São Paulo face longest trips among Brazilians in Copa Sul-Americana | OneFootball

On Friday (20th), Conmebol officially announced the breakdown of the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana, setting dates, times, and broadcasts for São Paulo's matches in Group C.

This announcement ends uncertainty about the team's logistics: the location of the match against Boston River in Uruguay. There was doubt about using the small Campeones Olímpicos stadium in Florida, 91 km north of the capital Montevideo. The venue, with a capacity of about 5,000 people, hosted the match against Racing in the preliminary phase, even though it was below the minimum requirement of 7,500 seats.

However, for the group stage, this requirement rises to 10,000, which made its use unfeasible. As a result, the game was confirmed for the Centenario in the Uruguayan capital.

In total, São Paulo will travel about 17,000 kilometers throughout the group stage, including round trips, a number boosted by the trip to Bogotá.

Even so, among the seven Brazilian clubs in the Sudamericana, Tricolor has the third shortest total distance, behind Santos with 16,000 kilometers and Grêmio with 9,400.

The schedule's definition also came with the detailing of broadcasts. SBT, which holds the right to broadcast one game per round, always at 9:30 PM (Brasília time) on Tuesdays, chose to alternate the matches of São Paulo and Santos, as the contract prevents the broadcast of the same team in consecutive rounds.

Thus, Tricolor's debut against Boston River will be the only one with simultaneous broadcast between SBT and Paramount+. On the other two occasions when the club will appear on the open channel, there will be a division with ESPN and Disney+.

The remaining three games will have exclusive broadcasts on Disney group's platforms.

Another relevant point is the change in the tiebreaker criteria regulation. From this edition, head-to-head becomes the first criterion in case of a tie in points, replacing goal difference. The number of points in matches between the tied teams will be decisive, followed by goal difference in these matches and goals scored, in scenarios involving more than two teams. If the tie persists, general criteria come into play: goal difference, goals scored, fewer red cards, then yellow cards, and finally, a draw.

BRAZILIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Due to the definition of the group stage dates for the Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, the CBF announced yesterday the breakdown of the first two rounds of the Brazilian Championship after the FIFA Date.

Since its first match in the Sudamericana is scheduled for April 7th, a Tuesday, São Paulo will need to face Internacional on the previous Wednesday, which is still part of the global pause. Thus, there is a good chance that coach Roger Machado will not be able to count on Bobadilla and Gonzalo Tapia, who will be with their respective national teams.

Paraguay, with the midfielder, will face Morocco the day before in France, while Chile will take on Finland two days earlier, but in a match that will take place in New Zealand.

CBF promises to announce the detailed schedule of eight more rounds of the Brasileirão next week, but is waiting for the draw of the Copa do Brasil round of 32, which is scheduled for the afternoon of Monday (23rd).

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