1985 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Season	1985
Champions	Coritiba; 1st Campeonato Brasileiro title; 1st Brazilian title
Copa Libertadores; de América	Coritiba; Bangu;
Top goalscorer	Edmar (Guarani) - 20 goals
Biggest home win	Flamengo 7-0 Santa Cruz (March 13, 1985)
Biggest away win	America-RJ 0-4 Internacional (January 27, 1985); Goiás 0-4 Corinthians (March 6, 1985); Corumbaense 1-5 Ponte Preta (April 17, 1985);
Highest scoring	Paysandu 5-4 Sampaio Corrêa (April 10, 1985)
	← 1984 1986 →

The 1985 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 29th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Coritiba won the championship for the first time, beating Bangu in the finals; both qualified for the 1986 Copa Libertadores. This season bears the bizarre distinction of being one of the few seasons in recorded top-level professional worldwide football history in which a team won the national championship outright while scoring fewer goals than it allowed. Coritiba won the title despite finishing with a negative overall goal differential. Another example is the 1986 K League, another split phase competition where the team that won a phase performed badly in another, before winning a finals knock out competition to win the championship. Uberlândia finished with a goal differential of zero, but ended in 37th place.

Format

There was a first phase (which consisted of two rounds), a second phase, a semifinal, and a final. During the first two phases, a win counted as two points while a draw counted as one, as was common at the time.

First phase, Groups A and B: 20 clubs, selected from past championship records, divided into two groups of 10, with each club playing only the clubs of the other group. There were two rounds played. The winner of each group in each round would qualify (four teams in all). In addition, the two teams in each group with the best overall points from both rounds added together would qualify for the second phase. Therefore, a total of eight teams would qualify from Groups A and B.
First phase, Groups C and D: 24 clubs, 22 selected from their records in the 1984 state championships, plus the finalists of the 1984 Série B, divided into two groups of 12, playing in two rounds, with each club playing only the clubs of their own group. Again, two full rounds were played. The winner of each round in each group would qualify (four teams in all). In addition, the two teams in each group with the best overall points from both rounds added together would qualify for the second phase. Therefore, a total of eight teams would qualify from Groups C and D.
Second phase: The 16 qualified teams of the first phase were placed into four mini-leagues (or groups) with four teams each. The teams played each other twice inside their own mini-league, and the winners of each mini-league qualified to the semifinals.
Semifinal: The four qualified teams were placed into two brackets of two teams with the teams in each bracket playing twice (home and away), and the winners, decided on aggregate score, qualified to the finals.
Finals: Played by the two qualified teams, in a single match, at the stadium of the finalist with the best record throughout the championship. In case of a draw in normal time, a penalty shootout would be used to determine the champions.

First phase

First round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro	10	6	3	1	17	8	+9	15	Second phase
2	São Paulo (state) Corinthians	10	5	3	2	14	6	+8	13
3	São Paulo (state) Guarani	10	5	2	3	17	12	+5	12
4	Rio Grande do Sul Grêmio	10	3	6	1	13	9	+4	12
5	Rio de Janeiro (state) Botafogo	10	4	2	4	14	16	−2	10
6	Rio de Janeiro (state) Fluminense	10	3	4	3	12	11	+1	10
7	São Paulo (state) Palmeiras	10	3	2	5	13	14	−1	8
8	Paraná (state) Coritiba	10	3	1	6	8	14	−6	7
9	Rio de Janeiro (state) America-RJ	10	2	2	6	8	15	−7	6
10	Pernambuco Santa Cruz	10	2	2	6	8	20	−12	6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Rio de Janeiro (state) Flamengo	10	6	2	2	12	5	+7	14	Second phase
2	Rio Grande do Sul Internacional	10	6	1	3	18	9	+9	13
3	Rio de Janeiro (state) Vasco da Gama	10	4	3	3	18	16	+2	11
4	Pernambuco Náutico	10	4	3	3	11	9	+2	11
5	São Paulo (state) São Paulo	10	4	2	4	17	19	−2	10
6	São Paulo (state) Santos	10	4	2	4	11	13	−2	10
7	Minas Gerais Cruzeiro	10	3	4	3	11	10	+1	10
8	Bahia Bahia	10	3	4	3	8	10	−2	10
9	São Paulo (state) Portuguesa	10	2	2	6	9	16	−7	6
10	Goiás Goiás	10	1	4	5	10	17	−7	6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pernambuco Sport	11	9	1	1	19	3	+16	19	Second phase
2	Mato Grosso Mixto	11	5	4	2	12	10	+2	14
3	Paraíba Botafogo-PB	11	4	6	1	9	7	+2	14
4	Alagoas CSA	11	5	3	3	16	11	+5	13
5	Ceará Ceará	11	4	5	2	14	8	+6	13
6	Pará Paysandu	11	3	6	2	11	8	+3	12
7	Amazonas (Brazilian state) Nacional-AM	11	4	1	6	15	18	−3	9
8	Piauí Flamengo-PI	11	3	3	5	7	10	−3	9
9	Rio Grande do Norte ABC-RN	11	3	3	5	10	15	−5	9
10	Maranhão Sampaio Corrêa	11	1	6	4	12	16	−4	8
11	Sergipe Sergipe	11	2	2	7	6	17	−11	6
12	Pará Remo	11	1	4	6	10	18	−8	6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Rio de Janeiro (state) Bangu	11	7	3	1	15	6	+9	17	Second phase
2	São Paulo (state) Ponte Preta	11	7	3	1	15	6	+9	17
3	Santa Catarina (state) Joinville	11	7	1	3	16	6	+10	15
4	Bahia Leônico	11	5	2	4	14	15	−1	12
5	Paraná (state) Pinheiros	11	4	4	3	13	10	+3	12
6	Rio Grande do Sul Brasil de Pelotas	11	4	3	4	16	16	0	11
7	Federal District (Brazil) Brasília	11	4	3	4	12	12	0	11
8	Espírito Santo Desportiva Ferroviária	11	4	0	7	12	17	−5	8
9	Minas Gerais Villa Nova	11	3	2	6	10	15	−5	8
10	Minas Gerais Uberlândia	11	2	4	5	11	14	−3	8
11	Goiás Vila Nova-GO	11	2	4	5	11	17	−6	8
12	Mato Grosso do Sul Corumbaense	11	1	3	7	4	15	−11	5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	9	Semifinals
2	São Paulo (state) Guarani	6	1	4	1	9	5	+4	6
3	São Paulo (state) Ponte Preta	6	1	4	1	4	3	+1	6
4	Alagoas CSA	6	0	3	3	1	10	−9	3

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Brasil de PelotasRio Grande do Sul	1–4	Rio de Janeiro (state)Bangu	0–1	1–3
CoritibaParaná (state)	1–0	Minas GeraisAtlético Mineiro	1–0	0–0

Bangu Rio de Janeiro (state)	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Paraná (state) Coritiba
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Penalties
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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Coritiba	29	12	7	10	25	27	−2	31
2	Bangu	31	20	8	3	55	23	+32	48
3	Brasil de Pelotas	30	14	8	8	48	33	+15	36
4	Atlético Mineiro	28	13	9	6	37	23	+14	35
5	Sport	28	20	5	3	49	16	+33	45
6	Ponte Preta	28	13	12	3	41	21	+20	38
7	Ceará	28	14	8	6	39	29	+10	36
8	Joinville	28	13	6	9	36	23	+13	32
9	Flamengo	26	11	8	7	40	23	+17	30
10	Internacional	26	11	8	7	36	23	+13	30
11	Vasco da Gama	26	11	8	7	37	31	+6	30
12	Bahia	26	11	7	8	35	29	+6	29
13	CSA	28	10	9	9	33	29	+4	29
14	Mixto	28	10	9	9	27	36	−9	29
15	Guarani	26	8	13	5	36	26	+10	29
16	Corinthians	26	9	9	8	27	22	+5	27
17	Fluminense	20	7	7	6	24	21	+3	21
18	Grêmio	20	6	9	5	25	21	+4	21
19	Botafogo	20	9	2	9	26	36	−10	20
20	Náutico	20	8	4	8	25	28	−3	20
21	Santos	20	7	6	7	23	25	−2	20
22	São Paulo	20	7	6	7	36	39	−3	20
23	Cruzeiro	20	5	8	7	23	22	+1	18
24	Palmeiras	20	5	8	7	28	28	0	18
25	Goiás	20	5	6	9	21	27	−6	16
26	Portuguesa	20	4	7	9	19	26	−7	15
27	América-RJ	20	4	5	11	19	31	−12	13
28	Santa Cruz	20	4	3	13	21	47	−26	11
29	Paysandu	22	8	9	5	26	21	+5	25
30	Nacional	22	10	4	8	39	29	+10	24
31	Botafogo-PB	22	7	10	5	21	23	−2	24
32	Brasília	22	8	7	7	22	22	0	23
33	Pinheiros	22	7	9	6	21	17	+4	23
34	Vila Nova-GO	22	7	6	9	25	34	−9	20
35	Leônico	22	7	3	12	21	33	−12	17
36	Desportiva Capixaba	22	7	3	12	18	30	−12	17
37	Uberlândia	22	6	5	11	26	26	0	17
38	ABC	22	6	5	11	27	33	−6	17
39	Flamengo-PI	22	5	5	12	14	24	−10	15
40	Villa Nova-MG	22	5	5	12	18	31	−13	15
41	Remo	22	5	4	13	19	38	−19	14
42	Corumbaense	22	4	5	13	16	37	−21	13
43	Sampaio Corrêa	22	2	8	12	24	43	−19	12
44	Sergipe	22	3	5	14	15	37	−22	11

v t e Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
2024 clubs	Athletico Paranaense Atlético Goianiense Atlético Mineiro Bahia Botafogo Corinthians Criciúma Cruzeiro Cuiabá Flamengo Fluminense Fortaleza Grêmio Internacional Juventude Palmeiras Red Bull Bragantino São Paulo Vasco da Gama Vitória
Copa dos Campeões Estaduais (FBF)	1937
Taça Brasil	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa	1967 1968 1969 1970
Campeonato Nacional de Clubes	1971 1972 1973 1974
Copa Brasil	1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1984 1986
Taça de Ouro	1980 1981 1982 1983 1985
Copa União	1987 1988
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A	1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Copa João Havelange	2000
Champions Top Scorers 1987 Copa União Bola de Ouro Prêmio Craque do Brasileirão Troféu Osmar Santos Troféu João Saldanha Triple Crown Winning managers Goalscoring goalkeepers

1985 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Format

First phase

First round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Overall, aggregated results from the first phase

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Second phase

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Semifinals

Finals

Final standings

References

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