# 2016 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C

The Serie C of the Brazilian Championship 2016 is a football competition being held in Brazil, equivalent to the third division. It is being contested by 20 clubs in two geographic groups.

## Teams

| Team | Home city | Manager |
| ABC | Natal | Geninho |
| América de Natal | Natal | Francisco Diá |
| ASA | Arapiraca | Paulo Foiani |
| Boa Esporte | Varginha | Ney da Matta |
| Botafogo-PB | João Pessoa | Itamar Schülle |
| Botafogo-SP | Ribeirão Preto | Márcio Fernandes |
| Confiança | Aracaju | Roberto Fernandes |
| Cuiabá | Cuiabá | Roberto Fonseca |
| Fortaleza | Fortaleza | Marquinhos Santos |
| Guarani | Campinas | Marcelo Chamusca |
| Guaratinguetá | Guaratinguetá | João Telê |
| Juventude | Caxias do Sul | Antônio Carlos Zago |
| Macaé | Macaé | Josué Teixeira |
| Mogi Mirim | Mogi Mirim | Mário Júnior |
| Portuguesa | São Paulo | Márcio Ribeiro |
| Remo | Belém | Waldemar Lemos |
| Ríver | Teresina | Marcão |
| Salgueiro | Salgueiro | Evandro Guimarães |
| Tombense | Tombos | Moacir Júnior |
| Ypiranga | Erechim | Leocir Dall'Astra |

### Number of teams by state

| Number of teams | State | Team(s) |
| 5 | São Paulo | Botafogo, Guarani, Guaratinguetá, Mogi Mirim and Portuguesa |
| 2 | Minas Gerais | Boa Esporte and Tombense |
| 2 | Rio Grande do Norte | ABC and América de Natal |
| 2 | Rio Grande do Sul | Juventude and Ypiranga |
| 1 | Alagoas | ASA |
| 1 | Ceará | Fortaleza |
| 1 | Mato Grosso | Cuiabá |
| 1 | Pará | Remo |
| 1 | Paraíba | Botafogo |
| 1 | Pernambuco | Salgueiro |
| 1 | Piauí | Ríver |
| 1 | Rio de Janeiro | Macaé |
| 1 | Sergipe | Confiança |

## League table
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Fortaleza (Q) | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 17 | +9 | 30 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 2 | ABC (Q) | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 15 | +9 | 30 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 3 | Botafogo-PB (Q) | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 13 | +6 | 28 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 4 | ASA (Q) | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 15 | +1 | 26 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 5 | Remo | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 21 | 20 | +1 | 25 | |
| 6 | Cuiabá | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 17 | +2 | 22 | |
| 7 | Confiança | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 26 | −4 | 22 | |
| 8 | Salgueiro | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 18 | −5 | 21 | |
| 9 | América de Natal (R) | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 23 | −6 | 20 | Relegation to 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D |
| 10 | Ríver (R) | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 13 | Relegation to 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D |
| Home \ Away | ABC | AMN | ASA | BOT | CON | CUI | FOR | REM | RIV | SAL |
| ABC | | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 |
| América-RN | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| ASA | 2–1 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Botafogo-PB | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 |
| Confiança | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–5 | 4–1 | 2–1 |
| Cuiabá | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Fortaleza | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–0 | | 4–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| Remo | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| River | 0–2 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | | 1–0 |
| Salgueiro | 1–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Guarani (Q) | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 11 | +15 | 38 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 2 | Boa Esporte (Q) | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 10 | +18 | 35 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 3 | Botafogo-SP (Q) | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 28 | 13 | +15 | 31 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 4 | Juventude (Q) | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 18 | +10 | 30 | Qualification for Final Stage |
| 5 | Tombense | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 16 | +11 | 29 | |
| 6 | Ypiranga de Erechim | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 23 | −1 | 28 | |
| 7 | Mogi Mirim | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 15 | −3 | 22 | |
| 8 | Macaé | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 26 | −10 | 16 | |
| 9 | Portuguesa (R) | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 14 | Relegation to 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D |
| 10 | Guaratinguetá (R) | 18 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 55 | −42 | 4 | Relegation to 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D |
| Home \ Away | BOA | BRP | GUA | GTA | JUV | MAC | MOG | POR | TOM | YPI |
| Boa Esporte | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Botafogo-SP | 2–0 | | 1–2 | 6–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Guarani | 2–1 | 0–0 | | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Guaratinguetá | 0–4 | 0–4 | 0–1 | | 0–5 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–3 |
| Juventude | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 4–0 | | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 |
| Macaé | 1–5 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 1–2 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| Mogi Mirim | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| Portuguesa | 0–2 | 0–5 | 0–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–0 | | 0–2 | 3–1 |
| Tombense | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | | 4–0 |
| Ypiranga | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | |

## Final Stage

The final stage consists of three rounds of two-legged knock-out ties. In the quarter-final, the team ranked 1st in Group A will play the team ranked 4th in Group B and so on.

### Bracket

Team shown first in each tie has home advantage in the 2nd leg.
| Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Semi-Finals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Fortaleza | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| Juventude (a) | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| Juventude (a) | 0 | 1 | 1 | Juventude | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | |
| | | | | Boa Esporte | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | |
| Boa Esporte | 0 | 1 | 1 | Boa Esporte | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | |
| Botafogo-PB | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Botafogo-PB | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | Boa Esporte | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| | | | | | | | | Guarani | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| ABC | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | | Guarani | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Botafogo-SP | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Botafogo-SP | 0 | 0 | 0 | ABC | 4 | 0 | 4 | | | | |
| | | | | Guarani | 0 | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| Guarani | 1 | 3 | 4 | Guarani | 0 | 6 | 6 | | | | |
| ASA | 3 | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | |

### Final
## Top scorers

    As of matches played 29 October 2016
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Jones Carioca | ABC | 12 |
| 2 | Daniel | Tombense | 9 |
| 2 | Reinaldo Alagoano | ASA | 9 |
| 2 | Fumagalli | Guarani | 9 |
| 5 | Daniel Sobralense | Fortaleza | 8 |
| 5 | Hugo | Juventude | 8 |
| 7 | Ricardinho | Boa Esporte | 7 |
| 7 | Anselmo | Fortaleza | 7 |
| 7 | Edno | Remo | 7 |
| 7 | João Paulo | Ypiranga | 7 |
| 7 | Daniel | Boa Esporte | 7 |