The 2024

Copa do Nordeste Copa do Nordeste (''Cup of the North-East''), also known as Campeonato do Nordeste (''Championship of the North-East'') or Copa Nordeste (''Northeastern Cup''), and sometimes informally referred as Lampions League – in reference to the UEFA Ch ...

(officially the Copa do Nordeste Betnacional 2024 for sponsorship reasons) 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.

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are the defending champions.

Format

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 will play once against the eight clubs from the other group. Top four teams will qualify 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

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basis.

Qualification

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

Teams

The qualified teams are

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 18 January 2024, 19:30, at the Teatro Silvio Mendes in Teresina. 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

For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight teams each. Each team will play on a single

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against the eight clubs from the other group. The top four teams of each group will advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stages. The teams will be ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria will be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2.

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; 3. Goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards; 5. Fewest yellow cards; 6. Draw in the headquarters of the

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(Regulations Article 13).

Group A

Group B

Results

Final stages

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams will play a

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with the following rules: *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

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). *

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will not be played and

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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

(Regulations Article 20).

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Semi-finals

Group G

Group H

Finals

Group I

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References

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