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1960 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Field	Value
competition	Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
season	1960
dates	6 September – 28 December 1960
winners	Palmeiras
1st Taça Brasil title
1st Brazilian title
continentalcup1	Copa Libertadores
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Palmeiras
matches	37
total goals	119
league topscorer	Bececê (7 goals)
biggest home win	Fluminense 8-0 Fonseca
prevseason	1959
nextseason	1961

1st Taça Brasil title 1st Brazilian title The 1960 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the 1960 Taça Brasil) was the 3rd edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. It began on 6 September 1960, and ended on 28 December 1960.

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

Seventeen state champions qualified for the tournament.

Team	Home city	Home ground
Rio Grande do Norte ABC	Natal
Bahia Bahia	Salvador
Alagoas Capelense	Capela
Paraná Coritiba	Curitiba
Minas Gerais Cruzeiro	Belo Horizonte
Paraíba Estrela do Mar	João Pessoa
Guanabara Fluminense	Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro Fonseca	Niterói
Ceará Fortaleza	Fortaleza
Rio Grande do Sul Grêmio	Porto Alegre
Maranhão Moto Club	São Luís
São Paulo Palmeiras	São Paulo
Santa Catarina Paula Ramos	Florianópolis
Pará Paysandu	Belém
Espírito Santo Rio Branco-ES	Vitória
Sergipe Santa Cruz-SE	Estância
Pernambuco Santa Cruz	Recife

Northern Zone

Northeastern Group

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-Break
Bahia	2 : 2	Santa Cruz-SE	3 - 1	1 - 2	0 - 0
Bahia qualified thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs.

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Bahia	4 : 0	Capelense	2 - 0	2 - 1

Northern Group

1st Round	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Estrela do Mar	2 : 2	ABC	2 - 1	1 - 5	1 - 5
Paysandu	0 : 4	Moto Club	2 - 3	2 - 4	—

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3 : 1	ABC	3 - 0	1 - 1

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3 : 1	Moto Club	2 - 0	1 - 1

Northern Zone Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3 : 1	Bahia	2 - 1

Southern Zone

Southern Group

Semi-Finals	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Paula Ramos	1 : 3	Coritiba	1 - 1	0 - 5

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Coritiba	2 : 2	Grêmio	1 - 1	3 - 3	1 - 1

Eastern Group

Semi-Finals	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-Break
Cruzeiro	2 : 2	Rio Branco-ES	0 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 0
Fonseca	0 : 4	Fluminense	0 - 3	0 - 8	—

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Cruzeiro	1 : 3	Fluminense	1 - 1	1 - 4

Southern Zone Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-Break
Grêmio	2 : 2	Fluminense	1 - 0	2 - 4
Fluminense qualified thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs.

National Semi-Finals

Palmeiras and Santa Cruz entered at this stage.

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Palmeiras	3 : 1	Fluminense	0 - 0
Santa Cruz	1 : 3	Fortaleza	2 - 2

National Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	0 : 4	Palmeiras	1 - 3

References

"Brazil Cup 1960".

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