The 2017

Campeonato Pernambucano The Campeonato Pernambucano de Futebol (Pernambucan Football Championship, in English) is the football championship of Pernambuco state, Brazil, and is organized by the FPF. The first edition of the Campeonato Pernambucano was played in 1915, a ...

(officially the Pernambucano A1 2017) was the 103rd edition of the state championship of

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. The championship began on January 4 and ended on June 28. Twelve teams were competing, ten returning from the 2016 and two promoted from the 2016 Pernambucano A2 Championship (Flamengo de Arcoverde and Afogados).
Santa Cruz were the defending champions, but were eliminated by

Salgueiro Salgueiro is a city in Pernambuco, Brazil. It is located in the mesoregion of ''Sertão Pernambucano'' . Salgueiro covers an area of 1687 square kilometers and had in 2020 an estimated population of 61,249 inhabitants. It is the see city of the R ...

in the semi-finals.

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defeated Salgueiro 2–1 on aggregate to win their 41st Campeonato Pernambucano title.

Teams

The teams in bold were qualified directly for the Second stage. ;Notes

Format

*In the first stage Afogados, América, Atlético Pernambucano, Belo Jardim, Central, Flamengo de Arcoverde, Salgueiro, Serra Talhada, and Vitória das Tabocas were drawn into three groups of three teams each, with each team playing once against the six clubs from the other two groups. After each team had played six matches, the top three teams qualified for the second stage. The six teams which finished fourth to ninth proceeded to the Relegation stage. *The Relegation stage group played a round-robin format. After the completion of the stage, the two clubs with the lowest number of points were relegated to the 2018 Campeonato Pernambucano A2. *Santa Cruz, Sport and Náutico were qualified directly for the second stage. The second stage group played a round-robin format. After the completion of the stage, the top four teams advanced to the Semi-finals. *Semi-finals and Finals were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis with the best placed team hosting the second leg.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria would be applied to determine the rankings: #Higher number of wins; #Superior

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; #Higher number of goals scored; #Head-to-head result between tied teams; #Fewest red cards received; #Fewest yellow cards received; #Draw in the headquarters of the

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First stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

First Stage Standings

Relegation stage

Second stage

Play-offs

In the Play-offs stages, each tie was played on a home-and-away

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basis. If tied on aggregate,

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would not be used,

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would not be played and

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would determine the winner. In the Third place matches and the Final, the second leg was hosted by the teams with a higher overall points.

Semi-finals

Semi-final 1

---- ''Salgueiro won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to the Final.''
''Salgueiro qualifies to the

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and

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.''

Semi-final 2

---- ''Sport won 4–3 on aggregate and advanced to the Final.''
''Sport qualifies to the

. They declined to participate in the

. ''

Third place matches

Host team

Matches

---- ''Santa Cruz won 3–2 on aggregate.''
''Santa Cruz qualifies to the

and

.''
''Sport were replaced by Náutico in the

.''

Final

Host team

Matches

---- :

Top goalscorers

References

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