2025 Campeonato Carioca

Campeonato Carioca
Season	2025
Dates	11 January - 26 March 2025
Relegated	Bangu
Matches played	66
Goals scored	144 (2.18 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pablo Vegetti (6 goals)
	← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 23 February 2025.

The 2025 Campeonato Carioca de Futebol (officially the Campeonato Carioca Superbet 2025 for sponsorship reasons)^[1] is the 122nd edition of the top division of football in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The competition is organized by FERJ. It began on 11 January 2025 and will end on 26 March 2025.

The defending champions are Flamengo.

Participating teams

Boavista

Maricá

Nova Iguaçu

Sampaio Corrêa

Rio de Janeiro

Volta Redonda

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Location of teams in 2025 Campeonato Carioca

Bangu

Botafogo

Flamengo

Fluminense

Madureira

Portuguesa

Vasco

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Location of teams in 2025 Campeonato Carioca – city of Rio de Janeiro

Club	Home city	Head coach	2024 result
Bangu Atlético Clube	Rio de Janeiro	Júnior Martins	11th
Boavista Sport Club	Saquarema	Caio Zanardi	6th
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas	Rio de Janeiro	Carlos Leiria	5th
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo	Rio de Janeiro	Filipe Luís	1st
Fluminense Football Club	Rio de Janeiro	Mano Menezes	4th
Madureira Esporte Clube	Rio de Janeiro	Daniel Neri	9th
Maricá Futebol Clube	Maricá	Reinaldo	1st (Série A2)
Nova Iguaçu Futebol Clube	Nova Iguaçu	Carlos Vitor	2nd
Associação Atlética Portuguesa	Rio de Janeiro	Evaristo Piza	7th
Sampaio Corrêa Futebol e Esporte	Saquarema	Alfredo Sampaio	8th
Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama	Rio de Janeiro	Fábio Carille	3rd
Volta Redonda Futebol Clube	Volta Redonda	Rogério Corrêa	10th

Format

In the main competition, the twelve clubs played each other on a single round-robin. This round-robin was the Taça Guanabara. The bottom team was relegated to the 2025 Série A2. While the top four clubs qualified for the final stage, the next four clubs (5th to 8th places) qualified for the Taça Rio. In the Taça Rio, the 5th-placed club faced the 8th-placed club, and the 6th-placed will face the 7th-placed. In the final stage, the winners of the Taça Guanabara faced the 4th-placed club, while the runners-up faced the 3rd-placed club.^[2]

In both of these four-team brackets (the Taça Rio and the final stage), the semi-finals and finals were played over two legs, without the use of the away goals rule. In the semi-finals of both the Taça Rio and the final stage, the higher placed teams on the Taça Guanabara table advanced in case of an aggregate tie. In the finals of both brackets, there was no such advantage; in case of an aggregate tie, a penalty shoot-out would have taken place.

The top four teams from the Taça Guanabara and the winners of the Taça Rio qualified for the 2026 Copa do Brasil

Taça Guanabara

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Flamengo (C)	11	7	2	2	25	5	+20	23	Taça Guanabara Champion and advance to semifinals
2	Volta Redonda	11	6	2	3	13	12	+1	20	Advance to semifinals
3	Fluminense	11	4	5	2	13	9	+4	17
4	Vasco da Gama	11	4	5	2	13	9	+4	17
5	Sampaio Corrêa	11	4	4	3	13	11	+2	16	Advance to Taça Rio semifinals
6	Nova Iguaçu	11	4	4	3	8	9	−1	16
7	Madureira	11	4	3	4	11	8	+3	15
8	Boavista	11	2	8	1	10	8	+2	14
9	Botafogo	11	4	1	6	11	12	−1	13
10	Maricá	11	3	3	5	11	17	−6	12
11	Portuguesa	11	3	1	7	12	24	−12	10
12	Bangu (R)	11	0	4	7	4	20	−16	4	Relegated

Source: FERJ
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) wins; 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) head-to-head results; 6) disciplinary record; 7) random draw.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated