2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
The 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A will be the 64th season of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top level of professional football in Brazil, and the 17th edition in a double round-robin since its establishment in 2003. The competition was originally scheduled to begin on 3 May and end on 6 December, however due to the COVID-19 pandemic the tournament was rescheduled, starting on 8 August 2020 and ending on 24 February 2021.
The top six teams as well as the 2020 Copa do Brasil champions will qualify for the Copa Libertadores. The next six best-placed teams not qualified for Copa Libertadores will qualify for the Copa Sudamericana and the last four will be relegated to Série B for 2021. Flamengo are the defending champions. The match ball for the 2020 season is the Nike Merlin CBF 2020, which was presented by the Brazilian Football Confederation on 31 January 2020.
Teams
Twenty teams will compete in the league – the top sixteen teams from the previous season, as well as four teams promoted from the Série B.Red Bull Bragantino became the first club to be promoted after a 3–1 win against Guarani on 5 November 2019. Sport was promoted on 20 November, and Coritiba and Atlético Goianiense on 30 November.
| Pos. | Relegated from 2019 Série A |
| 17 | Cruzeiro |
| 18 | CSA |
| 19 | Chapecoense |
| 20 | Avaí |
| Pos. | Promoted from 2019 Série B |
| 1 | Red Bull Bragantino |
| 2 | Sport |
| 3 | Coritiba |
| 4 | Atlético Goianiense |
Number of teams by state
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and kits
Foreign players
The clubs can have a maximum of five foreign players in their Campeonato Brasileiro squads per match, but there is no limit of foreigners in the clubs' squads.| Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 | Player 7 | Player 8 |
| Athletico Paranaense |  Lucho González |  Felipe Aguilar |  Juan Manuel Boselli |  Josué Cuero | Jaime Alvarado | |||
| Atlético Goianiense |  Henry Vaca | |||||||
| Atlético Mineiro | Juan Cazares |  Rómulo Otero |  Ramón Martínez | Lucas Hernández | Dylan Borrero | Jefferson Savarino | Júnior Alonso | Alan Franco |
| Bahia | ||||||||
| Botafogo | Gatito Fernández | Federico Barrandeguy |  Alexander Lecaros |  Keisuke Honda |  Salomon Kalou | |||
| Ceará | ||||||||
| Corinthians | Mauro Boselli | Bruno Méndez |  Ángelo Araos | Víctor Cantillo | ||||
| Coritiba | ||||||||
| Flamengo | Robert Piris Da Motta | Giorgian De Arrascaeta | ||||||
| Fluminense |  Marcos Paulodn | Michel Araújo | Fernando Pacheco | |||||
| Fortaleza | Juan Quintero | Mariano Vázquez | ||||||
| Goiás | Juan Pintado | Ignacio Jara | Daniel Villalva | Kevin Quevedo |  Daniel Bessadn | |||
| Grêmio | Walter Kannemann | Luis Orejuela | ||||||
| Internacional | Andrés D'Alessandro | Víctor Cuesta | Martín Sarrafiore | Paolo Guerrero |  Johnny Cardosodn | Damián Musto | Renzo Saravia | |
| Palmeiras | Gustavo Gómez | Alejandro Guerra | Iván Angulo | Matías Viña | ||||
| Red Bull Bragantino | Leonardo Realpe | |||||||
| Santos | Carlos Sánchez | Yeferson Soteldo | Fernando Uribe | |||||
| São Paulo | Joao Rojas | Robert Arboleda | Gonzalo Carneiro | Santiago Tréllez |  Juanfran | |||
| Sport | Leandro Barcia | Lucas Mugni | Jonathan Gómez | |||||
| Vasco da Gama | Fredy Guarin | German Cano | Martín Benítez |
= Player holding Brazilian dual nationality.