Taça Guanabara

Taça Guanabara, or Guanabara Trophy, is a football tournament organized yearly since 1965 by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation. In its first four editions (1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968), Taça Guanabara was a tournament of its own right, completely unrelated to the Rio de Janeiro league, and the winners would be seeded to represent Rio de Janeiro in Taça Brasil de Futebol. From 1969 on, it became the first round of the Rio de Janeiro league.

Ever since 1982, the winners of Taça Guanabara play the winners of Taça Rio at the Rio de Janeiro state championship final, the exceptions being 1994 and 1995.

The most successful team in the tournament's history is Flamengo, which have won it 20 times.

Format

Sixteen teams of the competition are divided into two groups, with the traditional four prestigious teams, namely, Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama are seeded. Two of them would be in one group and the other two would be in the other. It is possible other teams are also be seeded in some ways, but the seeding criteria are not stated in the competition rules and has never been publicly available.

Guanabara

Guanabara may refer to:

Guanabara (Joinville)

Guanabara is a neighborhood in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Guanabara (state)

The State of Guanabara (Portuguese: Estado da Guanabara, IPA: [ɡwanaˈbaɾa]) was a Brazilian state that existed from 1960 to 1975. It comprised only the city of Rio de Janeiro, after the national capital was moved from that city to Brasília in 1960. The state was named after Guanabara Bay, located along its eastern coast.

In 1834, the city of Rio de Janeiro was elevated to Imperial capital of the Empire of Brazil, but it was not part of any Brazilian province, having special status as the so-called "Neutral municipality" (Portuguese: Município Neutro). The surrounding Province of Rio de Janeiro (which did not include the city) had its capital city in Niterói. When Brazil became a republic in 1889, the city of Rio de Janeiro remained the national capital and became the Federal District (Portuguese: Distrito Federal), while the surrounding homonymous province became a state, still with Niterói as its capital.

When the national capital was moved to Brasília in 1960, a new Federal District was carved out of the state of Goiás to contain it, while the old Federal District became Guanabara State.