1975 Campeonato Gaúcho

Campeonato Gaúcho
Season	1975
Champions	Internacional
1975 Copa Brasil	Grêmio; Internacional
Matches played	325
Goals scored	671 (2.06 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tarciso (Grêmio); Bebeto (Gaúcho) – 13 goals
Biggest home win	Internacional 6–0 Ypiranga (April 27, 1975)
Biggest away win	Novo Hamburgo 0-4 Grêmio (May 21, 1975)
Highest scoring	Gaúcho 6-1 Tupi (March 30, 1975); Pelotas 4–3 Rio-Grandense (April 6, 1975)
	← 1974 1976 →

The 55th season of the Campeonato Gaúcho kicked off on February 16, 1975, and ended on August 10, 1975. Thirty-two teams participated. Internacional won their 23rd title. ^[1]^[2]

Participating teams

Club	Stadium	Home location	Previous season
Aimoré	Cristo-Rei	São Leopoldo	12th (Copa Governador)
Alegrete	Municipal Farroupilha	Alegrete	15th (Copa Governador)
Associação Caxias	Baixada Rubra	Caxias do Sul	3rd
Atlântico	Baixada Rubra	Erechim	6th (Copa Governador)
Atlético de Carazinho	Paulo Coutinho	Carazinho	4th
Cachoeira	Joaquim Vidal	Cachoeira do Sul	2nd (Copa Governador)
Esportivo	Montanha	Bento Gonçalves	6th
Elite	João Augusto Rodrigues	Santo Ângelo	11th (Copa Governador)
Farroupilha	Nicolau Fico	Pelotas	18th (Copa Governador)
Encantado	Cabriúvas	Encantado	10th
Gaúcho	Wolmar Salton	Passo Fundo	8th
Grêmio	Pedra Moura	Bagé	1st (Copa Governador)
Grêmio	Olímpico	Porto Alegre	2nd
Grêmio	Honório Nunes	Santana do Livramento	–
Guarany	Estrela D'Alva	Bagé	10th (Copa Governador)
Guarany	Alcides Santarosa	Garibaldi	–
Internacional	Beira-Rio	Porto Alegre	1st
Internacional	General Vargas	São Borja	–
Internacional	Presidente Vargas	Santa Maria	5th
Juventude	Ernesto Dornelles	Guaporé	9th (Copa Governador)
Lajeado	Florestal	Lajeado	14th (Copa Governador)
Novo Hamburgo	Santa Rosa	Novo Hamburgo	11th
Pelotas	Boca do Lobo	Pelotas	5th (Copa Governador)
Rio Grande	Oliveiras	Rio Grande	–
Rio-Grandense	Torquato Pontes	Rio Grande	13th
São José	Passo d'Areia	Porto Alegre	16th
São Paulo	Aldo Dapuzzo	Rio Grande	–
São Luiz	19 de Outubro	Ijuí	12th
Santa Cruz	Plátanos	Santa Cruz do Sul	7th
Santo Ângelo	Zona Norte	Santo Ângelo	3rd (Copa Governador)
Tupi	Eucaliptos	Crissiumal	–
Ypiranga	Colosso da Lagoa	Erechim	9th

System

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

Preliminary phase: The ten clubs that had participated in the Final decagonal of last year's championship (minus Grêmio and Internacional) would join the sixteen teams qualified in the Copa Governador do Estado of the previous year and another six teams qualified from the Copa Cícero Soares. the resulting thirty teams would be divided into six groups of five teams.^[3] Each team would play against the teams of their own group twice and the three best teams of each group would qualify to the First stage.
First phase: The remaining eighteen teams, now joined by Grêmio and Internacional, would play each other once. The four best teams would qualify to the Second round. The winner would also qualify for the Final phase.
Second phase: The remaining four teams would play each other twice. the best team in each round qualified to the Final phase.
Finals: The winners of the first stage and the two rounds of the second stage qualified to this stage. Each participant would have one point allotted to them by stage won, and the teams would play each other until one reached four points, with that team winning the title. If the same team won all three stages, it would win the title automatically.

Championship

Preliminary phase

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Associação Caxias	8	4	2	2	7	5	+2	10	Qualified to First phase
2	Cachoeira	8	4	2	2	8	8	0	10
3	Lajeado	8	3	3	2	8	6	+2	9
4	Esportivo	8	1	5	2	7	5	+2	7
5	Guarany de Garibaldi	8	0	4	4	3	9	−6	4

Updated to match(es) played on April 20, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ypiranga de Erechim	8	4	3	1	8	3	+5	11	Qualified to First phase
2	Atlético de Carazinho	8	4	3	1	10	6	+4	11
3	São Luiz	8	4	2	2	9	7	+2	10
4	Atlântico	8	1	3	4	4	9	−5	5
5	Juventude de Guaporé	8	0	3	5	5	11	−6	3

Updated to match(es) played on April 20, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internacional de Santa Maria	8	6	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Qualified to First phase
2	Gaúcho	8	4	3	1	17	10	+7	11
3	Santo Ângelo	8	1	4	3	6	9	−3	6
4	Elite	8	2	1	5	8	11	−3	5
5	Tupi	8	1	3	4	7	15	−8	5

Updated to match(es) played on April 20, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Santa Cruz	8	4	4	0	14	8	+6	12	Qualified to First phase
2	São José	8	4	2	2	7	6	+1	10
3	Novo Hamburgo	8	2	3	3	7	8	−1	7
4	Aimoré	8	2	2	4	6	10	−4	6
5	Encantado	8	1	3	4	5	7	−2	5

Updated to match(es) played on April 20, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rio Grande	8	5	2	1	9	6	+3	12	Qualified to First phase Finals
2	Rio-Grandense	8	3	3	2	11	9	+2	9
3	São Paulo	8	2	4	2	7	5	+2	8
4	Pelotas	8	2	2	4	8	12	−4	6
5	Farroupilha	8	1	3	4	7	10	−3	5

Updated to match(es) played on April 20, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Guarany de Bagé	8	5	1	2	10	3	+7	11	Qualified to First phase Finals
2	Grêmio Bagé	8	4	3	1	6	3	+3	11
3	Inter de São Borja	8	2	2	4	5	8	−3	6
4	Alegrete	8	2	2	4	7	8	−1	6
5	Grêmio Santanense	8	2	2	4	5	11	−6	6

Updated to match(es) played on April 20, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) direct record; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored.

First phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internacional	19	16	3	0	50	6	+44	35	Qualified to Finals
2	Grêmio	19	15	3	1	45	11	+34	33	Qualified to Second phase
3	Associação Caxias	19	10	6	3	22	10	+12	26
4	Santa Cruz	19	7	8	4	21	14	+7	22
5	São Luiz	19	8	5	6	23	20	+3	21
6	Internacional de Santa Maria	19	7	7	5	18	14	+4	21
7	Gaúcho	19	8	4	7	21	25	−4	20
8	Grêmio Bagé	19	7	6	6	15	13	+2	20
9	Atlético de Carazinho	19	7	6	6	16	15	+1	20
10	Santo Ângelo	19	7	5	7	22	21	+1	19
11	Ypiranga de Erechim	19	6	7	6	16	20	−4	19
12	Rio-Grandense	19	6	6	7	13	19	−6	18
13	Lajeado	19	6	5	8	19	19	0	17
14	Guarany de Bagé	19	5	7	7	17	17	0	17
15	São José	19	6	4	9	17	17	0	16
16	Inter de São Borja	19	4	8	7	13	18	−5	16
17	Cachoeira	19	6	3	10	18	31	−13	15
18	Rio Grande	19	3	3	13	13	37	−24	9
19	São Paulo	19	2	4	13	14	35	−21	8
20	Novo Hamburgo	19	1	6	12	11	42	−31	8

Updated to match(es) played on July 13, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Second phase

First round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Associação Caxias	3	2	1	3	2	+1	4	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Internacional	3	2	1	4	3	+1	4	Qualified to Playoffs
3	Grêmio	3	2	1	5	4	+1	4
4	Santa Cruz	3	0	3	1	4	−3	0

Updated to match(es) played on July 23, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal average; 4) number of goals scored.

Playoffs

27 July 1975

Associação Caxias	0 – 1	Internacional

Caxias do Sul

Second round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Internacional	3	1	2	0	6	3	+3	4	Qualified to Playoffs
2	Grêmio	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	4	Qualified to Playoffs
3	Santa Cruz	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	3
4	Associação Caxias	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

Updated to match(es) played on August 6, 1975. Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.

Playoffs

10 August 1975

Finals

Internacional	1 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Grêmio
Flávio Minuano 104'

Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre

Referee: Agomar Martins Röhrig

Copa Governador do Estado

System

The cup would have seven stages: ^[4]

First phase: Sixteen teams would be divided into four groups of four teams. Each team would play twice against the teams of its own group. All teams qualified to the Second phase.
Second phase: The sixteen teams joined the twelve teams that had been eliminated in the Preliminary phase of the Campeonato Gaúcho and were divided into four groups of seven teams. Once again, all teams qualified to the Third phase.
Third phase: The twenty-eight teams joined the sixteen teams that had been eliminated in the First phase of the Campeonato Gaúcho and another ten teams. the resulting fifty-four were divided into ten groups of five or six teams. The three best teams of each group would qualify to the 1976 Campeonato Gaúcho. The best teams of each group qualified to the Fourth phase.
Fourth phase: The remaining ten teams would play each other in a double-legged knockout tie. One of the winners would be sorted to qualify directly to the Semifinals.
Fifth phase: The remaining four teams would play each other in a double-legged knockout tie. One of the winners would be sorted to qualify directly to the Finals.
Semifinals: The winners of the fifth phase would play the team that had received a bye to the semifinals in a double-legged knockout tie. The winner qualified to the Finals.
Finals: The winners of the Semifinals would play the team that had received a bye to the Finals in a double-legged knockout tie for the title.