The 2002 edition of the
Campeonato Carioca kicked off on January 26 and ended on June 27, 2002. 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
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...
State are allowed to play. Eighteen teams contested this edition. Due to multiple schedule conflicts with the Rio-São Paulo tournament that year, the big teams used mostly reserve teams in the first phase.
Fluminense
Fluminense Football Club (), known as Fluminense, is a Brazilian sports club best known for its professional football team that competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first tier of Brazilian football and the Campeonato Carioca, th ...
won the title for the 29th time, however, due to an incident in the semifinals, the title remained under dispute until 2009.
,
CFZ,
Cabofriense,
Serrano,
Portuguesa,
São Cristóvão 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 five stages:
* Preliminary tournament: The five worst teams of the 2001 championship joined the champions and the runner-up of the Second Level; each team played against each other in a double round-robin format, and the best team would qualify to the main tournament.
*
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.
*
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 ...
: The 12 clubs all played in single round-robin format against each other.
* Second phase: The four best-placed teams in the Aggregate table of the Taças Guanabara and Rio and the 'big four' (Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco), who qualified regardless of placing in the aggregate table, were divided into two groups of four, in which each team played once against the teams of its own group, and the two best place teams in each group qualified to the Semifinals.
* Semifinals and Finals: The semifinals would the played in a single match. in case of a tie, the team with the best season record would advance, and the Finals would happen in two matches, both played at the
Maracanã Stadium.
Championship
Preliminary phase
Taça Guanabara
Taça Rio
Aggregate table
Second phase
Group A
Group B
Semifinals
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 ...