🏆 New title on the cards: CBF set to recognise more national champions | OneFootball

The CBF is close to recognizing four more teams as national champions.

According to information from ge, the entity should endorse the 1986 Parallel Tournament as equivalent to the B Series.

Central, Treze, Criciúma and Inter de Limeira would share the title and would be the clubs benefited.

The legal department of the CBF has already given the go-ahead for the decision and only bureaucratic procedures remain until it is ratified by President Samir Xaud.

Also according to ge, the request for recognition was made by the clubs in 2023.

"The Silver Cup, the Brazilian Championship of the B Series and the Parallel Tournament share rigorously the same purpose, the same until today: to qualify clubs for the elite of national football," says the document sent to the CBF two years ago.

Recognition as the B Series champion in 1986 would represent the first national title for Treze and Central.

Inter de Limeira already has in its gallery the B Series trophy from 1988.

Criciúma already has the B Series from 2002 and 2006, in addition to the Brazil Cup from 1991.

1986 Parallel Tournament

The competition had the participation of 36 teams, which were divided into four groups of nine.

The winner of each key qualified for the second phase of the first division of the Brazilian Championship of the same year.

Central, Treze, Criciúma and Inter de Limeira were champions of their groups and achieved promotion.

Competing in the first division, the four teams did not advance much.

Criciúma finished in 15th position, Inter de Limeira in 16th, Treze in 35th and Central in 36th in the final classification.

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