Taça Brasil 1968

Taça Brasil 1968
master	Botafogo FR
Teams	23
Games	54
Gates	135  (ø 2.5 per game)
Top scorer	Fernando Ferretti (7 goals)
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The Taça Brasil (Brazil Cup) was the first national soccer competition in Brazil. The Taça was organized in 1968 by the Brazilian Sports Federation, the CBD . The champions and runners-up were qualified as participants in Copa Libertadores 1969 .

The 1968 competition was the last in this competition. As a similar one, the national cup called Copa do Brasil was launched in 1989 . However, this is not considered the successor to Taça Brasil. In 2010 the national association CBF officially recognized it as Brazilian champion.

Season course

The competition started its season on August 4, 1968 and ended on October 4, 1969. At the end of the season, the Botafogo FR won the title for the first time. The top scorer was Fernando Ferretti from the champions Botafogo FR with 9 goals .

Attendees

23 clubs took part. The mode consisted of a mixture of table and cup system. Participants were the winners of the State Championships in 1967 .

mode

After the first and second leg, only the number of wins counted, no other criteria. If both teams have won once, a playoff was played. If this did not result in a winner, the goal difference counted. If the comparison did not result in a winner, the decision was made by tossing a coin.

1st round: In the first round, the participants were divided into three regions according to their origin. In the groups, the teams met in table and cup mode. The winners were determined in the first and second legs.

Final round: In the final round, the defending champions of the Palmeiras São Paulo , the FC Santos as state champions of São Paulo and the Botafogo FR as state champions of Rio de Janeiro should enter the competition. The plan was for Palmeiras to take part from the quarter-finals and Santos from the semi-finals. But both canceled their participation. The clubs had also qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 1969 and saw their participation as endangered.

1 round

Zone north

The Zone group was divided into three groups of three teams each. All groups played their best team first. The best of groups 1 and 2 contested the quarter-finals of the group. The winner moved into the semi-finals and met the winners of Group 3. The winner of the semifinal met in the finals of the national championship of Ceará to Fortaleza EC . This was set for the final.

Group 1

The national champions of the associations of:

 Amazon

• Olímpico Clube

 Maranhão

• Moto Club de São Luís

 Pará

• Paysandu SC

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Moto Club de São Luís	4th	3	0	1	7: 3	+4	6th
2.	Paysandu SC	4th	1	1	2	8: 6	+2	3
3.	Olímpico Clube	4th	1	1	2	3: 9	-6	3

Qualified for the quarter finals Group North

Group 2

The national champions of the associations of:

 Paraíba

• Campinense Clube

 Piauí

• Piauí EC

 Rio Grande do Norte

• América FC (RN)

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Piauí EC	4th	4th	0	0	5-0	+5	8th
2.	América FC (RN)	4th	1	1	2	4: 4	00	3
3.	Campinense Clube	4th	1	1	2	4: 6	-2	3

Qualified for the quarter finals Group North

Group 3

The national champions of the associations of:

 Alagoas

• CS Alagoano

 Bahia

• EC Bahia

 Sergipe

• CS Sergipe

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	EC Bahia	4th	3	1	0	9: 3	+6	7th
2.	CS Alagoano	4th	1	1	2	5: 7	-2	3
3.	CS Sergipe	4th	0	2	2	3: 7	-4	2

Qualified for the semi-finals Group North

Final round zone north

In the final round of the North Zone, the state champion of Ceará of the Fortaleza EC entered the competition. This was set for the final.

In the semi-finals, EC Bahia bought home rights from its opponent Moto Club and played both games in their own stadium.

	Quarter finals							Semifinals							final
																Fortaleza EC	0	1	2
																EC Bahia	1	0	1
		Piauí EC	1	1
		Moto Club	1	2
									Moto Club	0	0
									EC Bahia	5	1

Zone south

The national champions of the associations of:

 Paraná

• EC Água Verde

 Rio Grande do Sul

• Gremio Porto Alegre

 Santa Catarina

• EC Metropol

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	EC Metropol	4th	1	3	0	5: 1	+4	5
2.	Gremio Porto Alegre	4th	1	3	0	2-0	+2	5
3.	EC Água Verde	4th	0	2	2	1: 7	-6	2

Qualified for the round of 16 of the final round

Central zone

In the final round of the group north, the national champion of Minas Gerais of the Cruzeiro EC entered the competition. This was set for the final.

Group 1

In Group 1, the national champions of the associations of:

 Federal District

• Rabello FC

 Goiás

• Atlético Goianiense

 Mato Grosso

• Operário FC (MT)

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlético Goianiense	4th	2	1	1	8: 3	+5	5
2.	Operário FC (MT)	4th	2	0	2	5: 9	-4	4th
3.	Rabello FC	4th	1	1	2	6: 7	-1	3

Qualified for the group semi-finals

Group 2

In group 2 the national champions of the associations of:

 Espírito Santo

• Associação Desportiva Ferroviária Vale do Rio Doce

Guanabara

• Goytacaz FC

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Goytacaz FC	2	1	1	0	2: 1	+1	3
2.	Desportiva Ferroviária	2	0	1	1	1: 2	-1	1

Qualified for the group semi-finals

Final round Central Zone

	Semifinals							final
									Cruzeiro EC	2	6th
									Atlético Goianiense	1	1
		Atlético Goianiense	0	2	2
		Goytacaz FC	2	1	0

Final round

In the final round, the defending champions of the Palmeiras São Paulo , the FC Santos as state champions of São Paulo and the Botafogo FR as state champions of Rio de Janeiro should enter the competition. The plan was for Palmeiras to take part from the quarter-finals and Santos from the semi-finals. But both canceled their participation. The clubs had also qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 1969 and saw their participation as endangered.

The reason for this were delays in the round of 16 game between Botafogo and Metropol. After the first two games, each club had won a game. Botafogo had the better goal difference, but this did not count at the time, so a play-off was scheduled. According to the rules, this had to be played in the same stadium as the last game. Accordingly, the playoff should have taken place in the Metropol stadium. The game was scheduled for the evening of December 11, 1968. The game could not take place due to insufficient stadium lighting. Metropol refused to play the game at another venue.

The disputes over the playoff dragged on into the next year and was then scheduled for March 12, 1969 in Florianópolis . Metropol did not appear in the game. They justified it with the fact that too few players were available. Botafogo was then declared the winner by walkover . This decision was reversed shortly thereafter, after Metropol had agreed to play on April 2, 1969 in Rio de Janeiro for the playoff.

The playoff took place on the scheduled date. However, the game had to be interrupted in the 58th minute when the score was 1: 1 due to a storm. The game was not counted and a new playoff game two days later was scheduled for April 4th. Metropol protested against this because they considered the appointment to be too short-term. The protest was denied and Botafogo was declared the winner for walkover.

Tournament schedule

	Quarter finals							Semifinals							final
		EC Metropol	1	1	1
		Botafogo FR	6th	0	1
									Botafogo FR	1	1
									Cruzeiro EC	0	1
																Botafogo FR	2	4th
																Fortaleza EC	2	0
									Nautico	1	2	0
									Fortaleza EC	2	1	1

First leg

Fortaleza EC		Botafogo FR
	September 3, 1969 in Estádio Presidente Vargas (Fortaleza) ( Fortaleza ) Result: 2: 2 Spectators: 15,375 Referee: José Mário Vinhas
	Erandir Joãozinho	Ferretti 2 x

Return leg

Botafogo FR		Fortaleza EC
	October 4, 1969 in Estádio do Maracanã ( Rio de Janeiro ) Result: 4: 0 (1: 0) Spectators: 13,588 or 34,588 (different information) Referee: Guálter Portela Filho
	Cao , Moreira , Chiquinho Pastor ( Leônidas ), Moisés, Waltencir , Carlos Roberto ( Nei Conceição ), Afonsinho , Rogério , Roberto , Fernando Ferretti , Paulo Cézar Trainer: Mário Zagallo	Mundinho , William, Zé Paulo , Renato, Luciano Abreu, Joãozinho, Luciano Frota, Garrinchinha, Lucinho , Erandir (Amorim), Mimi Trainer: Gilvan Dias
	1: 0 Roberto 7 ′ 2: 0 Ferretti 53 ′ 3: 0 Afonsinho 65 ′ 4: 0 Ferretti 83 ′

List of goalscorers

Pl.	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1		Fernando Ferretti	Botafogo	7 goals
2		José Sanfilippo	Bahia	5 goals
3		Cajé	Bahia	4 goals
		Dirceu Lopes	Cruzeiro

Closing table

The table only served to determine the placement of the individual teams in the season. At times it was used by the association to determine an eternal ranking list. It is made up of all the games played. In the sorting, reaching the respective final phase has priority over the points scored. In the event of a tie, first the wins scored, then the goals scored.

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Botafogo FR	7th	4th	2	1	15: 5	+10	10
02.	Fortaleza EC	8th	4th	1	3	8:10	- 02nd	9
03.	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	4th	2	1	1	9: 4	+ 05	5
04th	Náutico capibaribe	3	1	0	2	3: 4	- 01	2
05.	EC Metropol	7th	2	3	2	7: 8	- 01	7th
06th	EC Bahia	9	6th	1	2	17: 6	+11	13
07th	Atlético Goianiense	9	4th	1	4th	14:14	000	9
08th.	Moto Club de São Luís	8th	4th	1	3	10:11	- 01	9
09.	Goytacaz FC	5	2	1	2	5: 5	000	5
10.	Piauí EC	6th	4th	1	1	7: 3	+ 04	9
11.	Gremio Porto Alegre	4th	1	3	0	2-0	+ 02	5
12.	Operário FC (MT)	4th	2	0	2	5: 9	- 04th	4th
13.	Paysandu SC	4th	1	1	2	8: 6	+ 02	3
14th	CS Alagoano	4th	1	1	2	5: 7	- 02nd	3
15th	América FC (RN)	4th	1	1	2	2: 4	- 02nd	3
16.	Rabello FC	4th	1	1	2	6: 7	- 01	3
17th	Olímpico Clube	4th	1	1	2	3: 9	- 06	3
18th	CS Sergipe	4th	0	2	2	3: 7	- 04th	2
19th	EC Água Verde	4th	0	2	2	1: 7	- 06	2
20th	Desportiva Ferroviária	2	0	1	1	1: 2	- 01	1
21st	Campinense Clube	4th	0	1	3	1: 4	- 03	1

	Participants in the finals of the finals
	Participants in the semi-finals of the final round
	Participants in the quarter-finals of the finals
	Eliminated in the zone finals
	Eliminated in the semi-finals of the zones
	Eliminated in the quarter-finals of the groups

Web links

• Summary on rsssfbrasil.com
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