The Brazilian Championship of Rugby, or Super 16, is the main tournament for

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

clubs in Brazil since 1964. The tournament is organized by the

Brazilian Rugby Confederation The Brazilian Rugby Confederation ( Portuguese: ''Confederação Brasileira de Rugby'', CBRu) is the governing body for rugby union in Brazil, founded in 2010. It is the successor of the União de Rugby do Brasil (founded in 1963) and the Associaç ...

(CBRu).

By number of titles

*SPAC – 13 titles (1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976*, 1977, 1978, 1999, 2013) *São José – 9 titles (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015) *Alphaville – 7 titles (1980, 1982, 1983**, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992) *Niterói – 6 titles (1976*, 1979, 1983**, 1984, 1986, 1990) *Bandeirantes– 4 titles (1988, 1995, 2001, 2009) *Rio Branco – 4 titles (1993, 1997, 1998, 2006) *Desterro – 3 titles (1996, 2000, 2005) *Medicina Rugby – 2 titles (1973, 1981) *Pasteur – 2 titles (1987, 1994) *São Paulo Barbarians R.F.C. – 2 titles (1970, 1971) *Curitiba – 2 titles (2014, 2016) *Poli – 1 title (2018) *Jacareí – 1 title (2017) *FUPE – 1 title (1972) ''* In 1976 the title was shared between SPAC and Niterói ** In 1983 the title was shared between by Alphaville and Niterói''

Competition format

In the 2006, the competition consisted of eight clubs, in two groups of four teams. The clubs from one group played once against the four clubs in the other group, with the two best placed teams in each group qualifying for the semi-finals. The semi-finals and the final were one-legged matches. Since 2009, the competition consisted of one division with each team playing the others once.

Results

Former teams

''Listed alphabetically'' *Alphaville Tênis Clube - SP -

Barueri Barueri ( or ) is a Brazilian municipality in the State of São Paulo located in the northwestern part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 276,982 (2020 est.) in an area of . Its boundaries are Santana de Parnaíba to th ...

*Araucária Clube de Rugby - PR -

Curitiba Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná (state), Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the List of cities in Brazil by population, eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in ...

''(extinct)'' *Armstrong Dragons - Potiguar Rugby Club - RN -

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*Bandeirantes Rugby Club - SP -

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

*Belo Horizonte Rugby - MG -

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*Curitiba Rugby Clube - PR -

Desterro Rugby Clube The Desterro Rugby Clube is a Brazilian rugby union (union) team from the city of Florianópolis, capital of the southern State of Santa Catarina. It has won the Brazilian Rugby Championship in three occasions: 1996, 2000 and 2005. History De ...

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Florianópolis Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as well as part of the mainland. It has a populat ...

*Farrapos Rugby Clube - RS - Bento Gonçalves *FEI Rugby (FEI) - SP -

São Bernardo do Campo São Bernardo do Campo () is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of São Paulo. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 844,483 (2020 est.) in an area of . History The city was founded b ...

*FUPE (Paulista Federation of University Sports) - SP *Guanabara Rugby Football Clube - RJ -

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 b ...

*Niterói Rugby Football Clube - RJ -

Niterói Niterói (, ) is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro in the Southeast Region, Brazil, southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forms ...

*Medicina Rugby (FMUSP) - SP -

*O'malley's Rugby Football Club - SP -

*Orixás - BA ''(bahiana selection of rugby)'' *Pasteur Athletique Club - SP -

''(former team of the College Liceu Pasteur)'' *Rio Branco Rugby Clube - SP -

*Rio de Janeiro Rugby Football Clube - RJ -

*RJ Union - RJ ''(extinct)'' * São José Rugby Clube - SP -

São José dos Campos São José dos Campos (, meaning Saint Joseph of the Fields) is a major city and the seat of the Municipalities of Brazil, municipality of the same name in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil. One of the leading industrial and res ...

São Paulo Athletic Club São Paulo Athletic Club - officially these days Clube Atlético São Paulo, but generally referred to as SPAC, is a Brazilian sports club founded on 13 May 1888 by Charles William Miller and several English immigrants, being one of the first as ...

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*São Paulo Barbarians R.F.C. - SP -

''(extinct)'' *Varginha Rugby - MG -

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Broadcasting

Since 2011, the semi-final and final has been broadcast by

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, the most watched sports channel in Brazil.

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