Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol is held by the National Federation Confederação Brasileira de Futebol Brazilian national championship for football clubs. Common names are also Brasileiro (according to the German for the German Cup) and Brasileirão ( roughly " large Brazilian "). After most of the first half of the year is traditionally dedicated to the Football Championship of the states of Brazil, is the national championship usually from May to December. 2011, the Corinthians was the fifth time in club history masters. Giants are the SE Palmeiras from Sao Paulo and Santos FC with eight titles.
The first official championship was held in 1971. 2010 were also the winners of the first, held 1959-1970 national competitions, the Taça Brasil and also known as Taça de Prata Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, officially recognized as a champion of Brazil.
Between 1971 and 2002 the championship held various official designations and also the competition format has been altered. In 1990, the first time the term Série A for the application, which was introduced in 2003 to the name of the national football league.
In the 2008 season, the Série A an average of 2.72 goals per game ( 2.76 last year ) had. In the 380 games of around 6.2 million ( 6.6 million ) people were in the stadium, which yielded an average of about 16 714 spectators ( 17,500 ) per game.
In the 2013 season, then an incision was made 2.46 goals per game. There were still average 14,038 spectators per game.
- 2.1 List of Brazilian Master
- 2.2 List of champions to the number of championships
- 2.3 Championships by state
- 2.4 Most seasons
- 2.5 Ranking by points scored in the top league ( booth including season 2013)
Historical
The immensity of Brazil have historically been a major obstacle to the holding of national sports competitions. As an example may be mentioned here that in 1975 a road link between some 500 kilometers distant cities Rio de Janeiro and Santos was completed. Only affordable air connections made routine trips to games in other cities possible. Before that there was more or less regularly discharged tournaments between the strongest associations of various states, such as the famous Torneio Rio - São Paulo, which was first held in 1933.
Earlier, however, there were State tournaments like the played 1917-1919 Taça Ioduran and the Copa dos Champ Estaduais, the Cup champion, which was held in 1920 and 1936, the respective winner like this misled as quasi to celebrate national champion.
1959: Taça Brasil
After the success of the South American Championship of Champions of 1948 and the European Cup of Champions since 1956 was first announced in 1960 with the Copa Campeones de América, since 1965 Copa Libertadores, also posted on a regular South American continental competition for football clubs. Were eligible nominated by the national federations Champion Clubs.
For the determination of the Brazilian operator was the first time in 1959 Taça Brasil, the Brazil Cup, held. First winner of this cup competition was the EC Bahia. Until the last playout 1968 with five wins record winner of the event of the Santos FC at the century footballer Pelé. The SE Palmeiras in São Paulo won the Taça twice, Cruzeiro EC from Belo Horizonte and Botafogo FR from Rio once each.
Main article: Taça Brasil
1967: Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Torneio
From 1967 to 1970, named as Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Torneio, from 1968, even after the trophy Taça de Prata ( Silver Trophy ), a further national competition played out. The winning teams this emerged from the Torneio Rio - São Paulo Tournament consider themselves as champions of Brazil and found as such also wide public recognition, although the Brazilian Football Federation CBF that this recognition is not officially granted Confederação Brasileira de Futebol until 2010. However, named the CBF predecessor organization Confederação Brasileira de Desportos, under whose auspices was held the tournament, even the winner Campeão do Brasil, that master of Brazil.
In the first two years, the winner of the occasional Robertão ( great Roberto ) competition called qualified alongside the winner of Taça Brasil for the Copa Libertadores. After that was the predecessor of the recorded 1989 Cup competition Copa do Brasil looked Taça Brasil with the end of the 1968 season set, the top two finishers of the Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Torneio were qualified. Palmeiras won the Taça de Prata twice, Santos and Fluminense FC once each.
Main article: Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Torneio
Recognition as a master
The winner of Taça Brasil and Roberto Gomes Pedrosa Torneio have repeatedly tried in vain to become football historically assimilated by the Association with the masters of Brazil from 1971 to 2010, but what they failed remained. These clubs referenced happy that they were finally reported as a champion for the Copa Libertadores and contemporary also commonly referred to as a champion of Brazil. Also in various official publications of the CBD have been expressly described as Campeão as champion. Finally took place on 21 December 2010 in a festive ceremony in Itanhangá Golf Club in the west of Rio de Janeiro, the long-awaited Unificação Títulos dos brasileiros, the official recognition by the CBF as a Master. Federation President Ricardo Teixeira presented representatives of the organizations which have won the Taça Brasil, and the Taça de Prata official diplomas, championship sashes and miniature versions of the current championship trophy engraved with club name and year of the title gain. The clubs each 20 medals were handed over to forwarding to the players involved; Pele were handed out his six championship medals already in the ceremony. Since that day, lists of champions Brazil are officially incomplete without the winner of Taça Brasil and Taça de Prata.
The also meant that Brazil in the years 1967 and 1968 two official master; Palmeiras is thus two-time champion of the year 1967.
1971: Campeonato Nacional de Clubes
- Taça Brasil: 1959-1968
- Roberto Gomes Pedrosa torneio: 1967-1970
- Campeonato Nacional de Clubes: 1971-1974
- Copa Brasil: 1975-1980
- Taça de Ouro: 1981-1983
- Copa Brasil: 1984-1986
- Copa União: 1987-1988
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A as: 1989-1999
- Copa João Havelange: 2000
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A since: 2001 -present
It was the first time since 1971, held as Campeonato Nacional de Clubes Championship had at that time also official rank as such. The competition format in those years was still quite complicated, with group games, playoffs and finals with a return game as the highlight. Also, there was still no regular promotion and relegation. Membership of the illustrious group of clubs which played off the championship, was determined after various times little transparent criteria. But the great tradition of clubs had secured a starting place. The number of participating teams varied greatly; were in the first season still 20 clubs at the start, it was the third year already 40
In 1975, the competition was renamed the Copa Brasil. In 1979, the number of participants with 94 clubs a peak, although was slimmed down again to 44 clubs already in the following season, mainly because once a second league was introduced in the 64 clubs around the Taça de Prata, the Silver Cup, and the first time the rise played. Londrina EC and Centro Sportivo Alagoano from Maceió were the first winners here.
The Erstligawettbewerb was called from 1981 Taça de Ouro. 44 teams competed for this Gold Cup. Also, the number of participants was reorganized. Success at the state championships was now the main aspect of participation in the championship. From 1985, a new criterion of the Association a "historic ranking " introduced, were determined on the basis of which 20 of the 44 participants. Finally, in 1986 was named the competition again Copa Brasil.
Chaos 1987 season
Starting in 1987, the Association wanted to reduce the number of participants to 28 clubs. But from the thus locked- managed Botafogo FR and Coritiba FC, to erstreiten eligibility per sport court order. The success of these two clubs again animated other clubs, also legally proceed. The chaos was perfect, as the association now also maneuvered on the verge of bankruptcy and financially unable to hold a championship was.
The thirteen self-proclaimed big clubs organized themselves to Clube dos 13, the Association of Thirteen, who invited three other clubs and independent of the association fought out a championship. In the so-called Green module, the modulho verde these clubs played the Copa União ( " Union Cup "). Now on the other hand succeeded the Association to hold a tournament. Here's played in the Yellow module, the modulho amarelho, also 16 clubs around the Taça Roberto Gomes Pedrosa. With few exceptions, such as the championship finalists of the previous year Guarani FC, the participants were assigned to the Yellow group more representative of the second member.
In the Copa União Flamengo defeated in the finals SC Internacional of Porto Alegre. In Yellow module was declared after a controversial exit of the finals Guarani against Sport Recife the winner. The association wanted to that in the semi-finals to a national championship Flamengo play against sports and Internacional against Guarani, what the Green Team but rejected. So it came about that sport and Guarani faced each other in two games for the national championship, in which the team from Recife kept almost the upper hand.
Sport has become the official champion of Brazil and has been reported along with Guarani by the Association Libertadores competition. In general, however, Flamengo is regarded as the "true" masters of that season. The team from Rio Internacional and were condemned by the National Sports Council for their no-show against the Yellow team to relegation to the second division, but this was not implemented.
In 1988, the championship was held under the name Copa União, and in the 24 participants all clubs the Green module of the previous year were there. 1990, now reduced to 20 clubs championship round was first referred to as Series A. 1993 swelled the number of participants in the short term back to 32 clubs, but decreased since the following season back to 24, which remained stable for several years.
More chaos at the millennium
In 2000, big mess was announced again. The SE Gama from the federal capital, Brasilia has earned it in an ordinary court revoking the descent from the previous season, which came about because Botafogo and Internacional were awarded at the conference table victories against FC São Paulo. FIFA said, because of the transfer to a court of law of a ban against Gama. After much toing and froing the Copa João Havelange was finally with a record entry of 115 clubs, including SE Gama, played out, a substantially aligned by the Club of Thirteen tournament.
In the league final second leg in São Januário Stadium in Rio between Vasco da Gama and AD São Caetano came in the 23rd minute after riots among the audience due to flight movements to the collapse of a fence. 168 people were injured, three of them seriously. Although the president of Vasco and the referee wanted to continue the game, this was forbidden by the Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Players of Vasco turned a lap of honor, while still wounded were patched on the field. After a 3-1 win in the replay Vasco became champion.
From 2003 - Série A, a league based on European models
2001, the number of participants was reduced to 28 and in 2002 was named the league again Série A. The major reform but came in the following season, 2003. The number of participants was reduced to 24, which is now in a regular league play without playoffs with Hin - and return round the master and all other participants identify of South American club competition next to the Cup Winners' Cup. Also questions are like now clearly ascent and descent answerable. The last four will be relegated to the Série B, which in turn is determined by the pattern of the Series A, the four climbers. 2005 Series A at 22 and in the year was slimmed it to today's figure of 20 clubs. By the end of the decade, the substructure to the Série C, and the Série D has been extended.
Statistical Overview
List of Brazilian Master
List of champions to the number of championships
- 8 - SE Palmeiras - 1960, 1967, 1967 *, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1993, 1994
- 8 - Santos FC - 1961 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 2002, 2004
- 6 - São Paulo FC - 1977, 1986, 1991, 2006, 2007, 2008
- 5 - CR Flamengo - 1980, 1982, 1983, 1992, 2009
- 5 - Corinthians Sao Paulo - 1990, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2011
- 4 - CR Vasco da Gama - 1974, 1989, 1997, 2000
- 4 - Fluminense FC - 1970, 1984, 2010, 2012
- 3 - Cruzeiro EC ( Belo Horizonte ) - 1966, 2003, 2013
- 3 - SC Internacional - 1975, 1976, 1979
- 2 - Gremio FB Porto Alegrense - 1996, 1981
- 2 - EC Bahia - 1959, 1988
- 2 - Botafogo FR - 1968, 1995
- 1 - Atlético Paranaense - 2001
- 1 - Sport Recife - 1987
- 1 - Coritiba FC - 1985
- 1 - Guarani FC - 1978
- 1 - Atlético Mineiro - 1971
*) Palmeiras won two championships in 1967 )
Championships by state
- 28 São Paulo ( state ) São Paulo
- 15 Rio de Janeiro ( state ) Rio de Janeiro
- 05 Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul
- 04 Minas Gerais Minas Gerais
- 02 Bahia Bahia
- 02 Paraná Paraná
- Pernambuco Pernambuco 01
Most seasons
The following teams participated in all championship tournaments since 1971, in part:
- Cruzeiro EC ( Belo Horizonte )
- CR Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro)
- SC Internacional (Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul )