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2023 Campeonato Paulista

The 2023 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Profissional da Primeira Divisão - Série A1 was the 122nd season of São Paulo's top professional football league. The competition was played from 15 January to 9 April 2023.^[1]

Palmeiras won their 25th title, having beaten Água Santa 5−2 on aggregate.

• 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.^[2]
• Quarter-finals and semi-finals were played in a single match, with the best placed team playing at home.^[2]
• The finals were played in a two-legged home and away fixture, with the best placed team playing the second leg at home.^[2]
• In case of a draw in any knockout stage, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out.^[2]
• The two highest-placed teams not otherwise qualified qualified for the 2024 Copa do Brasil.^[2]
• 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 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.^[2]

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:

1. Higher number of wins;
2. Superior goal difference;
3. Higher number of goals scored;
4. Fewest red cards received;
5. Fewest yellow cards received;
6. Draw in the headquarters of the FPF.

The broadcasting rights of the 2023 Campeonato Paulista were acquired by Record TV for the second consecutive year, with their streaming app Play Plus also transmitting the matches live. Aside of that, the streaming platforms HBO Max and Estádio TNT Sports (owned by TNT) and the Paulistão official YouTube channel and app (Paulistão Play) also broadcast the matches live.^[3] On 28 October 2022, TNT also announced the trasmission of some matches in their paid TV channel, with pay-per-view channel Premiere also transmitting some matches.^[4]

Água Santa

Club	Home city	Manager	2022 result
Água Santa	Diadema	Thiago Carpini	14th
Botafogo	Ribeirão Preto	Adilson Batista	9th
Corinthians	São Paulo (Tatuapé)	Fernando Lázaro	3rd
Ferroviária	Araraquara	Elano	11th
Guarani	Campinas	Moisés Moura (caretaker)	7th
Internacional de Limeira	Limeira	Pintado	12th
Ituano	Itu	Gilmar Dal Pozzo	5th
Mirassol	Mirassol	Ricardo Catalá	10th
Palmeiras	São Paulo (Perdizes)	Abel Ferreira	1st
Portuguesa	São Paulo (Pari)	Gilson Kleina	1st (Série A2)
Red Bull Bragantino	Bragança Paulista	Pedro Caixinha	4th
Santo André	Santo André	Matheus Costa	8th
Santos	Santos	Odair Hellmann	13th
São Bernardo	São Bernardo do Campo	Márcio Zanardi	6th
São Bento	Sorocaba	Paulo Roberto Santos	2nd (Série A2)
São Paulo	São Paulo (Morumbi)	Rogério Ceni	2nd

The knockout stage of the 2023 Campeonato Paulista commenced on 11 March 2023 with the quarter-finals and ended on 9 April 2023 with the final. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.

The quarter-finals will be played in a single match at the stadium of the better-ranked team in the first phase. If no goals were scored during the match, the tie will be decided via a penalty shoot-out. The semi-finals will be played with the same format as the quarter-finals. The finals will be played over two legs, with the team having the better record in matches from the previous stages hosting the second leg.

Attendance: 39,258

Referee: Edina Alves Batista

Corinthians	1–1	Ituano
Paulinho 35'	Report	Raí Ramos 26'
Penalties
Fábio Santos Giuliano Fausto Vera Yuri Alberto Róger Guedes Maycon Bruno Méndez Fagner Gil	6–7	Eduardo Person José Aldo Rafael Pereira Raí Ramos Claudinho Jefferson Paulino Lucas Siqueira Mário Sérgio Felipe Saraiva

Attendance: 43,888

Referee: Raphael Claus

Attendance: 4,867

Referee: Flávio Rodrigues de Souza

São Paulo	0–0	Água Santa
	Report
Penalties
Luciano Alisson Alan Franco Pablo Maia Caio Paulista Rodrigo Nestor Jhegson Méndez	5–6	Bruno Mezenga Reginaldo Patrick Allan Patrick Brey Gabriel Inocêncio Kadi Thiaguinho

Attendance: 39,454

Referee: Vinícius Gonçalves Dias Araújo

Attendance: 40,664

Referee: Flávio Rodrigues de Souza

Água Santa	1–1	Red Bull Bragantino
Lucas Tocantins 51'	Report	Alerrandro 9'
Penalties
Bruno Mezenga Luan Dias Cristiano Reginaldo Júnior Todinho	4–2	Juninho Capixaba Sorriso Praxedes Thiago Borbas

Attendance: 11,507

Referee: Raphael Claus

Attendance: 22,896

Referee: Edina Alves Batista

Palmeiras	4–0	Água Santa
Gabriel Menino 15', 27' Endrick 34' José López 73'	Report

Attendance: 41,444

Referee: Raphael Claus

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Róger Guedes	Corinthians	8
	Giuliano Galoppo	São Paulo
3	Bruno Mezenga	Água Santa	7
4	John Kennedy	Ferroviária	6
	Rony	Palmeiras