-placed team played against the second-placed team, the sixth-placed team played against the third-placed team, and the fifth-placed team played against the fourth-placed team. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals were played over two legs. The six worst teams in the first stage were relegated to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C of the following year.

Teams

América Mineiro (MG) América-RN (RN) Americano (RJ) Anapolina (GO) Avaí (SC) Botafogo-SP (SP) Bragantino (SP) Caxias (RS) Ceará (CE) CRB (AL) Criciúma (SC) Fortaleza (CE) Joinville (SC)

Jundiaí (SP) Londrina (PR) Malutrom (PR) Mogi Mirim (SP) Náutico (PE) Remo (PA) Sampaio Corrêa (MA) Santa Cruz (PE) São Raimundo (AM) Sport (PE) União São João (SP) Vila Nova (GO) XV de Piracicaba (SP)

Before the start of the championship, Malutrom withdrew, and was replaced by the third-placed team on the final stage of the 2001 Série C, Guarany de Sobral.

First stage

Time		Pts	GP	W	D	L	F	A	+/-
1	Criciúma	51	25	16	3	6	45	34	11
2	Sport	50	25	15	5	5	38	21	17
3	Fortaleza	48	25	15	3	7	48	24	24
4	Santa Cruz	47	25	13	8	4	46	24	22
5	Avaí	46	25	14	4	7	39	20	19
6	América Mineiro	40	25	12	4	9	49	36	13
7	Jundiaí	39	25	11	6	8	37	27	10
8	Remo	38	25	11	5	9	37	35	2
9	CRB	38	25	10	8	7	35	32	3
10	América-RN	36	25	10	6	9	46	35	11
11	Mogi Mirim	35	25	11	2	12	37	39	-2
12	Joinville	34	25	10	4	11	36	44	-8
13	Ceará	33	25	9	6	10	35	27	8
14	Caxias	33	25	9	6	10	31	24	7
15	Vila Nova	33	25	9	6	10	40	35	5
16	União São João	33	25	9	6	10	32	40	-8
17	Anapolina	33	25	8	9	8	33	35	-2
18	Londrina	33	25	8	9	8	28	30	-2
19	São Raimundo	32	25	10	2	13	34	37	-3
20	Náutico	32	25	9	5	11	38	35	3
21	Americano	32	25	9	5	11	34	36	-2
22	Botafogo-SP	30	25	8	6	11	36	60	-24
23	Sampaio Corrêa	25	25	7	4	14	25	50	-25
24	Guarany de Sobral	20	25	5	5	15	28	51	-23
25	XV de Piracicaba	19	25	5	4	16	19	44	-25
26	Bragantino	17	23	4	5	16	23	54	-31

	Qualified to Second Stage
	Relegated to Série C 2004

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg {{TwoLegResult| Jundiaí || 3–2 | [[Sport Club do Recife|Sport]|| 2–1 | 1–1 }}
América Mineiro	0–2	Fortaleza	0–0	0–2
Avaí	2–3	Santa Cruz	1–1	1–2
Remo	2–5	Criciúma	2–1	0–4

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Jundiaí	3–8	Fortaleza	1–6	2–2
Santa Cruz	0–4	Criciúma	0–1	0–3

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3–4	Criciúma	2–0	1–4

Source

• http://www.rsssf.com/tablesb/braz2-02.html