Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 2002

Lore & Background

The 26 teams played against each other once. The eight best placed teams qualified for the quarter-finals, in which the eight-placed team played against the first-placed team, the seventh-placed team played against the second-placed team, the sixth-placed team played against the third-placed team, and the fifth-placed team played against the fourth-placed team. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals were played over two legs. The four lowest-placed teams in the first stage were relegated to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B of the following year.

Reader's Guide

The finals featured Santos against Corinthians. Santos' lineup in the first leg included Fábio Costa, Michel, Preto, Alex, Léo, Paulo Almeida, Renato, Elano, Diego, Robinho, and Alberto, under head coach Émerson Leão. Corinthians' lineup included Doni, Rogério, Fábio Luciano, Scheidt, Kléber, Vampeta, Fabrício, Renato (substituted by Leandro), Deivid (substituted by Marcinho), Guilherme, and Gil, under head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. In the second leg, Corinthians fielded Doni, Rogério, Fábio Luciano, Anderson, Kléber, Vampeta, Fabinho (substituted by Fabrício), Renato (substituted by Marcinho), Deivid, Guilherme (substituted by Leandro), and Gil, again under Carlos Alberto Parreira.

Santos' second-leg lineup was Fábio Costa, Maurinho, André Luís, Alex, Léo, Paulo Almeida, Renato, Elano, Diego (substituted by Robert, then Michel), Robinho, and William (substituted by Alexandre), under Émerson Leão.