2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

Season	2004
Champions	Brasiliense
Promoted	Brasiliense Fortaleza
Relegated	América-RN Remo América Mineiro Joinville Mogi Mirim Londrina
Goals scored	842
Average goals/game	2.70
Top goalscorer	Rinaldo (Fortaleza) - 14
← Série B 2003 Série B 2005 →

The football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2004, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from April 23 to December 11, 2004. The competition had 24 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série A and six were relegated to Série C.

In the first round, each team played against each other, much like what happens in Série A. However, in contrast to Série A, each team played against the other only once. Therefore, each team played 23 games, 12 home and 11 away (or the opposite). The eight best ranked teams advanced to the second round, where they were divided in two groups of four. Teams in each group played against each other home and away. The two best ranked teams in each group advanced to the final round. Those four teams were put in a single group, and played against each other home and away.

Brasiliense finished the final phase group with most points and was declared 2004 Brazilian Série B champions, claiming the promotion to the 2005 Série A along with Fortaleza, the runners-up. The six worst ranked teams in the first round (América-RN, Remo, América Mineiro, Joinville, Mogi Mirim and Londrina) were relegated to play Série C in 2005.

Teams

América Mineiro (MG) América-RN (RN) Anapolina (GO) Avaí (SC) Bahia (BA) Brasiliense (DF) Caxias (RS) Ceará (CE) CRB (AL) Fortaleza (CE) Joinville (SC) Ituano (SP)

Londrina (PR) Marília (SP) Mogi Mirim (SP) Náutico (PE) Paulista (SP) Portuguesa (SP) Remo (PA) Santa Cruz (PE) Santo André (SP) São Raimundo (AM) Sport (PE) Vila Nova (GO)

First stage

Time		Pts	GP	W	D	L	F	A	+/-
1	Brasiliense	46	23	13	7	3	43	22	21
2	Náutico	45	23	14	3	6	46	27	19
3	Bahia	43	23	13	4	6	38	24	14
4	Ituano	42	23	12	6	5	41	20	21
5	Fortaleza	39	23	11	6	6	43	29	14
6	Marília	36	23	10	6	7	28	30	-2
7	Avaí	36	23	10	6	7	28	30	-1
8	Santa Cruz	35	23	10	5	8	35	25	10
9	Paulista	35	23	10	5	8	32	32	0
10	Caxias	34	23	10	4	9	30	32	-2
11	Portuguesa	31	23	8	7	8	31	31	0
12	Ceará	30	23	9	3	11	30	33	-3
13	Anapolina	30	23	9	3	11	25	29	-4
14	Santo André (*)	29	23	12	5	6	38	28	10
15	CRB	29	23	7	8	8	32	33	-1
16	São Raimundo	28	23	8	3	10	29	32	-3
17	Sport	28	23	7	7	9	24	31	-7
18	Vila Nova	27	23	7	6	10	34	38	-4
19	América-RN	26	23	7	5	11	22	36	-14
20	Remo	25	23	5	10	8	30	40	-10
21	América Mineiro	23	23	6	5	12	25	40	-15
22	Joinville	18	23	6	0	17	24	42	-18
23	Mogi Mirim	18	23	2	12	9	26	38	-12
24	Londrina	17	23	4	5	14	19	40	-21

	Qualified to Second Stage
	Relegated to Série C 2005

(*) - Santo André lost 12 points for fielding 2 ineligible players (Osmar and Dirceu) in Rounds 1 and 2

First Round Matches

	AMG	ARN	ANA	AVA	BAH	BRA	CAX	CEA	CRB	FOR	ITU	JOI	LON	MAR	MOG	NAU	PAU	POR	REM	STA	STO	SAO	SPO	VIL
AMG	—	2-2	0-2	2-2	1-2	0-3	2-3	3-2	0-0	0-4	0-1	1-0	1-0	0-2	1-1	0-3	0-2	1-0	0-2	0-2	2-3	3-1	2-2	4-1
ARN	2-2	—	3-1	1-0	1-3	3-0	3-1	0-1	0-3	0-1	0-5	0-3	0-1	0-3	1-1	1-2	1-0	0-0	2-1	0-1	0-3	0-3	1-1	1-1
ANA	2-0	1-3	—	2-1	2-0	1-2	1-0	0-1	0-3	2-1	2-1	0-1	1-2	0-1	2-2	1-1	1-3	3-1	0-1	2-1	0-2	0-1	1-0	1-1
AVA	2-2	0-1	1-2	—	1-0	2-3	0-1	0-0	1-4	1-0	0-5	1-0	2-2	1-0	2-1	2-4	2-1	1-0	3-1	1-0	3-1	0-0	1-1	1-1
BAH	2-1	3-1	0-2	0-1	—	2-2	0-1	1-2	3-1	2-2	2-1	4-1	2-0	2-0	1-2	3-1	2-0	0-1	1-0	3-2	0-0	2-2	1-0	2-1
BRA	3-0	0-3	2-1	3-2	2-2	—	3-0	1-0	0-1	1-1	1-1	1-0	3-0	0-0	4-1	1-1	2-1	2-4	6-1	0-0	3-0	2-1	1-1	2-1
CAX	3-2	1-3	0-1	1-0	1-0	0-3	—	2-1	2-2	0-1	0-1	3-0	1-0	4-2	3-1	2-3	2-2	1-2	0-0	1-0	1-4	2-1	0-3	0-0
CEA	2-3	1-0	1-0	0-0	2-1	0-1	1-2	—	1-2	2-2	1-2	0-4	2-1	0-3	1-0	3-1	1-2	4-1	2-2	1-2	0-2	2-0	1-2	2-0
CRB	0-0	3-0	3-0	4-1	1-3	1-0	2-2	2-1	—	1-4	0-0	1-0	0-1	0-0	1-0	0-2	3-3	3-3	1-1	2-4	0-1	3-4	1-1	0-2
FOR	4-0	1-0	1-2	0-1	2-2	1-1	1-0	2-2	4-1	—	1-2	2-0	2-1	0-1	2-2	5-4	3-1	3-2	0-0	2-2	3-1	0-2	1-2	3-0
ITU	1-0	5-0	1-2	5-0	1-2	1-1	1-0	2-1	0-0	2-1	—	1-2	0-0	1-1	3-0	0-1	2-1	2-2	5-2	1-0	3-1	1-1	0-1	3-1
JOI	0-1	3-0	1-0	0-1	1-4	0-1	0-3	4-0	0-1	0-2	2-1	—	0-2	1-3	2-1	1-2	1-3	0-1	2-0	1-4	2-3	1-3	1-2	1-4
LON	0-1	1-0	2-1	2-2	0-2	0-3	0-1	1-2	1-0	1-2	0-0	2-0	—	1-2	0-2	0-5	0-1	2-2	1-1	0-0	2-4	3-2	0-2	1-4
MAR	2-0	3-0	1-0	0-1	0-2	0-0	2-4	3-0	0-0	1-0	1-1	3-1	2-1	—	3-3	0-1	3-0	2-2	2-4	0-3	0-0	3-1	7-1	0-3
MOG	1-1	1-1	2-2	1-2	2-1	1-4	1-3	0-1	0-1	2-2	0-3	1-2	2-0	3-3	—	0-0	1-3	1-1	1-1	0-0	1-1	1-2	1-1	3-3
NAU	3-0	2-1	1-1	4-2	1-3	1-1	3-2	1-3	2-0	4-5	1-0	2-1	5-0	1-0	0-0	—	1-2	3-0	2-3	1-0	0-2	2-0	3-1	3-0
PAU	2-0	0-1	3-1	1-2	0-2	1-2	2-2	2-1	3-3	1-3	1-2	3-1	1-0	0-3	3-1	2-1	—	2-1	2-2	1-1	0-0	1-0	1-0	0-3
POR	0-1	0-0	1-3	0-1	1-0	4-2	2-1	1-4	3-3	2-3	2-2	1-0	2-2	2-2	1-1	0-3	1-2	—	2-0	2-0	3-0	0-1	0-0	1-0
REM	2-0	1-2	1-0	1-3	0-1	1-6	0-0	2-2	1-1	0-0	2-5	0-2	1-1	4-2	1-1	3-2	2-2	0-2	—	1-3	2-2	2-2	2-0	1-1
STA	2-0	1-0	1-2	0-1	2-3	0-0	0-1	2-1	4-2	2-2	0-1	4-1	0-0	3-0	0-0	0-1	1-1	0-2	3-1	—	2-1	2-3	1-0	5-2
STO	3-2	3-0	2-0	1-3	0-0	0-3	4-1	2-0	1-0	1-3	1-3	3-2	4-2	0-0	1-1	2-0	0-0	0-3	2-2	1-2	—	2-0	2-0	3-1
SAO	1-3	3-0	1-0	0-0	2-2	1-2	1-2	0-2	4-3	2-0	1-1	3-1	2-3	1-3	2-1	0-2	0-1	1-0	2-2	3-2	0-2	—	1-2	0-2
SPO	2-2	1-1	0-1	1-1	0-1	1-1	3-0	2-1	1-1	2-1	1-0	2-1	2-0	1-7	1-1	1-3	0-1	0-0	0-2	0-1	0-2	2-1	—	1-2
VIL	1-4	1-1	1-1	1-1	1-2	1-2	0-0	0-2	2-0	0-3	1-3	4-1	4-1	3-0	3-3	0-3	3-0	0-1	1-1	2-5	1-3	2-0	2-1	—

Second stage

Group A

Time P J V E D GP GC SG 1 Fortaleza 8 6 2 2 2 8 7 1 2 Brasiliense 8 6 2 2 2 6 6 0 3 Ituano 8 6 2 2 2 7 9 -2 4 Santa Cruz 7 6 1 4 1 8 7 1

BRA FOR ITU STA Brasiliense — 2-0 2-0 1-1 Fortaleza 3-0 — 1-1 1-1 Ituano 2-1 0-2 — 2-1 Santa Cruz 0-0 3-1 2-2 —

Group B

Time P J V E D GP GC SG 1 Bahia 13 6 4 1 1 8 5 3 2 Avaí 10 6 3 1 2 6 4 2 3 Náutico 7 6 2 1 3 7 6 1 4 Marília 4 6 1 1 4 4 10 -6

AVA BAH MAR NAU Avaí — 0-0 1-0 1-0 Bahia 1-0 — 4-1 1-0 Marília 1-3 0-1 — 2-1 Náutico 2-1 4-1 0-0 —

	Qualified to Final Stage

Final stage

Time P J V E D GP GC SG 1 Brasiliense 12 6 4 0 2 8 5 3 2 Fortaleza 8 6 2 2 2 4 4 0 3 Avaí 8 6 2 2 2 4 5 -1 4 Bahia 5 6 1 2 3 7 9 -2

AVA BAH BRA FOR Avaí — 1-0 1-0 2-0 Bahia 1-1 — 2-3 2-0 Brasiliense 2-0 2-1 — 1-0 Fortaleza 2-0 1-1 1-0 —

	Promoted to Série A 2005

Trivia

• Santo André was punished by losing 12 points for fielding 2 ineligible players (Osmar and Dirceu) in games 1 and 2 of the first round. That eliminated Santo André from a second round spot and allowed Santa Cruz to move ahead and clinch the final spot for the second round.
• Fortaleza had to beat Avaí by two goals in the last game of the season in order to be promoted to the Brazilian elite. So on 12/11/2004 they were able to beat Avaí 2-0 in front of their home crowd and clinch the spot.

Sources

• http://www.rsssf.com/tablesb/braz2-04.html