Sports M&A – Investments in Brazilian Football Clubs

The Brazilian football market has recently drawn the attention of major global investors. Though, from a legal perspective, such investments involve complex challenges, arising mainly from the particularities of the Brazilian football regulatory framework and usual market practices.*

Introduction: Recent Market Developments

On 23 April 2019, the Red Bull Group, which owns Brazilian team “Red Bull Brasil”, announced investments for the 2019 season into another football club in Brazil: Clube Atlético Bragantino, a traditional sports association established in 1928, with quite a successful history in Brazilian championships and which currently plays in Serie B of the Brazilian National Football League.

Less than ten days later, on 2 May 2019, Centro Sportivo Alagoano (CSA), a 105-year-old club currently playing in Serie A of the Brazilian National Football League, disclosed ongoing negotiations with a pool of Chinese investors for a potential acquisition of the club. Finally, on the very same date, another centennial club, América Futebol Clube, also...

Why not join us?

Football Legal is an independent media publishing football law contents on a daily basis dedicated to all football law practitioners (lawyers, clubs, federations, intermediaries, football stakeholders, etc.).

Get started