1974 Campeonato Gaúcho

Season1974

1974 Copa BrasilGrêmio
Internacional

Matches played183

Campeonato Gaúcho
Season	1974
Champions	Internacional
1974 Copa Brasil	Grêmio Internacional
Matches played	183
Goals scored	361 (1.97 per match)
Top goalscorer	Escurinho (Internacional) – 11 goals
Biggest home win	Encantado 5–1 Armour (March 30, 1974) Novo Hamburgo 4-0 Pratense (May 26, 1974) Associação Santa Cruz 4-0 Armour (June 9, 1974) Gaúcho 4-0 Pratense (June 16, 1974) Internacional 5-1 Associação Santa Cruz (August 11, 1974) Internacional 4-0 Esportivo (August 25, 1974) Internacional 4-0 Inter de Santa Maria (September 22, 1974) Internacional 4-0 Gaúcho (October 6, 1974) Internacional 4-0 Atlético de Carazinho (November 17, 1974)
Biggest away win	Pratense 1-5 Associação Santa Cruz (May 4, 1974) Associação Santa Cruz 0-4 Grêmio (September 22, 1974)
Highest scoring	Ypiranga 3-3 Esportivo (March 24, 1974) Encantado 5–1 Armour (March 30, 1974) Associação Caxias 4-2 Rio-Grandense (April 6, 1974) Pratense 1-5 Associação Santa Cruz (May 4, 1974) Grêmio 3-3 Encantado (August 4, 1974) Internacional 5-1 Associação Santa Cruz (August 11, 1974)
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The 54th season of the Campeonato Gaúcho kicked off on March 9, 1974, and ended on December 15, 1974. Sixteen teams participated. Internacional won their 22nd title.^[1]^[2]

Club	Stadium	Home location	Previous season
Armour	Miguel Copatti	Santana do Livramento	13th (Copa Governador)
Associação Caxias	Baixada Rubra	Caxias do Sul	3rd
Associação Santa Cruz	Plátanos	Santa Cruz do Sul	19th
Atlético de Carazinho	Paulo Coutinho	Carazinho	18th
Esportivo	Montanha	Bento Gonçalves	4th
Encantado	Cabriúvas	Encantado	4th (Copa Governador)
Gaúcho	Wolmar Salton	Passo Fundo	5th
Grêmio	Olímpico	Porto Alegre	2nd
Internacional	Beira-Rio	Porto Alegre	1st
Internacional	Presidente Vargas	Santa Maria	6th
Novo Hamburgo	Santa Rosa	Novo Hamburgo	14th
Pratense	Zona Sul	Nova Prata	2nd (Taça Cícero Soares)
Rio-Grandense	Torquato Pontes	Rio Grande	21st
São José	Passo d'Areia	Porto Alegre	11th
São Luiz	19 de Outubro	Ijuí	10th (Copa Governador)
Ypiranga	Colosso da Lagoa	Erechim	13th

System

The championship would have three stages.:^[2]^[1]

Preliminary phase: The twelve best clubs in the Copa Governador do Estado of the previous year and another two teams qualified from the Copa Cícero Soares would play in a single round-robin format against each other.^[3] the eight best teams would qualify to the Decagonal. the six bottom teams would qualify to the second phase of the Copa Governador do Estado.
Decagonal: The remaining eight teams, now joined by Grêmio and Internacional, would play each other in a double round-robin format.
Finals: The winners of the two rounds of the Decagonal qualified to this stage. If the same team won both stages, it would win the title automatically.

Championship

Preliminary phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Associação Caxias	13	9	3	1	17	9	+8	21	Qualified to Decagonal
2	Internacional de Santa Maria	13	6	5	2	19	11	+8	17
3	Encantado	13	5	7	1	17	7	+10	17
4	Ypiranga de Erechim	13	6	4	3	16	11	+5	16
5	Esportivo	13	6	4	3	13	10	+3	16
6	Associação Santa Cruz	13	5	5	3	21	12	+9	15
7	Atlético de Carazinho	13	5	5	3	11	8	+3	15
8	Gaúcho	13	4	5	4	17	13	+4	13
9	Novo Hamburgo	13	4	5	4	10	8	+2	13	Qualified to Copa Governador do Estado Second phase
10	São Luiz	13	4	5	4	14	13	+1	13
11	Rio-Grandense	13	2	6	5	9	13	−4	10
12	Armour	13	3	1	9	7	21	−14	7
13	Pratense	13	0	5	8	5	29	−24	5
14	São José	13	0	4	9	7	18	−11	4

Updated to match(es) played on June 16, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Decagonal

First round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internacional	9	9	0	0	21	1	+20	18	Qualified to Finals
2	Grêmio	9	6	2	1	17	5	+12	14
3	Associação Caxias	9	4	2	3	10	8	+2	10
4	Esportivo	9	3	3	3	7	9	−2	9
5	Internacional de Santa Maria	9	3	3	3	6	10	−4	9
6	Gaúcho	9	3	2	4	7	10	−3	8
7	Atlético de Carazinho	9	2	3	4	6	7	−1	7
8	Associação Santa Cruz	9	2	3	4	8	16	−8	7
9	Ypiranga de Erechim	9	2	2	5	3	9	−6	6
10	Encantado	9	0	2	7	7	17	−10	2

Updated to match(es) played on September 29, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Second round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internacional	9	9	0	0	22	1	+21	18	Qualified to Finals
2	Grêmio	9	8	0	1	14	5	+9	16
3	Atlético de Carazinho	9	4	3	2	7	7	0	11
4	Associação Caxias	9	3	2	4	7	8	−1	8
5	Internacional de Santa Maria	9	2	4	3	7	8	−1	8
6	Associação Santa Cruz	9	2	3	4	4	5	−1	7
7	Encantado	9	2	2	5	3	11	−8	6
8	Ypiranga de Erechim	9	1	4	4	6	12	−6	6
9	Gaúcho	9	2	1	6	9	17	−8	5
10	Esportivo	9	1	3	5	5	10	−5	5

Updated to match(es) played on December 1, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Final standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internacional	18	18	0	0	43	2	+41	36	Champions;Campeonato Brasileiro
2	Grêmio	18	14	2	2	31	10	+21	30	Campeonato Brasileiro
3	Associação Caxias	18	7	4	7	17	16	+1	18	Playoffs
4	Atlético de Carazinho	18	6	6	6	13	14	−1	18	Playoffs
5	Internacional de Santa Maria	18	5	7	6	13	18	−5	17
6	Esportivo	18	4	6	8	12	19	−7	14
7	Associação Santa Cruz	18	4	6	8	12	21	−9	14
8	Gaúcho	18	5	3	10	16	27	−11	13
9	Ypiranga de Erechim	18	3	6	9	9	21	−12	12
10	Encantado	18	2	4	12	10	28	−18	8

Updated to match(es) played on December 1, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Third place playoffs

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Atlético de Carazinho	2–0	Associação Caxias	1–0	1–0

Copa Governador do Estado

System

The cup would have two stages:^[4]

First phase: Eighteen teams would be divided into three groups of six teams. Each team would play twice against the teams of its own group. The four best teams in each group qualified to the Second phase.
Second phase: The twelve remaining teams joined the six teams that had been eliminated in the Preliminary phase of the Campeonato Gaúcho and played each other in a single round-robin format. The 15 best teams would qualify to the 1975 Campeonato Gaúcho.

First phase

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Pelotas	10	5	4	1	7	5	+2	14	Qualified to Second phase
2	Grêmio Bagé	10	5	3	2	16	4	+12	13
3	Guarany de Bagé	10	5	2	3	7	4	+3	12
4	Cachoeira	10	2	4	4	4	9	−5	8
5	Farroupilha	10	4	0	6	6	12	−6	8
6	Riograndense	10	1	3	6	1	7	−6	5

Updated to match(es) played on August 11, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) wins; 4) number of goals scored.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Atlântico	9	7	1	1	14	4	+10	15^[a]	Qualified to Second phase
2	Santo Ângelo	10	5	4	1	13	6	+7	14
3	Elite	10	2	7	1	8	7	+1	11
4	Alegrete	10	2	3	5	7	9	−2	7
5	Santa Rosa	10	2	3	5	8	15	−7	7
6	Uruguaiana	9	1	2	6	4	13	−9	4^[a]

Updated to match(es) played on August 11, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.
Notes:

1 2 Uruguaiana didn't play its last match against Atlântico

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Juventude de Guaporé	10	6	2	2	11	6	+5	14	Qualified to Second phase
2	Mundo Novo	10	5	1	4	13	9	+4	11
3	Lajeadense	10	4	3	3	9	9	0	11
4	Aimoré	10	2	6	2	8	7	+1	10
5	Igrejinha	10	3	2	5	8	11	−3	8
6	Fortes e Livres	10	1	4	5	9	16	−7	6

Updated to match(es) played on August 4, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Second phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Grêmio Bagé	16	10	2	4	21	14	+7	22	Qualified to 1975 Campeonato Gaúcho
2	Cachoeira	16	7	7	2	16	9	+7	21
3	Santo Ângelo	16	7	6	3	13	7	+6	20
4	São Luiz	16	8	3	5	21	13	+8	19
5	Pelotas	16	7	5	4	15	14	+1	19
6	Atlântico	16	6	6	4	14	9	+5	18
7	São José	16	6	6	4	11	10	+1	18
8	Rio-Grandense	16	6	5	5	16	11	+5	17
9	Juventude de Guaporé	16	5	7	4	15	12	+3	17
10	Guarany de Bagé	16	4	9	3	10	9	+1	17
11	Elite	16	6	5	5	13	16	−3	17
12	Aimoré	16	3	9	4	9	8	+1	15
13	Novo Hamburgo	16	3	8	5	11	15	−4	14
14	Lajeadense	16	5	3	8	14	16	−2	13
15	Alegrete	16	4	4	8	6	16	−10	12
16	Pratense	16	1	6	9	9	18	−9	8
17	Mundo Novo	16	1	3	12	6	23	−17	5
18	Armour	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Updated to match(es) played on December 15, 1974. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) wins; 4) number of goals scored.

1974 Campeonato Gaúcho

System

Championship

Preliminary phase

Decagonal

First round

Second round

Final standings

Third place playoffs

Copa Governador do Estado

System

First phase

Group A

Group B

Group C

Second phase

References

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