Supreme Federal Court Justice Luiz Fux has added the Brazilian Olympic Committee, known as COB, and the Ministry of Sport to the public hearing on Brazil’s fixed-odds betting prohibition, raising the number of participating entities from 26 to 28.
The hearing is set for Nov. 3 at 10 a.m. in the Supreme Court’s Second Panel session room. It concerns Provisional Measure No. 1.394/2026, which prohibits fixed-odds betting and provides for the termination of authorizations granted to companies in the sector.
The court’s published schedule gives each entity up to 10 minutes to speak and permits each to appoint as many as two representatives. The morning is reserved for sport, with 10 football clubs, the Brazilian Football Confederation and COB appearing at the end of that block. The afternoon includes the Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Sport, alongside the case’s petitioners, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the National Confederation of Commerce.
The Ministries of Health and Justice and Public Security were not included in the list, despite their leaders having publicly backed the ban, according to BNLData. The proceedings will be carried by TV Justiça, Rádio Justiça and the Supreme Court’s YouTube channel.
The hearing forms part of ADI 8027, brought by the National Association of Games and Lotteries, which seeks an immediate suspension and eventual invalidation of the provisional measure. ADIs 8024, 8028 and 8035 also contest the measure, while three other cases challenge Law No. 14.790/2023, the Bets Law that regulated fixed-odds betting.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued the provisional measure on Sept. 25. It prohibited the operation, offering, intermediation and advertising of fixed-odds betting, including sports betting and online games. Platforms were barred from accepting new bets immediately, and websites and applications were required to go offline on Oct. 6.
Sport has a substantial financial interest in the regulatory framework. Under Law No. 14.790/2023, 36% of betting revenue was allocated to sport, including 22.2% for the Ministry of Sport and 2.2% for COB. Sport received about R$1.6 billion in 2025, and R$870 million was allocated to the Ministry of Sport and state and Federal District secretariats in the first half of 2026.
COB received R$95.5 million in operator payments in 2025. Its president, Marco La Porta, said the committee had collected about R$200 million from betting from 2025 through September 2026, while COB projected R$115 million from betting taxes in its R$679 million 2026 budget. It forecast that the Olympic and Paralympic ecosystem could lose about R$2.6 billion in transfers through 2027.
The court held an earlier public hearing on betting regulation in November 2024, attended by more than 50 specialists and representatives of public bodies and civil society. The Nov. 3 session is scheduled to bring together government bodies, clubs, sporting organizations, associations and institutes in the latest court examination of the federal ban.
