Liga Nacional de Futsal

Liga Nacional de Futsal
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
CountryBrazil
ConfederationCONMEBOL
Number of teams24
Level on pyramid1
Domestic cup(s)Supercopa do Brasil de Futsal
Current championsRio Grande do Sul Atlântico
(1st title)
Most championshipsRio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa
(5 titles)
TV partnersTV Brasil / SporTV
Websiteligafutsal.com.br
Current: 2024 LNF

The Liga Nacional de Futsal (LNF) is the premier futsal league in Brazil, and was created in 1996 with the purpose of setting up a championship with the best futsal teams of the country, corresponding to the Brazilian Football Championship Série A. It is organized by the Brazilian Futsal Confederation (CBFS).

The winner (and sometimes the runner-up) qualifies to the Supercopa do Brasil de Futsal.

The Championship

History

The league was created in 1996, with the aim to improve the most important Brazilian clubs and help the growth of the sport in the country. The league was inspired by the American basketball league (NBA). On April 27, 1996, the Liga Futsal started.

Franchise system

To be eligible to participate in the league, there are three options available: buy a franchise, be appointed by a company which owns a franchise, or be invited by the league. It is necessary to send a proposal to the Liga Futsal, which will analyze and decide if the team's participation will be accepted, in a general assembly involving all the franchise representatives. Currently, a franchise is worth R$ 300,000.00.

Prize money

In 2007 the total prize money was R$ 75,000.00. The winner, besides being awarded R$ 50,000.00 (the runner-up was awarded R$ 25,000.00), won a scudetto, created by the CBFS and represented Brazil in two international competitions (South American Club Futsal Championship and Intercontinental Futsal Cup). The competition organizers also reserved R$ 1,237 million to cover expenses such as transportation, accommodation, food provision and referee taxes for the clubs which participated at least two times in the competition.

Clubs

The following 24 clubs are competing in the Liga Nacional de Futsal during the 2023 season.[1]

Club Location Stadium Capacity
Rio Grande do Sul Assoeva Venâncio Aires Ginásio Poliesportivo Parque do Chimarrão 5,000
Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico Erechim Clube Esportivo e Recreativo Atlântico 3,500
Santa Catarina (state) Blumenau Futsal Blumenau Complexo Esportivo Bernardo Werner 5,000
Federal District (Brazil) Brasília Futsal Brasília Ginásio Poliesportivo Vera Cruz 1,200
Paraná (state) Campo Mourão Futsal Campo Mourão Ginásio de Esportes Belin Carolo 4,500
Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa Futsal Carlos Barbosa Centro Municipal de Eventos Sérgio Luiz Guerra 4,000
Paraná (state) Cascavel Futsal Cascavel Ginásio Odilon Reinhardt 1,800
São Paulo (state) Corinthians São Paulo Ginásio Poliesportivo Wlamir Marques 7,000
Paraná (state) Esporte Futuro Toledo Ginásio de Esportes Alcides Pan 3,780
Paraná (state) Foz Cataratas Poker Foz do Iguaçu Ginásio Ministro Costa Cavalcanti 3,500
Santa Catarina (state) Jaraguá Futsal Jaraguá do Sul Arena Jaraguá 8,000
Santa Catarina (state) Joaçaba Futsal Joaçaba Centro de Eventos da UNOESC 5,500
Santa Catarina (state) JEC Krona Futsal Joinville Centreventos Cau Hansen 2,500
São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal Sorocaba Arena Sorocaba 5,000
Paraná (state) Marreco Futsal Francisco Beltrão Complexo Esportivo Arrudão 3,500
Minas Gerais Minas Tênis Clube Belo Horizonte Arena UniBH 3,600
Paraná (state) Pato Futsal Pato Branco Ginásio Municipal Dolivar Lavarda 1,500
Minas Gerais Praia Clube Uberlândia Arena Praia 2,200
São Paulo (state) Santo André Intelli Santo André Ginásio de Esportes Noêmia Assunção 1,000
São Paulo (state) São José Futsal São José dos Campos Ginásio Tênis Clube 2,500
Santa Catarina (state) São Lourenço Futsal São Lourenço do Oeste Ginásio Poliesportivo do CEIM Monteiro Lobato 1,900
São Paulo (state) Taubaté Futsal Taubaté Ginásio Adib Moisés Dib 5,730
Santa Catarina (state) Tubarão Futsal Tubarão Ginásio Estener Soratto 3,600
Paraná (state) Umuarama Futsal Umuarama Ginásio Amário Vieira da Costa 4,500

Winners

Season Champion Score Runner-up Losing semi-finalists
1996 Rio Grande do Sul Internacional/Ulbra 12–3 (2–2, 4–0, 6–1) Rio Grande do Sul Vasco da Gama/DalPonte/Unimed Goiás Goiás/Futsal 2000 and São Paulo (state) GM/Chevrolet
1997 Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro/Pax de Minas 7–4 (3–3, 4–1) São Paulo (state) Banespa/Phercani Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa and São Paulo (state) GM/Chevrolet
1998 Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra 11–3 (5–1, 6–2) Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa São Paulo (state) GM/Chevrolet and Rio de Janeiro (state) Iate/Kaiser
1999 Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro/Pax de Minas 10–7 (5–3, 5–4) Rio de Janeiro (state) Rio/Miécimo São Paulo (state) GM/Chevrolet and São Paulo (state) São Paulo/Osasco
2000 Rio de Janeiro (state) Vasco da Gama 7–3 (3–1, 4–2) Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra and São Paulo (state) GM/Chevrolet
2001 Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa 14–10 (3–7, 5–2, 6–1) Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra Rio de Janeiro (state) Flamengo and Paraná (state) Foz Futsal
2002 Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra 11–6 (7–4, 4–2) Minas Gerais W@ytv/Minas Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá and Goiás UCG/Goiás
2003 Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra 7–3 (2–0, 5–3) Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá and São Paulo (state) ECB/São Bernardo
2004 Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa 9–5 (1–2, 5–2, 3–1) Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá and Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico
2005 Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá 5–4 (2–2, 3–2) Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico Rio Grande do Sul John Deere Futsal and Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra
2006 Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa 11–6 (3–4, 3–0, 5–2) Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona and Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico
2007 Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá 11–4 (6–1, 5–3) Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra and São Paulo (state) Intelli/Orlândia
2008 Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá 8–4 (2–2, 6–2) Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra Rio Grande do Sul Cortiana/UCS/AFF and Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa
2009 Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa 9–6 (4–2, 5–4) Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá Santa Catarina (state) Floripa Futsal and Paraná (state) Umuarama
2010 Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá 4–2 (2–2, 2–0) Paraná (state) Copagril São Paulo (state) Corinthians/São Caetano and Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa
2011 São Paulo (state) Santos/Cortiana 6–6 (3–4, 3–2) (7–6 p) Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa São Paulo (state) Corinthians/São Caetano and Santa Catarina (state) Floripa Futsal
2012 São Paulo (state) Intelli/Orlândia 5–4 (1–0, 4–4) Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa and São Paulo (state) Corinthians
2013 São Paulo (state) Intelli/Orlândia 4–3 (2–1, 2–2) Santa Catarina (state) Concórdia Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona and São Paulo (state) Corinthians
2014 São Paulo (state) Futsal Brasil Kirin 6–7 (4–2, 2–5) 4–3 (aet) São Paulo (state) Intelli/Orlândia Santa Catarina (state) Jaraguá and São Paulo (state) Corinthians
2015 Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa 10–4 (5–3, 5–1) São Paulo (state) Intelli/Orlândia São Paulo (state) Corinthians and São Paulo (state) Futsal Brasil Kirin
2016 São Paulo (state) Corinthians 8–4 (3–2, 5–2) São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal Paraná (state) Copagril and Rio Grande do Sul Assoeva
2017 Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona 3–3 (1–1, 2–2) 1–0 (aet) Rio Grande do Sul Assoeva Paraná (state) Foz Cataratas and Paraná (state) Marreco
2018 Paraná (state) Pato Futsal 8–4 (6–0, 2–4) 2–1 (aet) Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal and Paraná (state) Copagril
2019 Paraná (state) Pato Futsal 9–2 (3–2, 6–0) São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona and Santa Catarina (state) Jaraguá
2020 São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal 4–1 (1–1, 3–0) São Paulo (state) Corinthians Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona and Santa Catarina (state) Tubarão
2021 Paraná (state) Cascavel 9–1 (3–1, 6–0) São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa and Paraná (state) Foz Cataratas
2022 São Paulo (state) Corinthians 11–3 (6–2, 5–1) Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico Paraná (state) Cascavel and Santa Catarina (state) Jaraguá
2023 Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico 2–1 Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal and Paraná (state) Cascavel

Records and statistics

By team

Team Winner Runner-up Years won Years runner-up
Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa 5 3 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2015 1998, 2003, 2011
Santa Catarina (state) Jaraguá 4 2 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 2006, 2009
Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra 3 3 1998, 2002, 2003 2001, 2004, 2008
São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal[note 1] 2 3 2014, 2020 2016, 2019, 2021
São Paulo (state) Intelli 2 2 2012, 2013 2014, 2015
Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro 2 1 1997, 1999 2000
São Paulo (state) Corinthians 2 1 2016, 2022 2020
Paraná (state) Pato Futsal 2 0 2018, 2019 —
Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona 1 3 2017 2007, 2012, 2023
Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico 1 3 2023 2005, 2018, 2022
Rio Grande do Sul Internacional 1 0 1996 —
Rio de Janeiro (state) Vasco da Gama 1 0 2000 —
São Paulo (state) Santos/Cortiana 1 0 2011 —
Paraná (state) Cascavel 1 0 2021 —
Rio Grande do Sul Vasco da Gama 0 1 — 1996
São Paulo (state) Banespa 0 1 — 1997
Rio de Janeiro (state) Rio/Miécimo 0 1 — 1999
Minas Gerais Minas Tênis Clube 0 1 — 2002
Paraná (state) Copagril 0 1 — 2010
Santa Catarina (state) Concórdia 0 1 — 2013
Rio Grande do Sul Assoeva 0 1 — 2017

By state

Country Winner Runner-up
 Rio Grande do Sul 10 11
 São Paulo 7 7
 Santa Catarina 5 6
 Minas Gerais 2 2
 Paraná 3 1
 Rio de Janeiro 1 1

Top scorers

Season Top scorer
1996 Brazil Luís Ortiz (Rio Grande do Sul Internacional/Ulbra, 25 goals)
1997 Brazil Lenísio (São Paulo (state) GM/Chevrolet, 36 goals)
Brazil Vander Carioca (Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro/Pax de Minas, 36 goals)
1998 Brazil Índio (Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra, 21 goals)
1999 Brazil Lenísio (Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro/Pax de Minas, 25 goals)
2000 Brazil Manoel Tobias (Minas Gerais Atlético Mineiro, 52 goals)
2001 Brazil Lenísio (Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra, 25 goals)
2002 Brazil Lenísio (Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra, 31 goals)
2003 Brazil Pablo Ribeiro (Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa, 25 goals)
Brazil Serjão (Rio Grande do Sul Ulbra, 25 goals)
2004 Brazil Pablo Ribeiro (Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa, 27 goals)
2005 Brazil Falcão (Santa Catarina (state) Jaraguá, 25 goals)
2006 Brazil Marinho (São Paulo (state) Intelli/Orlândia, 25 goals)
2007 Brazil William Negão (Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá, 31 goals)
2008 Brazil Falcão (Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá, 32 goals)
2009 Brazil Falcão (Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá, 32 goals)
Brazil Lenísio (Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá, 32 goals)
2010 Brazil Falcão (Santa Catarina (state) Malwee/Jaraguá, 39 goals)
2011 Brazil Falcão (São Paulo (state) Santos/Cortiana, 32 goals)
2012 Brazil Rodrigo (Rio Grande do Sul Carlos Barbosa, 24 goals)
2013 Brazil Vander Carioca (Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona, 22 goals)
2014 Brazil Falcão (São Paulo (state) Futsal Brasil Kirin, 19 goals)
2015 Brazil Dieguinho (São Paulo (state) Intelli/Orlândia, 30 goals)
2016 Brazil Deives Moraes (São Paulo (state) Corinthians, 20 goals)
Brazil Rodrigo (São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal, 20 goals)
2017 Brazil Sinoê (Paraná (state) Marreco, 15 goals)
Brazil Well Pereira (Minas Gerais Intelli, 15 goals)
2018 Brazil Keké (Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico, 23 goals)
2019 Brazil Rodrigo (São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal, 18 goals)
2020 Brazil Rodrigo (São Paulo (state) Magnus Futsal, 15 goals)
2021 Brazil Roni (Paraná (state) Cascavel, 19 goals)
2022 Brazil Dieguinho (Santa Catarina (state) Joinville/Krona, 25 goals)
2023 Brazil Richard (Rio Grande do Sul Atlântico, 30 goals)
Notes
  1. ^ Magnus Futsal was known as Futsal Brasil Kirin from 2014 until 2016.

References

  1. ^ "Equipes" (in Portuguese). LNF. Retrieved May 27, 2023.