Brasileirão: Flamengo better under Leonardo Jardim than 2025 champions

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·14 September 2026

Brasileirão: Flamengo better under Leonardo Jardim than 2025 champions

In 2026, Flamengo under Jardim has better numbers than the team that dominated Brazilian football

Flamengo beat Corinthians 2-1 this Sunday (13) at the Maracanã and reached 57 points at the top of the Brasileirão standings. But the result also stands out for another reason: in the national competition, Mengão’s points percentage under Leonardo Jardim in 2026 is better than that of the title-winning team in 2025, managed by Filipe Luís.

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What is Flamengo’s points percentage like under Leonardo Jardim?

With the Portuguese coach, Fla has played 24 matches in the Brasileirão. So far, there have been 16 wins, 5 draws, and 3 losses. As a result, the points percentage stands at 73.61%.

Under Filipe Luís, the Rubro-Negro played 38 matches in the competition. In total, they recorded 23 wins, 10 draws, and 5 losses. Thus, the points percentage ended at 69.30%, which led the Rubro-Negro to its ninth title in the competition.

How do the numbers compare side by side?

On average, Jardim’s team earns about 2.21 points per game. Meanwhile, the championship-winning team finished with an average of 2.08 points per game. So the difference in points per match is small, but it has remained consistent throughout the current campaign.

If Fla maintains its current points percentage through the end of the 38 rounds, the projection comes to around 84 points. Therefore, that number would comfortably surpass the 79 points collected by the title-winning team in 2025.

However, a projection is only a projection: the squad itself knows it needs to confirm that performance on the pitch, round after round, until the end of the second half of the season.

Why does the comparison highlight Flamengo’s current form?

With 57 points, Fla leads the Brasileirão at the end of Matchday 27, ahead of Palmeiras, who have 56.
The next match in the national competition will be against Bragantino on Sunday (20) at the Maracanã.
Before that, the Rubro-Negro takes the field in the Libertadores on Thursday (17) against Del Valle.
The match is worth a place in the semifinal, and Mengão has a two-goal advantage, built with a 2-0 win in the first leg.
Even with the advantage, the team expects a packed Maracanã and remains focused on securing another victory.

Therefore, the superior points percentage strengthens Fla’s case for the Brasileirão title. However, Leonardo Jardim’s team still needs to confirm this good run in the final rounds of the competition.

While the team needs to keep its feet on the ground, the fans are already thinking about repeating last year’s double, to become five-time Libertadores champions and ten-time Brasileirão champions.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.