Casino Licences 15
Total Slots 8,800 (in all locations)
Slot Hall Licences 49
Betting Licences 7
Betting Terminals 2,700
Slots in Betting Outlets 750
Lottery Hrvatska Lutrija
Hrvatska Turnover HRK654.8m (US$97m)
Hrvatska Betting Turnover HRK525m (US$78m)
Total Gaming GGR (All) €139m
Sports betting in Croatia arrived in the early 1990s and as a nation crazy about sports, the sports betting market became a big and instant success. In 2011 the top 10 performing businesses in the gaming sector were sports-betting related and recorded a combined profit of HRK344m (around €50m).
least one land based casino is operated. Te online casinos pay an annual fee of HRK3m and a bank guarantee of HRK3m.
l Monthly tax for operating games in casinos is 15 percent of the base.
l Betting is permitted to over 18s l Registered operators must have a share
capital of at least HRK4m and a bank guarantee of HRK5m. Tey will pay an annual gambling levy of HRK1m.
l Online betting operators pay an annual fee of HRK3m and have at least 50 outlets and 100 employees.
l Tey pay a monthly five percent fee of the base of total deposits and taxes of 10 percent of up to HRK10,000, 15 percent for HRK10,000 to 30,000; 20 percent for HRK30,000 to 500,000 and 30 percent for HRK500,000 plus.
l A betting shop should be a minimum of 10sq.m and 200m from schools and if housing slots these must be in an area of 2sq.m minimum.
l Operator of slots must have a share capital of at least HRK2m and a bank guarantee for the first 30 slots of HRK300,000. Tose operating more than one slot club must have HRK500,000 (31-60 machines), HRK700,000 (61-90), HRK900,000 (91-120), HRK1,100,000 (121-150), HRK1,300,000 (151- 180), HRK1,500,000 (181-210), HRK2,000,000 (211-250) or HRK5m for over 250 machines. l Te annual gambling levy is HRK10,000 per
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machine or HRK40,000 for multiplayers and HRK50,000 for multiplayers with more than six player positions. Monthly tax is 25 percent of the base.
l Slot halls must be in areas of at least 100sq.m in size with at least 30 slots. Payouts must be at least 80 percent.
SPORTS BETTING Betting in Croatia arrived in the early 1990s and
as a nation crazy about sports the sports betting market became a big and instant success. New companies clambered to open betting
chains and many were under foreign ownership. Betting shops flourished and major chains from the UK and Germany also entered the market. Croatia at the time had one of the highest densities of betting shops per capita in Europe. Te first two private companies to take
advantage of the new regime were Prva Sportska Kladionica and Sport Tip which were the leaders in the country’s bookmaking sector. But with high costs many were struggling to
survive and with the economic crisis in Croatia coupled with the introduction of a 20 percent VAT on profits from gambling, many smaller companies ceased operations and Croatia lost around 25 per cent of its operators whilst the larger two sports betting operators dominated the market. Today there are seven companies licensed for
betting in the market although only the top four or five are said to be profitable.
Te main players are SuperSport, PSK,
Germania Sport, Favorit, Hrvatska Lutrija and Stanley Bet. Te Croatian betting market is a successful
industry. In 2011 the top 10 performing businesses in the gaming sector recorded a combined profit of HRK344m (around €50m). Te number one business is Super Sport
betting agency with profits of HRK233.3m (€30m) which was 67 percent of the combined profits for the top 10 last year. Just behind them was PSK with HRK29.4m (€4m) which had 8.5 percent of the profits. Super Sport is headquartered in Zagreb and
received approval for online betting in July 2010. Tey offer betting on all sorts of sports worldwide, on lottery games and horse racing. You can bet offline via their 400 or so outlets, online or via their app Sporti. It has around one third of the sports betting market today or 57 percent and has around 700 betting terminals. PSK or Prva Sportska Kladionica is a sports
betting company established in Zagreb in 1998 and has almost 250 locations in the country and about 22 percent market share. Approval for online betting was received in March 2012. It operates around 2,000 betting terminals and 150 slots. PSK is owned by Ireland’s Hattrick Sports,
one of the premier technology gaming operators in Central Europe, which completed its acquisition of PSK in 2012. Hattrick partnered with Zukido, an egaming
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