2014 Campeonato Cearense

The 2014 Campeonato Cearense de Futebol was the 100th season of top professional football league in the state of Ceará, Brazil. The competition began on January 5 and ended on April 23. Ceará won the championship for the 43rd time and 4th since 2011, while Ferroviário, Tiradentes and Crato were relegated.

Format

The championship has three stages. On the first stage, all teams excluding those who are playing in 2014 Copa do Nordeste play a double round robin. The best four teams qualifies to the second stage.

On the second stage, the teams are joined by the clubs from Ceará who were playing on Copa Nordeste. The teams then play a double round robin again, where the best four teams qualifies to the final stage. In the final stage, it's a playoff with four teams.^[1]

The champion and the best team on first stage qualifies to the 2015 Copa do Brasil. The champion and the runner-up qualify to the 2015 Copa do Nordeste. The best team who isn't on Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Série B or Série C qualifies to Série D.

The two worst three in first stage will be relegated.^[2]

Participating teams

First stage

Source: ^[3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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.

Results

Source: ^[3]
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

The four teams from the first stage are joined by Ceará and Guarany de Sobral who were playing on 2014 Copa do Nordeste.

Source: ^[3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(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.

Results

Source: ^[3]
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stage

Semifinals

First leg

Icasa v Fortaleza

April 6, 2014 16:00 UTC−03:00

Icasa	3–1	Fortaleza
Douglas  47' Bismarck  70' Canga  83'		Wadison  30' (pen.)

Romeirão, Juazeiro do Norte Attendance: 2,401 Referee: Almeida Filho

Guarany de Sobral v Ceará

April 6, 2014 16:00 UTC−03:00

Guarany de Sobral	2–3	Ceará
Reinaldo Luis  36' Marcos Vinicius  41'		Magno Alves  34' Bill  54' Felipe Amorim  85'

Estádio do Junco, Sobral Attendance: 4,492 Referee: Péricles Bassols Cortez

Second leg

Fortaleza v Icasa

April 12, 2014 17:00 UTC−03:00

Fortaleza	3–1	Icasa
Marcelinho Paraíba  42' (pen.) Robert  60', 87'		Bismarck  62'

Estádio Presidente Vargas, Fortaleza Attendance: 18,727 Referee: Léo Simão Holanda

Ceará v Guarany de Sobral

April 13, 2014 16:00 UTC−03:00

Ceará	5–2	Guarany de Sobral
Magno Alves  43', 73', 75' Souza  81' Bill  88'		Zé Williams  53' Thiago Furlan  57'

Castelão, Fortaleza Attendance: 8,126 Referee: Luiz Cesar de Oliveira

Finals

With the results from the Second stage and the final stage aggregated, Ceará won the title because they had a better campaign.

References