1960 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

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Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Season	1960
Champions	Palmeiras 1st Brazilian title
Copa Libertadores de América	Palmeiras
Matches played	37
Goals scored	119 (3.22 per match)
← 1959 1961 →

The 1960 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the 1960 Taça Brasil) was the 2nd edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. It began on September 6, 1960, and ended on December 28, 1960.

Format[]

The competition was a single elimination knockout tournament featuring two-legged ties, with a Tie-Break (play-off) if the sides were tied on points (however, if the tie-break was a draw, the aggregate score of the first two legs was used to determine the winner).

Teams[]

Team	Home city	Home ground
ABC	(Natal-RN)
Bahia	(Salvador-BA)
Capelense	(Capela-AL)
Coritiba	(Curitiba-PR)
Cruzeiro	(Belo Horizonte-MG)
	(João Pessoa-PB)
Fluminense	(Rio de Janeiro-GB)
Fonseca	(Niterói-RJ)
Fortaleza	(Fortaleza-CE)
Grêmio	(Porto Alegre-RS)
Moto Club	(São Luís-MA)
Palmeiras	(São Paulo-SP)
Paula Ramos	(Florianópolis-SC)
Paysandu	(Belém-PA)
Rio Branco-ES	(Vitória-ES)
	(Estância-SE)
Santa Cruz	(Recife-PE)

Northern Zone[]

Northeastern Group[]

Semi-Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-Break
Bahia	2 : 2		3 - 1	1 - 2	0 - 0
Bahia qualified thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs.

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Bahia	4 : 0	Capelense	2 - 0	2 - 1

Northern Group[]

1st Round			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
	2 : 2	ABC	2 - 1	1 - 5	1 - 5
Paysandu	0 : 4	Moto Club	2 - 3	2 - 4	—

Semi-Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3 : 1	ABC	3 - 0	1 - 1

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3 : 1	Moto Club	2 - 0	1 - 1

Northern Zone Final[]

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	3 : 1	Bahia	2 - 1	0 - 0

Southern Zone[]

Southern Group[]

Semi-Finals			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Paula Ramos	1 : 3	Coritiba	1 - 1	0 - 5

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-break
Coritiba	2 : 2	Grêmio	1 - 1	3 - 3	1 - 1

Eastern Group[]

Semi-Finals			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-Break
Cruzeiro	2 : 2	Rio Branco-ES	0 - 1	1 - 0	1 - 0
Fonseca	0 : 4	Fluminense	0 - 3	0 - 8	—

Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Cruzeiro	1 : 3	Fluminense	1 - 1	1 - 4

Southern Zone Final[]

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-Break
Grêmio	2 : 2	Fluminense	1 - 0	2 - 4	1 - 1
Fluminense qualified thanks to a better Goal Difference over the first 2 legs.

National Semi-Finals[]

Palmeiras and Santa Cruz-PE entered at this stage.

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Palmeiras	3 : 1	Fluminense	0 - 0	1 - 0
Santa Cruz	1 : 3	Fortaleza	2 - 2	1 - 2

National Final[]

			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg
Fortaleza	0 : 4	Palmeiras	1 - 3	2 - 8

References[]

External links[]

• 1960 Taça Brasil