2011 Campeonato Carioca

Campeonato Carioca

Season	2011
Champions	Flamengo (32nd title)
Matches played	32
Goals scored	102 (3.19 per match)
Top goalscorer	Thiago Neves (8 goals)
Biggest home win	Fluminense 6-2 Olaria
Biggest away win	America 0-9 Vasco da Gama
Highest scoring	America 0-9 Vasco da Gama
Longest winning run	7 games: Flamengo
Longest unbeaten run	Regular season: 15 games: Flamengo All games: 19 games: Flamengo
Longest losing run	5 games: Cabofriense
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The 2011 Campeonato Estadual da Serie A de Profissionais do Rio de Janeiro is the 110th season of Rio de Janeiro's top professional football league. The competition will begin January 19 and end on May 15. Botafago is the defending champion.

Format

The sixteen clubs were divided into two groups that will play in two tournaments. In the first tournament, the Taça Guanabara, the teams from one group will play within their group in a single round-robin tournament. The two best teams from each group will advance to the playoffs and while the next best two will play for the Troféu Washington Rodrigues. In the second tournament, the Taça Rio, the teams will play with against the teams in the other group in a single round-robin format. The two best teams from each group will advance to the playoffs and while the next best two will play for the Troféu Carlos Alberto Torres. The winner of both the Taça Guanabara and Taça Rio will play for the state championship. If the same team wins both tournament, they are automatically declared the champion.

Qualifications

The best two teams not qualified to 2012 Copa Libertadores will qualify for 2012 Copa do Brasil. The best team not playing in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, B, or C will qualify for 2011 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D

Participating teams

Club	Home city
America	Rio de Janeiro
Americano	Campos dos Goytacazes
Bangu	Rio de Janeiro
Boavista	Saquarema
Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro
Cabofriense	Cabo Frio
Duque de Caxias	Duque de Caxias
Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro
Fluminense	Rio de Janeiro
Macaé	Macaé
Madureira	Rio de Janeiro
Nova Iguaçu	Nova Iguaçu
Olaria	Rio de Janeiro
Resende	Resende
Volta Redonda	Volta Redonda
Vasco da Gama	Rio de Janeiro

Taça Guanabara

The 2011 Taça Guanabara began on January 19 and ended on February 27. Flamengo won their 19th Taça Guanabara and qualified to the state finals.

First stage

Group A standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flamengo	7	7	0	0	13	4	+9	21	Advanced to the Semifinals
2	Boavista	7	4	1	2	15	11	+4	13
3	Resende	7	4	1	2	9	5	+4	13	Advanced to the Troféu Washington Rodrigues
4	Nova Iguaçu	7	3	2	2	12	11	+1	11
5	Vasco da Gama	7	2	1	4	16	9	+7	7
6	Volta Redonda	7	1	2	4	4	7	−3	5
7	Americano	7	1	2	4	7	14	−7	5
8	America-RJ	7	1	1	5	6	22	−16	4

Updated to games played on 13 February
Source: http://www.soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference; 4th goals scored; 5th red cards received; 6th yellow cards received; 7th draw.
(A) = Advances to semifinal.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(TA) = Advances to a further round ; (E) = Eliminated ; (TE) =Eliminated from semifinal.

Group B standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fluminense	7	6	0	1	20	9	+11	18	Advanced to the Semifinals
2	Botafogo	7	5	2	0	19	7	+12	17
3	Olaria	7	3	1	3	10	14	−4	10	Advanced to the Troféu Washington Rodrigues
4	Bangu	7	2	3	2	7	7	0	9
5	Duque de Caxias	7	2	1	4	14	16	−2	7
6	Macaé	7	1	4	2	11	13	−2	7
7	Madureira	7	1	2	4	8	12	−4	5
8	Cabofriense	7	1	1	5	7	18	−11	4

Updated to games played on 13 February
Source: http://www.soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference; 4th goals scored; 5th red cards received; 6th yellow cards received; 7th draw.
(A) = Advances to semifinal.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(TA) = Advances to a further round ; (E) = Eliminated ; (TE) =Eliminated from semifinal.

Troféu Washington Rodrigues

	Semifinals					Final
	Resende (pen.)		1 (5)
	Bangu		1 (4)
						Resende (pen.)		1 (3)
						Olaria		1 (1)
	Olaria		3
	Nova Iguaçu		1

Playoffs

Bracket

	Semifinals					Final
	Flamengo (pen.)		1 (3)
	Botafogo		1 (1)
						Flamengo		1
						Boavista		0
	Fluminense		2 (2)
	Boavista (pen.)		2 (4)

Semifinals

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Final

Taça Guanabara 2011 Champion
Flamengo 19th Title

Taça Rio

First stage

Group A standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Vasco da Gama	8	5	2	1	19	10	+9	17	Advanced to the Semifinals
2	Flamengo	8	4	4	0	13	7	+6	16
3	Americano	8	4	2	2	10	14	−4	14	Advanced to the Troféu Carlos Alberto Torres
4	Boavista	8	4	1	3	13	8	+5	13
5	Volta Redonda	8	3	2	3	11	12	−1	11
6	Resende	8	2	2	4	12	12	0	8
7	Nova Iguaçu	8	2	1	5	7	12	−5	7
8	America-RJ	8	1	1	6	7	15	−8	4

Updated to games played on 9 April.
Source: http://www.soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference; 4th goals scored; 5th red cards received; 6th yellow cards received; 7th draw
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fluminense	8	5	2	1	13	6	+7	17	Advanced to the Semifinals
2	Olaria	8	4	3	1	11	6	+5	15
3	Botafogo	8	4	2	2	13	8	+5	14	Advanced to the Troféu Carlos Alberto Torres
4	Madureira	8	3	2	3	16	15	+1	11
5	Duque de Caxias	8	3	2	3	10	14	−4	11
6	Macaé	8	2	2	4	11	14	−3	8
7	Bangu	8	2	1	5	9	15	−6	7
8	Cabofriense	8	1	1	6	7	14	−7	4

Updated to games played on 2 April.
Source: http://www.soccerway.com
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd wins; 3rd goal difference; 4th goals scored; 5th red cards received; 6th yellow cards received; 7th draw
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Troféu Carlos Alberto Torres

	Semifinals					Final
	Americano		1
	Madureira		2
						Madureira		3
						Boavista		1
	Botafogo		2
	Boavista		5

Playoffs

Bracket

	Semifinals					Final
	Vasco da Gama		1
	Olaria		0
						Vasco da Gama		0 (1)
						Flamengo		0 (3)
	Fluminense		1 (4)
	Flamengo (pen.)		1 (5)

Semifinals

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Final

Taça Rio 2011 Champion
Flamengo 19th Title

Overall standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Flamengo (C)	15	11	4	0	27	11	+16	37	2012 Copa Libertadores 1
2	Fluminense	15	11	2	2	33	15	+18	35
3	Botafogo	15	9	4	2	32	15	+17	31	2012 Copa do Brasil
4	Boavista	15	8	2	5	28	19	+9	26
5	Olaria	15	7	4	4	21	20	+1	25
6	Vasco da Gama	15	7	3	5	35	19	+16	24	2012 Copa Libertadores 2
7	Resende	15	6	3	6	21	17	+4	21
8	Americano	15	5	4	6	17	28	−11	19
9	Nova Iguaçu	15	5	3	7	19	23	−4	18
10	Duque de Caxias	15	5	3	7	23	28	−5	18
11	Madureira	15	4	4	7	24	28	−4	16	2012 Copa do Brasil 3
12	Volta Redonda	15	4	4	7	15	19	−4	16	Série D 4
13	Bangu	15	4	4	7	16	22	−6	16
14	Macaé	15	3	6	6	22	27	−5	15
15	Cabofriense (R)	15	2	2	11	14	32	−18	8	Relegation to Campeonato Carioca Série B
16	America-RJ (R)	15	2	2	11	13	37	−24	8

Updated to games played on 17 April.
Source: http://www.fferj.com.br
Rules for classification: 1st Tournament Champion and Finalist 2nd points; 3rd wins; 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored; 6th red cards received; 7th yellow cards received; 8th draw.
This does not apply to defining the relegated Teams. If two or more teams had been tied in point at the end of the tournament, a playoff would have been held
1.Flamengo and Fluminense qualified via 2011 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
2.Vasco da Gama qualified as 2011 Copa do Brasil champions
3.Qualified as 2011 Copa Rio champions
4.Volta Redonda qualified for Serie D because all better-placed teams withdrew.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

See also

2011 Copa Rio

References

External links

• Official webpage (Portuguese)

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