2014 Copa FGF

2014 Copa FGF
Copa Fernandão
Tournament details
Country	Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Dates	6 August – 8 October
Teams	22
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The 2014 Copa FGF (also known as the 2014 Copa Fernandão in this edition, in posthumous tribute) was the 11th season of the Copa FGF, the main domestic cup competition in Rio Grande do Sul football, which is a knockout cup competition. The tournament began on 6 August and ended on 8 October with the second leg of final.

In this year, 22 clubs of the state decided to participate in the Copa FGF, which varies in number of participants according to the interest of clubs in the first, second and third divisions of the Campeonato Gaúcho. This time, one of the two greatest clubs in the state, the Grêmio, decided to not participate of the competition.

Novo Hamburgo enters in the 2014 Copa FGF defending his title won in 2013.

Format edit

The competition is a knockout tournament with pairings for first round (round of 22) drawn at random, being the best placed club in the FGF Club Ranking plays the first leg at away. If that club wins by a difference of two or more goals, it will be automatically qualified for the next round. The same rules serves to Round of 12. From the quarter-finals, the order of matches is decided by lot and the second leg is required.^[1]

Twenty-two clubs beginning in the round of 22, being the winners and the best loser advancing to the second round. In the round of 12, the winners and the two best losers qualify for the quarter-finals. Thereafter, only the winners advance to the semifinals and the finals.

The Copa FGF winner qualify for the 2015 Copa do Brasil and for 2014 Super Copa Gaúcha, where it will have the opportunity to qualify for the 2015 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D.

Clubs edit

This time, Juventude decided to play the competition with the first team squad of his academy, the under-20s team, because of his participation in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C. Well as the International, which traditionally plays with his academy. The following 22 clubs compete in the Copa FGF during the 2014 edition.^[2]

Club	City	Stadium	Capacity	Division in 2014	First app	Number of apps	Titles	Last title
Aimoré	São Leopoldo	Cristo Rei	10,000	Série A1	2006	5	—	—
Bagé	Bagé	Pedra Moura	12,000	Série B	2008	3	—	—
Brasil (PE)	Pelotas	Bento Freitas	18,000	Série A1	2004	8	—	—
Cerâmica	Gravataí	Vieirão	8,000	Série A1	2007	7	—	—
Esportivo	Bento Gonçalves	Mont. dos Vinhedos	15,269	Série A1	2004	5	1	2004
Estância Velha	Canoas	Estádio das Cabriúvas	5,000	Série B	2014	1	—	—
Farroupilha	Pelotas	Nicolau Fico	8,000	Série B	2004	4	—	—
Garibaldi	Garibaldi	Alcides Santa Rosa	4,000	Série B	2007	1	—	—
Guarani (VA)	Venâncio Aires	Edmundo Feix	4,000	Série B	2005	2	—	—
Guarany (BG)	Bagé	Estrela D'Alva	10,000	Série B	2006	4	—	—
Internacional	Porto Alegre	Morada dos Quero-Queros	2,000	Série A1	2004	10	2	2010
Juventude	Caxias do Sul	Alfredo Jaconi	23,726	Série A1	2004	9	2	2012
Lajeadense	Lajeado	Arena Alviazul	7,000	Série A1	2005	7	—	—
Marau	Marau	Carlos Renato Bebber	2,000	Série A2	2014	1	—	—
Novo Hamburgo	Novo Hamburgo	Estádio do Vale	6,500	Série A1	2004	9	2	2013
Panambi	Panambi	João Marimon Júnior	3,000	Série A2	2014	1	—	—
Pelotas	Pelotas	Boca do Lobo	18,000	Série A1	2004	8	1	2008
Santa Cruz-RS	Santa Cruz do Sul	Estádio dos Plátanos	7,000	Série A2	2014	1	—	—
São José-RS	Porto Alegre	Passo D'Areia	8,000	Série A1	2004	9	—	—
São Paulo-RS	Rio Grande	Aldo Dapuzzo	11,500	Série A1	2004	7	—	—
Veranópolis	Veranópolis	Antônio David Farina	4,000	Série A1	2004	1	—	—
Ypiranga-RS	Erechim	Colosso da Lagoa	30,000	Série A2	2006	4	—	—

First round edit

Standings edit

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Farroupilha	1–8	Lajeadense	1–5	0–3
Aimoré	0–0 (4–5 p)	Veranópolis	0–0	0–0
Juventude	2–4	Ypiranga-RS	0–1	2–3
Internacional	1–0	Novo Hamburgo	0–0	1–0
Estância Velha	3–1	Panambi	0–1	3–0
Pelotas	2–2 (a)	Guarani (VA)	1–0	1–2
Cerâmica	0–2	São José-RS	0–0	0–2
Garibaldi	1–1 (a)	Esportivo	0–0	1–1
Guarany (BG)	W.O.	Marau	—	—
Santa Cruz-RS	4–3	Bagé	1–2	3–1
São Paulo-RS	1–2	Brasil (PE)	0–1	1–1

Note: Guarany (BG) decided to not participate of the cup. Marau is automatically qualified.^[3]

Matches edit

First leg edit

6 August	São José-RS	0–0	Cerâmica	Porto Alegre
15:00 UTC-03:00		Report		Stadium: Passo D'Areia Attendance: 0 Referee: Anderson da Silveira Farias

6 August	Esportivo	0–0	Garibaldi	Bento Gonçalves
15:00 UTC-03:00		Report		Stadium: Montanha dos Vinhedos Attendance: 65 Referee: Marcus Vinícius dos Santos

6 August	Lajeadense	5–1	Farroupilha	Lajeado
20:00 UTC-03:00	Paulo Josué 3', 73' Michel 67' Gilmar 82' Lima 90+1'	Report	Fábio Alemão 43'	Stadium: Arena Alviazul Referee: Lucas Guimarães R. Horn

6 August	Veranópolis	0–0	Aimoré	Veranópolis
20:00 UTC-03:00		Report		Stadium: Antônio David Farina Attendance: 25 Referee: Márcio Bombassaro

6 August	Ypiranga-RS	1–0	Juventude	Erechim
20:00 UTC-03:00	Cleyton 63'	Report		Stadium: Colosso da Lagoa Attendance: 324 Referee: Marcos Antônio Sacon

6 August	Novo Hamburgo	0–0	Internacional	Novo Hamburgo
20:00 UTC-03:00		Report		Stadium: Estádio do Vale Attendance: 33 Referee: Charles Martins Lemos

6 August	Panambi	1–0	Estância Velha	Panambi
20:00 UTC-03:00	Júnior Santos 75'	Report		Stadium: João Marimon Júnior Attendance: 36 Referee: Felipe Boeno Lermen

6 August	Bagé	2–1	Santa Cruz-RS	Bagé
20:00 UTC-03:00	Luís 45' Serjão 55'	Report	Kleyton 45+1'	Stadium: Pedra Moura Attendance: 196 Referee: David Baquini da Silva

6 August	Brasil (PE)	1–0	São Paulo-RS	Rio Grande
20:30 UTC-03:00	Nunes 72'	Report		Stadium: Aldo Dapuzzo Attendance: 1,192 Referee: Gilmar Nunes dos Santos

7 August	Guarani (VA)	0–1	Pelotas	Venâncio Aires
20:00 UTC-03:00		Report	Éber 75'	Stadium: Edmundo Feix Attendance: 50 Referee: Jonathan B. Pinheiro

Second leg edit

12 August	São Paulo-RS	1–1	Brasil (PE)	Pelotas
20:30 UTC-03:00	Vavá 12'	Report	Nena 19'	Stadium: Bento Freitas Attendance: 516 Referee: Anderson Echeverria

13 August	Juventude	2–3	Ypiranga-RS	Farroupilha
15:00 UTC-03:00	Augusto 4' Guilherme 36'	Report	Saldanha 2', 7' Cleyton 84'	Stadium: Estádio das Castanheiras Attendance: 0 Referee: Alessandro Vanni Mocelin

13 August	Internacional	1–0	Novo Hamburgo	Alvorada
15:00 UTC-03:00	Taiberson 55'	Report		Stadium: Morada dos Quero-Queros Referee: Marcelo Cavalheiro Pereira

13 August	Estância Velha	3–0	Panambi	Campo Bom
15:00 UTC-03:00	Tairone 51' Douglas 54' Dias 90'	Report		Stadium: Sady Schmidt Attendance: 10 Referee: Charles Martins Lemos

13 August	Cerâmica	0–2	São José-RS	Gravataí
15:00 UTC-03:00		Report	Wagner 44' Jô 89'	Stadium: Estádio Vieirão Attendance: 36 Referee: Lucas Guimarães R. Horn

13 August	Aimoré	0–0 (4–5 p)	Veranópolis	São Leopoldo
20:00 UTC-03:00		Report		Stadium: Cristo Rei Attendance: 63 Referee: Daniel Santos Noronha
	Penalties
	Michel Mikael Faísca Diego Rocha Luanderson Alex Pires Cleberson		Rafael Gevehr Marcelo Pastel Vanderlei Allan Luiz Grando Richard Elói

13 August	Pelotas	1–2	Guarani (VA)	Pelotas
20:00 UTC-03:00	Escobar 59'	Report	Rafael 29' Paulinho 90+2'	Stadium: Boca do Lobo Attendance: 430 Referee: Bruno Mattos Criscuoli

13 August	Garibaldi	1–1	Esportivo	Garibaldi
19:30 UTC-03:00	Lukinha 8'	Report	Robinson 3'	Stadium: Alcides Santa Rosa Attendance: 45 Referee: Fernando Luis Bertin

14 August	Farroupilha	0–3	Lajeadense	Pelotas
15:00 UTC-03:00		Report	Thiago 31' Michel 34' Gilmar 78'	Stadium: Nicolau Fico Attendance: 60 Referee: Francisco Soares Dias

14 August	Santa Cruz-RS	3–1	Bagé	Santa Cruz do Sul
20:00 UTC-03:00	Kleyton 42' Ilson 53' (o.g.) Carlos Eduardo 62'	Report	Fernando 57'	Stadium: Estádio dos Plátanos Attendance: 96 Referee: Eleno González Todeschini

Second round edit

The draw for the second round take place at the headquarters of FGF on 15 August at 15:00 UTC-03:00. At this stage, the twelve clubs qualified of the first round plays eight places in the quarter-finals of the competition. Two teams from third division of Campeonato Gaúcho have qualified for this stage: Estância Velha and Guarani (VA). On the other side, several first division clubs were eliminated in the first round, including Juventude.