The 2024 Copa do Brasil rule change returns Mato Grosso do Sul football to second place in the competition, to which it lost the right from 2021.

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) presented, on December 26, 2022, the regulations for this year’s Copa do Brasil, which also brings relevant news regarding the 2024 edition.

The entity changed the classification criteria of the Copa do Brasil, whose vacancies were distributed through the national club ranking. From 2024, the ranking criteria will be based on the position in the national ranking of federations.

With this, the measure ended up strengthening the state federations, since 80 of the 92 teams that will participate in the tournament in 2024 will leave the state competitions.

According to the vice-president of the Football Federation of Mato Grosso do Sul (FFMS), Marcos Tavares, taking over the vacant post is a political achievement of the federation.

“President [da CBF] Ednaldo [Rodrigues] he came from the position of president of the Bahian federation and went through the same difficulties that we went through here. And he was sensitive to this in his campaign, valuing the work of state federations,” Tavares said.

With the change, the ranking criteria for the 2024 edition of the Copa do Brasil will be as follows: criterion 1 – 12 vacancies: for clubs classified for the Conmebol Libertadores 2024, the champions of the Copa do Nordeste, Copa Verde, Brazilian Series 2023 Championship B and complementary clubs of the Brazilian Series A 2023 Championship, respecting the order of the final classification, if necessary to fill the 12 vacant places; criterion 2 – 80 vacancies: for clubs ranked in the 2023 departmental competitions, excluding clubs already identified in criterion 1, the distribution of vacancies by State must follow the basis of the positioning of each federation in the National Ranking of Federations 2024.

Thus, from 1st to 2nd place, six vacant places; from 3rd to 5th, five places in the Copa do Brasil; from 6th to 14th place, only three places; and from 15 to 27, two vacancies (which is the case of the MS federation).

“It was a big win for MS [a volta da segunda vaga]. I hope this can bring the state an improvement in the technical quality and hiring of players in 2024, making the competition more attractive to the public,” Tavares said.

SOLO REPRESENTATIVE

In the Copa do Brasil, Mato Grosso do Sul will complete three years with only one team representing the state, being the state champion team of the year before the current edition of the Copa do Brasil.

The year 2021 was the first with the solo participation of state teams: Águia Negra, from the city of Rio Brilhante.

The following year, it was Costa Rica’s turn to be the only representative of Mato Grosso do Sul to play in the first phase. This year will be the last time MS will have a solo representative in the Copa do Brasil, with current state champion Operário.

With the fall in recent years of the Mato Grosso do Sul federation in the federal ranking, Mato Grosso do Sul has played for three years (2020, 2021 and 2022) the group stage of the Campeonato Brasileiro Series D with a single team of the state.

Indeed, the regulations of the fourth division were modified, adding a pre-elimination phase, in the years 2020 and 2021, during which the teams which held the second wave of the eight state entities with the worst ranking played, home and away. return matches, a place in the group stage.

During these two years, the Aquidauanense team played the preliminary round and were eliminated each time.
From this year, there was yet another change in the Serie D regulations, which took second place away from the four lowest-ranked federations, leaving MS with just one place.

PEN LAST IN THE RANKING

Despite maintaining the unmanageable 25th place in the CBF national ranking, the FFMS will start this year in the penultimate national position.

With the publication of the new table, which is based on the performances of the federated clubs between 2019 and 2023, Mato Grosso do Sul will have 1,276 points, behind federations like Rondônia, which will have 1,293 points, and will occupy the 26th position in the national ranking.

This year, the FFMS is ahead of the Rondoni federations, penultimate, as well as the Amapá federation, last in the ranking.

To know: According to the vice-president of the Mato Grosso do Sul Football Federation, Marcos Tavares, it will not be necessary to bring together the 10 teams participating in the state this year for the change of regulations, since the choice of the second wave is technically drawn and is The 2023 State runner-up (runner-up) is guaranteed to qualify for the 2024 Copa do Brasil.

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