2008 Campeonato Catarinense

The 83rd season of the Campeonato Catarinense will begin on January 16, 2008, and ended on May 4, 2008.

Format
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. The champions and the runner up qualify to Copa do Brasil 2009 and the champions qualify to Campeonato Brasileiro Série C 2008. The tree teams with the worst positions are release to Divisão Especial 2008.

Participating teams



 * Atlético de Ibirama - Ibirama
 * Atlético Tubarão - Tubarão ²
 * Avaí - Florianópolis
 * Brusque - Brusque
 * Chapecoense - Chapecó
 * Criciúma - Criciúma
 * Figueirense - Florianópolis
 * Guarani - Palhoça
 * Joinville - Joinville ¹
 * Juventus - Jaraguá do Sul
 * Metropolitano - Blumenau
 * Marcílio Dias - Itajaí

¹ Divisão Especial 2007 Champion ² Divisão de Acesso 2007 Champion

Second stage
* Atlético de Ibirama was punished, because of the "fall-fall", realized in the game Atlético x Avaí. The scores were changed from 2x0 to 3x0.

Third stage
* In Criciúma, because the Criciúma have better Punctuation in the two stages (Stage 1 points + Stage 2 points).

Tablewise

 * First Stage Games
 * Second Stage Games

Other Divisions
Divisão Especial: 12 Teams
 * Champion: Brusque - Qualify to Divisão Principal 2009
 * Runner-up: Juventus
 * 10th Place: Inter de Lages - Release to Divisão de Acesso 2009
 * 11th Place: Grêmio Timbó - Release to Divisão de Acesso 2009
 * 12th Place: Guarani - Release to Divisão de Acesso 2009

Divisão de Acesso: 5 Teams


 * Champion: Porto - Qualify to Divisão Especial 2009
 * Runner-up:Videira - Qualify to Divisão Especial 2009