Copa do Brasil
The Copa do Brasil since 1989, the Brazilian cup competition in football. Every year, identify 64 football clubs from the 26 Brazilian states and the Federal District in the knockout system the Cup Winners' Cup. The cup winner qualifies for the next year's Copa Libertadores. The name of the competition is not to be confused with the Copa Brasil: this was from 1975 to 1980 and from 1984 to 1986 the official name for the Brazilian championship.
History
The for the determination of the Brazilian participants in the Americas Cup, the at that time newly Copa Libertadores, in 1959, launched Taça Brasil was the first national competition in Brazil and is considered the predecessor of today's Cup competition, although this is not an official recognition by the Association of CBF, the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol has found. With the introduction of a national championship in 1967 Taça Brasil lost to German in about Brazil Cup, but fast in importance and the competition was set in 1968.
After the change of the mode of the championship, the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol, in the late 1980s there were to present themselves and nationally, especially for the clubs from the footballing less obese states fewer opportunities. In order to remedy the situation here was re- established in 1989 with the Copa do Brasil, a national cup competition.
The winners of the Copa do Brasil will participate in the Copa Libertadores. From 1991 to 1995, the runners-up for the Copa Conmebol were to start.
In the first five years participated 32 teams at the Copa part. Qualifies were the masters of all states. The states with the highest number of spectators were allowed to send a second participant. Often this was the runner-up, but in other ways, such as a cup tournament at the state level, the second participant was determined. As of 1995, four states were granted a third party. In 1996, in addition to the original 32 teams, eight teams with the highest attendances in the Championship to start. From 1997 to 2003, these eight clubs were replaced by ten clubs who were appointed by the CBF according to unpublished criteria.
2004, the competition was expanded to 64 teams of which 54 are determined by the state competitions, with one, two or three teams qualify each state, depending on the placement in the National Federation ranking (CBF ranking). The remaining 10 seats will be awarded to the top ranked non-qualified teams of the National Association rankings (CBF ranking). Since 2001 - as officially granted for scheduling reasons - no longer participating clubs taking part in the Copa Libertadores. Thus, it is not possible to defend the Cup victory the following year.
Mode
Each round will be played in home and away matches. This is also true for the playoffs. In the first two rounds of the following exception: The away team is automatically qualified for the next round if they win the first leg against the home team with at least 2 goals difference.
In the Copa do Brasil, the away goals rule in South American competitions is uncommon otherwise and was introduced in the Copa Libertadores, for example, applies only in 2005.
Participant
The respective states provide a fixed number of participants. They are respectively:
- 3 participants from the states of:
- 2 participants from the states of:
The other ten places will be awarded to the highest on the historical CBF club rankings, the CBF ranking, ranked teams that did not qualify via the State Championships.
The ten teams qualified from this list came from the following states:
- 4 other subscribers
- 2 other participants
This sequence ( Federal States Championship club before ranking) was introduced for the Cup in 2007. The new regulation increases the importance of the ranking and increases the probability that the top ranked in the list teams qualify for the tournament. Before that was the reverse order ( ranking before the competition ) with the result that for the ten teams that had qualified on the list, teams from the respective states nachrückten.
Statistics
Clubs from ...
- 7x São Paulo ( state ) São Paulo
- 6x Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul
- 5x Rio de Janeiro ( state ) Rio de Janeiro
- 4x Minas Gerais Minas Gerais
- Pernambuco Pernambuco 1x
- 1x Santa Catarina Santa Catarina