2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 63rd season of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top level of professional football in Brazil, and the 16th edition in a double round-robin since its establishment in 2003. The competition started on 27 April and ended on 8 December 2019.
The top six teams as well as the 2019 Copa do Brasil champions qualified for the Copa Libertadores. The next six best-placed teams not qualified for Copa Libertadores qualified for the Copa Sudamericana and the last four were relegated to Série B for 2020. Palmeiras were the defending champions. During the 2019 season, the official match ball was the Nike Merlin CBF.
Flamengo secured their sixth league title with four matches to spare on 24 November and just one day after winning the 2019 Copa Libertadores, following Palmeiras' 2–1 loss to Grêmio at home.
Teams
Twenty teams competed in the league – the top sixteen teams from the previous season, as well as four teams promoted from the Série B.Fortaleza became the first club to be promoted after a 1–2 win against Atlético Goianiense on 3 November 2018. Goiás was promoted on 17 November, and Avaí and CSA on 24 November.
| Pos. | Relegated from 2018 Série A |
| 17 | Sport |
| 18 | América Mineiro |
| 19 | Vitória |
| 20 | Paraná |
| Pos. | Promoted from 2018 Série B |
| 1 | Fortaleza |
| 2 | CSA |
| 3 | Avaí |
| 4 | Goiás |
Number of teams by state
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and kits
= caretakerForeign players
The clubs can have a maximum of five foreign players in their Campeonato Brasileiro squads per match, but there is no limit of foreigners in the clubs' squads.| Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 | Player 7 |
| Athletico Paranaense |  Lucho González | Tomás Andrade | Marco Ruben | Braian Romero | |||
| Atlético Mineiro |  Juan Cazares |  Yimmi Chará |  David Terans |  Rómulo Otero |  Ramón Martínez | Lucas Hernández | Franco Di Santo |
| Avaí | Jonny Mosquera | Richard Franco | |||||
| Bahia | Alejandro Guerra | ||||||
| Botafogo | Joel Carli | Gatito Fernández |  Leonardo Valencia | ||||
| Ceará |  Chico Hyun-sol Kimdn | ||||||
| Chapecoense | Diego Torres | ||||||
| Corinthians | Junior Sornoza | Mauro Boselli | Bruno Méndez | ||||
| Cruzeiro | Luis Manuel Orejuela | Ariel Cabral |  Joel Tagueu | ||||
| CSA | Jonathan Gómez | Rodolfo Gamarra | Héctor Bustamante | ||||
| Flamengo | Orlando Berrío | Giorgian De Arrascaeta | Robert Piris Da Motta |  Pablo Marí | |||
| Fluminense | Yony González |  Marcos Paulodn | |||||
| Fortaleza | Santiago Romero | Juan Sebastián Quintero | Mariano Vázquez | Fabián Zambrano | |||
| Goiás | Leandro Barcia | ||||||
| Grêmio | Walter Kannemann | ||||||
| Internacional | Andrés D'Alessandro | Nicolás López | Víctor Cuesta | Santiago Tréllez | Martín Sarrafiore |  Paolo Guerrero |  Johnny Cardosodn |
| Palmeiras | Miguel Borja | Iván Angulo | Gustavo Gómez | ||||
| Santos | Carlos Sánchez | Derlis González |  Yeferson Soteldo | Felipe Aguilar |  Christian Cueva |  Bryan Ruiz | Fernando Uribe |
| São Paulo | Joao Rojas | Robert Arboleda | Gonzalo Carneiro | Juanfran | |||
| Vasco da Gama | Raúl Cáceres | Oswaldo Henríquez | Fredy Guarin |
= Player holding Brazilian dual nationality.
Managerial changes
Standings
League table
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
Results
Season statistics
Top scorers
Source:Assists
Hat-tricks
Clean sheets
Source:Average home attendances
Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.| Team | |||||
| 1 | Flamengo | Maracanã | 19 | 1,045,477 | 55,025 |
| 2 | Fortaleza | Castelão | 19 | 626,996 | 33,000 |
| 3 | Corinthians | Arena Corinthians | 19 | 624,261 | 32,856 |
| 4 | São Paulo | Morumbi | 19 | 559,203 | 29,432 |
| 5 | Palmeiras | Allianz Parque | 19 | 531,269 | 27,962 |
| 6 | Bahia | Fonte Nova | 19 | 500,439 | 26,339 |
| 7 | Ceará | Castelão | 19 | 494,191 | 26,010 |
| 8 | Cruzeiro | Mineirão | 19 | 426,335 | 22,439 |
| 9 | Vasco da Gama | São Januário | 19 | 388,523 | 20,449 |
| 10 | Fluminense | Maracanã | 19 | 383,977 | 20,209 |
| 11 | Internacional | Beira-Rio | 19 | 376,655 | 19,824 |
| 12 | Grêmio | Arena do Grêmio | 19 | 316,309 | 16,648 |
| 13 | Botafogo | Nilton Santos | 19 | 302,512 | 15,922 |
| 14 | Atletico Mineiro | Independência | 19 | 289,861 | 15,256 |
| 15 | Atletico Paranaense | Arena da Baixada | 19 | 287,182 | 15,115 |
| 16 | Goiás | Serra Dourada | 19 | 256,625 | 13,507 |
| 17 | CSA | Rei Pelé | 19 | 203,419 | 10,706 |
| 18 | Santos | Vila Belmiro | 19 | 195,830 | 10,307 |
| 19 | Avaí | Ressacada | 19 | 146,384 | 7,704 |
| 20 | Chapecoense | Arena Condá | 19 | 114,071 | 6,004 |
| – | Total | 380 | 8,069,528 | 21,236 |