2021 Copa do Nordeste

The 2021 Copa do Nordeste will be the 18th edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition will feature 16 clubs, with Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco having two seeds each, and Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, Alagoas, Paraíba, Maranhão and Piauí with one seed each. Four teams will be decided by a qualifying tournament (Pré-Copa do Nordeste). The tournament will begin on 27 February and will end on 8 May.

2021 Copa do Nordeste
Country Brazil
Dates27 February – 8 May
Teams16
← 2020
2022 →

Ceará are the defending champions.

Format

In this season, 12 teams (9 state league champions and best placed teams in the 2020 CBF ranking from Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco) gained direct entries into the group stage while the other four berths will be decided by the Pré-Copa do Nordeste.[1]

For the group stage, the 16 teams will be 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 two-legged basis.

Teams

2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste

The 2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste was the qualifying tournament of 2021 Copa do Nordeste. It was played from 16 December 2020 to 2 February 2021.[2] Eight teams competed to decide four places in the Copa do Nordeste. Teams from Alagoas, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe qualified as best placed teams in the 2020 CBF ranking not already qualified, while the team from Bahia qualified through the 2020 Campeonato Baiano (best placed team not already qualified, runners-up Atlético de Alagoinhas).[3]

Draw

The draw was held on 4 November 2020, 10:00, at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.[4] Teams were seeded by their 2020 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). The eight teams were drawn into four ties, with the Pot A teams hosting the second leg.

2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste draw
Pot A Pot B
1 The identity of Piauí team was not known at the time of the draw.

Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If tied on aggregate, extra time would not be played and a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner. The away goals rule would not be used (Regulations Pré-Copa do Nordeste Article 10).[5]

Matches
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Itabaiana 2–4 Santa Cruz 2–2 0–2
Moto Club 0–2 CSA 0–0 0–2
Atlético de Alagoinhas 1–4 Botafogo-PB 1–1 0–3
Altos 2–1 Globo 2–0 0–1

Santa Cruz, CSA, Botafogo-PB and Altos qualified for 2021 Copa do Nordeste.

Qualified teams
Association Team Qualification method
Alagoas
1 + 1 berths		 CRB 2020 Campeonato Alagoano champions
CSA 2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
Bahia
2 berths		 Bahia 2020 Campeonato Baiano champions
Vitória best placed team in the 2020 CBF ranking not already qualified
Ceará
2 berths		 Fortaleza 2020 Campeonato Cearense champions
Ceará best placed team in the 2020 CBF ranking not already qualified
Maranhão
1 berth		 Sampaio Corrêa 2020 Campeonato Maranhense champions
Paraíba
1 + 1 berths		 Treze 2020 Campeonato Paraibano champions
Botafogo-PB 2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
Pernambuco
2 +1 berths		 Salgueiro 2020 Campeonato Pernambucano champions
Sport best placed team in the 2020 CBF ranking not already qualified
Santa Cruz 2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
Piauí
1 + 1 berths		 4 de Julho 2020 Campeonato Piauiense champions
Altos 2021 Pré-Copa do Nordeste
Rio Grande do Norte
1 berth		 ABC 2020 Campeonato Potiguar champions
Sergipe
1 berth		 Confiança 2020 Campeonato Sergipano champions

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 4 February 2021, 12:00, at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.[6] The 16 teams 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 Salgueiro) could not be drawn against each other. Teams were seeded by their 2020 CBF ranking (shown in parentheses).

Group stage draw
Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

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 round-robin tournament 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 points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tie on points, the following criteria will be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2. Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards; 5. Fewest yellow cards; 6. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation.

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Bahia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to Quarter-finals
2 Ceará 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Santa Cruz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 CRB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Sampaio Corrêa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Confiança 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Treze 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 4 de Julho 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: CBF

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Vitória 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to Quarter-finals
2 Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Fortaleza 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 CSA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Botafogo-PB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 ABC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Salgueiro 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Altos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: CBF

Results

Source:CBF
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

References
  1. "Definida a fase preliminar do Nordestão 2021, com o Santa Cruz indo até Sergipe" (in Portuguese). Cassio Zirpoli. 4 November 2020.
  2. "ELIMINATÓRIA - COPA DO NORDESTE TABELA DETALHADA / EDIÇÃO 2021" (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF.
  3. "REGULAMENTO Campeonato Baianão 2020" (PDF) (in Portuguese). FBF. 17 November 2019.
  4. "Sorteio define os confrontos das eliminatórias da Copa do Nordeste" (in Portuguese). CBF. 4 November 2020.
  5. "Regulamento Específico da Competição Pré-Copa do Nordeste 2021" (PDF) (in Portuguese). CBF.
  6. "Sorteio define grupos da Copa do Nordeste 2021" (in Portuguese). CBF. 4 February 2021.
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