SOUTH AMERICA

Brazil

Regulated

Brazil operates a federal authorisation market for fixed-odds sports betting and online games, with authorised national brands using .bet.br domains.

Market brief

Country

The Brazilian profile treats the federal fixed-odds market as a specific regulated system rather than a proxy for every form of gambling in Brazil. Sports betting and qualifying online games sit inside that framework, while state activity and products outside it require separate analysis.

Authorisation is resolved at company, brand and domain level. BETTIMES therefore links to the live SPA register and does not treat a familiar international brand name, an app-store listing or a non-Brazilian licence as evidence of federal permission.

Open official operator register

Operating model

2 product groups
Market model
Federal prior authorisation
Framework
Laws 13,756/2018 and 14,790/2023; federal authorisations effective from 1 January 2025
Licensing route
An operator needs prior authorisation from the Ministry of Finance's SPA to offer fixed-odds betting nationally. Each authorised brand must use its recorded .bet.br domain and appear in the current federal register.

Product scope

  • Fixed-odds sports betting
  • Online games within the fixed-odds betting framework

Compliance watch

3 monitoring points

Consumer protection

The central self-exclusion platform can block a person across all federally authorised betting sites. SPA guidance also maintains specific responsible-gambling, marketing, payment and AML rules.

Market access

Only companies authorised by SPA may operate nationally under the federal fixed-odds framework; the current company, brand, domain and authorisation records must be checked together.

  1. Refresh the authorised-company register whenever SPA publishes a new or amended authorisation.

  2. Track tax and statutory-allocation changes through the official legislation index.

  3. Monitor implementation of central self-exclusion, payment controls and responsible-gambling rules.

Market relationships

1 linked record

Companies

No linked records in the current dataset.

Licences

No linked records in the current dataset.

Authority

  • Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA/MF)Named regulator in this market record