2016 Campeonato Catarinense Explained
The 2016 Campeonato Catarinense is the 93rd season of Santa Catarina's top professional football league. The competition began in January and will end in May.
Format
- First stage
- All ten teams play a round-robin playing once against each other team.
- The best team in this stage qualifies to the Final Stage.
- Second stage
- All ten teams play a round-robin playing once against each other team.
- The best team in this stage qualifies to the Final Stage.
- Semifinal stage
- The two teams that won the first and the second stage are joined by the two best teams in the overall standings.
- Home-and-away playoffs between the teams.
- Finals:
- Home-and-away playoffs between the winners of the first and second stages.
- The winner of the Finals is crowned champion.[1]
- Relegation:
Teams
First phase
League table
Notes and References
- Web site: Regulation of 2013 Campeonato Catarinese. FCF. 27 July 2013. 3 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303012528/http://www.fcf.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Regulamento-do-Campeonato-da-Divis%C3%A3o-Principal-de-2013.pdf. dead.