The duration of the 2025 Brazilian Championship will be 10 months, starting on March 29th and ending on December 21st. This is one of the main novelties of 2025 national football calendar announced this Tuesday (12) by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). The modification, according to Ednaldo Rodrigues, president of the entity, was necessary to avoid conflict between the Brasileirão and the Club World Cup next year, which will feature Flamengo, Fluminense, Palmeiras and the Copa Libertadores champion (Atlético-MG or Botafogo). . The World Cup will take place between June 15th and July 13th.
Another change is the start date of the state championships: they will begin on January 12th and end on March 26th.
“With a lot of dialogue, we managed to create a better calendar for clubs, federations, athletes, managers and fans of Brazilian football. We discussed extensively with the Federations and the National Club Commission and we count on the support of these institutions to move forward. The Brazilian Championship will last ten months , we added the suspension of the championship during the FIFA Club World Cup and we still managed to maintain the FIFA Dates without games on the Brazilian calendar”, pointed out Ednaldo Rodrigues.
The CBF also innovated by establishing an interval for players called up for selection to return to their original teams. Clubs that have athletes in the squad will have a preserved period of 48 hours between the end of the FIFA Date period and their respective matches in the Brasileirão. This is the third year in a row that the Brazilian Championship will be interrupted during FIFA Dates (the period in which teams from each of the six continents meet for official and friendly matches).
“Improvements in Brazilian football require detachment and understanding from everyone. I like dialogue, I am a democratic person, but I need to decide. We have made good progress in this 2025 calendar and we will continue working. We will always respect each other’s rights, but we will continue with the aim of making Brazilian football even better and more interesting for everyone”, concluded the CBF president.
As happened this year, the semi-finals and finals of the Copa do Brasil will be played over two weekends.
Brazilian football calendar in 2025
Brazilian Super Cup – 02/02 (01 date)
Copa do Brasil – 19/02 to 09/11 (14 dates)
Series A – 03/29 to 12/21 (38 dates)
Series B – 05/04 to 22/11 (38 dates)
Series C – 4/13 to 10/26 (27 dates)
Series D – 04/13 to 09/28 (24 dates)
Start of Recess 2025/26 (Series A) – 12/22/2025 (15 dates)
Other competitions
Copa Libertadores (Conmebol) – 05/02 to 29/11 (19 dates)
Copa Sudamericana (Conmebol) – 05/03 to 22/11 (15 dates)
Recopa (Conmebol) – 19/02 and 26/02 (02 dates)
Club World Cup (FIFA) – 15/06 to 13/07
