Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) backed Bill 2.842/2023 at a congressional hearing; the proposal would bar bets on individual plays such as corners, fouls and cards. The SPA said restricting these markets could help reduce competition manipulation, while the bill remains before the Chamber of Deputies’ Sports Commission.
The proposal could change which sports markets operators may offer in Brazil if it advances.
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Brazil’s government plans to expand education for athletes about betting and match manipulation, national secretary Giovanni Rocco said at a seminar in São Paulo on 22 June. The proposed work would focus particularly on younger athletes and complement enforcement measures. Rocco also advocated a task force with sports federations to guide athletes and their families and strengthen restrictions on competition participants’ betting activity.
Brazil's Ministry of Sports, through its National Secretariat for Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sport, launched a manual on preventing and combating manipulation of sports results. The guide covers fraud methods, suspicious betting patterns, athlete and referee training, ethics codes, monitoring and reporting channels; the ministry said it was prepared by an interinstitutional working group.
Brazil's federal government announced new measures against sports match manipulation at a national technical meeting in Brasilia. They include a Federal Police system to analyse suspicious betting, a second edition of a national manual and an online training course for public security agents.
Brazil’s Ministry of Sport and the National Association of Games and Lotteries launched a platform on 7 April to train athletes to identify and resist match-fixing tactics linked to sports betting. Developed by Sportradar, the programme is expected to become available in May; the ministry and ANJL reviewed its content.
Brazil’s sports, finance, justice and public security ministries established a national policy to prevent and combat sports results manipulation through Interministerial Ordinance No. 1, issued on 25 March 2026. The framework calls for suspicious betting activity to be detected and reported to authorities, gives the Federal Police an investigative role and assigns the Ministry of Sports responsibility for a steering committee and action plan.