Company club: implications of the transformation of Brazilian football associations into business societies

The financial chaos and indebtedness of several football teams are widely reported. It is believed that one of the reasons that may have led to the increase in their debts is the fact that the clubs are sports associations and, for this reason, have less professionalization and greater fragility in administration. Faced with such a scenario, this work was developed in order to analyze the possibility and consequences of the transformation of sports associations into business societies, brought about by Law Project 5.082/16, which emerges as a solution to the current lack of professionalization of teams. For this, the analysis of the subject was divided into six chapters, with the introduction as the first chapter and the conclusion as the last.