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1963 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

3rd Taça Brasil title 3rd Brazilian title Bahia

The 1963 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the 1963 Taça Brasil) was the 6th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

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.

Team	Home city	Home ground
Rio Grande do Norte ABC	Natal
Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro	Belo Horizonte
Bahia Bahia	Salvador
Guanabara Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro
Paraíba Campinense	Campina Grande
Alagoas Capelense	Capela
Ceará Ceará	Fortaleza
Sergipe Confiança	Aracaju
Distrito Federal (Brazil) Defelê	Brasília
Rio de Janeiro Fonseca	Niterói
Rio Grande do Sul Grêmio	Porto Alegre
Paraná Londrina	Londrina
Santa Catarina Metropol	Criciúma
Pará Paysandu	Belém
Espírito Santo Rio Branco	Vitória
Maranhão Sampaio Corrêa	São Luís
São Paulo Santos	Santos
Pernambuco Sport Recife	Recife
Piauí River	Teresina
Goiás Vila Nova	Goiânia

Northern Zone

Northeastern Group

First Phase	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Campinense	2 : 2	ABC	2 - 2	0 - 0	4 - 2
Capelense	2 : 2	Confiança	3 - 1	0 - 2	1 - 3

Second Phase	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Confiança	4 : 0	Campinense	2 - 0	4 - 3

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Ceará	2 : 2	Confiança	2 - 4	1 - 0	2 - 0

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Bahia	2 : 2	Ceará	1 - 1	0 - 0	1 - 0

Northern Group

First Phase	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Sampaio Corrêa	2 : 2	River	3 - 0	0 - 2	1 - 2

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
River	0 : 4	Paysandu	1 - 3	0 - 1

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Paysandu	0 : 4	Sport Recife	0 - 1	0 - 2

Northern Zone Final

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

Southern Zone

Southern Group

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

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

Central Group

First Phase	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Vila Nova	4 : 0	Defelê	2 - 0	3 - 0	—
Rio Branco	2 : 2	Fonseca	0 - 1	3 - 0	2 - 2
Rio Branco progressed thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs.

Semi-Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Rio Branco	2 : 2	Vila Nova	0 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 0

Final	Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Mineiro	3 : 1	Rio Branco	1 - 0	1 - 1

Southern Zone Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético Mineiro	1 : 3	Grêmio	1 - 1

National Semi-Finals

Botafogo and Santos entered in this stage

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Bahia	3 : 1	Botafogo	1 - 0
Grêmio	0 : 4	Santos	1 - 3

National Final

Scores	Points	1st leg	2nd leg
Santos	4 : 0	Bahia	6 - 0

References

https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/brazcup63.html RSSSF

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