Taça Guanabara
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Taça Guanabara (or Guanabara Trophy) is a football tournament organized yearly since 1965 by the football Federation of Rio de Janeiro. It is the first round of the Campeonato Carioca (state football championship in Rio de Janeiro). Twelve teams, divided in two groups, play five games each and the first two teams in each group qualify to the semi-finals.
Since 1982, the winner of the Guanabara Trophy plays the winner of the Rio Trophy to crown the football state champion of Rio de Janeiro.
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[edit] Finalists
[edit] Titles by team
- Flamengo 16 titles
- Vasco da Gama 11 titles
- Fluminense 8 titles
- Botafogo 4 titles
- América 1 title
- Americano 1 title
- Volta Redonda FC 1 title
[edit] Statistics
Since 1990, the winner of the Guanabara Cup won also the Rio de Janeiro State championship in 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2004.
CR Flamengo in 1996 and CR Vasco da Gama in 1998 have won both rounds of the Rio de Janeiro State championship.
Since 1980, only CR Flamengo has won the Guanabara Cup and the Brazilian National Championship during the same year, CR Vasco da Gama did it in 2000 but was not officially the winner of the Brazilian National Championship.
[edit] See also
| Brazilian Football Competitions |
| Major Competitions |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Campeonato Brasileiro Série A | Campeonato Brasileiro Série B | Campeonato Brasileiro Série C | Copa do Brasil |
| State Championships |
| Acre | Alagoas | Amapá | Amazonas | Bahia | Ceará | Distrito Federal | Espírito Santo | Goiás | Maranhão | Mato Grosso | Mato Grosso do Sul | Minas Gerais | Pará | Paraíba | Paraná | Pernambuco | Piauí | Rio de Janeiro | Rio Grande do Norte | Rio Grande do Sul | Rondônia | Roraima | Santa Catarina | São Paulo | Sergipe | Tocantins
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| Youth Competitions |
| Campeonato Brasileiro Sub-20 | Copa Macaé de Juvenis | Copa Santiago de Futebol Juvenil | Copa São Paulo de Juniores | Taça Belo Horizonte de Juniores
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| Defunct Competitions |
| Copa dos Campeões | Copa Sul-Minas | Taça Brasil | Torneio Rio-São Paulo | Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa | Supercopa do Brasil
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