The tournament was discontinued after the introduction of a
national championship (in 1971,
following the Taça de Prata
(or Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa) from 1967 to 1970).
In December 2010, the CBF decided to recognise the ten tournaments
played for the Taça do Brasil as official championships.
A new cup tournament, called Copa do Brasil, was introduced in 1989, in order to appease the smaller states, whose clubs had been excluded from the first level since the creation of the Copa União in 1987.
The winners of the Copa do Brasil also enter the Copa Libertadores de América, for which each country now has two entries (Brazil four starting from the 2000 edition).
From 1989 to 1994, 32 teams participated in the Copa do Brasil, the state champions and the runners-up from the states with the highest average attendance for the local championship. (Some states entered their local cup winners or teams selected according to other criteria.) In 1995, four third-placed teams were also allowed to enter. In 1996, along with the 32 traditional entries, the 8 teams with the highest average attendance in the national championship were invited. Since 1997, teams have been invited by CBF (in addition to the 32 traditional entries) according to unpublished criteria.
1959 Esporte Clube Bahia (Salvador) 1960 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo) 1961 Santos Futebol Clube (Santos) 1962 Santos Futebol Clube (Santos) 1963 Santos Futebol Clube (Santos) 1964 Santos Futebol Clube (Santos) 1965 Santos Futebol Clube (Santos) 1966 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte) 1967 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo) 1968 Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas (Rio de Janeiro)
1959 Bahia 3-2 0-2 3-1 Santos 1960 Palmeiras 3-1 8-2 Fortaleza 1961 Santos 1-1 5-1 Bahia 1962 Santos 4-3 1-3 5-0 Botafogo 1963 Santos 6-0 2-0 Bahia 1964 Santos 4-1 0-0 Flamengo 1965 Santos 5-1 1-0 Vasco da Gama 1966 Cruzeiro 6-2 3-2 Santos 1967 Palmeiras 3-1 1-2 2-0 Náutico 1968 Botafogo 2-2 4-0 Fortaleza
5 [ 2] Santos 2 Palmeiras 1 [ 2] Bahia 1 [ 1] Botafogo 1 Cruzeiro [ 2] Fortaleza [ 1] Flamengo [ 1] Náutico [ 1] Vasco da Gama
1989 Grêmio Foot-ball Portoalegrense (Porto Alegre-RS)
1990 Clube de Regatas Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro-RJ)
1991 Criciúma Esporte Clube (Criciúma-SC)
1992 Sport Club Internacional (Porto Alegre-RS)
1993 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte-MG)
1994 Grêmio Foot-ball Portoalegrense (Porto Alegre-RS)
1995 Sport Club Corinthians (São Paulo-SP)
1996 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte-MG)
1997 Grêmio Foot-ball Portoalegrense (Porto Alegre-RS)
1998 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo-SP)
1999 Esporte Clube Juventude (Caxias do Sul-RS)
2000 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte-MG)
2001 Grêmio Foot-ball Portoalegrense (Porto Alegre-RS)
2002 Sport Club Corinthians (São Paulo-SP)
2003 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte-MG)
2004 Esporte Club Santo André (Santo André-SP)
2005 Paulista Futebol Clube (Jundiaí-SP)
2006 Clube de Regatas Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro-RJ)
2007 Fluminense Futebol Clube (Rio de Janeiro-RJ)
2008 Sport Club Recife (Recife)
2009 Sport Club Corinthians (São Paulo-SP)
2010 Santos Futebol Clube (Santos-SP)
2011 Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama (Rio de Janeiro-RJ)
2012 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo-SP)
2013 Clube de Regatas Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro-RJ)
2014 Clube Atlético Mineiro (Belo Horizonte-MG)
2015 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo-SP)
2016 Grêmio Foot-ball Portoalegrense (Porto Alegre-RS)
2017 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte-MG)
2018 Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Belo Horizonte-MG)
2019 Club Athletico Paranaense (Curitiba-PR)
2020[*] Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (São Paulo-SP)
2021 Clube Atlético Mineiro (Belo Horizonte-MG)
2022 Clube de Regatas Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro-RJ)
2023 São Paulo Futebol Clube (São Paulo-SP)
[*] due to interruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 cup tournament
finished in March 2021.
1989 Grêmio 0-0 2-1 Sport Recife 1990 Flamengo 1-0 0-0 Goiás 1991 Criciúma 1-1 0-0 Grêmio 1992 Internacional 1-2 1-0 Fluminense 1993 Cruzeiro 0-0 2-1 Grêmio 1994 Grêmio 0-0 1-0 Ceará 1995 Corinthians 2-1 1-0 Grêmio 1996 Cruzeiro 1-1 2-1 Palmeiras 1997 Grêmio 0-0 2-2 Flamengo 1998 Palmeiras 0-1 2-0 Cruzeiro 1999 Juventude 2-1 0-0 Botafogo 2000 Cruzeiro 0-0 2-1 São Paulo 2001 Grêmio 2-2 3-1 Corinthians 2002 Corinthians 2-1 2-1 Brasiliense 2003 Cruzeiro 1-1 3-1 Flamengo 2004 Santo André 2-2 2-0 Flamengo 2005 Paulista 2-0 0-0 Fluminense 2006 Flamengo 2-0 1-0 Vasco da Gama 2007 Fluminense 1-1 1-0 Figueirense 2008 Sport Recife 1-3 2-0 Corinthians 2009 Corinthians 2-0 2-2 Internacional 2010 Santos 2-0 1-2 Vitória 2011 Vasco da Gama 1-0 2-3 Coritiba 2012 Palmeiras 2-0 1-1 Coritiba 2013 Flamengo 1-1 2-0 Atlético-PR 2014 Atlético-MG 2-0 1-0 Cruzeiro 2015 Palmeiras 0-1 2-1 Santos [4-3 pen] 2016 Grêmio 3-1 1-1 Atlético-MG 2017 Cruzeiro 0-0 1-1 Flamengo [5-3 pen] 2018 Cruzeiro 1-0 2-1 Corinthians 2019 Athletico-PR 1-0 2-1 Internacional 2020 Palmeiras 1-0 2-0 Grêmio 2021 Atlético-MG 4-0 2-1 Athletico-PR 2022 Flamengo 0-0 1-1 Corinthians [6-5 pen] 2023 São Paulo 1-0 1-1 Flamengo
6 [ 2] Cruzeiro 5 [ 4] Grêmio 4 [ 5] Flamengo 4 [ 1] Palmeiras 3 [ 4] Corinthians 2 [ 1] Atlético Mineiro 1 [ 2] Athletico Paranaense (includes Atlético Paranaense) 1 [ 2] Fluminense 1 [ 2] Internacional 1 [ 1] Santos 1 [ 1] São Paulo 1 [ 1] Sport Recife 1 [ 1] Vasco da Gama 1 Criciúma 1 Juventude 1 Paulista 1 Santo André [ 2] Coritiba [ 1] Botafogo [ 1] Brasiliense [ 1] Ceará [ 1] Figueirense [ 1] Goiás [ 1] Vitória
NB: this combination of the two knock-out tournaments in Brazil is
entirely unofficial, as the two were not related and the first,
the Taça do Brasil 1959-1968, is now considered a predecessor
of the league championship (the last two editions, 1967-1968,
in fact had an initial, regional group stage).
7 [ 2] Cruzeiro
6 [ 3] Santos
6 [ 1] Palmeiras
5 [ 4] Grêmio
4 [ 6] Flamengo
3 [ 4] Corinthians
2 [ 1] Atlético Mineiro
1 [ 2] Athletico Paranaense (includes Atlético Paranaense)
1 [ 2] Bahia
1 [ 2] Botafogo
1 [ 2] Fluminense
1 [ 2] Internacional
1 [ 2] Vasco da Gama
1 [ 1] São Paulo
1 [ 1] Sport Recife
1 Criciúma
1 Juventude
1 Paulista
1 Santo André
[ 2] Coritiba
[ 2] Fortaleza
[ 1] Brasiliense
[ 1] Ceará
[ 1] Figueirense
[ 1] Goiás
[ 1] Náutico
[ 1] Vitória
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