# 2008 Sport Club Internacional season

The 2008 season is the 99th season in Sport Club Internacional's existence, and their 38th in the Campeonato Brasileiro, having never been relegated from the top division.

## Club
### The Management

| Position | Staff |
| Technical manager | Giovanni Luigi |
| Manager | Tite |
| Assistant coach | Cléber Xavier |
| Assistant coach | Guto Ferreira |
| Fitness coach | Fabio Mahseredjian |
| Assistant fitness coach | Flávio Soares |
| Goalkeeping coach | Ilo Roxo |
Last updated: 9 July 2008 Source:

### Team kit

The team kit for the season was produced by Reebok and the shirt sponsor is Banrisul.
| Home | Away | training kit |

## Squad
### Most frequent start

    As of 22 July

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| — | MF | BRA | Andrezinho (From Pohang Steelers) |
| — | DF | BRA | Ângelo (From Paraná) |
| — | DF | BRA | Bolívar (On loan from AS Monaco) |
| — | DF | COL | Bustos (From Grêmio) |
| — | MF | ARG | D'Alessandro (From San Lorenzo) |
| — | MF | BRA | Daniel Carvalho (On loan from CSKA Moskva) |
| — | DF | BRA | Gustavo Nery (Free transfer) |
| — | GK | BRA | Ricardo (On loan from Caxias) |
| — | DF | BRA | Ricardo Lopes (On loan from Sertãozinho) |
| — | MF | BRA | Rosinei (From Real Murcia) |

### Transfers out

| — | GK | BRA | Bruno Grassi (to Marítimo) |
| — | FW | BRA | Christian (to Portuguesa) |
| — | DF | BRA | Douglão (return to Coritiba on loan to Rio Claro) |
| — | DF | BRA | Élder Granja (Free transfer to Palmeiras) |
| — | FW | BRA | Fernandão (to Al Gharafa) |
| — | FW | BRA | Gustavo (Free transfer to Brasiliense) |
| — | FW | BRA | Iarley (Free transfer to Goiás) |
| — | MF | BRA | João Guilherme (to Marítimo) |
| — | FW | BRA | Jean (return to São Caetano) |
| — | FW | BRA | Léo Gamalho (to Valdevez) |
| — | MF | BRA | Luciano Henrique (Return loan to Santos) |
| — | MF | BRA | Magal (Return loan to Guaratinguetá) |
| — | MF | BRA | Rodrigo Possebon (to Manchester United) |
| — | DF | BRA | Rubens Cardoso (Free transfer to Coritiba) |
| — | DF | BRA | Sidnei (to Benfica) |

### Players on loan

| — | MF | NGA | Abu (to Vasco da Gama) |
| — | MF | BRA | Adriano Gabiru (to Goiás) |
| — | MF | BRA | Cleiton Xavier (to Figueirense) |
| — | FW | COL | Cristian Borja (to Mogi Mirim) |
| — | FW | BRA | Diego (to Guangzhou Pharmaceutical) |
| — | DF | BRA | Ediglê (to Marítimo) |
| — | GK | BRA | Eduardo (to Portuguesa) |
| — | FW | BRA | Gil (to Botafogo) |
| — | FW | BRA | Léo (to Coritiba) |
| — | DF | BRA | Mineiro (to Gamba Osaka) |
| — | MF | BRA | Pinga (to Al-Wahda) |
| — | MF | BRA | Roger (toNáutico) |
| — | FW | BRA | Wellington (toNáutico) |

## Season 2008
### Campeonato Gaúcho
#### Matches
#### Classification

Group 2

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 5 May 2008. Source: Campeonato Gaúcho
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost;

### Campeonato Brasileiro
#### Matches
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 2 December 2008. Source: Campeonato Brasileiro 2008
Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost;