2025 Campeonato Paulista Explained
The 2025 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 will be the 124th season of São Paulo's top professional football league. The competition will be played from 15 January to 26 March 2025.[1]
Format
- In the first stage the sixteen seeded teams were drawn into four groups of four teams each, with each team playing once against the twelve clubs from the other three groups. After each team has played twelve matches, the top two teams of each group qualified for the quarter-final stage.[2]
- After the completion of the first stage, the two clubs with the lowest number of points, regardless of the group, were relegated to the Campeonato Paulista Série A2.
- Quarter-finals and semi-finals were played in a single match, with the best placed team playing at home.[1]
- The finals were played in a two-legged home and away fixture, with the best placed team playing the second leg at home.[1]
- In case of a draw in any knockout stage, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out.[1]
- The two highest-placed teams not otherwise qualified qualified for the 2026 Copa do Brasil.[1]
- The top three highest-placed teams in the general table at the end of the competition who are not playing in any level of the national Brazilian football league system qualified for the 2026 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.[1]
TV partners
The broadcasting rights of the 2025 Campeonato Paulista were acquired by Record TV for the fourth consecutive year, with their streaming app Play Plus also transmitting the matches live. Aside of that, the streaming platforms HBO Max (owned by TNT) and CazéTV (in YouTube) also broadcast the matches live.[3] [4]
Teams
First stage
Group D
Notes and References
- Web site: Paulistão 2025: veja como ficaram os grupos, datas e formato de disputa. 2025 Paulistão: see groups, dates and format of the tournament. ge. pt-BR. 12 November 2024. 18 November 2024.
- Web site: Paulistão adota sistema da Premier League para tentar aumentar tempo de bola rolando; entenda. Paulistão adopt Premier League system to try to increase effective playing time. ge. pt-BR. 12 November 2024. 18 November 2024.
- Web site: Confira como ficaram os grupos do Paulistão 2025. Check out how the groups of the 2025 Paulistão end up. R7.com. pt-BR. 12 November 2024. 13 November 2024.
- Web site: De 15 de janeiro a 26 de março: os detalhes do Paulistão Sicredi 2025. From 15 January to 26 March: the details of the 2025 Paulistão Sicredi. Federação Paulista de Futebol. pt-BR. 12 November 2024. 13 November 2024.
