2023 Copa do Nordeste


The 2023 Copa do Nordeste was the 20th edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition features 16 clubs, with Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco having two seeds each, and Alagoas, Maranhão, Paraíba, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe with one seed each. Four teams were decided by a qualifying tournament. The Copa do Nordeste began on 21 January and ended on 3 May 2023.
Fortaleza are the defending champions.

Format

In this season, 12 teams gained direct entries into the group stage while the other four berths were decided by the Eliminatórias Copa do Nordeste.
For the group stage, the 16 teams were 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.

Qualification

The 2023 Copa do Nordeste qualification was the qualifying tournament of the 2023 Copa do Nordeste. It was played from 5 to 8 January 2023. Sixteen teams competed to decide four places in the Copa do Nordeste. The teams entered in two rounds where the four winners advanced to the Copa do Nordeste.
The winners were CSA, Ferroviário, Santa Cruz and Vitória.

Teams

The qualified teams are
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Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 21 November 2022, 15:30, at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The teams were seeded into three pots based on the 2022 CBF ranking. They were drawn into two groups of eight containing two teams from each of the three pots with the restriction that teams from the same federation could not be drawn into the same group.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3
Fortaleza

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. If tied 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.

Results

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Final stages

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams played a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:
  • Quarter-finals and semi-finals were played on a single-leg basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the leg.
  • * If tied, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winners.
  • Finals were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the second leg.
  • * If tied on aggregate, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winners.
  • Extra time would not be played and away goals rule would not be used in final stages.
Starting from the semi-finals, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the tournament. The teams were ranked according to overall points. If tied on overall points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Overall wins; 2. Overall goal difference; 3. Overall goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards in the tournament; 5. Fewest yellow cards in the tournament; 6. Draw in the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation.

Finals

Group I

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2023 Copa do Nordeste
Champions
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