Number of teams 8 | Founded 1919 | |
Confederation CBFFederação Norte-rio-grandense de Futebol Current champions ABC (53th title)(2016) |
The Campeonato Potiguar is the football league of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
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Format
First Division
First stage: standard round-robin, in which all teams play each other once.
Second stage: home-and-away playoffs between the top 8 teams in the first stage. The winner of this stage is crowned the champion.
The team last placed in the first stage is relegated to the second division.
As in any other Brazilian soccer championship, the format can change every year.
Clubs
First Division 2016
Titles by team
References
Campeonato Potiguar Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA