Flamengo wins legal battle and will receive millions

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·29 Mei 2026

Flamengo wins legal battle and will receive millions

BRB sponsorship, which had been blocked, has been cleared

Good news for Flamengo! The Brasília courts lifted the block on the transfer from Banco de Brasília (BRB) to the club. As a result, the Rubro-Negro will be able to receive the R$ 42 million from the sponsor. The ruling came on Thursday (28).

Last week, the 6th Public Treasury Court of the Federal District granted a request in a popular action that demanded the immediate suspension of the sponsorship. The argument was that the public bank is going through a serious financial crisis and could not pass on the multimillion-real amount to Flamengo.

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However, Flamengo won on Friday (29), as the court understood that the sponsorship agreement between the club and the bank did not involve the Government. Therefore, the Public Treasury Court was declared not competent to judge the case, and it was ordered that the proceedings be reassigned to one of Brasília’s Civil Courts.

WHAT DOES THE RULING SAY?

“There is no concrete and individualized indication, in this preliminary review, of a specific defect of legality, formal irregularity, or objectively demonstrated misuse of purpose in the challenged act. In this context, the claim submitted is essentially aimed at judicial review of an administrative/business judgment on the merits, which goes beyond the scope of a popular action,” it began. “In this sense, using a popular action as an instrument to control mere economic convenience or for generic oversight of public management distorts its constitutional purpose, turning it into a mechanism of undue judicial interference in the State’s administrative and business activity. (…) Thus, the inappropriateness of the chosen legal avenue and the lack of standing to sue are verified, insofar as there is no demonstration of illegality capable of justifying the intended judicial review, nor any concrete usefulness of the requested judicial relief,” says an excerpt from the decision.

SPONSORSHIP ON THE JERSEY?

With the decision in favor of Flamengo, the BRB logo will remain on the football team’s jersey this Saturday (30). The Most Beloved faces Coritiba at the Maracanã, with kickoff at 4:00 p.m. (Brasília time). The match is the team’s last before the break for the World Cup.

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