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
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 2020 and 7 March 2021.
On 15 March 2020,
CBF suspended the competition indefinitely due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. Four months later, on 9 July 2020, they announced that the tournament would resume on 26 August 2020. The end of the tournament originally scheduled for 16 September 2020 was rescheduled to 17 February 2021, but due to the qualification of the finalist
Palmeiras for the
2020 FIFA Club World Cup, the end of the competition was rescheduled again to 7 March 2021.
The competition was contested by 91 teams, either qualified by participating in their respective state championships (70), by the 2020
CBF ranking (10), by the
2019 Copa do Nordeste (1), by the
2019 Copa Verde (1), by the
2019 Série B (1) or those qualified for
2020 Copa Libertadores (8).
Palmeiras defeated
Grêmio 3–0 on aggregate in the finals to win their fourth title. As champions, Palmeiras earned the right to play in the
2021 Supercopa do Brasil
The 2021 Supercopa do Brasil (officially the Supercopa Kia 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth edition of Supercopa do Brasil, an annual football match played between the champions of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and Copa do Brasil ...
. They had already qualified for the
2021 Copa Libertadores group stage and the
2021 Copa do Brasil third round by winning the
2020 Copa Libertadores.
were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in the round of 16.
Raphael Veiga
Raphael Cavalcante Veiga (born 19 June 1995) is a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who plays as an Midfielder#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder for SE Palmeiras, Palmeiras and the Brazil national football team, Br ...
(Palmeiras) and
Weverton (Palmeiras) won best player and best goalkeeper awards, respectively.
Format
The competition is a
single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, ...
, the first two rounds were played as a single match and the rest are played as a
two-legged tie
In sports (especially association football), a two-legged tie is a contest between two teams which comprises two matches or "legs", with each team as the home team in one leg. The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score, the sum ...
s. Eleven teams entered in the round of 16, which were teams qualified for 2020 Copa Libertadores (8), Série B champions, Copa Verde champions and Copa do Nordeste champions. The remaining 80 teams played in the first round. The 40 winners played the second round, the 20 winners played the third round, and the 10 winners played the fourth round. Finally, the five fourth round winners qualified for the round of 16.
Qualified teams
Teams in bold were qualified directly for the round of 16.
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Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows:
Draw
First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Final rounds
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Finals
Top goalscorers
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References
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2020
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2020 domestic association football cups
Association football events postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic