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2025 Copa do Nordeste

Tournament details
Country	Brazil
Dates	21 January – 7 September
Teams	16
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The 2025 Copa do Nordeste (officially the Copa do Nordeste 2025 SUPERBET for sponsorship reasons) will be the 22nd edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition will feature 16 clubs, with Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco having two seeds each, and Alagoas, Maranhão, Paraíba, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe with one seed each. Four teams were decided by a qualifying tournament (Eliminatórias da Copa do Nordeste 2025). The Copa do Nordeste will begin on 21 January and will end on 7 September 2025.

Fortaleza are the defending champions.

Format

This season, 12 teams (9 state league champions and best placed teams in the 2024 CBF ranking from Ceará, Bahia and Pernambuco) earned direct entry into the group stage while the other four berths were determined by the Eliminatórias da Copa do Nordeste.

For the group stage, the 16 teams will be drawn into two groups. Each group will be played on a single round-robin basis. The top four teams will qualify for the final stages. The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played on a single-leg basis, while the finals will be played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.

Qualification

The 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification (officially the Eliminatórias da Copa do Nordeste 2025) was the qualifying tournament of the 2025 Copa do Nordeste. It was played from 4 to 8 January 2025. Sixteen teams competed to decide four places in the Copa do Nordeste. The teams entered in two rounds where the four winners advanced to the Copa do Nordeste.

The winners were CSA (Alagoas), Ferroviário (Ceará), Juazeirense (Bahia) and Moto Club (Maranhão).

Teams

The qualified teams are

Association	Team	Qualification method
Alagoas 1 + 1 berths	CRB	2024 Campeonato Alagoano champions
	CSA	2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Bahia 2 + 1 berths	Vitória	2024 Campeonato Baiano champions
	Bahia	best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified
	Juazeirense	2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Ceará 2 + 1 berths	Ceará	2024 Campeonato Cearense champions
	Fortaleza	best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified
	Ferroviário	2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Maranhão 1 + 1 berths	Sampaio Corrêa	2024 Campeonato Maranhense champions
	Moto Club	2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Paraíba 1 berth	Sousa	2024 Campeonato Paraibano champions
Pernambuco 2 berths	Sport	2024 Campeonato Pernambucano champions
	Náutico	best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified
Piauí 1 berth	Altos	2024 Campeonato Piauiense champions
Rio Grande do Norte 1 berth	América de Natal	2024 Campeonato Potiguar champions
Sergipe 1 berth	Confiança	2024 Campeonato Sergipano champions

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 14 January 2025, 20:00, at the Hotel Grand Hyatt in Rio de Janeiro. The teams were seeded into four pots based on the 2024 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). They were drawn into two groups of eight containing two teams from each of the pots with the restriction that teams from the same federation could not be drawn into the same group. If there were three or more qualified teams from the same federation, the two best teams in the CBF ranking would be allocated in different groups.

Group stage

For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight teams each. Each group will be played on a single round-robin basis. The top four teams of each group will advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stages. The teams will be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria will be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards; 5. Fewest yellow cards; 6. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 13).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ALT	CRB	FER	FOR	MOT	SOU	SPO	VIT
1	Altos	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to Quarter-finals			–		–	–
2	CRB	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					–		–	–		–
3	Ferroviário	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–					–	–
4	Fortaleza	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				–	–		–			–
5	Moto Club	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					–			–		–
6	Sousa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–			–			–
7	Sport	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–	–		–	–
8	Vitória	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–		–			–	–

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AME	BAH	CEA	CON	CSA	JUA	NAU	SAM
1	América de Natal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to Quarter-finals					–	–	–
2	Bahia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–		–				–	–
3	Ceará	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–			–	–	–
4	Confiança	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				–					–	–
5	CSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				–		–			–	–
6	Juazeirense	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				–		–	–
7	Náutico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–		–			–
8	Sampaio Corrêa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			–		–			–	–

Final stages

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:

• Quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played on a single-leg basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the leg.
  • If tied, the penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winners (Regulations Article 19).
• Finals will be played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the second leg.
  • If tied on aggregate, the penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winners (Regulations Article 19).
• Extra time will not be played and away goals rule will not be used in final stages.

Starting from the semi-finals, the teams will be seeded according to their performance in the tournament. The teams will be ranked according to overall points. If tied on overall points, the following criteria will be used to determine the ranking: 1. Overall wins; 2. Overall goal difference; 3. Overall goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards in the tournament; 5. Fewest yellow cards in the tournament; 6. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 20).

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

Group A winners

Group B 4th place

Group B runners-up

Group A 3rd place

Group B winners

Group A 4th place

Group A runners-up

Group B 3rd place

1. Order to be decided.

Quarter-finals

Group C

Group A winners	–	Group B 4th place

Group D

Group A runners-up	–	Group B 3rd place

Group E

Group B winners	–	Group A 4th place

Group F

Group B runners-up	–	Group A 3rd place

Semi-finals

1. Order to be decided.

Group G

Group H

Finals

1. Order to be decided.

Group I

References

1. "Superbet fecha naming rights do Carioca, Gaúcho, Copa do Nordeste e outros quatro estaduais" (in Portuguese). MKTEsportivo. 13 January 2025.
2. "Pré-Copa do Nordeste de 2025: CBF detalha tabela de jogos da primeira fase das eliminatórias" (in Portuguese). Globo. 27 December 2024.
3. ^ "Regulamento Específico da Competição Copa do Nordeste 2025" (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF.
4. "Veja os classificados para a fase de grupos da Copa do Nordeste" (in Portuguese). Correio Braziliense. 8 January 2025.
5. "Copa do Nordeste 2025: veja todos classificados para a fase de grupos" (in Portuguese). Globo. 8 January 2025.
6. "COPA DO NORDESTE TABELA DETALHADA / EDIÇÃO 2025" (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF.
7. "Confira os grupos da Copa do Nordeste 2025" (in Portuguese). CBF. 14 January 2025.

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