1963 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A 1963 7 August 1963 – 28 January 1964 Santos (3rd title) Copa Libertadores Santos (title holder) Bahia 45 120 Ruiter - Confiança (9 goals) Santos 6-0 Bahia 1962 1964 The 1963 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the 1963 Taça Brasil) was the 6th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/brazcup63.html RSSSF Format The competition was a single elimination knockout tournament featuring two-legged ties, with a Tie-Break (play-off) if the sides were tied on points (however, if the tie-break was a draw, the aggregate score of the first two legs was used to determine the winner). Teams Twenty state champions qualified for the tournament including, for the first time, the champions of the Federal District and Goiás. TeamHome city Home groundRio Grande do Norte ABC NatalMinas Gerais Atlético Mineiro Belo HorizonteBahia Bahia SalvadorGuanabara Botafogo Rio de JaneiroParaíba Campinense Campina GrandeAlagoas Capelense CapelaCeará Ceará FortalezaSergipe Confiança AracajuDistrito Federal (Brazil) Defelê BrasíliaRio de Janeiro Fonseca NiteróiRio Grande do Sul Grêmio Porto AlegreParaná Londrina LondrinaSanta Catarina Metropol CriciúmaPará Paysandu BelémEspírito Santo Rio Branco VitóriaMaranhão Sampaio Corrêa São LuísSão Paulo Santos SantosPernambuco Sport Recife RecifePiauí River TeresinaGoiás Vila Nova Goiânia Northern Zone Northeastern Group First PhaseScoresPoints1st leg2nd legTie-break Campinense2 : 2 ABC2 - 20 - 04 - 2 Capelense2 : 2 Confiança3 - 10 - 21 - 3 Second PhaseScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Confiança4 : 0 Campinense2 - 04 - 3 Semi-FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd legTie-break Ceará2 : 2 Confiança2 - 41 - 0 2 - 0 FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd legTie-break Bahia2 : 2 Ceará1 - 10 - 01 - 0 Northern Group First PhaseScoresPoints1st leg2nd legTie-break Sampaio Corrêa2 : 2 River 3 - 00 - 2 1 - 2 Semi-FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg River0 : 4 Paysandu 1 - 30 - 1 FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Paysandu0 : 4 Sport Recife 0 - 10 - 2 Northern Zone Final ScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Sport Recife1 : 3 Bahia 2 - 20 - 1 Southern Zone Southern Group Semi-FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Londrina0 : 4 Metropol2 - 31 - 2 FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Grêmio3 : 1 Metropol1 - 12 - 0 Central Group First PhaseScoresPoints1st leg2nd legTie-break Vila Nova4 : 0 Defelê2 - 03 - 0— Rio Branco2 : 2 Fonseca0 - 13 - 02 - 2Rio Branco progressed thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs. Semi-FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd legTie-break Rio Branco2 : 2 Vila Nova0 - 11 - 01 - 0 FinalScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Atlético Mineiro3 : 1 Rio Branco1 - 01 - 1 Southern Zone Final ScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Atlético Mineiro1 : 3 Grêmio 1 - 11 - 2 National Semi-Finals Botafogo and Santos entered in this stage ScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Bahia3 : 1 Botafogo1 - 00 - 0 Grêmio0 : 4 Santos1 - 33 - 4 National Final ScoresPoints1st leg2nd leg Santos4 : 0 Bahia6 - 02 - 0 References External links Brazil Cup 1963 April 2011 Brazil 1 1963 Taca Brasil B