Campeonato Mato-Grossense is the football league of the State of Mato Grosso,

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. It is organized by the Mato Grosso State Football Federation.

Format

First Division 2006 First stage: *The teams are divided in two groups of six teams. *Double round-robin, in which all teams from one group play home-and-away games against all teams within the group. *Home-and-away

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with the top teams of each group. The winner is crowned the champion of the first stage. *The teams last placed in each group are relegated to the second division. Second stage: *The teams are divided in two groups of five teams. *Double round-robin, in which all teams from one group play home-and-away games against all teams of the other group. *Home-and-away

with the top teams of each group. The winner is crowned the champion of the second stage. Third stage (if necessary): *Home-and-away

with the winners of the first and second stages. If a team wins both stages (first and second) it is crowned the champion. If not, the third stage is disputed, and the winner is the champion. As in any other Brazilian soccer championship, the format can change every year.

Clubs

First Division 2021 *Sociedade Ação Futebol *Clube Esportivo Operário Várzea-Grandense ( CEOV) *

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Esporte Clube *Clube Esportivo Dom Bosco *Associação Grêmio Sorriso * Luverdense Esporte Clube *

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Esporte Clube *

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Esporte Clube *

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Futebol Clube * União Esporte Clube

List of champions

Notes

* Operário and Comercial from

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, Ubiratan from

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, and Corumbaense from

Corumbá Corumbá is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 425 km northwest of Campo Grande, the state's capital. It has a population of approximately 112,000 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly on agriculture, anima ...

, disputed the Campeonato Matogrossense before the split of Mato Grosso do Sul, occurred in 1979. *Due to financial problems, Operário Várzea-Grandense (also known as CEOV) withdrew from professional football in 1996. As it is one of the clubs with the most fans in the state, EC Operário was created with the same colors (red and green) as the traditional CEOV. Despite being state champion twice (1997 and 2002), the club did not receive the expected support and closed its activities in 2002. Another club with a similar name was created ( Operário Futebol Ltda.), this time with red and black colors in honor of

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, and has won the 2006 tournament. Operário Ltda. currently competes in the second division and the original CEOV returned to professional football in 2013.

Titles by team

Teams in bold stills active. Teams in ''italic'' currently disputes the

Campeonato Sul-Mato-Grossense The Campeonato Sul-Mato-Grossense is the football league of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Before 1979, the Sul-Mato-Grossense clubs competed in the Campeonato Mato-Grossense, because Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul were a single st ...

By city

Copa Governador de Mato Grosso

The Copa Governador de Mato Grosso () is a competition contested in the second semester of the year, by Mato Grosso state teams, originally to determine a spot in the following year's Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, but now to determine who will make it to the Série D.

References

External links

FMF Official Website
{{Brazilian Football Competitions Matogrossense Football in Mato Grosso