| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Country | Brazil |
| Dates | 21 January – 6 September |
| Teams | 16 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Bahia(5th title) |
| Runners-up | Confiança |
| 2026 Copa do Brasil | Bahia |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 64 |
| Goals scored | 161 (2.52 per match) |
The2025Copa do Nordeste (officially theCopa do Nordeste 2025 SUPERBET for sponsorship reasons)[1] was the 22nd edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition featured 16 clubs, with Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco having two seeds each, and Alagoas, Maranhão, Paraíba, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe with one seed each. Four teams were decided by a qualifying tournament (Eliminatórias da Copa do Nordeste 2025). The Copa do Nordeste began on 21 January and ended on 6 September 2025.
Fortaleza were the defending champions.
This season, 12 teams (9 state league champions and best placed teams in the 2024CBF ranking from Ceará, Bahia and Pernambuco) earned direct entry into the group stage while the other four berths were determined by the Eliminatórias da Copa do Nordeste.[2]
For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into two groups. Each group was played on a singleround-robin basis. The top four teams qualified for the final stages. The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played on a single-leg basis, while the finals will be played on a home-and-awaytwo-legged basis.[3]
The 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification (officially the Eliminatórias da Copa do Nordeste 2025) was the qualifying tournament of the 2025 Copa do Nordeste. It was played from 4 to 8 January 2025. Sixteen teams competed to decide four places in the Copa do Nordeste. The teams entered in two rounds where the four winners advanced to the Copa do Nordeste.
The winners were CSA (Alagoas), Ferroviário (Ceará), Juazeirense (Bahia) and Moto Club (Maranhão).[4]
The qualified teams are[5]
| Association | Team | Qualification method |
|---|---|---|
1 + 1 berths | CRB | 2024 Campeonato Alagoano champions |
| CSA | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification | |
2 + 1 berths | Vitória | 2024 Campeonato Baiano champions |
| Bahia | best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified | |
| Juazeirense | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification | |
2 + 1 berths | Ceará | 2024 Campeonato Cearense champions |
| Fortaleza | best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified | |
| Ferroviário | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification | |
1 + 1 berths | Sampaio Corrêa | 2024Campeonato Maranhense champions |
| Moto Club | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification | |
1 berth | Sousa | 2024 Campeonato Paraibano champions |
2 berths | Sport | 2024 Campeonato Pernambucano champions |
| Náutico | best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified | |
1 berth | Altos | 2024Campeonato Piauiense champions |
1 berth | América de Natal | 2024Campeonato Potiguar champions |
1 berth | Confiança | 2024Campeonato Sergipano champions |
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[6]
| Stage | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|
| Group Stage | Round 1: 22 January | |
| Round 2: 5 February | ||
| Round 3: 12 February | ||
| Round 4: 19 and 26 February | ||
| Round 5: 5 and 12 March | ||
| Round 6: 19 March | ||
| Round 7: 23 March | ||
| Quarter-finals | 4 June | |
| Semi-finals | 8 June | |
| Finals | 3 September | 7 September |
The draw for the group stage was held on 14 January 2025, 20:00, at the Hotel Grand Hyatt inRio de Janeiro.[7] The teams were seeded into four pots based on the 2024CBF ranking (shown in parentheses). They were drawn into two groups of eight containing two teams from each of the pots with the restriction that teams from the same federation could not be drawn into the same group. If there were three or more qualified teams from the same federation, the two best teams in the CBF ranking would be allocated in different groups.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
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For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight teams each. Each group was played on a singleround-robin basis. The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stages. The teams were ranked according topoints (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Wins; 2.Goal difference; 3. Goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards; 5. Fewest yellow cards; 6. Draw in the headquarters of theBrazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 13).[3]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | VIT | SPO | FER | FOR | CRB | ALT | MOT | SOU | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | +4 | 15 | Advance to Quarter-finals | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | ||||||
| 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 12 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 5–0 | |||||||
| 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 10 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | ||||||||
| 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 9 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | |||||||
| 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | +2 | 9 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 4–1 | |||||||
| 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 13 | −5 | 7 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | ||||||||
| 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 6 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | BAH | CSA | CEA | CON | NAU | AME | JUA | SAM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 16 | Advance to Quarter-finals | 3–2 | 3–1 | 5–1 | 4–0 | ||||||
| 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 13 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 4–0 | |||||||
| 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 13 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |||||||
| 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 11 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | ||||||||
| 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | −4 | 8 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | ||||||||
| 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | −5 | 7 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 7 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | ||||||||
| 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 16 | −12 | 2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 |
Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams played asingle-elimination tournament with the following rules:[3]
Starting from the semi-finals, the teams were seeded according to their performance in the tournament. The teams were ranked according to overall points. If tied on overall points, the following criteria would be used to determine the ranking: 1. Overall wins; 2. Overall goal difference; 3. Overall goals scored; 4. Fewest red cards in the tournament; 5. Fewest yellow cards in the tournament; 6. Draw in the headquarters of theBrazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 20).[3]
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Finals | ||||||||||||||
| CSA | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Ferroviário | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| CSA | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Confiança | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Vitória | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Confiança | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Confiança | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Bahia | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||||||||||||
| Bahia | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Fortaleza | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Bahia | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Ceará | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | 0(2) | |||||||||||||||
| Ceará (p) | 0(4) | |||||||||||||||
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Vitória | 0–1 | |
| Sport | 0–0 (2–4 p) | |
| Bahia | 2–1 | |
| CSA | 2–1 |
| Sport | 0–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | ||
| Penalties | ||
| Rivera Lucas Lima Atencio Rafael Thyere | 2–4 | |
| Bahia | 2–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Willian José Caio Alexandre | Report | Matheus Pereira |
| CSA | 2–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Enzo Tiago Marques | Report | Wesley Junio |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 16 | Host | |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 14 | ||
| 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | +11 | 19 | Host | |
| 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 14 |
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
|---|---|---|
| CSA | 0–1 | |
| Bahia | 1–0 |
| CSA | 0–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Thiago Santos |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | +12 | 22 | 2nd leg | |
| 2 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 17 | 1st leg |
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confiança | 1–9 | 1–4 | 0–5 |
| Confiança | 1–4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Ronald Camarão | Report | Rodríguez Willian José Rodrigo Nestor Rezende |
| Bahia | 5–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tiago Rodríguez Rezende | Report |