2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D

The 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D, the fourth level of the Brazilian League, was contested by 68 clubs. The competition started on 21 May and ended on 10 September 2017.

Atlético Acreano, Globo, Juazeirense and Operário Ferroviário qualified for the semi-finals and were promoted to the 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C.

Operário Ferroviário won the title after defeating Globo in the final.^[1]

Competition format

In the first stage, 68 teams were divided into seventeen groups of four, organized regionally. The teams played home and away against the other three teams in their group, a total of six games. The winner of each group plus the best 15 runners-up qualified for the second stage. From the second stage on the competition was played as a knock-out tournament with each round contested over two legs. The four semi-finalists qualified for the 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C.^[2]

First stage

Group A1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Atlético Acreano	6	4	1	1	16	6	10	13
2	Princesa do Solimões	6	4	0	2	9	4	5	12
3	Trem	6	3	0	3	7	11	-4	9
4	Real Ariquemes	6	0	1	5	3	14	-11	1

Group A2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Gurupi	6	3	2	1	9	6	3	11
2	São Raimundo[lower-alpha 1]	6	3	1	2	11	7	4	7
3	Fast Clube	6	1	4	1	6	7	-1	7
4	Baré	6	0	3	3	3	9	-6	3

1. ↑ São Raimundo deducted three points for fielding an unregistered player.^[3]

Group A3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Rio Branco	6	4	1	1	10	6	4	13
2	São Francisco	6	2	3	1	7	6	1	9
3	São Raimundo (RR)	6	1	2	3	7	9	-2	5
4	Genus	6	1	2	3	7	10	-3	5

Group A4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Santos	6	4	1	1	11	6	5	13
2	Altos	6	3	1	2	14	6	8	10
3	Cordino	6	2	1	3	5	9	-4	7
4	Tocantins de Miracema	6	1	1	4	5	14	-9	4

Group A5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Guarany de Sobral	6	4	1	1	10	7	3	13
2	Maranhão	6	3	1	2	9	4	5	10
3	Ríver	6	3	0	3	8	9	-1	9
4	Potiguar	6	0	2	4	4	11	-7	2

Group A6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Globo	6	4	0	2	7	3	4	12
2	Parnahyba	6	3	0	3	6	4	2	9
3	América (PE)	6	2	1	3	3	5	-2	7
4	Guarani	6	2	1	3	3	7	-4	7

Group A7

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Juazeirense	6	2	3	1	9	6	3	9
2	Sousa	6	2	3	1	6	4	2	9
3	Coruripe	6	2	1	3	9	10	-1	7
4	Central	6	2	1	3	7	11	-4	7

Group A8

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Fluminense de Feira	6	2	3	1	9	5	4	9
2	Campinense	6	2	2	2	6	5	1	8
3	Atlético Pernambucano	6	2	1	3	9	12	-3	7
4	Itabaiana[lower-alpha 1]	6	2	2	2	8	10	-2	5

1. ↑ Itabaiana deducted three points for fielding an unregistered player.^[4]

Group A9

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	América de Natal	6	5	0	1	13	4	9	15
2	Jacobina	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9
3	Sergipe	6	2	0	4	7	11	-4	6
4	Murici	6	2	0	4	7	12	-5	6

Group A10

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ceilândia	6	3	1	2	8	5	3	10
2	Comercial	6	3	1	2	10	9	1	10
3	Anápolis	6	2	3	1	8	6	2	9
4	Sinop	6	0	3	3	5	11	-6	3

Group A11

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	União Rondonópolis	6	3	2	1	8	6	2	11
2	Aparecidense	6	3	1	2	10	8	2	10
3	Luziânia	6	2	4	0	11	5	6	10
4	Sete de Setembro	6	0	1	5	3	13	-10	1

Group A12

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Portuguesa (RJ)	6	4	2	0	9	2	7	14
2	URT	6	3	1	2	4	5	-1	10
3	Itumbiara	6	2	2	2	5	6	-1	8
4	Osasco Audax	6	0	1	5	4	9	-5	1

Group A13

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Villa Nova	6	2	3	1	6	6	0	9
2	Desportiva Ferroviária	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8
3	Bangu	6	2	2	2	7	8	-1	8
4	Portuguesa (SP)	6	2	1	3	5	4	1	7

Group A14

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Boavista	6	3	2	1	10	7	3	11
2	Espírito Santo	6	2	3	1	6	4	2	9
3	Red Bull Brasil	6	2	1	3	5	5	0	7
4	Caldense	6	2	0	4	6	11	-5	6

Group A15

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Operário Ferroviário	6	4	0	2	6	3	3	12
2	Brusque	6	3	1	2	8	5	3	10
3	XV de Piracicaba	6	3	0	3	7	8	-1	9
4	São Paulo	6	1	1	4	7	12	-5	4

Group A16

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	São Bernardo	6	4	1	1	7	3	4	13
2	Inter de Lages	6	2	2	2	4	4	0	8
3	Foz do Iguaçu	6	1	3	2	4	6	-2	6
4	Novo Hamburgo	6	1	2	3	4	6	-2	5

Group A17

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	São José (RS)	6	4	0	2	13	4	9	12
2	Metropolitano	6	3	1	2	3	5	-2	10
3	Ituano	6	2	2	2	4	4	0	8
4	PSTC	6	1	1	4	3	10	-7	4

Second stage

The Second stage was a two-legged knockout tie, with the draw regionalised.

Qualification and draw

The 32 qualifiers (17 group winners and 15 best performing group runners-up) were divided into two pots. Pot 1 contained the 16 best performing group winners. Pot 2 contained the worst performing group winner and the 15 qualifying group runners-up. In pot 1 the teams were numbered 1 to 16 in numerical order of the group they qualified from. In pot 2 the teams were numbered 17 to 32 in numerical order of the group they qualified from. In the case that one of the qualifying runners-up was from the same group as the worst performing group winner, both teams would be in pot 2 and the group winner would be numbered lower in sequence than the group runner-up.

To keep the draw regionalised Team 1 played Team 18, Team 2 played Team 17 and this pattern was repeated throughout the draw. The higher numbered team played at home in the first leg.^[2]

Ranking of group winners

Ranking of group winners to determine the worst performing team to be placed into pot 2 is achieved by comparing 1) Points gained 2) Most victories 3) Best goal difference 4) Most goals scored 5) Sort.^[2]

Rank	Team	Pts	W	GD	GF	Pot
1	América de Natal	15	5	9	13	Pot 1
2	Portuguesa (RJ)	14	4	7	9	Pot 1
3	Atlético Acreano	13	4	10	16	Pot 1
4	Santos	13	4	5	11	Pot 1
5	Rio Branco	13	4	4	10	Pot 1
6	São Bernardo	13	4	4	7	Pot 1
7	Guarany de Sobral	13	4	3	10	Pot 1
8	São José (RS)	12	4	9	13	Pot 1
9	Globo	12	4	4	7	Pot 1
10	Operário Ferroviário	12	4	3	6	Pot 1
11	Boavista	11	3	3	10	Pot 1
12	Gurupi	11	3	3	9	Pot 1
13	União Rondonópolis	11	3	2	8	Pot 1
14	Ceilândia	10	3	3	8	Pot 1
15	Fluminense de Feira	9	2	4	9	Pot 1
16	Juazeirense	9	2	3	9	Pot 1
17	Villa Nova	9	2	0	6	Pot 2

Ranking of group runners-up

Ranking of group runners-up to determine the 15 best performing teams to be placed into pot 2 is achieved by comparing 1) Points gained 2) Most victories 3) Best goal difference 4) Most goals scored 5) Sort. ^[2]

Rank	Team	Pts	W	GD	GF	Pot
1	Princesa do Solimões	12	4	5	9	Pot 2
2	Altos	10	3	8	14	Pot 2
3	Maranhão	10	3	5	9	Pot 2
4	Brusque	10	3	3	8	Pot 2
5	Aparecidense	10	3	2	10	Pot 2
6	Comercial	10	3	1	10	Pot 2
7	URT	10	3	-1	4	Pot 2
8	Metropolitano	10	3	-2	3	Pot 2
9	Parnahyba	9	3	2	6	Pot 2
10	Jacobina	9	3	0	9	Pot 2
11	Espírito Santo	9	2	2	6	Pot 2
12	Sousa	9	2	2	6	Pot 2
13	São Francisco	9	2	1	7	Pot 2
14	Campinense	8	2	1	6	Pot 2
15	Desportiva Ferroviária	8	2	0	5	Pot 2
16	Inter de Lages	8	2	0	4	Eliminated
17	São Raimundo	7	3	4	11	Eliminated

Qualification pots

Pot 1 # Group Team 1 A1 Atlético Acreano 2 A2 Gurupi 3 A3 Rio Branco 4 A4 Santos 5 A5 Guarany de Sobral 6 A6 Globo 7 A7 Juazeirense 8 A8 Fluminense de Feira 9 A9 América de Natal 10 A10 Ceilândia 11 A11 União Rondonópolis 12 A12 Portuguesa (RJ) 13 A14 Boavista 14 A15 Operário Ferroviário 15 A16 São Bernardo 16 A17 São José (RS)

Pot 2 # Group Team 17 A1 Princesa do Solimões 18 A3 São Francisco 19 A4 Altos 20 A5 Maranhão 21 A6 Parnahyba 22 A7 Sousa 23 A8 Campinense 24 A9 Jacobina 25 A10 Comercial 26 A11 Aparecidense 27 A12 URT 28 A13 Villa Nova 29 A13 Desportiva Ferroviária 30 A14 Espírito Santo 31 A15 Brusque 32 A17 Metropolitano

Ties

The second stage matches were originally scheduled between 1 and 9 July, but they were rescheduled due to the investigation involving São Raimundo. The matches were postponed by the CBF for a week. Finally, the matches were played between 8 and 16 July.^[5]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie number
São Francisco	3–6	Atlético Acreano	3–3	0–3	B1
Princesa do Solimões	4–4 (a)	Gurupi	3–3	1–1	B2
Maranhão	3–1	Rio Branco	2–0	1–1	B3
Altos	3–3 (a)	Santos	2–2	1–1	B4
Sousa	4–4 (3–4 p)	Guarany de Sobral	3–1	1–3	B5
Parnahyba	2–5	Globo	2–3	0–2	B6
Jacobina	3–5	Juazeirense	2–2	1–3	B7
Campinense	1–1 (a)	Fluminense de Feira	1–1	0–0	B8
Aparecidense	0–1	América de Natal	0–0	0–1	B9
Comercial	1–2	Ceilândia	0–1	1–1	B10
Villa Nova	4–1	União Rondonópolis	2–0	2–1	B11
URT	2–1	Portuguesa (RJ)	1–0	1–1	B12
Espírito Santo	4–1	Boavista	1–0	3–1	B13
Desportiva Ferroviária	1–4	Operário Ferroviário	0–2	1–2	B14
Metropolitano	3–4	São Bernardo	1–1	2–3	B15
Brusque	2–2 (a)	São José (RS)	2–1	0–1	B16

Third stage

The third stage was also a two-legged knockout tie, with the draw regionalised. The ties were predetermined from the second stage, with the winner of second stage tie 1 playing the winner of second stage tie 2, etc.^[2] The matches were played between 22 and 30 July.^[6]

Ties

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie number
Gurupi	1–3	Atlético Acreano	1–0	0–3	C1
Maranhão	4–4 (4–3 p)	Santos	2–2	2–2	C2
Guarany de Sobral	1–4	Globo	0–1	1–3	C3
Fluminense de Feira	3–3 (a)	Juazeirense	3–3	0–0	C4
Ceilândia	1–3	América de Natal	0–1	1–2	C5
URT	1–1 (a)	Villa Nova	0–0	1–1	C6
Espírito Santo	1–1 (2–4 p)	Operário Ferroviário	1–0	0–1	C7
São José (RS)	0–0 (4–3 p)	São Bernardo	0–0	0–0	C8

Final stage

The final stage was a two leg knockout competition with quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals rounds. The draw for the quarter-finals was seeded based on the table of results of all matches in the competition for the qualifying teams. First played eighth, second played seventh, etc. The top four seeded teams played the second leg at home. The four quarter-final winners were promoted to Série C for 2018.

The draw for the semi-finals was seeded based on the table of results of all matches in the competition for the qualifying teams. First played fourth, second played third. The top two seeded teams played the second leg at home.

In the finals, the team with the best record in the competition played the second leg at home.^[2]

Quarter-finals seedings

Seed	Team	Pts	W	GD	GF
1	América de Natal	25	8	12	17
2	Globo	24	8	10	16
3	Operário Ferroviário	21	7	6	11
4	Atlético Acreano	20	6	15	25
5	São José (RS)	17	5	9	15
6	Maranhão	16	4	7	16
7	URT	16	4	0	7
8	Juazeirense	15	3	5	17

Quarter-finals ties

The matches were played between 5 and 14 August.^[7]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Juazeirense	4–1	América de Natal	3–0	1–1
URT	1–1 (2–3 p)	Globo	1–0	0–1
Maranhão	2–5	Operário Ferroviário	1–3	1–2
São José (RS)	1–2	Atlético Acreano	0–1	1–1

Semi-finals seedings

Seed	Team	Pts	W	GD	GF
1	Globo	27	9	10	17
2	Operário Ferroviário	27	9	9	16
3	Atlético Acreano	24	7	16	27
4	Juazeirense	19	4	8	21

Semi-finals ties

The matches were played between 19 and 28 August.^[8]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Juazeirense	3–3 (a)	Globo	3–1	0–2
Atlético Acreano	0–2	Operário Ferroviário	0–0	0–2

Final

The matches were played on 3 and 10 September.^[9]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Globo	1–5	Operário Ferroviário	0–5	1–0

September 3, 201717:00 UTC−3

Globo	0–5	Operário Ferroviário
	Report	Tiago Lima  22' (o.g.) Lucas Batatinha  27' (pen.) Quirino  53' Jean Carlo  64' Dione  83'

Manoel Dantas Barretto, Ceará-Mirim

Attendance: 2,181

Referee: Marcelo de Lima Henrique (Rio de Janeiro)

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September 10, 201719:00 UTC−3

Operário Ferroviário	0–1	Globo
	Report	Tiago Lima  24'

Germano Krüger, Ponta Grossa

Attendance: 8,679

Referee: Rodrigo D'Alonso Ferreira (Santa Catarina)

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