2019 Copa do Nordeste

2019 Copa do Nordeste
Country  Brazil
Dates January 2019–July 2019
Teams 16
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The 2019 Copa do Nordeste will be the 16th edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition features 16 clubs, with Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco having two seeds each, and Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, Alagoas, Paraíba, Maranhão and Piauí with one seed each. Four teams were decided by a qualifying tournament (Pré-Copa do Nordeste)

The 2019 Copa do Nordeste champions will have a berth in the Round of 16 of the 2020 Copa do Brasil.

Sampaio Corrêa are the defending champions.

Format changes

In this season, 12 teams (9 state league champions and best placed teams in the 2018 CBF ranking from Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco) gained direct entries into the group stage while the other four berths were decided by the Pré-Copa do Nordeste.[1]

For the group stage, the 16 teams will be drawn into two groups. Each team will play once against the eight clubs from the other group. Top four teams will qualify for the final stages.

Teams

Association Team Qualification method
Alagoas Alagoas
1 + 1 berths		 CSA 2018 Campeonato Alagoano champions
CRB 2019 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
Bahia Bahia
2 berths		 Bahia 2018 Campeonato Baiano champions
Vitória best placed team in the 2018 CBF ranking not already qualified
Ceará Ceará
2 berths		 Ceará 2018 Campeonato Cearense champions
Fortaleza best placed team in the 2018 CBF ranking not already qualified
Maranhão Maranhão
1 + 1 berths		 Moto Club 2018 Campeonato Maranhense champions
Sampaio Corrêa 2019 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
Paraíba Paraíba
1 berth		 Botafogo-PB 2018 Campeonato Paraibano champions
Pernambuco Pernambuco[a]
2 + 1 berths		 Náutico 2018 Campeonato Pernambucano champions
Santa Cruz best second-placed team in the 2018 CBF ranking not already qualified
Salgueiro 2019 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
Piauí Piauí
1 berth		 Altos 2018 Campeonato Piauiense champions
Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Norte
1 berth		 ABC 2018 Campeonato Potiguar champions
Sergipe Sergipe
1 + 1 berths		 Sergipe 2018 Campeonato Sergipano champions
Confiança 2019 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
a Sport, Pernambuco best placed team in the 2018 CBF ranking, declined to participate in the Copa do Nordeste. They were replaced by Santa Cruz. Salgueiro (best fourth-placed team) entered the Pré-Copa do Nordeste.[2]

Schedule

The schedule of the competition will be as follows.

Stage First leg Second leg
Group Stage Round 1: TBD
Round 2: TBD
Round 3: TBD
Round 4: TBD
Round 5: TBD
Round 6: TBD
Round 7: TBD
Round 8: TBD
Quarter-finals TBD TBD
Semi-finals TBD TBD
Finals TBD TBD

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 4 October 2018, 20:00, at Teatro Gustavo Leite in Maceió.[3] The 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight containing two teams from each of the four pots with the restriction that teams from the same federation (except Salgueiro) could not be drawn against each other. Teams were seeded by their 2018 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses).

Group stage draw
Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Bahia Vitória 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to Quarter-finals
2 Pernambuco Santa Cruz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Alagoas CRB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Maranhão Sampaio Corrêa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Ceará Fortaleza 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Pernambuco Salgueiro 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Piauí Altos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Sergipe Sergipe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 2019. Source: CBF

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Bahia Bahia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to Quarter-finals
2 Ceará Ceará 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Rio Grande do Norte ABC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Pernambuco Náutico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Paraíba Botafogo-PB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Sergipe Confiança 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Alagoas CSA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Maranhão Moto Club 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 2019. Source: CBF

2019 Pré-Copa do Nordeste

The 2019 Pré-Copa do Nordeste was the qualifying tournament of 2019 Copa do Nordeste. It was played from 18 April to 1 May 2018.[4] Best placed team in the 2018 CBF ranking not already qualified from Alagoas, Bahia, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe competed to decide four places in the Copa do Nordeste.

Draw

The draw was held on 9 April 2018, 15:00, at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.[5] Teams were seeded by their 2018 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). The eight teams were drawn into four ties, with the Pot A teams hosting the second leg.

2019 Pré-Copa do Nordeste draw
Pot A Pot B
1 The identity of Piauí team was not known at the time of the draw.

Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, the away goals rule would not be used, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations Pré-Copa do Nordeste Article 9).[6]

Matches

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Ríver Piauí 2–5 Maranhão Sampaio Corrêa 2–2 0–3
Confiança Sergipe 5–3 Rio Grande do Norte América de Natal 3–3 2–0
Juazeirense Bahia 2–3 Pernambuco Salgueiro 1–1 1–2
Campinense Paraíba 2–3 Alagoas CRB 1–0 1–3

Sampaio Corrêa, Confiança, Salgueiro and CRB qualified for 2019 Copa do Nordeste.

References

  1. ↑ "Com ranking nacional de clubes de critério, Nordestão 2019 inicia em abril de 2018" (in Portuguese). Globo. 16 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Sport anuncia mais uma desistência no Nordestão e segue reprimindo a história" (in Portuguese). Diario de Pernambuco. 23 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Após mudança, Copa do Nordeste tem clássicos na primeira fase" (in Portuguese). CBF. 5 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "PRÉ-COPA DO NORDESTE TABELA BÁSICA / EDIÇÃO 2019" (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF.
  5. ↑ "Sorteio define duelos da Pré-Copa do Nordeste 2019" (in Portuguese). CBF. 9 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Regulamento Específico da Competição Pré-Copa do Nordeste 2019" (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF.

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