2002 Campeonato Carioca

System

• Preliminary tournament: The five worst teams of the 2001 championship joined the champions and the runner-up of the Second Level; each team played against each other in a double round-robin format, and the best team would qualify to the main tournament.
• Taça Guanabara: The 12 clubs all played in single round-robin format against each other.
• Taça Rio: The 12 clubs all played in single round-robin format against each other.
• Second phase: The four best-placed teams in the Aggregate table of the Taças Guanabara and Rio and the 'big four', who qualified regardless of placing in the aggregate table, were divided into two groups of four, in which each team played once against the teams of its own group, and the two best place teams in each group qualified to the Semifinals.
• Semifinals and Finals: The semifinals would the played in a single match. in case of a tie, the team with the best season record would advance, and the Finals would happen in two matches, both played at the Maracanã Stadium.

  Championship

Preliminary phase

Taça Guanabara

Taça Rio

Aggregate table

Second phase

Group A

Group B

Semifinals

Finals