Brazil betting ban Supreme Court hearing set for 3 November with 28 entities

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) will hold a public hearing on Tuesday 3 November on the provisional measure that banned fixed-odds betting, after Justice Luiz Fux released the schedule and the list of 28 entities selected to speak. The hearing was convened within Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI) 8027, which Fux is handling, and starts at 10am in the session room of the court's Second Chamber, with broadcast on TV and Radio Justiça and on the STF's YouTube channel.

Entities had to send the names and powers of attorney of their representatives to the court's dedicated ADI 8027 email address by 3pm on Thursday, iGB reported. Each may indicate up to two representatives and has 10 minutes to present its considerations on Provisional Measure (MP) 1.394/2026, which prohibits the operation of fixed-odds betting and provides for the termination of licences granted to companies in the sector.

Football clubs open, betting associations close

After 10 minutes of opening remarks from Fux, the football clubs speak first: Flamengo, Fluminense, Botafogo, Cruzeiro, São Paulo and Corinthians, followed by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).

The Attorney General's Office (AGU) opens the afternoon, followed by the Ministries of Finance and Sports. The associations come next, with the National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) and the Brazilian Institute of Responsible Gaming (IBJR) scheduled to speak between 3pm and 3.20pm. The last body listed, at around 5pm, is the International Gaming Association.

Other participants include the Prosecutor General's Office (PGR), the National Confederation of Commerce of Goods, Services and Tourism (CNC), the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), the Brazilian Association for Economic Freedom (Able), the Brazilian Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (Abert) and the Economic Regulation Laboratory of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ Reg).

The actions behind the hearing

ADI 8027 was filed by the ANJL. It asks for the immediate suspension of MP 1.394/2026 and, at the end of the trial, a declaration that the measure is unconstitutional. It also asks the STF to recognise the validity of the laws regulating fixed-odds betting in the country. The same rule is challenged in ADIs 8,024, 8,028 and 8,035.

Three further actions reported by Fux, ADIs 7721, 7723 and 7749, question Law 14.790/2023, known as the Betting Law. In November 2024 the court held a public hearing within those ADIs, with more than 50 experts and representatives of public bodies and civil society taking part. The AGU has since requested an evaluation of holding a new meeting, arguing that evidence accumulated on the impacts of betting, and the enactment of the provisional measure, justify updating the debate.

No date for a ruling on ADI 8027

The iGB report does not say whether the court has granted the AGU's request for a further hearing. It gives no date for a ruling on ADI 8027 or on the companion actions against the same measure.

What it does record is that the ANJL's request for immediate suspension of MP 1.394/2026 is before Fux, alongside its request for a final declaration of unconstitutionality. One point of analysis: the suspension request is the one most likely to matter quickly to licensed operators, because the measure provides for the termination of licences already granted.