Country Brazil Runners-up Campinense Top goal scorer(s) Rodrigão (9 goals) Champion Santa Cruz Futebol Clube Teams 20 Matches played 74 | Champions Santa Cruz 2016 Copa Sudamericana Santa Cruz Dates 14 Feb 2016 – 1 May 2016 Location Brazil Goals scored 179 | |
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Similar 2015 Copa do Nordeste, 2016 Copa Verde, 2014 Copa do Nordeste, 2016 Copa do Brasil, 2016 Campeonato Sergipano | ||
The 2016 Copa do Nordeste was the 14th edition of the main football tournament featuring teams from the Brazilian Northeast Region. The competition featured 20 clubs, with Bahia and Pernambuco having three seeds each, and Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, Alagoas, Paraíba, Maranhão and Piauí with two seeds each. Santa Cruz (Pernambuco) qualified to play in the 2016 Copa Sudamericana, after winning the final against Campinense (Paraíba) 3–2 on aggregate.
Santa Cruz also qualified to play in the 2017 Copa Sudamericana but CONMEBOL decreased the brazilian berths from 8 to 6. Therefore, the champions Santa Cruz (Copa do Nordeste) and Paysandu (Copa Verde) lost their berth .
Ceará were the defending champion, but were eliminated by Santa Cruz in the quarterfinals.
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Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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