Report - Part 1 SPORTS BETTING
GERMANY SPORTS BETTING NO. OF BETTING SHOPS: 3,500(ESTIMATION) NON REMOTE OPERATORS: ODDSET GGR: €588M HORSE TRACKS: 40 HORSE RACING REVENUE: €300M (TURNOVER) ONLINE MARKET: INTERSTATE TREATY ON GAMBLING (ISTG) 2011. REMOTE BETTING GGR: €325M(ESTIMATION FOR FULLY OPEN ONLINE MARKET - €751.1M) REMOTE LICENCES: 20 LICENSING: MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND SPORT OF HESSE
Betting turnover in 2014 in Germany amounted to €4.5bn
in total which was a 20 percent increase on the previous year with €226m paid to the treasury.
REVENUE FOR GERMAN BETTING MARKET TYPE OF BETTING
KET Horse race betting
Oddset DLTB Football sweepstake Unregulated market Sports betting
Online sports betting Retail based sports betting TOTAL
l €1bn black market, l €0.24bn from Oddset l €0.25bn from horse racing.
REVENUE €251m
€234m €7.3bn €1bn
€3.9bn €2.4bn
€7.8bn
since 1999 and is one of the largest state owned betting providers in Europe. It began operations in Bavaria via the State Lottery Administration and a year later offered its products nationwide to the 16 German lottery companies. Scientific Games supported the company with 14,350 online lottery terminals.
In 2002 Top-bet was introduced and the betting line was extended. In 2013 an advanced betting program called PLUS and KOMPAKT were introduced alongside COMBI-TOP in several regions.
Oddset also has one of the 20 online licences available in the national concession for sports betting operations.
There are no exact figures for the German sports betting market. A study in 2010 by GoldMedia estimated the turnover to be €7.8bn for the gambling market of which:
l €3.9bn came from online gaming, l €2.4bn betting offices,
PERCENTAGE OF MAR- 3%
3% 94%
13% 50% 31%
It was suggested 3.8 percent of the population bet which equated to around 1.96 million people.
Betting turnover in 2014 in Germany amounted to €4.5bn in total which was a 20 percent increase on the previous year with €226m paid to the treasury. In reality with black market betting it topped €6.8bn. Around 97 percent of the tax revenue (€219m) came from private bookmakers. State provider Oddset provided the remaining three percent. There are an estimated 3,500 betting shops.
Meanwhile in 2014 a Sports Betting Association (DSWV) was formed to look at the legal uncertainty in the German market. The members all have licences for sports betting or are in the round of the nationwide concession.
The 12 members are Admiral, Betfair, BTTY, Cashpoint, Deutsche SportWetten, Bet365, Ladbrokes, Mybet, StanleyBet, Tipico, Wettmeister, HappyBet.
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