Copa Sul-Minas was a Brazilian

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competition that ran between 2000 and 2002, with teams from the three Southern states of Brazil, plus the Southeastern state of

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. It replaced the 1999 tournament called Copa Sul which only included teams from the Southern states. In 2016, a successor to this tournament was created, the Copa Sul-Minas-Rio (also known as Primeira Liga), in this tournament there were not only teams from the Southern states and Minas Gerais, but they also added teams from

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List of finals

Copa Sul

Copa Sul-Minas

Copa Sul-Minas-Rio

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