Brazil. first national championship.The 1971 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (officially the Primeiro Campeonato Nacional de Clubes, "First National Championship of Clubs") was the 16th edition of the Brazilian Championship. However, from 1976 until 2010 (when CBF unified the Brazilian titles prior to 1971, considering the 1959 Taça Brasil as the first edition of the championship) this tournament was considered by the highest entity of national football as the first edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.The competition was won by Atlético Mineiro, thus winning its second Brazilian title.
While the tournament represented the top tier of Brazilian football, its name was "Division Extra", with "First Division" instead used by the second-tier tournament (since known as Campeonato Brasileiro Série B). During the 1960s, two tournaments were used to pick Brazil's representative at the Copa Libertadores: Taça Brasil (1959-1968), a single-elimination tournament between the state champions; and Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (1967-1970), divided in two separate group phases with teams mostly from the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Both tournaments had a format that barely covered the entire country and had regional phases that diminished fan support, leading to dissatisfaction from both the team owners and the Brazilian Confederation of Sports (CBD), who organized the championship. In 1970, the Brazil national football team won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, becoming the first three-time world champion. Seeing the valorization of Brazilian football, president Emílio Médici and the Brazilian media pushed CBD towards a true national tournament. With a format inspired by the European tournaments, the tournament would feature 20 teams.[3] The format of the national tournament was still close to the 1970 Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, with the state of Ceará being the only addition to the seven featured in the Robertão's final edition. Some of the shunned federation states, led by Goiás, even created their own parallel national tournament, the Torneio Integração da CBD.
The season was divided into three phases:
The First Phase saw the twenty teams divided into two groups of ten. Despite being divided into groups, the phase was contested in a single round-robin format, with each team playing the others once. The top six teams in each group advanced to the Second Phase.
The Second Phase saw the twelve qualified teams divided into three groups of four. The teams within each group played each other in a double round-robin format. The top team from each group advanced to the Final Phase.
The Final Phase saw the three team play each other team once. The team with the most points at the end of the round was declared the champion.
There was no relegation to and no promotion from the second tier (Serie B), which rendered it entirely meaningless and opened the door for constant compaints, political machinations, and bowing to demands of the big clubs.
Participants América FC (Belo Horizonte-MG) Fluminense FC (Rio de Janeiro-GB) América FC (Rio de Janeiro-GB) Grêmio FBPA (Porto Alegre-RS) C Atlético Mineiro (Belo Horizonte-MG) SC Internacional (Porto Alegre-RS) EC Bahia (Salvador-BA) SE Palmeiras (São Paulo-SP) Botafogo FR (Rio de Janeiro-GB) A Portuguesa de Desportos (São Paulo-SP) Ceará SC (Fortaleza-CE) Santa Cruz FC (Recife-PE) SC Corinthians Paulista (São Paulo-SP) Santos FC (SP) Coritiba FC (Curitba-PR) São Paulo FC (SP) Cruzeiro EC (Belo Horizonte-MG) Sport Clube do Recife (PE) CR Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro-GB) CR Vasco da Gama (Rio de Janeiro-GB) First Phase Tables Group A 1.Corinthians 19 10 6 3 29-16 26 Qualified 2.Cruzeiro 19 7 9 3 26-12 23 Qualified 3.Internacional 19 7 9 3 21-16 23 Qualified 4.Coritiba 19 10 2 7 21-18 22 Qualified 5.Palmeiras 19 8 6 5 20-14 22 Qualified 6.Vasco da Gama 19 6 7 6 11-12 19 Qualified -----------------------------------------7.Santa Cruz 19 3 11 5 17-23 178.Fluminense 19 5 6 8 12-13 16Standing from left: Luís Américo, Fogueira, Ulisses, Marinho Peres, Orlando, Arengui. Crouching: Xaxá, Lorico, Cabinho, Tatá, Piau. 9.Portuguesa 19 6 3 10 16-24 1510.Ceará 19 2 5 12 5-25 9 Group B 1.Grêmio 19 8 7 4 18-11 23 2.Atlético-MG 19 7 9 3 27-16 23 3.América-GB 19 7 7 5 23-17 21 4.Santos 19 7 7 5 17-11 21 5.Botafogo 19 5 10 4 15-16 20 6.São Paulo 19 6 7 6 16-19 19 -----------------------------------------7.Bahia 19 5 8 6 14-16 18 Second row from left: Ubirajara – Aloisío – Fred – Reyes – Liminha – Paulo Henrique Front: Rogério – Samarone – Zé Eduardo – Zico – Rodrigues Neto8.Flamengo 19 4 10 5 13-17 189.América-MG 19 2 9 8 11-19 1310.Sport 19 4 4 11 10-27 12 Second Phase Group A Table 1.São Paulo 6 3 3 0 6- 2 9 Qualified -----------------------------------------2.Corinthians 6 2 1 3 4- 5 53.América-GB 6 1 3 2 4- 4 54.Cruzeiro 6 1 3 2 2- 5 5 Group B Table 1.Atlético-MG 6 3 1 2 10- 6 7 QualifiedStanding from left: Gainete. Denes. Henrique. Jorge Andrade. Carbono, Edson Madureira.
Front: Valdomiro. Sergio. Claudiomiro. Paulo Cesar Carpegiani, Beni. 2.Internacional 6 3 1 2 7- 7 73.Santos 6 2 2 2 7- 5 64.Vasco da Gama 6 1 2 3 4-10 4 Group C Table 1.Botafogo 6 3 2 1 11- 6 8 Qualified -----------------------------------------2.Grêmio 6 2 2 2 6- 7 63.Palmeiras 6 1 4 1 7- 6 4Back row from left: Pescuma. Hermes. Hidalgo. Célio. Cláudio Marques, Nilo. Front: Leocidio. Negreiros. Paquito. Tião Abaeté, Rinaldo. 4.Coritiba 6 1 2 3 2- 7 4 Final Playoff [Dec 12] Atlético-MG 1-0 São Paulo [Oldair] [Dec 15] São Paulo 4-1 Botafogo [Terto (2), Forlan, Toninho; Nei Oliveira] [Dec 19] Botafogo 0-1 Atlético-MG [Dario] Table1.Atlético-MG 2 2 0 0 2- 0 4 Champions2.São Paulo 2 1 0 1 4- 2 23.Botafogo 2 0 0 2 1- 5 0 Final Table – it had no practical meaning whatsoever. 1.Atlético-MG 27 12 10 5 39-22 34 2.São Paulo 27 10 10 7 26-23 30 3.Botafogo 27 8 12 7 27-27 28 4.Corinthians 25 12 7 6 33-21 31 5.Internacional 25 10 10 5 28-23 30 6.Grêmio 25 10 9 6 24-18 29 7.Palmeiras 25 9 10 6 27-20 28 8.Cruzeiro 25 8 12 5 28-17 28 9.Santos 25 9 9 7 24-16 27 10.Coritiba 25 11 4 10 23-25 26 11.América-GB 25 8 10 7 27-21 26 12.Vasco da Gama 25 7 9 9 15-22 23 13.Bahia 19 5 8 6 14-16 18 14.Flamengo 19 4 10 5 13-17 18 15.Santa Cruz 19 3 11 5 17-23 17 16.Fluminense 19 5 6 8 12-13 16 17.Portuguesa 19 6 3 10 16-24 15 18.América-MG 19 2 9 8 11-19 13 19.Sport 19 4 4 11 10-27 12 20.Ceará 19 2 5 12 5-25 9
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