2024 Série D champion and this year's Pernambucano runner-up, Retrô – filled with veterans in its squad – is already back in the Fourth Division of Brazilian football.
Founded in 2016 and collecting good results – it was also state runner-up in 2022 and 2023 -, Fênix drew 1-1 with ABC this Sunday (24), at Arena Pernambuco.
Reached 14 points and can no longer reach Anápolis, which reached 20 and is 16th. Only one round remains.
Retrô "repeats" Ferroviário, which took Série D in 2023 and fell in Série C last year.
Tombense (13) was already relegated. ABC (18) and Itabaiana (19) complete the relegation zone. And will face each other on Saturday (30).
The Retrô that took the field counted on Vagner Love, 41 years old and hired during the competition, Fernandinho, 39, ex-Flamengo, São Paulo and Grêmio, and Rômulo, 34, ex-Vasco, Flamengo and Grêmio.
Another highlight is Fabinho, 38 years old and with passages through Internacional, Ceará, Botafogo and Sport.
Love arrived at Retrô with the mission of making a difference. But has only one goal in 11 games.
The campaign of the Pernambuco club in the Third Division was bad from the start. Won only three times and went blank in 13 games.
It is, with seven goals scored, the team with the least effective attack in the competition.
IT'S CATCHING FIRE! 🔥
Caxias, Náutico, Ponte Preta, Londrina and São Bernardo are already classified.
Several teams are fighting for the last three spots.
Highlights for the comebacks of Belo, Confiança – which is still a finalist in the Copa do Nordeste -, Guarani and Figueirense.
The next phase will have two groups with four teams each, with games in a round-robin format. The division will be: 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th in one group. And 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th in the other.
The top two guarantee access. And the leaders of each key dispute the title.
The fight to not occupy the two remaining places in Série D-2026 is also intense.
See below the updated classification and, later, what's left.
The 18th round still has two games on this Monday (24).
The final one will be next Saturday (30).
18th round
Monday – 25/8
19h30 – Guarani x Confiança – Brinco de Ouro da Princesa
19h30 – CSA x Ponte Preta – Rei Pelé
19th round
Saturday – 30/8
All games from 17h (from Brasília)
Náutico x Ituano – Aflitos
Ponte Preta x Londrina – Moisés Lucarelli
Confiança x Retrô – Batistão
Tombense x Guarani – Antônio Guimarães de Almeida
Anápolis x Botafogo-PB – Jonas Duarte
Maringá x Caxias – Willie Davids
Ypiranga-RS x Figueirense – Colosso da Lagoa
Brusque x CSA – Augusto Bauer
Floresta x São Bernardo – Domingão
ABC x Itabaiana – Casa de Apostas Arena das Dunas
Featured photo: Reproduction/Retrô
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