# 2025 Copa do Nordeste

The 2025 Copa do Nordeste (officially the Copa do Nordeste 2025 SUPERBET for sponsorship reasons) is the 22nd edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition will feature 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 will end on 7 September 2025.
Fortaleza are the defending champions.

## Format

This season, 12 teams (9 state league champions and best placed teams in the 2024 CBF 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.
For the group stage, the 16 teams will be drawn into two groups. Each group will be played on a single round-robin basis. The top four teams will qualify 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-away two-legged basis.

## Qualification

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).

## Teams

The qualified teams are
| Association | Team | Qualification method |
| Alagoas 1 + 1 berths | CRB | 2024 Campeonato Alagoano champions |
| Alagoas 1 + 1 berths | CSA | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification |
| Bahia 2 + 1 berths | Vitória | 2024 Campeonato Baiano champions |
| Bahia 2 + 1 berths | Bahia | best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified |
| Bahia 2 + 1 berths | Juazeirense | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification |
| Ceará 2 + 1 berths | Ceará | 2024 Campeonato Cearense champions |
| Ceará 2 + 1 berths | Fortaleza | best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified |
| Ceará 2 + 1 berths | Ferroviário | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification |
| Maranhão 1 + 1 berths | Sampaio Corrêa | 2024 Campeonato Maranhense champions |
| Maranhão 1 + 1 berths | Moto Club | 2025 Copa do Nordeste qualification |
| Paraíba 1 berth | Sousa | 2024 Campeonato Paraibano champions |
| Pernambuco 2 berths | Sport | 2024 Campeonato Pernambucano champions |
| Pernambuco 2 berths | Náutico | best placed team in the 2024 CBF ranking not already qualified |
| Piauí 1 berth | Altos | 2024 Campeonato Piauiense champions |
| Rio Grande do Norte 1 berth | América de Natal | 2024 Campeonato Potiguar champions |
| Sergipe 1 berth | Confiança | 2024 Campeonato Sergipano champions |

## Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.
| Stage | First leg | Second leg |
| Group Stage | Round 1: 22 January | 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 | 4 June |
| Semi-finals | 8 June | 8 June |
| Finals | 3 September | 7 September |

## Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 14 January 2025, 20:00, at the Hotel Grand Hyatt in Rio de Janeiro. The teams were seeded into four pots based on the 2024 CBF 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.

## Group stage

For the group stage, the 16 teams were drawn into two groups of eight teams each. Each group will be played on a single round-robin basis. The top four teams of each group will advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stages. The teams will be ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, the following criteria will 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 the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 13).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | SPO | VIT | FOR | CRB | ALT | MOT | FER | SOU |
| 1 | Sport (A) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 12 | Advance to Quarter-finals | | | 0–2 | 2–1 | – | 5–0 | | |
| 2 | Vitória | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 11 | Advance to Quarter-finals | – | | | | 1–1 | | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Fortaleza | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 9 | Advance to Quarter-finals | | 1–2 | | – | | 2–0 | 4–0 | |
| 4 | CRB | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 6 | Advance to Quarter-finals | | 2–2 | | | | 2–2 | – | 4–1 |
| 5 | Altos | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 5 | | | | 2–1 | 1–1 | | – | | |
| 6 | Moto Club | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | −5 | 5 | | | – | | | | | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| 7 | Ferroviário | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 4 | | 1–2 | | | | 1–0 | | | – |
| 8 | Sousa | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 3 | | 1–2 | | – | | 2–1 | | | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | CSA | NAU | BAH | CEA | AME | JUA | CON | SAM |
| 1 | CSA | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 10 | Advance to Quarter-finals | | 4–1 | – | | | | 2–1 | 4–0 |
| 2 | Náutico | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 8 | Advance to Quarter-finals | | | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | | |
| 3 | Bahia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 7 | Advance to Quarter-finals | | – | | – | 5–1 | | | 4–0 |
| 4 | Ceará | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 7 | Advance to Quarter-finals | 1–0 | | | | 1–0 | – | 1–1 | |
| 5 | América de Natal | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | −4 | 7 | | – | | | | | 2–1 | 2–1 | |
| 6 | Juazeirense | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | | 2–2 | | 0–0 | | | | – | |
| 7 | Confiança | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 4 | | | 1–0 | – | | | | | – |
| 8 | Sampaio Corrêa | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 2 | | | 1–1 | | – | 2–2 | 0–1 | | |

## Final stages

Starting from the quarter-finals, the teams will play a single-elimination tournament with the following rules:
* Quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played on a single-leg basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the leg.
** If tied, the penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winners (Regulations Article 19).
* Finals will be played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the higher-seeded team hosting the second leg.
** If tied on aggregate, the penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winners (Regulations Article 19).
* Extra time will not be played and away goals rule will not be used in final stages.
Starting from the semi-finals, the teams will be seeded according to their performance in the tournament. The teams will be ranked according to overall points. If tied on overall points, the following criteria will 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 the Brazilian Football Confederation (Regulations Article 20).

### Bracket

* Quarter-finals
* Group A winners
* Group B 4th place
* Group B runners-up
* Group A 3rd place
* Group B winners
* Group A 4th place
* Group A runners-up
* Group B 3rd place
* $^†$ Order to be decided.

### Quarter-finals

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Group A winners | C | Group B 4th place |
| Group A runners-up | D | Group B 3rd place |
| Group B winners | E | Group A 4th place |
| Group B runners-up | F | Group A 3rd place |

#### Group F
### Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Group C winners | G | Group F winners |
| Group D winners | H | Group E winners |
* $^†$ Order to be decided.

#### Group H
### Finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Group G winners | | Group H winners | – | – |
* $^†$ Order to be decided.