2012 Campeonato Cearense

Campeonato Cearense de Futebol

Season	2012
Champions	Ceará
Relegated	Itapipoca Trairiense Crateús
Copa do Brasil	Ceará Fortaleza
Série D	Horizonte
Matches played	138
Goals scored	407 (2.95 per match)
Top goalscorer	Felipe Azevedo(Ceará) - 16 goals
← 2011 2013 →

The 2012 Campeonato Cearense de Futebol was the 98th season of the top professional football league in the state of Ceará, Brazil. The competition began on January 18 and ended on May 13. Ceará won the championship for the 41st time, while Itapipoca, Trairiense and Crateús were relegated.

Format

Each team plays the other once in a round-robin format followed by four team playoff with home-and-away series.

Qualifications

The two teams on the finals will qualify for the 2013 Copa do Brasil and 2013 Copa do Nordeste. The best team not playing in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, B or C will qualify for 2012 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.

Teams

Club	Home city	2011 result
Ceará	Fortaleza	1st
Crateús	Crateús	2nd (2nd division)
Crato	Crato	9th
Ferroviário	Fortaleza	10th
Fortaleza	Fortaleza	3rd
Guarani de Juazeiro	Juazeiro do Norte	2nd
Guarany	Sobral	5th
Horizonte	Horizonte	4th
Icasa	Juazeiro do Norte	8th
Itapipoca	Itapipoca	7th
Tiradentes	Fortaleza	6th
Trairiense	Trairi	1st (2nd division)

First Stage

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ceará	22	17	3	2	52	17	+35	54	Advanced to the Semifinals
2	Fortaleza	22	16	4	2	42	19	+23	52
3	Horizonte	22	14	2	6	50	30	+20	44
4	Tiradentes	22	11	5	6	36	29	+7	38
5	Crato	22	9	7	6	28	26	+2	34
6	Guarani de Juazeiro	22	9	2	11	36	36	0	29
7	Guarany de Sobral	22	6	7	9	28	33	−5	25
8	Icasa	22	7	4	11	22	38	−16	25
9	Ferroviário-CE	22	5	6	11	29	42	−13	21
10	Trairiense	22	4	5	13	27	40	−13	17
11	Crateús	22	7	5	10	30	36	−6	0131.
12	Itapipoca	22	1	4	17	13	47	−34	7

Updated to games played on 17 April 2012.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored; 4th less red cards; 5th less yellow cards ; 6th raffle;
1. Crateús was docked 13 points for using an irregular player
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away

CEA

CTE

CTO

FER

FOR

GNI

GNY

HOR

ICA

ITA

TIR

TRA

Ceará

2–1

2–2

1–0

1–2

5–0

3–1

3–0

2–0

3–0

5–1

2–1

Crateús

1–1

2–1

2–1

1–2

1–4

1–0

1–1

3–0

4–2

1–1

1–0

Crato

2–4

1–0

2–0

0–0

1–0

3–2

0–2

2–0

3–0

1–2

1–1

Ferroviário-CE

1–2

3–3

0–1

1–3

2–1

3–2

1–4

0–1

1–1

3–3

3–2

Fortaleza

0–1

4–0

1–0

4–1

3–2

2–1

3–2

2–0

2–0

3–1

1–0

Guarani de Juazeiro

0–3

2–2

2–2

3–2

2–3

0–1

1–0

2–1

5–0

0–1

4–0

Guarany de Sobral

1–1

0–1

1–1

1–1

1–1

2–1

2–4

3–1

2–0

3–2

2–1

Horizonte

0–3

3–2

5–1

3–0

1–0

0–1

1–1

5–0

3–1

1–2

4–1

Icasa

2–0

2–1

0–1

0–0

1–2

3–2

1–1

2–3

3–0

0–2

2–1

Itapipoca

0–3

1–0

1–2

1–3

0–1

0–2

0–0

1–2

2–2

1–1

0–1

Tiradentes

1–3

3–2

0–0

1–2

0–0

4–0

1–0

1–2

3–0

2–1

3–1

Trairiense

1–2

2–0

1–1

1–1

3–3

0–2

4–1

3–4

1–1

2–1

0–1

Source:
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final Stage

	Semifinals							Finals
	1	Ceará	2	4	6
	4	Tiradentes	0	0	0
								1	Ceará	0	1	1
								2	Fortaleza	0	1	1
	2	Fortaleza	4	1	5
	3	Horizonte	1	0	1

Semifinals

First leg

Tiradentes v Ceará

April 22, 2013 16:00 UTC−03:00

Tiradentes	0–2	Ceará
	Report	Régis  24' Felipe Azevedo  26'

Estádio Presidente Vargas, Fortaleza Attendance: 5,056 Referee: Almeida Filho

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Horizonte v Fortaleza

April 22, 2013 16:00 UTC−03:00

Horizonte	1–4	Fortaleza
Elanardo  59'	Report	Jailson  09' Geraldo  18' Marielson  65' Cléo  74'

Domingão, Horizonte Attendance: 4,668 Referee: Evandro Roman

Second leg

Fortaleza v Horizonte

April 28, 2013 16:20 UTC−03:00

Fortaleza	1–0	Horizonte
Ciro Sena  48'	Report

Estádio Presidente Vargas, Fortaleza Attendance: 9,712 Referee: Avelar Rodrigo

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Ceará v Tiradentes

April 29, 2013 16:00 UTC−03:00

Ceará	4–0	Tiradentes
Régis  01' Apodi  35' Mota  37', 57'	Report

Estádio Presidente Vargas, Fortaleza Attendance: 6,550 Referee: Luzimar Siqueira

Finals

Fortaleza v Ceará

May 6, 2013 16:00 UTC−03:00

Fortaleza	0–0	Ceará
	Report

Estádio Presidente Vargas, Fortaleza Attendance: 13,832 Referee: Héber Roberto Lopes

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Ceará v Fortaleza

April 13, 2013 16:00 UTC−03:00

Ceará	1–1	Fortaleza
Felipe Azevedo  76'	Report	Jailson  61'

Estádio Presidente Vargas, Fortaleza Attendance: 15,967 Referee: Ricardo Marques Ribeiro

Ceará won due to better campaign on First stage.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Felipe Azevedo	Ceará	16
2	André Cassaco	Horizonte	15
3	Mota	Ceará	14
	Alex Paraíba	Trairiense	14
5	Moré	Guarani de Juazeiro	13
6	Canga	Ferroviário	9
	Geraldo	Fortaleza	9
8	Romário	Ceará	8
	Elanardo	Horizonte	8
	Vanger	Horizonte	8
	Wanderley	Horizonte	8

Source Federação Cearense de Futebol
Last updated: 14 May 2012