When does your team start? See the full Carioca 2026 schedule 📅 | OneFootball

Ferj has detailed the schedule for the 2026 Campeonato Carioca. 

The competition will begin on January 14, a Wednesday, with three matches. 

There will be only ten matchdays. 

And the big clubs will be able to use alternative teams/teams made up only of young players in the first three rounds. 

The 2026 Carioca will have exclusive broadcast by Grupo Globo – which returned to the tournament last year. 

All matches will be broadcast on Premiere. Globo will show all the first phase classics on free-to-air TV. SporTV will broadcast two matches per round. And one of them will also be shown on GE TV.

See the complete schedule and the broadcast division in the image below. 

Groups and regulations 👇🏽

Group A: Fluminense, Vasco da Gama, Volta Redonda, Sampaio Corrêa, Portuguesa, and Bangu.

Group B: Flamengo, Botafogo, Madureira, Maricá, Boavista, and Nova Iguaçu.  

Regulations: The twelve participants were divided into two groups with six teams each.

There will be cross-group matches, totaling six games for each team.

The top four from each group advance to the quarterfinals, which will be single matches.

The quarterfinal matchups will be: A1 vs A4, B1 vs B4, A2 vs A3, and B2 vs B3

The semifinals will be played over two legs. And the final, at Maracanã, will be a single match. 

Photo: Úrsula Nery/Agência FERJ

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.