The 2000 edition of the

Campeonato Carioca The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Port., Rio de Janeiro State Championship), was started in 1906 and is the annual football championship in the state of Rio de Janeiro, B ...

kicked off on January 29, 2000 and ended on June 17, 2000. It is the official tournament organized by FFERJ (Federação de Futebol do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, or Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation. Only clubs based in the

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State are allowed to play. Fourteen teams contested this edition.

Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; English: ''Flamengo Rowing Club''), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea, best known for their professional football t ...

won the title for the 26th time. Serrano and

Itaperuna Itaperuna () is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It had a population of 103,800 in 2020, and has an area of 1.105,3 km2. History Itaperuna was founded in 1889, after being separated from the municipality of Campos do ...

were relegated.

System

The tournament was divided in four stages: * Preliminary tournament: All the teams of the championship outside of the big four were divided into two regionalized groups of five teams: one with the teams from Rio de Janeiro plus Itaperuna, and the other with the other hinterland teams; each team played against the teams of its own group in a double round-robin format, and the best four teams would qualify to the main tournament, while the bottom team in each group would be relegated. Each team also received a number of pre-season bonus points and post-season bonus points. *

Taça Guanabara The Taça Guanabara, or Guanabara Cup, is a football tournament organized annually since 1965 by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation. In its first four editions (1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968), the Taça Guanabara was a tournament in its o ...

: The 12 clubs all played in single round-robin format against each other, with the two bottom teams being eliminated from the championship. *

Taça Rio Taça Rio, or Rio Trophy, is an annual Rio de Janeiro football tournament. It is the second stage competition of the Campeonato Carioca, the state football championship in Rio de Janeiro. It has been organized since 1982 by the Rio de Janeiro St ...

: The ten remaining clubs all played in single round-robin format against each other. * Finals: The Finals would happen in two matches, both played at the

Maracanã Stadium Maracanã Stadium ( pt, Estádio do Maracanã, standard Brazilian Portuguese: , local pronunciation: ), officially named Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho (), is an association football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium is part o ...

, between the champions of the Taças Guanabara and Rio.

Championship

Preliminary phase

Group A

Group B

Taça Guanabara

Taça Rio

Finals

References

{{Campeonato Carioca seasons Campeonato Carioca seasons

Carioca Carioca ( or ) is a demonym used to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The original meaning of the term is controversial, maybe from Tupi language "''kari' oka''", meaning "white house" as the whitewashed stone ...