The 2024

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State Championship), also commonly known as the Cariocão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Br ...

(officially the Campeonato Carioca Betnacional 2024 for sponsorship reasons) was the 121st edition of the top division of

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in the state of

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. The competition was organized by FERJ. It began on 17 January 2024 and ended on 7 April 2024. The defending champions were

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won the competition for the 38th time.

Participating teams

Format

In the main competition, the twelve clubs played each other in a single round-robin. This round-robin was the

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. The bottom team was relegated to the 2024 Série A2. While the top four clubs qualified for the final stage, the next four clubs (5th to 8th places) qualified for the

Taça Rio Taça Rio ( English: Rio Cup) is an annual football tournament attached to Campeonato Carioca, the state football league in the Rio de Janeiro state. It has been organized since 1982 by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation. It has had ...

. In the Taça Rio, the 5th-placed club faced the 8th-placed club, and the 6th-placed will face the 7th-placed. In the final stage, the winners of the Taça Guanabara faced the 4th-placed club, while the runners-up faced the 3rd-placed club. In both of these four-team brackets (the Taça Rio and the final stage), the semi-finals and finals were played over two legs, without the use of the

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. In the semi-finals of both the Taça Rio and the final stage, the higher placed teams on the Taça Guanabara table advanced in case of an aggregate tie. In the finals of both brackets, there was no such advantage; in case of an aggregate tie, a

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would have taken place. The top four teams of the Campeonato Carioca and the winner of the Taça Rio qualified for the

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. Since

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and

qualified for the 2025 Copa do Brasil via winning the

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and

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respectively, their Campeonato Carioca berths went to the next best team. The top two teams of the Campeonato Carioca that were not already playing in the

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian" or "Great Brazilian"), the Série A or the Brazilian Série A (to distinguish it from the I ...

, Série B or Série C qualified for the 2025 Série D.

Taça Guanabara

Taça Rio

Final stage

Semi-finals

Group A

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Group B

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Finals

First leg

Second leg

Top goalscorers

References

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