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1962 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

2nd Taça Brasil title 2nd Brazilian title Botafogo The 1962 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the 1962 Taça Brasil) was the 5th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. It began on 2 September 1962, and ended on 2 April 1963.

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

Eighteen state champions qualified for the tournament.

Team	Home city	Home ground
Rio Grande do Norte ABC	Natal
Bahia Bahia	Salvador
Guanabara] Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro
Paraíba Campinense	Campina Grande
Ceará Ceará	Fortaleza
Paraná Comercial-PR	Cornélio Procópio
Alagoas CRB	Maceió
Minas GeraisCruzeiro	Belo Horizonte
Rio Grande do Sul Internacional	Porto Alegre
Santa Catarina Metropol	Criciúma
Pará Paysandu	Belém
Rio de Janeiro Rio Branco-RJ	Campos dos Goytacazes
Piauí River	Teresina
Maranhão Sampaio Corrêa	São Luís
Espírito Santo Santo Antônio	Vitória
São Paulo Santos	Santos
Sergipe Sergipe	Aracaju
Pernambuco Sport Recife	Recife

Northern Zone

Northeastern Group

First Phase	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Campinense	4 : 0	ABC	4 - 3	3 - 1	—
CRB	2 : 2	Sergipe	1 - 1	2 - 2	2 - 1

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Campinense	4 : 0	CRB	2 - 1	6 - 0

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Bahia	2 : 2	Campinense	1 - 0	0 - 2	1 - 1
Campinense progressed thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs.

Northern Group

First Phase	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
River	1 : 3	Ceará	0 - 0	5 - 7
Paysandu	3 : 1	Sampaio Corrêa	3 - 2	2 - 2

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Paysandu	2 : 2	Ceará	0 - 0	1 - 1	1 - 3

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Sport Recife	3 : 1	Ceará	2 - 0	1 - 1

Northern Zone Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Campinense	1 : 3	Sport Recife	0 - 0

Southern Zone

Southern Group

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Comercial-PR	1 : 3	Metropol	1 - 1	1 - 2

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Metropol	0 : 4	Internacional	2 - 3	2 - 3

Eastern Group

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Rio Branco-RJ	3 : 1	Santo Antônio	1 - 1	2 - 1

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Rio Branco-RJ	1 : 3	Cruzeiro	1 - 1	0 - 1

Southern Zone Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Cruzeiro	1 : 3	Internacional	1 - 1

National Semi-Finals

Botafogo and Santos entered this stage.

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Botafogo	2 : 2	Internacional	2 - 2	2 - 2
Sport Recife	1 : 3	Santos	1 - 1	0 - 4

National Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Santos	2 : 2	Botafogo	4 - 3	1 - 3

References

https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/brazcup62.html RSSSF

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