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 (11th title) (2023)
Most championships	Avaí FC (18 titles) and Figueirense FC (18 titles)
Website	FCF.com.br
Current: 2023 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.

History

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).

Format

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.

Clubs

2023 First Division

Champions

Titles by team

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

Titles by City

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	16	Criciúma (11), 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)

Participation

Most appearances

As of 2023 season

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