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Top 25 Sports clubs based in Brazil
RevenueBase identified 510 sports clubs headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026 and tracks 18,034 professional contacts across them, including 1,517 with verified work emails. Sao Paulo is the largest hub.
This list covers sports clubs headquartered in Brazil, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
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The 25 largest sports clubs based in Brazil
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “São 125 anos de história e um título que dispensa comentários: o Maior Clube Poliesportivo da América Latina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,087 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Minas Tênis Clube é uma agremiação desportiva e social com sede em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 951 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is a multi-sport club founded in São Paulo on September 1, 1910.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 658 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pioneiro desde 1902.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 642 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Santos Futebol Clube foi fundado por iniciativa de três esportistas da cidade, Francisco Raymundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos e Argemiro de Souza Júnior.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 596 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1921, Cruzeiro SAF is much more than a football club – we are tradition, passion, and a legacy built on achievements, innovation and social commitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 593 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fundado em 4 de abril de 1909, o Sport Club Internacional nasceu na vanguarda.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 564 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras é um clube poliesportivo brasileiro sediado em São Paulo que tem como modalidade esportiva principal o futebol, e é um dos times mais vencedores e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 529 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sediado em Belo Horizonte/MG, o Clube Atlético Mineiro nasceu em 25 de março de 1908, e é um dos clubes mais tradicionais do futebol sul-americano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 426 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundado em 30 de novembro de 1900, o Club Athletico Paulistano é uma das mais tradicionais associações de São Paulo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Página OFICIAL do Grêmio FBPA • facebook.com/Gremio • instagram.com/gremio • youtube.com/gremiotvoficial • tiktok.com/@gremio” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 382 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas nasceu oficialmente no dia 8 de dezembro de 1942, como resultado da fusão de dois clubes com o mesmo nome: o Club de Regatas Botafogo (de 1º de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O ESPORTE CLUBE BAHIA S.A.F.(“ECB”) é uma entidade desportiva com personalidade jurídica própria, com sede na Cidade de Salvador, no Estado da Bahia, e tem por finalidade…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liderada por John Textor, a SAF Botafogo assumiu o controle do futebol do Mais Tradicional em março de 2022, sendo pioneira na constituição de um Clube-Empresa no país.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “O Sport Club do Recife nasceu em 13 de Maio de 1905, quando o pernambucano Guilherme de Aquino Fonseca - voltando de uma temporada de estudos na Inglaterra e já encantado pelo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Sociedade Harmonia de Tênis é um tradicional clube esportivo e social localizado na cidade de São Paulo, fundado em 1930 por antigos sócios do Clube Athletico Paulistano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Durante estes últimos anos, a Ferroviária SAF vem buscando a integração dos principais setores de Araraquara para desenvolver um projeto desportivo de sucesso no interior de São…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Juvenil é conhecido pelo glamour das festas e pela tradição no tênis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clube de Futebol de Caxias do Sul, RS, Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tradição, lazer, cultura, entretenimento e modernidade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Recreio da Juventude: recreation, culture, sport and leisure in one place, in your time!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Associação Atlética Ponte Preta is a sports company based in Campinas-SP, Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundado em 4 de fevereiro de 1940, o Olympico Club foi o segundo clube esportivo e social instalado em Belo Horizonte.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: sports clubs. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names sports clubs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of sports clubs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name sports clubs. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Sports clubs based in Brazil at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Brazil, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Brazil, over 510 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among sports clubs, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Brazil whose own description of what they do matches “sports clubs”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names sports clubs), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among sports clubs, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Brazil are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,517 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Sports clubs by metro
- Sports clubs in Sao Paulo33
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names sports clubs, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many sports clubs are there based in Brazil?
RevenueBase identified 510 sports clubs headquartered in Brazil as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Esporte Clube Pinheiros, headquartered in Sao Paulo, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most sports clubs?
Sao Paulo leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by Rio De Janeiro (20) and Curitiba (18).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,517 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 510 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.