Brazil’s authorized online betting platforms went offline on Oct. 6 after the 11:59 p.m. deadline on Oct. 5 passed without a Supreme Federal Court injunction suspending Provisional Measure No. 1,394. UOL reported that the sites for Sportingbet, Betnacional, Esportes da Sorte and Superbet redirected users to the government’s Brasil sem Bets information service. The shutdown put into effect the timetable announced after the measure was issued on Sept. 25.
The Ministry of Justice and Public Security said almost all platforms authorized to operate had blocked access on the first day, with one of 188 sites still active and subject to a government blocking request. The Ministry of Finance’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting reported that BRL 1.325 billion (USD 267m) remained to be returned to about 26.5 million bettors around the transition. Those are reported balances, not a final reconciliation. The figures and site status describe distinct records: customer counts are based on CPF identifiers, while the 188 figure refers to sites.
Operators were due to send final balance information to financial institutions by Oct. 7. The government’s schedule calls for banks to return funds between Oct. 9 and 14, with Caixa Econômica Federal acting as an intermediary from Oct. 14 when a bank cannot complete the transfer. The measure sets the expiry of existing authorizations 30 days after its Sept. 25 publication, on Oct. 25; the Finance Ministry says companies remain responsible for obligations incurred while they operated.
The legal dispute remains active. The associations ANJL and IBJR sought to suspend the measure, but no injunction was in place when the platforms went offline, according to UOL’s report before the deadline. In separate filings, the Attorney General’s Office asked the Supreme Court to find provisions of the 2018 and 2023 laws that established the former betting framework unconstitutional and asked the court to reject the industry’s challenge to the new measure, as iGaming Business and iGaming Brazil reported. For esports, the shutdown changes the operating conditions behind Brazil-facing betting sponsorships. It does not confirm that any individual esports partnership has been terminated; sponsor removals, replacements or contract notices are the next concrete evidence to watch. FURIA, paiN Gaming, LOUD and MIBR remain relevant Brazilian club records for that follow-up.
Currency note: The dollar equivalent is a rounded PTG estimate using the ECB’s Oct. 6, 2026 reference rates (USD 1 ≈ BRL 4.9686).[9]
