Find out how the 2026 Copa Sul-Sudeste draw will work | OneFootball

The Brazilian Football Confederation will hold the draw for the first edition of the South-Southeast Cup this Tuesday afternoon (3). The event, which will take place at the CBF headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, will determine which group the 12 clubs of the tournament's first edition will be placed in.

To define the composition of Groups A and B, which will have six teams each, the participants were divided into three pots, according to the ranking of their federations in the RNF 2026. Pot 1 will have the two highest-ranked clubs from federations 1 and 2; in Pot 2, the two highest-ranked from federations 3 and 4; and in Pot 3, the two clubs from federations 5 and 6.

The draw will start with the four clubs from Pot 1. The first drawn will be allocated to Group A, and another club from this same federation will automatically be placed in Group B - visually, it will be transparent and will light up when drawn.

If the next club drawn is from another federation, it will go to Group A, repeating the process with another club from this same federation going to Group B, while waiting to be drawn. The same procedure will be applied to Pots 2 and 3.

Each club will play three home games and three away games. The club that will play against the other representative from its state as the home team will be the club in Group A.

Competition Format

The inaugural edition of the South-Southeast Cup will have a total of 42 matches and ten dates, with a minimum of six games for the 12 clubs and a maximum of ten for the finalists. See the competition format:

1st Phase (Groups): 2 groups, with 6 clubs each, and single round-robin matches outside the group - 36 matches in this phase

2nd Phase (Semifinals): The top 2 from each group advance and compete for a spot in home-and-away matches

3rd Phase (Finals): Title decision in home-and-away matches

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