1963 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

The 1963 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the 1963 Taça Brasil) was the 5th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Season	1963
Champions	Santos 3rd Taça Brasil title 3rd Brazilian title
Copa Libertadores de América	Santos (title holder) Bahia
Matches played	45
Goals scored	120 (2.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pelé (8 goals)
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Format

The competition was a single elimination knockout tournament featuring two-legged ties, with a Tie-Break (play-off) if the sides were tied on points (however, if the tie-break was a draw, the aggregate score of the first two legs was used to determine the winner).

Teams

20 State Champions qualified for the tournament including, for the first time, the champions of the Federal Distrito and Goiás.

Team	Home city	Home ground
ABC	(Natal-RN)
Atlético Mineiro	(Belo Horizonte-MG)
Bahia	(Salvador-BA)
Botafogo	(Rio de Janeiro-GB)
Campinense	(Campina Grande-PB)
Capelense	(Capela-AL)
Ceará	(Fortaleza-CE)
Confiança	(Aracaju-SE)
Defelê	(Brasília-DF)
Fonseca	(Niterói-RJ)
Grêmio	(Porto Alegre-RS)
Londrina	(Londrina-PR)
Metropol	(Criciúma-SC)
Paysandu	(Belém-PA)
Rio Branco	(Vitória-ES)
Sampaio Corrêa	(São Luís-MA)
Santos	(Santos-SP)
Sport Recife	(Recife-PE)
River	(Teresina-PI)
Vila Nova	(Goiânia-GO)

Northern Zone

Northeastern Group

First Phase			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Campinense	2 : 2	ABC	2 - 2	0 - 0	4 - 2
Capelense	2 : 2	Confiança	3 - 1	0 - 2	1 - 3

Second Phase			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Confiança	4 : 0	Campinense	2 - 0	4 - 3

Semi-Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Ceará	2 : 2	Confiança	2 - 4	1 - 0	2 - 0

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Bahia	2 : 2	Ceará	1 - 1	0 - 0	1 - 0

Northern Group

First Phase			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Sampaio Corrêa	2 : 2	River	3 - 0	0 - 2	1 - 2

Semi-Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
River	0 : 4	Paysandu	1 - 3	0 - 1

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Paysandu	0 : 4	Sport Recife	0 - 1	0 - 2

Northern Zone Final

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Sport Recife	1 : 3	Bahia	2 - 2	0 - 1

Southern Zone

Southern Group

Semi-Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Londrina	0 : 4	Metropol	2 - 3	1 - 2

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Grêmio	3 : 1	Metropol	1 - 1	2 - 0

Central Group

First Phase			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Vila Nova	4 : 0	Defelê	2 - 0	3 - 0	—
Rio Branco	2 : 2	Fonseca	0 - 1	3 - 0	2 - 2
Rio Branco progressed thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs.

Semi-Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Rio Branco	2 : 2	Vila Nova	0 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 0

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Mineiro	3 : 1	Rio Branco	1 - 0	1 - 1

Southern Zone Final

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Mineiro	1 : 3	Grêmio	1 - 1	1 - 2

National Semi-Finals

Botafogo and Santos entered in this stage

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Bahia	3 : 1	Botafogo	1 - 0	0 - 0
Grêmio	0 : 4	Santos	1 - 3	3 - 4

National Final

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Santos	4 : 0	Bahia	6 - 0	2 - 0

External links

• 1963 Taça Brasil