Flamengo Council Votes on Statute to Lock In Professional Management

The amendment would create a Management Council largely appointed and chaired by president Luiz Eduardo Baptista with authority to supervise and veto the club’s paid executive directors.

Overview

The club’s Deliberative Council is voting on the statutory amendment on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, which will decide whether professional management becomes a permanent feature of Flamengo’s statute.
The proposal formalizes a paid Diretoria Profissional to run day-to-day operations and sets two senior executive posts: a director-general for corporate management and a director of football for the professional teams and youth categories.
A new Conselho Gestor would be chaired by the president, include the vice-president and a Procurador-Geral, and allow the president to appoint up to 12 members from senior membership ranks for three-year terms, while retaining a presidential veto over key executive decisions.
Opposing councillors have raised transparency and oversight concerns after the club removed recent budget documents from its site and failed to publish 2025–2026 budgets, and meetings in recent weeks showed visible tensions between the president and some board members.
The text preserves Flamengo’s status as an association rather than converting it to an SAF and mandates planning tools such as a three-year strategic plan, a five-year vision, performance indicators, a governance portal, and tighter anti-nepotism rules, but critics warn these measures may not prevent centralization of power under the presidency.