Campeonato_Brasileiro_de_Futebol_Feminino

Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1

Women's football league in Brazil

The Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino (Brazilian Women's National Championship), also known as Brasileirão Feminino, is an annual Brazilian women's club football tournament organized by the Confederação Brasileira de Futebol, or CBF. It is the country's premier women's football competition and the first professional women's league in the country.

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Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino
Founded	September 18, 2013
Country	Brazil
Confederation	CBF
Number of teams	16 (since 2017)
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A2
Domestic cup(s)	Supercopa Feminina
International cup(s)	Copa Libertadores Femenina
Current champions	Corinthians (5th title) (2023)
Most championships	Corinthians (5 titles)
Website	Official website
Current: 2023 edition

History

Brazil had a tournament called Taça Brasil de Futebol Feminino (Women's Football Brazil Trophy, in English) played between 1983, and 1989, followed by Torneio Nacional (1990 and 1991) and Taça Brasil de Clubes (1993). A competition also named Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino which was a forerunner of the current tournament, was founded in 1994, ran that season, was cancelled in 1995 and re-instated in 1996 being played until 2001. When it folded, the country was left with only state football leagues for women available in few states and no national tournament.

In 2006, another national tournament attempt was made, organized by the Amateur Paulista Football Federation (Federação Paulista de Futebol Amador, FPFA) and the National Football League (Liga Nacional de Futebol, LINAF), it was called Taça Brasil de Futebol Feminino. The tournament was contested in Jaguariúna, São Paulo state on its first year (2006) and in multiple towns of Rio de Janeiro state on its second year (2007).^[1]

In 2007, CBF created the Copa do Brasil de Futebol Feminino, a national cup tournament, and in 2013, a national league competition was founded, the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino, with a short three-month season initially.^[2]^[3] In 2015, teams that reached the knock-out stage got a financial support of about USD 3,000 for a home-and-away round plus air or road transport cost paid.^[4]

Format

Up to 2016, 20 teams took part in the competition. In the first round there were four groups of five teams that play each other within the group once. The top two of each group move on. In the second round eight teams were put into two groups of four. Teams play each other twice and the top two teams move to the two leg semi-finals, with the winners moving to the two leg final.^[2]

In 2017 the league was restructured and the first level, now called Série A1, has 16 teams in one group. After playing each other the top 8 teams move to the play-offs. There is also relegation/promotion to the new Série A2, which will also have 16 teams split in two groups of eight teams.^[5] In 2021, the Série A3 was created with 32 teams taking part.^[6]^[7]

List of winners

For All champions in Brazilian women's football, see List of Brazilian women's football champions.

Key
	Finals decided on away goals
	Finals decided by a penalty shoot-out

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List of Campeonato Brasileiro finals
Year	Home team	Score	Away team	Venue	Attendance
2013	São José	2–2	Centro Olímpico	Estádio Joe Sanchez (ADC GM), São José dos Campos
	Centro Olímpico	2–1	São José	Estádio Municipal Giglio Portugal Pichinin, São Bernardo do Campo
	Centro Olímpico won 4–1 on points.
2014	Kindermann	0–3	Ferroviária	Estádio Municipal Doutor Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves, Caçador
	Ferroviária	5–3	Kindermann	Arena da Fonte Luminosa, Araraquara
	Ferroviária won 6–0 on points.
2015	Rio Preto	1–0	São José	Estádio Anísio Haddad, São José do Rio Preto
	São José	1–1	Rio Preto	Estádio Martins Pereira, São José dos Campos
	Rio Preto won 4–1 on points.
2016	Flamengo	0–1	Rio Preto	Estádio de Los Larios, Duque de Caxias
	Rio Preto	1–2	Flamengo	Estádio Anísio Haddad, São José do Rio Preto
	Tied 3–3 on points. Flamengo won on away goals.
2017	Santos	2–0	Corinthians	Vila Belmiro, Santos
	Corinthians	0–1	Santos	Arena Barueri, Barueri
	Santos won 6–0 on points.
2018	Rio Preto	0–1	Corinthians	Estádio Anísio Haddad, São José do Rio Preto
	Corinthians	4–0	Rio Preto	Parque São Jorge, São Paulo
	Corinthians won 6–0 on points.
2019	Ferroviária	1–1	Corinthians	Arena da Fonte Luminosa, Araraquara
	Corinthians	0–0	Ferroviária	Parque São Jorge, São Paulo
	Tied 2–2 on points. Ferroviária won 4–2 on penalties.
2020	Avaí/Kindermann	0–0	Corinthians	Estádio da Ressacada, Florianópolis
	Corinthians	4–2	Avaí/Kindermann	Neo Química Arena, São Paulo
	Corinthians won 4–1 on points.
2021	Palmeiras	0–1	Corinthians	Allianz Parque, São Paulo
	Corinthians	3–1	Palmeiras	Neo Química Arena, São Paulo
	Corinthians won 6–0 on points.
2022	Internacional	1–1	Corinthians	Beira Rio, Porto Alegre	36,330^[8]
	Corinthians	4–1	Internacional	Neo Química Arena, São Paulo	41,070^[9]
	Corinthians won 4–1 on points.
2023	Ferroviária	0–0	Corinthians	Fonte Luminosa, Araraquara	9,899^[10]
	Corinthians	2–1	Ferroviária	Neo Química Arena, São Paulo	42,326^[11]
	Corinthians won 4–1 on points.

Performances

By club

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Team	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runner-up
Corinthians	5	2	2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023	2017, 2019
Ferroviária	2	1	2014, 2019	2023
Rio Preto	1	2	2015	2016, 2018
Centro Olímpico	1	0	2013
Flamengo	1	0	2016
Santos	1	0	2017
São José	0	2		2013, 2015
Avaí/Kindermann^{[note 1]}	0	2		2014, 2020
Palmeiras	0	1		2021
Internacional	0	1		2022

By state

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State	Winners	Runners-up	Winning clubs	Runners-up
São Paulo	10	8	Corinthians (5), Ferroviária (2), Centro Olímpico (1), Rio Preto (1), Santos (1)	São José (2), Rio Preto (2), Corinthians (2), Palmeiras (1), Ferroviária (1)
Rio de Janeiro	1	0	Flamengo (1)
Santa Catarina	0	2		Avaí/Kindermann (2)^{[note 1]}
Rio Grande do Sul	0	1		Internacional (1)

Top scorers

More information Season, Topscorer ...

Season	Topscorer	Team	Goals
2013	Gabi Zanotti	Centro Olímpico	12
2014	Raquel	Ferroviária	16
2015	Gabi Nunes	Centro Olímpico	14
2016	Millene	Rio Preto	10
2017	Sole Jaimes	Santos	18
2018	Danyelle	Flamengo	15
2019	Millene	Corinthians	19
2020	Carla Nunes	Palmeiras	12
2021	Bia Zaneratto	Palmeiras	13
2022	Cristiane	Santos	13
2023	Amanda	Palmeiras	13
Source: CBF^[12]^[13]

Relegated teams

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Year	Teams
2017	Grêmio, Vitória (BA)
2018	Rio Preto, Portuguesa, Pinheirense
2019^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Vitória (PE), Foz Cataratas, São Francisco (BA), Sport Recife
2020	Iranduba, Grêmio Audax, Ponte Preta, Vitória (BA)
2021	Botafogo, Minas Brasília, Napoli, Bahia
2022	São José (SP), ESMAC, Red Bull Bragantino, CRESSPOM
2023	Bahia, Athletico Paranaense, Real Ariquemes, Ceará

Note: Rio Preto withdrew from 2019 Série A1 and was replaced by Internacional.

Notes

[N 1]
Kindermann had a partnership with Avaí for the 2020 season. Kindermann ceased operations in 2021 and Avaí remained with the project ever since.

References

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"Brazil - List of Women's Champions". RSSSF. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
[2]
"Brazil launches women's football league". IANS. Yahoo! News. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
[3]
Andrew Downie (16 August 2016). "Brazil fans ask: What now for women's football?". Reuters. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
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"Feminino: Em busca de título braslileiro, Rio Preto recebe São José" (in Portuguese). placar.futebolinterior.com.br. 21 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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"Campeonato Brasileiro Feminino 2017 é lançado com novidades no Rio de Janeiro" (in Portuguese). hojeemdia.com.br. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
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Antunes, Luana (18 May 2021). "Confira quais são as competições de futebol feminino nacional em 2022". Torcedores.Com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
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"CBF confirma para 2022 a Série A3 do Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino". GE. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
[8]
"Em jogo com recorde, Inter e Corinthians empatam no primeiro duelo da final do Brasileirão Feminino". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). 18 September 2022.
[9]
"O Corinthians é tetracampeão do Brasileiro Feminino. É o terceiro título consecutivo!". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). 24 September 2022.
[10]
"Corinthians e Ferroviária empatam sem gols no 1º jogo da final do Brasileiro Feminino". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). 7 September 2023.
[11]
"Corinthians vence a Ferroviária, de virada, e conquista o quinto título do Brasileirão Feminino, o quarto consecutivo". Globoesporte (in Portuguese). 10 September 2022.
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"Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino - Artilharia" (in Portuguese). CBF. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
[13]
"Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino - Artilharia" (in Portuguese). CBF. Retrieved 25 July 2017.

External links

Official website (in Portuguese)
soccerway.com, fixtures and results

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