Corinthians board president calls general meeting to vote on statute reform

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·11 de março de 2026

Corinthians board president calls general meeting to vote on statute reform

By Henrique Vigliotti/Timão Central Newsroom

The president of the Corinthians Deliberative Council, Romeu Tuma Júnior, published on Wednesday (11) the call notice for the Extraordinary General Assembly of members that will deliberate on the approval or not of the club's Statute reform project. The vote is scheduled for April 18, at Parque São Jorge.

According to the notice, the voting will take place from 9 am to 5 pm, in person using printed ballots. Members over 18 years old, with more than five uninterrupted years of membership, except for the Militante and Dependent categories, are eligible to participate, provided they are in full enjoyment of their statutory rights and up to date with their obligations to the club.

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The agenda of the assembly will be unique: to deliberate on the approval or rejection of the proposals to amend the Statute. The notice highlights that the reform project was debated throughout a process that included 11 public hearings, open to the participation of councilors, members, and fans, in which suggestions, criticisms, and adjustments to the draft were presented.

Last Monday (9), the Deliberative Council was supposed to vote on the proposals to amend the Statute. However, a general confusion in the plenary prevented the continuation of the meeting. Faced with the impasse, the CD president decided to end the session and directed the agenda directly to the General Assembly, as provided for in article 45 of the current Statute.

How the voting will be

The voting ballot will be divided into two parts. The first will address the base text of the statutory reform, with the options "YES" or "NO" for approval or rejection of the general proposal. Additionally, members will also vote on 15 specific highlighted topics, which will be analyzed separately. Among them is the proposal to create a member category linked to the fan membership program, allowing Fiel Torcedor members to gain voting rights in the club's presidential elections.

In some of these points, the ballot will present three alternatives: two versions of approval of the matter, in different scenarios, and one option of rejection. In these cases, the count will follow a specific system: first, the votes of the two favorable alternatives will be added. If the total exceeds the number of opposing votes, the topic will be considered approved, with the affirmative alternative that received the most individual votes prevailing for the final drafting of the Statute.

After the voting and counting, an extraordinary committee will be formed to technically adjust the final text of the Statute. According to the notice, the group will have the exclusive function of editorial harmonization and systematization of the approved decisions, without the power to alter the content deliberated by the members. The consolidated text will later be sent for registration at a notary.

Discussion process and foundation of the new Statute

The notice highlights that the Deliberative Council formally recognized the need to review the Statute on two occasions: in meetings held on February 1, 2024, and November 24, 2025, fulfilling a statutory requirement for calling the General Assembly for this purpose.

During the process, there was also institutional dialogue with the Advisory Council (CORI) and the Fiscal Council, bodies that submitted opinions on the reform. The contributions were analyzed by the Statutory Reform Committee, formed by club councilors, who consolidated the final project after examining the suggestions presented in public hearings and electronically.

Among the justifications presented for the reform, the document mentions the need to modernize governance, transparency, and accountability rules, as well as the adaptation of the Statute to the General Sports Law (Law No. 14.597/2023), which establishes new requirements of responsibility and diligence for sports entity leaders.

The notice also cites the recent approval of the Financial Sustainability System (SSF) by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), which establishes parameters for club financial management, and points out that the statutory update seeks to strengthen internal compliance, oversight, and technical qualification mechanisms in account analysis.

Another point highlighted in the document is the existence of a civil inquiry initiated by the Public Prosecutor's Office, investigating the possibility of judicial intervention in the club. According to the notice, the investigation reinforces the need for an institutional response through the update of internal norms.

In the text, the call also mentions the need to address what it defines as an institutional and credibility crisis faced by the club, pointing to the statutory reform as an instrument to strengthen mechanisms of transparency, administrative responsibility, and institutional integrity.

The complete proposals for the Statute amendment were sent to the registered emails of the members and are also available for consultation on the official Corinthians website, accompanied by an educational summary designed to facilitate understanding of the content.

Finally, the notice determines that the call be posted in the most frequented areas of the social headquarters and published for three days in major newspapers, in addition to formally informing the prosecutor responsible for the mentioned civil inquiry.