The Copa do Brasil 1991 was the 3rd staging of the
Copa do Brasil
The Copa do Brasil () is a knockout football competition played by 92 teams, representing all 26 Brazilian states plus the Federal District. It is the Brazilian domestic cup and it is the Brazilian equivalent of the FA Cup, Taça de Portugal, ...
.
The competition started on February 9, 1991, and concluded on June 2, 1991, with the second leg of the final, held at the
Estádio Heriberto Hülse in
Criciúma. Criciúma lifted the trophy for the first time after a 0–0 draw with
Grêmio.
Only one first-division team, Grêmio, was in the semi-finals, and they were relegated after the
1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
season, while none of the other semi-finalists achieved promotion to Série A. This creates a unique situation where all four semi-finalists of the cup played in the second division the following year.
Gérson, of
Atlético Mineiro, with six goals, was the competition's top scorer.
Format
The competition was contested by 32 clubs in a
knock-out
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several Contact sports, full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of World Taekwondo Federation#Sparri ...
format where all rounds were played in two legs, and the
away goals rule
The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that ...
was used.
Competition stages
References
Copa do Brasil 1991 at RSSSF* https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/ruchii.html#remark
{{DEFAULTSORT:Copa Do Brasil 1991
1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
1991 in Brazilian football
1991 domestic association football cups