2014 Campeonato Cearense

Campeonato Cearense de Futebol
Season	2014
Champions	Ceará
Relegated	Ferroviário; Tiradentes; Crato
Copa do Brasil	Ceará; Fortaleza
Série D	Guarany de Sobral
Matches played	92
Goals scored	308 (3.35 per match)
Top goalscorer	Robert (Fortaleza) - 21 goals
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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

Club	Home city	2013 result
Ceará	Fortaleza	1st
Crato	Crato	9th
Ferroviário	Fortaleza	8th
Fortaleza	Fortaleza	4th
Guarani de Juazeiro	Juazeiro do Norte	7th
Guarany	Sobral	2nd
Horizonte	Horizonte	6th
Icasa	Juazeiro do Norte	3rd
Itapipoca	Itapipoca	1st (2nd division)
Quixadá	Quixadá	2nd (2nd division)
Tiradentes	Fortaleza	5th

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Fortaleza (A)	16	13	3	0	48	14	+34	42	Qualifies to the Second stage and 2015 Copa do Brasil
2	Guarani de Juazeiro (A)	16	7	5	4	17	18	−1	26	Qualify to the Second stage
3	Horizonte (A)	16	6	7	3	26	18	+8	25
4	Icasa (A)	16	6	6	4	18	19	−1	24
5	Quixadá	16	6	4	6	23	20	+3	22
6	Itapipoca	16	5	6	5	19	24	−5	21
7	Ferroviário-CE (R)	16	5	3	8	26	25	+1	18	Relegated
8	Tiradentes (R)	16	2	6	8	26	32	−6	12
9	Crato (R)	16	1	2	13	8	40	−32	5

Source: ^[3]
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	CTO	FER	FOR	GUJ	HOR	ICA	ITA	QUI	TIR
Crato		0–1	1–2	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–2	3–2
Ferroviário-CE	7–2		0–4	5–0	0–3	1–2	0–0	0–0	3–1
Fortaleza	6–0	3–1		3–1	2–1	2–0	7–0	4–2	2–0
Guarani de Juazeiro	1–0	1–0	2–2		0–1	2–1	1–0	4–2	2–2
Horizonte	2–0	2–2	2–2	0–0		3–1	3–4	1–0	2–2
Icasa	2–0	3–2	0–0	1–0	1–1		1–1	0–0	2–2
Itapipoca	2–0	1–0	1–3	0–1	1–1	1–1		2–0	1–1
Quixadá	3–0	1–0	1–3	0–1	2–1	4–1	5–2		2–0
Tiradentes	7–1	2–4	2–3	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–3	3–1

Source: ^[3]
Legend: 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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fortaleza (A)	10	5	4	1	21	12	+9	19	Qualifies to the Final stage
2	Ceará (A)	10	5	4	1	18	9	+9	19
3	Guarany de Sobral (A)	10	3	4	3	15	13	+2	13
4	Icasa (A)	10	3	3	4	12	14	−2	12
5	Horizonte	10	3	2	5	12	21	−9	11
6	Guarani de Juazeiro	10	0	5	5	8	17	−9	5

Source: ^[3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

Results

Home \ Away	CEA	FOR	GUJ	GNY	HOR	ICA
Ceará		3–1	0–0	1–0	5–1	1–0
Fortaleza	1–1		4–0	3–1	3–2	2–1
Guarani de Juazeiro	0–2	2–2		2–2	1–2	1–1
Guarany de Sobral	1–1	1–1	2–1		5–1	1–2
Horizonte	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–1		0–2
Icasa	3–3	0–3	1–1	0–1	2–1