Worrying: Dorival averaged under a point a game in the Brasileirão | OneFootball

What is São Paulo fighting for in the Brazilian Championship?

Well, despite the most optimistic fans dreaming of securing a spot in the next Copa Libertadores, the truth is that under Dorival Júnior, the fight will likely be to avoid relegation.

And no, this is not just the opinion of AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR. The numbers clearly expose the coach’s dismal performance in Brazil’s top football competition.

Dorival’s record in the 2026 Brazilian Championship has set off alarm bells at São Paulo. Since taking charge of the Tricolor team in May, the coach has posted a success rate of just 25% in the national competition, averaging less than one point per match.

Under Dorival’s leadership in the national tournament, São Paulo have played four matches, recording three draws — the most recent against Flamengo — and one defeat. That performance has yielded just three points out of a possible 12 in that span.

Record in the Tournament in 2026

The coach’s inconsistent run in the round-robin format mirrors the scenario seen in the first half of the season, when he was in charge of Corinthians.

At their rival from the east side of the city, Dorival posted a 33.3% success rate in 10 Brasileirão matches (10 points from a possible 30), a run that was cut short by his dismissal in April after a 1-0 defeat to Internacional, which left the team in 16th place, on the edge of the relegation zone.

Adding together his spells at the two São Paulo clubs in the current edition of the Brazilian Championship, the coach’s overall record stands at just 13 points won from 52 available.

Compared with the clubs, Dorival only has a better success rate than Chapecoense, the bottom team in the Brasileirão.

Among coaches, he has the worst numbers proportionally when compared by number of matches played.

Despite the turmoil and the difficulty in building momentum in this season’s round-robin competition, the manager still retains credit for having won major knockout titles in his recent history, such as the 2025 Copa do Brasil and the 2026 Supercopa do Brasil, at least keeping Tricolor optimism alive in the only other competition left on the calendar, the Copa Sudamericana.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.