Brasileiro Women Fixtures, Results and Standings

Brasileiro Women is Brazil’s premier women’s football league, officially known as the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol Feminino Série A1 and commonly called the Brasileirão Feminino. Organised by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), it is the top level of the national women’s football pyramid and the principal competition for deciding Brazil’s domestic champion.

Role and importance in Brazilian football

The Série A1 brings together leading women’s clubs from across Brazil in a national league designed to provide elite competition, develop professional players and raise the standard of the women’s game. Its importance extends beyond the domestic title: the strongest clubs use the competition as a route to the Copa Libertadores Femenina, South America’s leading women’s club tournament.

The competition was established in 2013, while Xtra-Stats’ recorded coverage runs from the 2016 season through 2025, covering 10 seasons. The recorded match archive begins on 17 April 2021. This combination of historical standing and expanding statistical coverage reflects the league’s development from a competition with an uneven professional base into a more structured national championship.

Governance and access

The CBF governs the competition, publishes its regulations and determines the annual sporting and administrative framework. Clubs normally enter Série A1 either by retaining their place from the previous top-flight season or by earning promotion from Série A2, the second tier. The precise number of retained and promoted clubs can vary according to the regulations for a particular edition, but promotion and relegation ensure that performances in both divisions have a direct effect on the following season’s line-up.

The league’s professionalisation has also continued through regulatory reform. A confirmed change for 2027 requires all participating players to hold professional contracts. This marks an important step in the competition’s development and formalises the employment status of players across the top division.

League phase and play-offs

Brasileiro Women uses a hybrid format that combines a league table with a knockout championship phase. In recent editions, the league phase has featured 16 teams, although the field size has varied across the competition’s history and may change under the regulations for a specific season.

Each team plays every other team once in a single round-robin phase. A win is worth three points, a draw one point and a defeat no points. The league table therefore rewards consistency over the full opening phase, while also determining which clubs remain in contention for the title and which face relegation pressure.

The top eight teams progress to the quarter-finals. Pairings are based on league-phase finishing positions, with the leading sides drawn against the lowest-ranked qualifiers. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and final are generally played over two legs, with each tie contested at home and away. The higher-seeded team normally hosts the second leg, giving league-phase performance an important role after qualification for the play-offs.

Standings and knockout decisions

When teams finish level on points in the league phase, the principal criteria are applied in order: number of wins, goal difference and goals scored. Disciplinary records then become relevant, with fewer red cards followed by fewer yellow cards providing the next comparison. If the teams remain inseparable, the regulations provide for a draw conducted by the CBF.

Knockout ties are decided on aggregate across the two matches. If the aggregate score is level after the second leg, the winner is determined by a penalty shoot-out. The supplied recent regulations do not use the away-goals rule, and extra time is not used to settle these two-legged final-stage ties.

Season calendar and sporting stakes

The competition typically runs from March to September. The calendar allows the single round-robin phase to establish the table before the decisive late-season quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. Scheduling can be affected by the wider Brazilian football calendar, international commitments and the annual CBF regulations, so individual editions may differ in dates and field size.

Winning the league is the central sporting objective, but the final table carries consequences throughout the division. The champion and runner-up qualify for the following year’s Copa Libertadores Femenina under the stated competition arrangements, creating a direct connection between domestic success and continental football. Leading clubs may also secure places in national women’s competitions such as the Supercopa Feminina and Copa do Brasil Feminina, subject to the relevant qualification rules.

At the other end of the table, the bottom four teams are typically relegated to Série A2. That makes every league-phase fixture significant: clubs are competing simultaneously for the title, continental access, play-off qualification and top-flight survival. Brasileiro Women therefore combines the long-term demands of a national league with the pressure and drama of a two-legged championship play-off.