1960 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Season	1960
Dates	6 September – 28 December 1960
Champions	Palmeiras 1st Taça Brasil title 1st Brazilian title
Copa Libertadores	Palmeiras
Matches played	37
Goals scored	119 (3.22 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bececê (7 goals)
Biggest home win	Fluminense 8-0 Fonseca
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The 1960 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the 1960 Taça Brasil) was the 3rd edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. It began on 6 September 1960, and ended on 28 December 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

Seventeen state champions qualified for the tournament.

Team	Home city	Home ground
ABC	(Natal-RN)
Bahia	(Salvador-BA)
Capelense	(Capela-AL)
Coritiba	(Curitiba-PR)
Cruzeiro	(Belo Horizonte-MG)
Estrela do Mar	(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)
Santa Cruz-SE	(Estância-SE)
Santa Cruz	(Recife-PE)

Northern Zone

Northeastern Group

Semi-Final			Scores
	Points		1st leg	2nd leg	Tie-Break
Bahia	2 : 2	Santa Cruz-SE	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
Estrela do Mar	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 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

External links

• Brazil Cup 1960