The 2019 Copa do Brasil (officially the Copa
Continental Pneus do Brasil 2019 for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st edition of the
Copa do Brasil
The Copa do Brasil () is a knockout football competition played by 92 teams, representing all 26 Brazilian states plus the Federal District. It is the Brazilian domestic cup and it is the Brazilian equivalent of the FA Cup, Taça de Portugal, ...
football competition. It was held between 5 February and 18 September 2019. The competition was contested by 91 teams, either qualified through participating in their respective state championships (70), by the 2019
CBF ranking (10), by the
2018 Copa do Nordeste (1), by the
2018 Copa Verde (1), by the
2018 Série B (1) or those qualified for
2019 Copa Libertadores
The 2019 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores was the 60th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL Libertadores (also referred to as the ''Copa Libertadores''), South America's premier club association football, football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. ...
(8).
Athletico Paranaense defeated
Internacional 3–1 on aggregate in the finals to win their first title. As champions,
Athletico Paranaense qualified for the
2020 Supercopa do Brasil, the
2020 Copa Libertadores
The 2020 Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores was the 61st edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL Libertadores (also referred to as the ''Copa Libertadores''), South America's premier club association football, football tournament organized by CONMEBOL ...
group stage and the
2020 Copa do Brasil
The 2020 Copa do Brasil (officially the Copa Continental Pneus do Brasil 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was the 32nd edition of the Copa do Brasil football competition. It was held between 5 February 2020 and 7 March 2021.
On 15 March 2020, CBF ...
Round of 16.
were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals 0–4 on aggregate to
Internacional.
Paolo Guerrero
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(Internacional) and
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(Cruzeiro) won best player and best goalkeeper awards, respectively.
Format
The competition was a
single elimination
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knockout tournament
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, the first two stages featuring a single match and the other stages featuring
two-legged tie
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s. Eleven teams qualified for the Round of 16 (Teams qualified for 2019 Copa Libertadores (8), Série B champions, Copa Verde champions and Copa do Nordeste champions). The remaining 80 teams played the first stage. The 40 winners played the second stage, the 20 winners played the third stage, the 10 winners played the fourth stage. Finally, the five fourth-stage winners qualified for the Round of 16.
Qualified teams
Teams in bold are qualified directly for the round of 16.
:
Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows.
Draw
First stage
Second stage
Third stage
Fourth stage
Final stages
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
Top goalscorers
References
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
2019 in Brazilian football
2019 domestic association football cups