Fortaleza seems to be to return to the nationwide prime flightCredits: Leonardo Moreira / Fortaleza
The 4 groups relegated from Série A in 2025 are in very totally different conditions within the present Série B season. The most effective of them to this point is Fortaleza, in fourth place with 28 factors. If the competitors ended right this moment, Leão do Pici must play in a playoff to attempt to earn promotion.
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The identical would apply to Juventude, in sixth place with 26 factors. Série B in 2026 sends the 2 highest-point groups to Série A in 2027 on the finish of the home-and-away schedule, whereas the opposite two spots are determined in playoffs among the many groups ending third, 4th, fifth, and sixth.
Sport, in eighth place with 25 factors, is correct on the sting of the G6 and stays alive in its purpose of returning to the highest flight.
However, Ceará will not be having a very good marketing campaign and wishes to reply. In seventeenth place, within the relegation zone, with 17 factors, Vozão can nonetheless make the G6, however first it has to give attention to shifting away from the underside spots.
Try the Matchweek 17 fixtures:
Wednesday (8) – Ponte Preta 1 x 2 Criciúma.
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Friday (10) – Juventude x Vila Nova, at 7 p.m. – Alfredo Jaconi; Sport x Botafogo-SP, at 8 p.m. – Ilha do Retiro.
Sunday (12) – Operário-PR x Novorizontino, at 11 a.m. – Germano Krüger; São Bernardo x Cuiabá, at 4 p.m. – Primeiro de Maio; Avaí x Náutico, at 4 p.m. – Ressacada; Atlético-GO x Fortaleza, at 6 p.m. – Antônio Accioly; and CRB x Goiás, at 7 p.m. – Rei Pelé.
Monday (13) – América-MG x Londrina, at 7 p.m. – Independência; and Ceará x Athletic, at 8:30 p.m. – Presidente Vargas.
This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.