The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) has ended its agreement with Sportradar covering sports integrity initiatives in Brazil, days after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a provisional measure prohibiting fixed-odds betting.
The February agreement provided for two educational platforms covering areas including match-fixing risks, detection, regulation and reporting channels.
One platform, developed by Sportradar and launched with the Ministry of Sport in April, was designed to train athletes to identify, reject and report approaches linked to competition manipulation.
Its termination follows a wider reversal in Brazil's approach to regulated betting. The country's national regulated fixed-odds market became fully operational in January 2025, with operators required to obtain authorization from the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA). By August 2026, the Ministry of Finance said 85 companies had been authorized to operate.
Brazil had also expanded its sports integrity framework alongside regulation. ANJL signed a 60-month cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Sport in October 2025 covering education, operator training, technical information sharing and studies on match-fixing.
The Ministry has also maintained cooperation agreements with specialist integrity organizations, including Sportradar.
That framework now faces significant changes following the Government's September 25 measure. New deposits into betting accounts were prohibited immediately, while licensed sites and applications are scheduled to go offline from October 6.
The prohibition covers both sports betting and online games, while other legally authorized lottery products are excluded.
ANJL President, Plínio Lemos Jorge, said: "The sport, the athletes and also the bettors lose out, as they will migrate to illegal platforms and will still be subject to manipulated betting results."
ANJL has argued that removing licensed operators could increase exposure to offshore betting and reduce safeguards around suspicious activity. The Government, however, has paired the prohibition with plans for stronger enforcement against unauthorized operators.
Finance Minister Dario Durigan said platforms remaining active after the transition period will be blocked, with authorities also targeting associated financial flows.
In September, Global Gaming Insider reported that ANJL had identified 6,409 accessible unlicensed betting domains between 11 and 18 September and estimated that the illegal market accounted for around 41% of Brazilian betting activity. The association warned that further restrictions on the regulated sector could increase the illegal share.
Brazil's Ministry of Sport and ANJL originally agreed in October 2025 to cooperate on match-fixing prevention, responsible gambling education and operator training for 60 months
