Season trivia for Brasileirão 2018
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2018 Brasileirão season in Brazil.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Ricardo Oliveira and Juan Cazares. Together they were behind 5 goals for Atlético Mineiro in the 2018 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2018 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Ángel Romero, playing for Corinthians, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 45 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Vasco da Gama-Corinthians.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2018 was 6 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Ángel Romero (Corinthians) - July 2018
Gabriel Barbosa (Santos) - September 2018
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored three times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2018 season was Diego Souza in São Paulo, in total he did it nine times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Nicolas Lopez in Internacional during the 2018 season, in total he did this five times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2018 season was Yago Pikachu, in total he scored five penalties for his Vasco da Gama.
Most penalty goals by team
Vasco da Gama was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2018 season, in total they scored ten of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, six players scored two goals in added time, and the players who did so were:
Nicolas Lopez (Internacional)
Neilton (Vitória)
Yago Pikachu (Vasco da Gama)
Ricardo Oliveira (Atlético Mineiro)
Agustin Doffo (Chapecoense)
Régis (Bahia)
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was six goals, which two teams managed to do, and these were Bahia and Internacional.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2018 season was Aderllan Santos, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Brasileirão, which he did two times.
Most own goals by team
two teams each scored four own goals, and the teams that were best at putting the ball into their own net were Atlético Mineiro and Vitória.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Róger Guedes in Atlético Mineiro scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2018 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Diego Souza in São Paulo who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 9 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Gabriel Barbosa in Santos scored a total of 11 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Brasileirão during the 2018 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were three teams that had 5 consecutive wins in the 2018 season, and those teams were Internacional, Palmeiras and Flamengo.
Most matches in a row without losing
Internacional were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2018 season, playing 10 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2018 season, there were nine teams that had 4 consecutive losses, and those teams were Vasco da Gama, América Mineiro, Santos, Vitória, Athletico Paranaense, Ceará, Fluminense, Paraná and Sport Recife.
Most matches in a row without a win
Paraná managed the feat of not winning a single match in 18 consecutive matches during the 2018 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Atlético Mineiro were best at during the 2018 season, they came back to win five matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Athletico Paranaense have managed this in six matches during the 2018 season, more than any other team in Brasileirão.