The tournament takes place from January to June and brings together clubs from all the states of the region; Ceará is the current champion
A Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) revealed this Tuesday, 7, the dates of Northeast Cup 2024the country’s main regional competition. The main novelty is the attention that the body has dedicated to the other tournaments: there will not be a clash of dates between the ‘Lampions League’ and the 2024 State Championships. The preliminary phase – pre Copa do Nordeste – will begin on January 7 , while the final is reserved for June 9th.
Ceará is the current champion. Besides him, 11 other teams are already guaranteed in the group stage. In the preliminary phase, another 16 will compete for the last four places in the competition. The nine states of the region will be represented. In 2023, R$42 million was distributed among all teams that competed in the tournament; champion, Ceará received R$6 million from the CBF.
Two months before the start of the first phase, the Estadao brings together the main information on the Copa do Nordeste. Check out the competition dates, ranked teams, prizes and all the champions in the tournament’s history below.
When will the Northeast Cup take place?
In total, the CBF has defined 16 dates for the Copa do Nordeste, which includes the preliminary phase, the group stage and the knockout phase. This way there will be no conflict with the region’s state championships, which will take place between April and January.
- January 7 (Sunday): preliminary phase
- January 14 (Sunday): preliminary phase
- February 4 (Sunday): Copa do Nordeste
- February 10 (Saturday): Copa do Nordeste
- February 14 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- February 21 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- February 28 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- March 6 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- March 13 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- March 20 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- March 24 (Sunday): Copa do Nordeste
- March 27 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- April 10 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- April 24 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- June 5 (Wednesday): Copa do Nordeste
- June 9 (Sunday): Copa do Nordeste
Which teams qualified for the Copa do Nordeste?
There is not yet a definition of all those qualified for the competition, but it is now possible to draw up, based on the CBF ranking, who will compete for the title of the main regional tournament in the country.
Preliminary phase
- ABC (ranking)
- Highest (ranking)
- ASA (2nd place in the Alagoano Championship)
- Botafogo-PB (ranking)
- Trust (ranking)
- CSA (ranking)
- Railway (ranking)
- Iguatu (3rd place in the Cearense Championship)
- Jacuipense (2nd place in the Bahia Championship)
- Juazeirense (ranking)
- Moto Club (2nd place in the Maranhense Championship)
- Potiguar de Mossoró (3rd place in the Potiguar Championship)
- Retrô (2nd place in the Pernambucano Championship)
- Sampaio Corrêa (ranking)
- Santa Cruz (ranking)
- Sousa (2nd place in the Paraiban Championship)
Group stage
- America-RN (Potiguar champion)
- Bahia (Bahian champion)
- Ceará (ranking)
- CRB (Alagoan champion)
- Fortaleza (Cearense champion)
- Itabaiana (Sergipe champion)
- Maranhão (Maranhense champion)
- Nautical (ranking)
- River-PI (Piauí champion)
- Sport (Pernambuco champion)
- Thirteen (Paradiba champion)
- Victory (ranking)
All the champions of the Northeast Cup
- Bahia: 4 titles (2001, 2002, 2017 and 2021)
- Victory: 4 titles (1997, 1999, 2003 and 2010)
- Sport: 3 titles (1994, 2000 and 2014)
- Ceará: 3 titles (2015, 2020 and 2023)
- Fortaleza: 2 titles (2019 and 2022)
- America-RN: 1 title (1998)
- Campinense: 1 title (2013)
- Santa Cruz: 1 title (2016)
- Sampaio Corrêa: 1 title (2018)
Source: Terra
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