Taça Brasil

Brazil Cup History

Brazil first organized a national cup tournament from 1959 to 1968, called Taça Brasil. The tournament was created as a result of the creation of the Copa Libertadores de América; as Brazil did not have a national championship at the time, the winners of the Taça Brasil entered the Copa Libertadores de América, for which every country used to have one entry.

The tournament was discontinued after the introduction of a national championship (in 1971, following the Taça de Prata (or Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa) from 1967 to 1970).

A new cup tournament, called Copa do Brasil, was introduced in 1989, in order to appease the smaller states, whose clubs had been excluded from the first level since the creation of the Copa União in 1987.
 

The winners of the Copa do Brasil also enter the Copa Libertadores de América, for which each country now has two entries (Brazil four starting from the 2000 edition). From 1991 to 1995, the runner-ups of Copa do Brasil entered the Copa Conmebol.


 

Palmares

1959 - Esporte Clube Bahia (Salvador)
1960 - Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo)
1961 - Santos Futebol Clube (Santos)
1962 - Santos Futebol Clube (Santos)
1963 - Santos Futebol Clube (Santos)
1964 - Santos Futebol Clube (Santos)
1965 - Santos Futebol Clube (Santos)
1966 - Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte)
1967 - Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo)
1968 - Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas (Rio de Janeiro)

Finals

1959 - Bahia           3-2 0-2 3-1 Santos
1960 - Palmeiras       3-1 8-2     Fortaleza
1961 - Santos          1-1 5-1     Bahia
1962 - Santos          4-3 1-3 5-0 Botafogo
1963 - Santos          6-0 2-0     Bahia
1964 - Santos          4-1 0-0     Flamengo
1965 - Santos          5-1 1-0     Vasco da Gama
1966 - Cruzeiro        6-2 3-2     Santos
1967 - Palmeiras       3-1 1-2 2-0 Náutico
1968 - Botafogo        2-2 4-0     Fortaleza

Number of Wins (lost finals between brackets)

 
 5 Santos (2)
 
 2 Palmeiras (0)
 
 1 Bahia (2)
   Botafogo (1)
   Cruzeiro (0)
 
 0 Fortaleza (2)
   Flamengo (1)
   Náutico (1)
   Vasco da Gama (1)

Data on Participating Teams Taça Brasil 1959-68

About this document

Prepared and maintained by Miguel Angel Hemzo and Ricardo Pontes for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation and RSSSF Brazil

Authors: Miguel Angel Hemzo (mhemzo@lbs.lon.ac.uk) and Ricardo Pontes (rffp@terra.com.br)
Last updated: 11 Jun 2008

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