# 2022 Sport Club Internacional season

The 2022 season was Sport Club Internacional's 112th season in existence. As well as the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the club competed in the Copa do Brasil, the Campeonato Gaúcho and the Copa Sudamericana.
Internacional started the season under coach 'Cacique' Medina, but soon found itself in a bad situation after a sub-par performance in the Campeonato Gaúcho, being knocked out by rivals Gremio thanks to a 3–0 home defeat in the knockout round which the team was unable to turn around even after winning at the Arena do Grêmio in the 2nd leg.
Moreover, Inter managed to suffer one of the worst defeats of its history after being knocked out in the First Round of the Copa do Brasil to a 2–0 defeat to minnows Globo FC, pilling pressure on the team and Medina. The Uruguayan was sacked after a 1–1 draw at Beira-Rio vs Guaireña, prompting the hiring of veteran and Rio Grande do Sul-born Mano Menezes.
Under Menezes, the Colorado slowly managed to find consistency, also greatly after the signings of players like Wanderson, Carlos De Pena, Vitão, Renê, Gabriel, Pedro Henrique and Alan Patrick. Inter qualified to the Sudamericana quarterfinals, a campaign highlighted by a comeback vs Colo Colo with a big 4–1 win at Beira-Rio, but was eliminated on its home soil to Melgar on penalties.
Internacional soon piled good results in the Brasileirão and was constantly on the races for the top spot, but was unable to reach eventual champions Palmeiras and found themselves Serie A runner-ups once again, the fifth time it happened in the 21st century.

## First team

    As of 13 November 2022
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | BRA | Daniel |
| 2 | DF | BRA | Heitor |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Kaique Rocha (on loan from Sampdoria) |
| 4 | DF | BRA | Rodrigo Moledo |
| 5 | MF | BRA | Liziero (on loan from São Paulo) |
| 6 | DF | BRA | Paulo Victor |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Taison (captain) |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Edenílson (vice-captain) |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Wesley Moraes (on loan from Aston Villa) |
| 10 | MF | BRA | Alan Patrick |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Yuri Alberto (until 30 January) |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Wanderson (on loan from Krasnodar) |
| 12 | GK | BRA | Keiller |
| 13 | MF | BRA | Rodrigo Dourado (3rd captain) |
| 14 | FW | CHI | Carlos Palacios (until 11 April) |
| 14 | MF | URU | Carlos de Pena (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv) |
| 15 | DF | ARG | Victor Cuesta (until 12 April) |
| 16 | DF | ARG | Fabricio Bustos |
| 17 | FW | BRA | David |
| 18 | FW | BRA | Matheus Cadorini |
| 19 | MF | BRA | Rodrigo Lindoso |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | BRA | Moisés |
| 21 | MF | BRA | Gabriel Boschilia (until 12 August) |
| 21 | DF | BRA | Igor Gomes |
| 22 | DF | URU | Bruno Méndez (on loan from Corinthians until 30 Jun) |
| 22 | DF | BRA | Weverton |
| 23 | MF | BRA | Gabriel |
| 24 | GK | BRA | Anthoni |
| 25 | DF | ARG | Gabriel Mercado |
| 26 | MF | BRA | Estêvão |
| 27 | MF | BRA | Maurício |
| 28 | FW | BRA | Pedro Henrique |
| 30 | MF | USA | Johnny Cardoso |
| 32 | MF | BRA | Bruno Gomes (until 22 July) |
| 32 | FW | BRA | Mikael |
| 33 | DF | BRA | Renê |
| 35 | FW | BRA | Alexandre Alemão |
| 36 | DF | BRA | Thauan Lara |
| 37 | MF | BRA | Lucas Ramos |
| 39 | FW | BRA | Nicolas |
| 40 | DF | BRA | Tiago Barbosa |
| 41 | MF | BRA | Matheus Dias |
| 44 | DF | BRA | Vitão (on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk) |
| 47 | FW | BRA | Caio Vidal |
| 52 | GK | BRA | Emerson Júnior |
| 77 | FW | BRA | Gustavo Maia (on loan from Barcelona B) |

### Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | BRA | Natanael |

## Transfers
### In

| Date | Pos. | No. | Player | From | Fee | Ref. |
| 1 January 2022 | FW | 14 | Carlos Palacios | Unión Española | €2,700,000 | |
| 1 January 2022 | FW | 18 | Matheus Cadorini | Osasco Audax | €160,000 | |
| 1 January 2022 | DF | 20 | Moisés | Bahia | Undisclosed | |
| 1 January 2022 | GK | 1 | Keiller | Chapecoense | Return from Loan | - |
| 8 January 2022 | MF | 10 | Andrés D’Alessandro | Nacional | Free | |
| 19 January 2022 | FW | 17 | David | Fortaleza | €1,750,000 | |
| 10 February 2022 | MF | 23 | Gabriel | Corinthians | Free | |
| 15 February 2022 | MF | 32 | Bruno Gomes | Vasco da Gama | Part exchange | |
| 23 February 2022 | DF | 16 | Fabricio Bustos | Independiente | €1,250,000 | |
| 18 March 2022 | FW | 35 | Alexandre Alemão | Avaí | Undisclosed | |
| 11 April 2022 | DF | 33 | Renê | Flamengo | Free | |
| 12 April 2022 | MF | 10 | Alan Patrick | Shakhtar Donetsk | €3,600,000 | |
| 12 April 2022 | FW | 28 | Pedro Henrique | Sivasspor | Free | |
| 29 July 2022 | FW | 9 | Braian Romero | River Plate | €900,000 | |
| 6 August 2022 | DF | 21 | Igor Gomes | Barcelona B | Free | |
* ↑ Palacios had a pre-agreed buyout deal in 2021

### Out

| Date | Pos. | No. | Player | To | Fee | Ref. |
| 1 January 2022 | FW | - | Leandro Fernández | Free Agent | End of Contract | - |
| 1 January 2022 | GK | - | Danilo Fernandes | Bahia | End of Contract | |
| 1 January 2022 | MF | - | Richard | CRB | Free | |
| 1 January 2022 | FW | - | Vinicius Mello | Charlotte FC | €1,700,000 | |
| 1 January 2022 | GK | - | Marcelo Lomba | Palmeiras | End of Contract | |
| 1 January 2022 | DF | - | Renzo Saravia | FC Porto | End of Loan | |
| 1 January 2022 | MF | - | Ramon | Atlético Goianiense | Free | |
| 1 January 2022 | DF | - | Lucas Ribeiro | Hoffenheim | End of Loan | |
| 8 January 2022 | MF | - | Patrick | São Paulo | €500,000 | |
| 11 January 2022 | FW | - | Guilherme Pato | Neftçi Peşəkar | Free | |
| 11 January 2022 | FW | - | Juan Manuel Cuesta | Independiente Medellín | End of Loan | |
| 16 January 2022 | DF | - | Vinícius Tobias | Shakhtar Donetsk | €6,000,000 | |
| 30 January 2022 | FW | 11 | Yuri Alberto | Zenit | €25,800,000 | |
| 11 February 2022 | MF | - | Zé Gabriel | Vasco da Gama | Part exchange | |
| 18 April 2022 | MF | 10 | Andrés D’Alessandro | Retired | - | |
| 11 April 2022 | FW | 14 | Carlos Palacios | Vasco da Gama | €1,500,000 | |
| 21 June 2022 | DF | 22 | Bruno Méndez | Corinthians | End of Loan | |
| 1 July 2022 | FW | 23 | Marcos Guilherme | São Paulo | Free | |
| 7 July 2022 | DF | - | Léo Borges | Pogoń Szczecin | Free | |
| 18 July 2022 | DF | - | Natanael | Avaí | Free | |
| 28 August 2022 | DF | - | Pedro Henrique | Ludogorets Razgrad | €900,000 | |
| 2 September 2022 | MF | - | Nonato | Ludogorets Razgrad | €1,700,000 | |
* ↑ Played for Club Nacional in 2021

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Série A | 10 April 2022 | 13 November 2022 | Matchday 1 | Runners-up | 38 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 58 | 31 | +27 | 052.63 |
| Campeonato Gaúcho | 26 January 2022 | 23 March 2022 | Matchday 1 | Semi-finals | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 13 | +1 | 046.15 |
| Copa do Brasil | 3 March 2022 | 3 March 2022 | First round | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Copa Sudamericana | 6 April 2022 | 11 August 2022 | Group stage | Quarter-finals | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 040.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 62 | 30 | 22 | 10 | 88 | 54 | +34 | 048.39 |
Source: Competitions

### Campeonato Gaúcho
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Ypiranga-RS | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 21 | Qualification to Knockout stage |
| 2 | Grêmio | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 10 | +8 | 21 | Qualification to Knockout stage |
| 3 | Internacional | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 19 | Qualification to Knockout stage |
| 4 | Brasil (PE) | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 16 | Qualification to Knockout stage |
| 5 | Caxias | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 9 | +6 | 15 | |

#### Knockout stage
##### Semi-finals
### Copa Sudamericana

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | INT | GUA | DIM | 9OC |
| 1 | Internacional | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 12 | Round of 16 | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 |
| 2 | Guaireña | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 10 | | 1–1 | — | 3–3 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Independiente Medellín | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 5 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 2–1 |
| 4 | 9 de Octubre | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 15 | −6 | 4 | | 2–2 | 2–3 | 3–2 | — |

#### Round of 16

The draw for the round of 16 was held on 27 May 2022.

#### Quarter-finals
### Serie A
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Palmeiras (C) | 38 | 23 | 12 | 3 | 66 | 27 | +39 | 81 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage |
| 2 | Internacional | 38 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 58 | 31 | +27 | 73 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage |
| 3 | Fluminense | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 63 | 41 | +22 | 70 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage |
| 4 | Corinthians | 38 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 44 | 36 | +8 | 65 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage |
| 5 | Flamengo | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 60 | 39 | +21 | 62 | Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage |
* ↑ Flamengo qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2022 Copa Libertadores. Since they also won the 2022 Copa do Brasil, the berth awarded to the Copa do Brasil champions (Copa Libertadores group stage) was passed over to the league's best placed team not already qualified.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | W | W | D | D | D | D | D | W | D | W | W | L | W | D | W | D | D | L | W | L | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | W | D | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | W |
| Position | 18 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
* Postponed

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 2 February 2022.

### Copa do Brasil
#### First round
## Statistics

Player with no appearances not included on list. Matches played as a sub in parentheses.
* Denotes a player that did not end the season at the club // ** Retired from football
    As of As of 13 November 2022

### Goalscorers

| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | Brasileirão | Brasileirão | Copa do Brasil | Copa do Brasil | Sudamericana | Sudamericana | Campeonato Gaúcho | Campeonato Gaúcho | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | P | G | P | G | P | G | P | G | P | G |
| 1 | GK | | Daniel | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 46 | 0 |
| 12 | GK | | Keiller | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | | Heitor * | 5(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3(2) | 0 | 7(1) | 0 | 15(4) | 0 |
| 16 | DF | | Fabricio Bustos | 31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 46 | 2 |
| 22 | DF | | Weverton | 1(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 |
| 25 | DF | | Gabriel Mercado | 26(3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8(1) | 0 | 3(1) | 0 | 37(5) | 0 |
| 3 | DF | | Kaique Rocha | 7(2) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 2(1) | 0 | 10(1) | 0 | 20(5) | 0 |
| 4 | DF | | Rodrigo Moledo | 20(6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3(3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23(9) | 0 |
| 15 | DF | | Victor Cuesta * | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 21 | DF | | Igor Gomes * | 3(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3(1) | 0 |
| 22 | DF | | Bruno Méndez * | 6(2) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8(2) | 1 | 21(4) | 2 |
| 44 | DF | | Vitão | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 2 |
| 6 | DF | | Paulo Victor * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8(2) | 0 | 8(2) | 0 |
| 20 | DF | | Moisés * | 8(1) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3(2) | 0 | 7(1) | 0 | 19(4) | 0 |
| 33 | DF | | Renê | 28(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35(1) | 0 |
| 36 | DF | | Thauan Lara | 7(3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7(3) | 0 |
| 10 | MF | | Andrés D'Alessandro ** | 1 | 1 | 1(1) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 9(7) | 1 | 12(9) | 2 |
| 41 | MF | | Matheus Dias | 2(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 3(2) | 0 |
| 13 | MF | | Rodrigo Dourado * | 8(3) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 5(2) | 3 | 6(1) | 0 | 20(7) | 3 |
| 19 | MF | | Rodrigo Lindoso * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3(2) | 0 | 3(2) | 0 |
| 23 | MF | | Gabriel | 26(2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9(1) | 0 | 7(1) | 0 | 43(4) | 0 |
| 32 | MF | | Bruno Gomes * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 |
| 10 | MF | | Alan Patrick | 26(6) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4(1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30(7) | 7 |
| 21 | MF | | Boschilia * | 4(4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8(4) | 0 | 12(8) | 0 |
| 26 | MF | | Estêvão | 8(8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4(4) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12(12) | 1 |
| 27 | MF | | Maurício | 32(13) | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9(3) | 1 | 13(5) | 2 | 55(21) | 9 |
| 5 | MF | | Liziero | 14(9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5(3) | 0 | 9(2) | 0 | 28(14) | 0 |
| 8 | MF | | Edenílson | 31(7) | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 12(1) | 1 | 54(8) | 10 |
| 30 | MF | | Johnny Cardoso | 24(7) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4(3) | 0 | 10(5) | 0 | 39(15) | 3 |
| 37 | MF | | Lucas Ramos | 9(9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 10(10) | 0 |
| 18 | FW | | Matheus Cadorini * | 3(2) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 6(3) | 0 | 11(7) | 0 |
| 11 | FW | | Wanderson | 26(5) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32(5) | 7 |
| 11 | FW | | Yuri Alberto * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | FW | | Carlos Palacios * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 |
| 14 | FW | | Carlos De Pena | 34(4) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43(5) | 5 |
| 28 | FW | | Pedro Henrique | 32(16) | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4(2) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36(18) | 8 |
| 35 | FW | | Alexandre Alemão | 34(12) | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8(3) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 42(15) | 10 |
| 47 | FW | | Caio Vidal * | 7(6) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 3(3) | 0 | 10(8) | 2 | 21(18) | 2 |
| 9 | FW | | Wesley Moraes * | 8(4) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3(1) | 1 | 9(4) | 1 | 21(9) | 2 |
| 9 | FW | | Braian Romero | 17(15) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18(15) | 2 |
| 32 | FW | | Mikael | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 |
| 77 | FW | | Gustavo Maia | 1(1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3(2) | 0 | 4(3) | 0 |
| 7 | FW | | Taison | 20(15) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5(3) | 0 | 9 | 3 | 34(18) | 4 |
| 17 | FW | | David | 21(11) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6(4) | 0 | 11(2) | 0 | 39(17) | 2 |
| 39 | FW | | Nicolas * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1(1) | 0 | 1(1) | 0 |

### Assists

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | Brasileirão | Copa do Brasil | Sudamericana | Campeonato Gaúcho | Total |
| 1 | 14 | FW | Carlos De Pena | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | 16 | DF | Fabricio Bustos | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | 27 | MF | Maurício | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 35 | FW | Alexandre Alemão | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 8 | MF | Edenílson | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | 10 | MF | Alan Patrick | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | 7 | FW | Taison | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | 28 | FW | Pedro Henrique | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | 11 | FW | Wanderson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | 21 | MF | Boschilia * | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | 30 | MF | Johnny Cardoso | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | 33 | DF | Renê | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | 17 | FW | David | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | 2 | DF | Heitor * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | 15 | DF | Victor Cuesta * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | 6 | DF | Paulo Victor * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | 20 | DF | Moisés * | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 13 | MF | Rodrigo Dourado * | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | 18 | FW | Matheus Cadorini * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |