Copa do Nordeste (English: Cup of the North-East), also known as Campeonato do Nordeste (English: Championship of the North-East) or Copa Nordeste (English: Northeastern Cup) is a Brazilian football competition among Northeastern region teams. It is sometimes informally referred to as Lampions League – in reference to the UEFA Champions League and bandit folk hero Lampião.
History
The competition was first played in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, the Campeonato do Nordeste champions granted qualification to Copa Conmebol.
From 2000 to 2002, the Campeonato do Nordeste champions granted qualification to the Copa dos Campeões.
The competition returned in 2010, after being defunct since 2003. Copa do Nordeste returned again in 2013.
From 2014 to 2016, the winner got a spot in the Copa Sudamericana. The Copa do Nordeste champion now qualifies to the Copa do Brasil. After 2026 onwards, teams qualified for the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana will no longer participate in the competition due to the conflict of matches schedule.
Competition format Since 2018 a qualifying tournament called Pré-Copa do Nordeste has been played. In this tournament, eight teams compete in a single-elimination tournament where the four winners advance to the Copa do Nordeste.
The Copa do Nordeste has in its first stage two groups. 12 teams gain direct entries into the group stage while the other four berths are decided by the Pré-Copa do Nordeste.
In the group stage, each group is played on a single round-robin basis against the eight clubs from the other group. The top four teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.
The quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are played a single-elimination tournament. Only the finals are played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the best tournament team hosting the second leg, while quarter-finals and semi-finals are played on a single-leg basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the leg.
List of champions Year Champion Final match Runners-up Third place Fourth place1994Sport (1)0 – 0(3–2 pen.)CRBBahiaCruzeiro de Arapiraca 1995–1996Not held 1997Vitória (1)3 – 0 1 – 2Aggregate 4 – 2BahiaSportCeará 1998América (1)1 – 2 3 – 1Aggregate 4 – 3VitóriaBahiaSanta Cruz 1999Vitória (2)2 – 0 0 – 1Aggregate 2 – 1BahiaCSASport 2000Sport (2)2 – 2 2 – 2Aggregate 4 – 4VitóriaPoçõesSergipe 2001Bahia (1)3 – 1SportNáuticoFortaleza 2002Bahia (2)3 – 1 2 – 2Aggregate 5 – 3VitóriaNáuticoSanta Cruz 2003Vitória (3)1 – 1 0 – 0Aggregate 1 – 1Fluminense de FeiraABCAmérica 2004–2009Not held 2010Vitória (4)2 – 1ABCCSATreze 2011–2012Not held 2013Campinense (1)2 – 1 2 – 0Aggregate 4 – 1ASACearáFortaleza 2014Sport (3)2 – 0 1 – 1Aggregate 3 – 1CearáAméricaSanta Cruz 2015Ceará (1)1 – 0 2 – 1Aggregate 3 – 1BahiaVitóriaSport 2016Santa Cruz (1)2 – 1 1 – 1Aggregate 3 – 2CampinenseBahiaSport 2017Bahia (3)1 – 1 1 – 0Aggregate 2 – 1SportVitóriaSanta Cruz 2018Sampaio Corrêa (1) 1 – 0 0 – 0 Aggregate 1 – 0 BahiaABCCeará 2019Fortaleza (1)1 – 0 1 – 0Aggregate 2 – 0BotafogoNáuticoSanta Cruz 2020Ceará (2)3 – 1 1 – 0Aggregate 4 – 1BahiaFortalezaConfiança 2021Bahia (4)0 – 1 2 – 1(4–2 pen.)CearáFortalezaVitória 2022Fortaleza (2)1 – 1 1 – 0Aggregate 2 – 1SportNáuticoCRB 2023Ceará (3)2 – 1 0 – 1(4–2 pen.)SportFortalezaABC 2024Fortaleza (3)2 – 0 0 – 2(5–4 pen.)CRBBahiaSport 2025Bahia (5)4 – 1 5 – 0Aggregate 9 – 1ConfiançaCearáCSA 2026Vitória (5)2 – 1 2 – 1 Aggregate 4 – 2FortalezaABCSport
Performances By club + Performance in the Northeastern Cup by clubClubWinnersRunners-upYears winnersYears runners-upBahia 5 5 2001, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2025 1997, 1999, 2015, 2018, 2020Vitória 5 3 1997, 1999, 2003, 2010, 2026 1998, 2000, 2002Sport 3 4 1994, 2000, 2014 2001, 2017, 2022, 2023Ceará 3 2 2015, 2020, 2023 2014, 2021Fortaleza 3 1 2019, 2022, 2024 2026Campinense 1 1 2013 2016América 1 0 1998Sampaio Corrêa 1 0 2018Santa Cruz 1 0 2016CRB 0 2 1994, 2024ABC 0 1 2010ASA 0 1 2013Botafogo-PB 0 1 2019Confiança 0 1 2025Fluminense de Feira 0 1 2003
By state
+Performance by stateStateWinnersRunners-up1096344121110030100
Top scorers
YearPlayer (team)Goals1994Fábio 51997Nildo 61998Paulinho Kobayashi 91999Ueslei 102000Leonardo Pedro Costa 62001Kuki 122002Sérgio Alves 132003Nádson 52010Cristiano Alagoano 102013Marcelo Nicácio Rodrigo Silva 52014Magno Alves 82015Max 62016Rodrigão 92017Régis 62018Arthur Cabral Yago Felipe 52019Gilberto Júnior Santos 82020Vina 52021Gilberto 82022 Hugo Rodallega 82023 Juan Martín Lucero Luciano Juba 62024Moisés 72025Tiago 62026Renato Kayzer Wallyson 6
Winning managers
YearManagerClub1994Givanildo OliveiraSport1997ArturzinhoVitória1998ArturzinhoAmérica de Natal1999Ricardo GomesVitória2000Celso RothSport2001Evaristo de MacedoBahia2002BobôBahia2003Joel SantanaVitória2011Ricardo SilvaVitória2013Oliveira CanindéCampinense2014Eduardo BaptistaSport2015SilasCeará2016Milton MendesSanta Cruz2017Guto FerreiraBahia2018Roberto FonsecaSampaio Corrêa2019Rogério CeniFortaleza2020Guto FerreiraCeará2021Dado CavalcantiBahia2022 Juan Pablo VojvodaFortaleza2023Eduardo BarrocaCeará2024 Juan Pablo VojvodaFortaleza2025Rogério CeniBahia2026Jair VenturaVitória
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