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1997 Festival Brasileiro de Futebol
Tournament details
Country	Brazil
Dates	20 Nov – 6 Dec
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Coritiba
Runner-up	Botafogo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	43 (3.31 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Marquinhos (Coritiba) ; 5 goals

The Festival Brasileiro de Futebol was a friendly football competition organized in the year of 1997, bringing together teams that did not qualify for the final phase of the Brazilian Championship that year. The tournament organized by the Brazilian television network Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT).^[2]

Participants

Club	City
Botafogo	Rio de Janeiro
Corinthians	São Paulo
Coritiba	Curitiba
Operário	Campo Grande
Paraná	Curitiba
Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo	São Paulo
Vitória	Salvador

Format

The championship was disputed with two groups in a single round-robin format. The two group winners qualified for the final match. All matches in the first stage were played in the Morenão stadium.^[3]

First stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Coritiba	3	3	0	9	2	+7	9	Advanced to Final
2	Vitória	3	2	1	7	6	+1	6
3	São Paulo	3	1	2	5	4	+1	3
4	Rio de Janeiro	3	0	3	0	9	−9	0

Updated to match(es) played on April 23, 2023. Source: RSSSF Brasil and Campeões do Futebol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) head-to-head points.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Botafogo	3	2	1	0	8	2	+6	7	Advanced to Final
2	Paraná	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Corinthians	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
4	Operário	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

Updated to match(es) played on April 23, 2023. Source: RSSSF Brasil and Campeões do Futebol
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) head-to-head points.

Final match

Coritiba was entitled to hold the final at home due to the better campaign. The attendance revenue were split between the clubs.

6 December

Coritiba	3–3	Botafogo
Marquinhos 10' Rogério Barbosa 22' Basílio 84'		Jorge Luiz 28', 88' Sinval 77'
Penalties
Cléber Paulo Foiani Reginaldo Araújo Basílio Rogério Barbosa Flávio Rogério Prateat Tiganá	7–6	Djair Jefferson Ricardo França Pingo Jorge Luiz Marco Aurélio Dimba Robson

Estádio Couto Pereira, Curitiba

Referee: Getúlio Barbosa de Sousa

References

^ "Coritiba - Confrontos". Futebol80. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
^ "O Coritiba campeão do Festival Brasileiro de Futebol de 1997". O Curioso do Futebol (in Portuguese). 18 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ "Coxa e Botafogo decidiram título em 97". Cortiba (official website) (in Portuguese). 30 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2023.