Primeira Liga (Brazil)

Primeira Liga (First League), also known as Liga Sul-Minas-Rio (South-Minas-Rio League) or Copa Sul-Minas-Rio (South-Minas-Rio Cup), was a Brazilian football competition contested between Brazil's South Region, Ceará, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro state teams.

For the Portuguese league with the same name, see Primeira Liga.

Primeira Liga
Founded10 September 2015
RegionBrazil's South Region, Ceará, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro state
Number of teams16 (from 2017)
WebsiteOfficial site
2017 season

History

The competition was founded in 2015 by clubs that are unhappy with the state championships and their low attendances and revenues.[1] The first edition was played in 2016.

List of champions
List of Primeira Liga finals
Year Winner Score Runner-up Venue Losing semi-finalists1
2016 Fluminense 1–0 Atlético Paranaense Juiz de Fora Flamengo and Internacional
2017 Londrina 0-0 Atlético Mineiro Londrina Cruzeiro and Paraná
Londrina won 4-2 in a penalty shootout.
gollark: Oh, and you can't convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and carbon, it'd be oxygen, carbon and hydrogen.
gollark: Also, you might be able to get the carbon out as diamonds using whatever magic molecular reorganization thing you're using to do this, in which case it doesn't need to be buried and we can just use ridiculous volumes of diamond as a structural material.
gollark: *Can* you efficiently just convert carbon dioxide/water back into oxygen/carbon? I mean, the whole reason we do it the other way round is the fact that a lot of energy is released.
gollark: Or just keep them lying around, like in forests, but there are capacity limits.
gollark: I mean, plants turn carbon dioxide into... plant bits... which means you have to grow plants and then stockpile those plant bits somewhere without burning them.

References
  1. "Aprovada pela CBF, Primeira Liga começa a ser disputada em 2016". Terra (in Portuguese). Retrieved January 2, 2016.


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