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Top sports media in Brazil

The outlets that cover sport in Brazil — the sports press, the broadcasters, the agencies and the specialist titles.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026

These are the outlets that cover sport in Brazil — the sports press, the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, the national news agency where it carries sport, and the specialist titles of national standing. Single-sport titles without national standing are not listed here; they appear on the media list for their own sport.

How this list is ordered. By role and national standing — the sports press first, then the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, then the national news agency and the specialist titles. That order is set once and stays put, so a page that has been cited does not rearrange itself later. The Tranco figure against each outlet is shown for reference and does not set the order. Tranco is a research ranking of web domains that averages the Chrome User Experience Report, Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight over the preceding 30 days, on the list of September 2026. It ranks a whole domain, not a sports desk. A general daily's rank counts every reader it has, most of whom did not come for sport, so a national newspaper will sit above a dedicated sports title that has more sports readers than it does.

1. ge (Globo Esporte)General sports coverage · News site · Tranco 414 — Grupo Globo's sports portal at ge.globo.com, published by Globo Comunicação e Participações and sharing a menu with TV Globo, SporTV, Premiere and the ge TV channel — first in comScore's Brazilian sports category from January 2025 to June 2026. 2. UOL EsporteGeneral sports coverage · News site · Tranco 564 — The sports desk of UOL, the Brazilian portal that UOL dates to 1996 and that the Media Ownership Monitor's 2017 study records as belonging to Grupo Folha — third in comScore's Brazilian sports category from January 2025 to June 2026. 3. ESPN BrasilBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 7,348 — ESPN's Brazilian operation — the channel that carried the ESPN Brasil name from 1995 until Disney retired it in January 2022, the pay-television service Disney kept when it closed its other Brazilian channels, and the Edição Brasil site at espn.com.br. 4. BandBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 24,116 — Grupo Bandeirantes' free-to-air network and the sports portal at band.com.br — Formula One rights holder from 2021 through 2025, and radio rights holder for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, 60 matches each on BandNews FM and Rádio Bandeirantes. 5. Lance!General sports coverage · News site · Tranco 7,442 — The sports title that reached newsstands as a daily on 26 October 1997, stopped printing in March 2020 and was sold at a judicial auction in September 2021 — now a digital operation credited with 25.2 million unique visitors in June 2026. 6. PlacarSpecialist title · Magazine · Tranco 243,567 — Brazil's football magazine, launched by Editora Abril on 20 March 1970 and published monthly by Editora Score since November 2022 — its printed-edition catalogue runs from 1970 to issue 1539 in September 2026. 7. Agência BrasilNews agency · News agency · Tranco 12,059 — The public news agency of the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, the public company authorised by Lei nº 11.652 of 7 April 2008, publishing about 100 items a day across eleven desks — sport among them — and free for news media to republish with attribution.