Sport cash in vs Flamengo, out-earn Palmeiras and four others | OneFootball

Sport will earn R$ 3 million by selling home-field rights for the match against Flamengo at Arena Pernambuco

Sport’s sale of home-field rights for the clash against Flamengo once again revealed the financial clout of the Rio club in Brazilian football. Even as the visiting team, Mengão will provide the opponent with the highest amount ever recorded in Pernambuco football from a single match.

A survey conducted by Coluna do Fla compared Sport’s match revenues against Libra clubs. In short, the result showed that revenue from the duel with Flamengo alone surpasses the sum of the matches against five other members of the league.

HOW MUCH DOES FLAMENGO MOVE IN THE BRASILEIRÃO?

Below, the net revenues from Sport’s matches against Libra clubs:

Adding up the five matches against Palmeiras, São Paulo, Santos, Bahia, and Bragantino, the net takings amount to R$ 2,596,645.88. That figure is lower than the projected revenue from the single match against Flamengo.

This will be the only match outside Ilha do Retiro. The Matchday 12 game was sold to the company Torcida Representações LTDA and will take place at Arena Pernambuco on November 13.

Thus, with the deal set at R$ 3 million, the section allocated to Flamengo fans tripled the mandatory minimum. According to the contract, initially reported by journalist Venê Casagrande, the visiting crowd will be entitled to 30% of the total ticket allotment.

WHY DOES FLAMENGO CLAIM A LARGER SHARE?

Flamengo remains in a dispute with the Brazilian Football League (Libra) over better terms in the TV revenue-sharing criteria. The club’s current leadership believes the present model represents a loss of R$ 100 million in revenue.

After failed renegotiation attempts, the board decided to take the case to court. As a result, Libra had R$ 77 million frozen by a decision from the Rio de Janeiro court, an amount corresponding to a portion of the audience-based distribution.

Even amid criticism from other clubs, Flamengo continues to shoulder a large part of the system. It also draws huge crowds, boosts revenue, and turns ordinary matches into major events, as in Sport’s case.

In other words, in practice, the club many consider not to need more is precisely the one that guarantees more for everyone. Moving the game to Arena Pernambuco is just further proof of that.

Until the end of the 2025 Brasileirão, Sport will still host Atlético-MG, Vitória, and Grêmio. It remains to be seen, however, whether any other match will have similar earning potential to that provided by the ‘paying locomotive’.

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