Brazil. Campeonato Brasileiro. Serie A 2026 from Sudan: holders, new faces and the five-hour gap
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, listed on 1xBet as Brazil. Campeonato Brasileiro. Serie A and known at home simply as the Brasileirão, sits at the top of Brazil's club football pyramid; the CBF, the country's football confederation, organises it. Twenty clubs play a double round-robin, meeting each opponent once at home and once away, so a season lasts 38 rounds and has no knockout stage: whoever leads after the final round is champion, and the bottom four fall into Série B.
Brazil keeps its league inside a single calendar year, with no season straddling two years as in Europe, so the 2026 edition begins and ends in 2026. Flamengo start it as holders of the 2025 title. Beyond the trophy, the final standings also hand out South American club places for the following year.
Four up, four down: the 2026 field ⚽
Promotion and relegation reshuffled a fifth of the division over the break. The top four of Série B came up, and the last four of the top flight made the opposite trip:
Club | Where it finished in 2025 | Status for 2026 |
|---|---|---|
Coritiba | 1st in Série B | Promoted |
Athletico Paranaense | 2nd in Série B | Promoted |
Chapecoense | 3rd in Série B | Promoted |
Remo | 4th in Série B | Promoted |
Ceará | 17th in Série A | Relegated |
Fortaleza | 18th in Série A | Relegated |
Juventude | 19th in Série A | Relegated |
Sport | 20th in Série A | Relegated |
Ceará were also the side Flamengo beat 1:0 on the night the 2025 championship was decided. The four newcomers arrive with no 2025 top-flight record behind them, so their opening rounds can only be measured against Série B form.
What each final position earns 🏆
The top of the 2026 standings converts into South American club football for 2027:
Finish in 2026 | What follows in 2027 |
|---|---|
Champion (1st) | The title and a Copa Libertadores berth |
2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th | A Copa Libertadores berth |
The six best-placed clubs still without a Libertadores berth | Copa Sudamericana |
The Copa do Brasil opens a second door: its 2026 winner and runner-up also receive Libertadores berths, wherever they end up in the league. The Sudamericana line therefore has no fixed number, and it only settles once the cup has produced its two finalists.
January to December, around a World Cup 📅
The 2026 season opened on 28 January, under eight weeks after the 2025 edition wound up on 7 December, and it is due to finish on 2 December 2026. Its predecessor had waited until 29 March to begin, so this year got under way two months sooner. Somewhere in the middle the league stops for roughly six weeks while the 2026 World Cup is played, then resumes for the rest of the programme.
The closing stretch already has one fixed meeting, on 22 November 2026: Palmeiras – Flamengo, the record champions against the holders, ten days before the curtain. For a follower used to European leagues that kick off in August, the Brazilian run-in lands in November and the first days of December, when the European campaigns are only reaching their early winter rounds.
Brazilian football on Sudanese time 🌙
Brasília time runs five hours behind Sudan all year, since neither country moves its clocks, so an evening kick-off in Brazil plays out during the Sudanese night, and an afternoon game there arrives in the evening here. With the local weekend on Friday and Saturday, any match Brazil stages on a Thursday or Friday evening ends in the small hours of a day off.
On the site the Brasileirão has its own entry in the Football section, where each round appears before it is played. Once a game kicks off it passes to in-play football betting, and the page follows the score to the end. For late viewing on an Android phone, the mobile version of 1xBet carries the same fixtures without a desktop screen.
Brazil. Campeonato Brasileiro. Serie A: pre-match and season-long
Every Série A game has a pre-match page ahead of its round with the core football markets: home win, draw or away win, over/under on goals, handicaps and whether both sides find the net. A handicap hands one team a head start in goals before the first whistle, a way to price a meeting between a title contender and one of the promoted clubs. A season-long market on the 2026 champion runs alongside the rounds, so a view on the title race can be placed long before December. Other sports and leagues are gathered in the full list of upcoming events.
The account currency is the Sudanese pound (SDG). Money goes in as cash or as crypto: USDT on a choice of networks, BTC, ETH and a number of other coins.
The roll of honour
The official list of Brazilian champions opens in 1959. Through a 2010 ruling, the confederation added the editions of the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa and the Taça Brasil played up to 1970, which now stand as national titles beside those of the modern league. On that combined count Palmeiras lead alone with 12, Santos have 8 and Corinthians 7.