Campeonato Catarinense

Campeonato Catarinense

Founded	1924
Country	Brazil
Confederation	CBF Federação Catarinense de Futebol
Number of teams	10
Relegation to	Campeonato Catarinense Série B
Domestic cup(s)	Copa do Brasil
Current champions	Criciúma (12th title) (2024)
Most championships	Avaí and Figueirense (both clubs have 18 titles)
Website	FCF.com.br
Current: 2024 Campeonato Catarinense

The Campeonato Catarinense de Futebol, known as Campeonato Catarinense or simply Catarinense, is the main competition of association football from state of Santa Catarina, in Brazil.

The Campeonato Catarinense top level has had several different names since it started. From its first edition, in 1924, to 1985, it was called just Campeonato Catarinense (Santa Catarina Championship). From 1986 to 2003, it was named Campeonato Catarinense Primeira Divisão (Santa Catarina Championship Premier Division). In 2004 and in 2005, the competition name was Série A1, and since 2006, the competition is named Divisão Principal (Top Division).^{[citation needed]}

First stage

• All ten teams play a round-robin playing once against each other team.
• The top 4 teams qualify for the semi-finals which are played 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd. Where games are tied the higher placed team progresses. The final is played at the ground of the higher placed team and, as in the semi-final, in a tied game the higher placed team wins.

Second stage

• All ten teams play a round-robin playing once against each other team.
• The top 4 teams qualify for the semi-finals which are played 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd. Where games are tied the higher placed team progresses. The final is played at the ground of the higher placed team and, as in the semi-final, in a tied game the higher placed team wins.

Finals:

• Home-and-away playoffs between the winners of the first and second stages.

The winner of the Finals is crowned champion.

2023 First Division

1. Teams in italic are not currently active in professional football.

City	Championships	Clubs
Florianópolis	39	Avaí (18), Figueirense (18), Atlético Catarinense (1), Externato (1), Paula Ramos (1)
Joinville	21	Joinville (12), América (5), Caxias (3), Operário (1)
Criciúma	17	Criciúma (12), Metropol (5)
Chapecó	7	Chapecoense (7)
Brusque	4	Brusque (2), Carlos Renaux (2)
Itajaí	3	CIP (1), Lauro Müller (1), Marcílio Dias (1)
Tubarão	3	Hercílio Luz (2), Ferroviário (1)
Blumenau	2	Olímpico (2)
Lages	1	Inter de Lages (1)
São Francisco do Sul	1	Ypiranga (1)
Videira	1	Perdigão (1)

As of 2023 season

Below is the list of clubs that have more appearances in the Campeonato Catarinense.

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