The Football is the most popular sport in the world. Brazil, the biggest winner of the Football World Cups and one of the biggest (if not the biggest) player pool on the planet, has a strong connection with sport, which ends up making sports practice part of the people s culture. This sport, a few years ago, reached the status of a multibillion-dollar financial market in Brazil, especially when Brazil won the right to host the 2014 World Cup, as this opened the eyes of investors interested in this market. Aware of this economic potential, the present study was an additional instrument for a better understanding of the particularities existing in the governance of football clubs in Brazil. The analysis of the different clubs showed that it is possible to divide them into groups, which prove the existence of a correlation between corporate governance and financial health. It was evident that the better the governance of a club, the better the financial results, because through efficient management they manage to diversify the sources of income and optimize expenses. On the other hand, clubs with poor governance, accumulate debts and find it very difficult to obtain good financial results, because, even though they have good revenues, they end up, as a rule, spending more than they earn. Because of this, the adoption of corporate governance practices in Brazilian football clubs is essential to ensure the preservation and development not only of the club, but of Brazilian football.