2024 Copa do Nordeste

2024 Copa do Nordeste
Tournament details
Country	Brazil
Dates	3 February – 9 June
Teams	16
Tournament statistics
Matches played	68
Goals scored	160 (2.35 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Anselmo Ramon (5 goals)
	All statistics correct as of 21 April 2024.
	← 2023 2025 →

The 2024 Copa do Nordeste (officially the Copa do Nordeste Betnacional 2024 for sponsorship reasons)^[1] is the 21st 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 Alagoas, Maranhão, Paraíba, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe with one seed each. Four teams were decided by a qualifying tournament (Eliminatória da Copa do Nordeste 2024). The Copa do Nordeste began on 3 February and will end on 9 June 2024.^[2] Ceará were the defending champions but were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Format edit

In this season, 12 teams (9 state league champions and best placed teams in the 2023 CBF ranking from Ceará, Bahia and Pernambuco) gained direct entries into the group stage while the other four berths were decided by the Eliminatória da Copa do Nordeste.

For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into two groups. Each team played once against the eight clubs from the other group. Top four teams qualified for the final stages. Quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played on a single-leg basis and finals will be played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.^[3]

Qualification edit

The 2024 Copa do Nordeste qualification (officially the Eliminatória da Copa do Nordeste 2024) was the qualifying tournament of the 2024 Copa do Nordeste. It was played from 6 to 14 January 2024. 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.^[4]

The winners were ABC (Rio Grande do Norte), Altos (Piauí), Botafogo-PB (Paraíba) and Juazeirense (Bahia).^[5]

Teams edit

The qualified teams are^[6]

Association	Team	Qualification method
Alagoas 1 berth	CRB	2023 Campeonato Alagoano champions
Bahia 2 + 1 berths	Bahia	2023 Campeonato Baiano champions
	Vitória	best placed team in the 2023 CBF ranking not already qualified
	Juazeirense	2024 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Ceará 2 berths	Fortaleza	2023 Campeonato Cearense champions
Ceará 2 berths	Ceará	best placed team in the 2023 CBF ranking not already qualified
Maranhão 1 berth	Maranhão	2023 Campeonato Maranhense champions
Paraíba 1 + 1 berths	Treze	2023 Campeonato Paraibano champions
Paraíba 1 + 1 berths	Botafogo-PB	2024 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Pernambuco 2 berths	Sport	2023 Campeonato Pernambucano champions
Pernambuco 2 berths	Náutico	best placed team in the 2023 CBF ranking not already qualified
Piauí 1 + 1 berths	River	2023 Campeonato Piauiense champions
Piauí 1 + 1 berths	Altos	2024 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Rio Grande do Norte 1 + 1 berths	América de Natal	2023 Campeonato Potiguar champions
Rio Grande do Norte 1 + 1 berths	ABC	2024 Copa do Nordeste qualification
Sergipe 1 berth	Itabaiana	2023 Campeonato Sergipano champions

Schedule edit

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Stage	First leg	Second leg
Group Stage	Round 1: 4 February
	Round 2: 10 February
	Round 3: 14 February
	Round 4: 21 and 28 February
	Round 5: 6 and 13 March
	Round 6: 20 March
	Round 7: 24 March
	Round 8: 27 March
Quarter-finals	10 April
Semi-finals	24 April
Finals	5 June	9 June

Draw edit

The draw for the group stage was held on 18 January 2024, 19:30, at the Teatro Silvio Mendes in Teresina.^[7] The teams were seeded into four pots based on the 2023 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). They 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 Juazeirense) could not be drawn into the same group.

Group stage draw
Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Fortaleza (7) Ceará (14) Bahia (15) Sport (26)	CRB (27) Vitória (29) Náutico (37) ABC (44)	Botafogo-PB (56) Juazeirense (57) Altos (58) América de Natal (62)	Treze (79) Itabaiana (106) River (140) Maranhão (205)

Group stage edit

For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight teams each. Each team played on a single round-robin tournament against the eight clubs from the other group. The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stages. The teams were 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 would 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).^[3]

Group A edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sport	8	5	2	1	16	8	+8	17	Advance to Quarter-finals
2	CRB	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15
3	Botafogo-PB	8	4	3	1	9	3	+6	15
4	Ceará	8	4	3	1	9	6	+3	15
5	Vitória	8	4	2	2	12	7	+5	14
6	Maranhão	8	4	2	2	14	13	+1	14
7	América de Natal	8	3	2	3	9	11	−2	11
8	River	8	3	1	4	5	9	−4	10

Source: CBF

Group B edit

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahia	8	6	0	2	11	8	+3	18	Advance to Quarter-finals
2	Fortaleza	8	2	2	4	9	10	−1	8
3	Altos	8	1	5	2	6	8	−2	8
4	Náutico	8	1	4	3	7	8	−1	7
5	ABC	8	1	4	3	8	12	−4	7
6	Juazeirense	8	2	0	6	9	13	−4	6
7	Treze	8	1	3	4	5	11	−6	6
8	Itabaiana	8	1	0	7	8	16	−8	3

Source: CBF

Results edit

Home \ Away	ABC	ALT	BAH	FOR	ITA	JUA	NAU	TRE
América de Natal	1–0				1–2		1–0	2–2
Botafogo-PB		1–2	4–0	1–1		1–0
Ceará	2–2	1–1	1–2		2–1
CRB		2–0	0–1	1–0		3–1
Maranhão				3–2		2–1	1–3	1–0
River	0–1	0–0	1–0		1–0
Sport				1–1		3–0	2–2	3–1
Vitória	3–1				3–1		1–1	3–0

Home \ Away	AME	BOT	CEA	CRB	MAR	RIV	SPO	VIT
ABC		0–0		2–2	2–2		0–2
Altos	1–1				1–1		1–2	0–0
Bahia	3–0				1–0		2–1	2–1
Fortaleza	2–1		0–1			3–1		0–1
Itabaiana		0–1		0–2	3–4		1–2
Juazeirense	1–2		0–1			4–1		2–0
Náutico		0–1	0–0	1–1		0–1
Treze		0–0	0–1	1–1		1–0

Source:CBF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stages edit

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:^[3]

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).^[3]