Samir Xaud, president of the CBF, is reportedly not due to attend the STF public hearing on the proposed betting ban in Brazil on 3 November. The CBF will send a lawyer, while football clubs plan to seek a longer transition period if the measure remains in force, arguing it has affected commercial and sponsorship agreements.
A longer transition could give football clubs more time to reorganise revenue and find commercial partners.
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Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Luiz Fux partially granted the Attorney General’s Office request to add participants to a public hearing on Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which seeks to ban fixed-odds betting. The expanded list has 34 participants, up from 28; Fux declined to reopen discussion of betting’s social harms.
Justice Luiz Fux of the Supreme Federal Court agreed in part to a petition from Brazil's Attorney General's Office (AGU) to widen the list of those taking part in a public hearing on Provisional Measure No. 1394/2026. The measure is aimed at prohibiting fixed-odds betting nationwide.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux asked for the Ministry of Sport and the Brazilian Olympic Committee to join a public hearing on the country’s betting ban, scheduled for 3 November, the report said. The case concerns Provisional Measure 1,394, signed on 25 September, which bans the operation, offering, intermediation and advertising of sports betting and virtual games.
Justice Luiz Fux of Brazil's Supreme Court has requested that the Ministry of Sport and the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) join a public hearing on the national betting ban, set for 3 November. The session is to take place before the court's Second Panel.
Clubs that challenged the measure plan to ask for a longer transition period for ending betting-company partnerships if the provisional measure remains in force, reportedly. At a 3 November public hearing convened by Supreme Federal Court minister Luiz Fux, representatives of ten Série A clubs and betting companies are also expected to renew their request to suspend the injunction maintaining the measure.
Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro reportedly phoned Flamengo president Luiz Eduardo Baptista a day after the government published a provisional measure banning bets. The senator indicated he would seek a solution for football clubs and betting houses if elected, without committing to restoring operators' authorisation.
Flávio Bolsonaro, the PL presidential candidate, telephoned Luiz Eduardo Baptista, known as Bap, the president of Flamengo, one day after the Lula government published a provisional measure banning bets in Brazil, citing a Folha de S.Paulo report based on three people linked to football and to the Bolsonaro campaign who spoke on condition of anonymity. According to those accounts, the senator indicated that, if elected, he would find a solution for football clubs and betting houses, but did not commit to restoring the authorisation for betting companies to operate again.
The president of Brazilian football club Vitória has criticised a ban on betting companies and pointed to a multi-million-reais financial shortfall. The report says the veto has caused a behind-the-scenes crisis at the club and threatens its economic stability in Série A.