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proud to have won this tender which, for us, is both important and ambitious. We therefore advocate a responsible and innovative approach through which we will contribute to the growth of all local communities but also of all stakeholders.”


Intralot Maroc SA was founded in 2010 with 100 per cent of shares held by Intralot SA. It supported the operation of all games of Morocco’s two lotteries – MDJS and SGLN.


Intralot Maroc ran the operation of all the games including risk management of fixed odds sports betting, instant tickets and provided additional services such as marketing, maintenance and promotions.


Intralot’s contract with SGLN expired in December 2018 and the MDJS contract will expire in December 2019.


Gaming revenues for Intralot Maroc in 2017 was €22.5m compared to €20.3m the year before. Te drive behind the growth was attributed to the uplift in sports betting revenue plus the increased focus on fast draw games and introduction of virtual games and re-launch of Keno.


Intralot Maroc says the Moroccan market was responsible for 3.3 per cent EBITDA in 2017 and EBITDA was €6.5m.


television although the company has continued to grow under a de facto TV ban.


Last year a tender for the operation of games for MDJS was opened with a deadline of April 2019.


Te creation of the National Sports Development Fund aims to help the state finance the sports sector and the MDJS is a major provider of this fund. MDJS’s mission is to contribute to the financing of the National Sport Development Fund (FNDS) to which it gives back all its profits. Te FNDS was created in 1987 and is managed by the Ministry of Youth and Sport


Meanwhile although online gambling via other sites is forbidden players do access foreign online gambling sites most of which offer their sites in Arabic, French or English whilst bets are accepted in Dirhams or American dollars.


Tere is no licensing procedure for online casinos and the only legal form of gambling at the moment are sports lotteries available via MDJS and the SGLN. Te MDJS site offers online lottery games and sports betting. It does not offer casino games.


HORSE RACING SOREC – Royal Society of Horse Encouragement


– was created in 2003 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fishing to promote the horse racing sector. Te group is responsible for


Te creation of the National Sports Development Fund aims to help the state finance the sports sector and the MDJS is a major provider of this fund. MDJS’s mission is to contribute to the financing of the National Sport Development Fund (FNDS) to which it gives back all its


profits. Te FNDS was created in 1987 and is managed by the Ministry of Youth and Sport


SPORTS BETTING Sports, particularly football, are very popular in


Morocco and the Moroccan football team was the first from Africa to reach the second round of a World Cup back in 1986.


It was scheduled to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations tournament but the government refused to host the event, due to a fear of an ebola outbreak.


Sports betting is conducted by the Marocaine des Jeux des Sports (MDJS) is a public limited company with 90 per cent of the shares held by the treasury and the remainder held by the Caisse de Depot et de Gestion.


Sports betting products include TotoFoot, TotoFoot12 and Cote&Sport plus there are several instant games and Chrono (Clock).


Since 2012 the ban on advertising gambling meant MDJS could no longer promote its games, mainly Chrono and Grattez&Gagnez, on the


the supervision of breeding, the organisation of race tracks and management of horse racing events.


Te first horse racing tracks were opened back in 1914 and the horse is strongly linked to the history of the Moroccans via their Berber and Arab ancestry. Te first equine breed in North Africa is the Barbes (Beard) whilst the Arabs introduced the Arabian horses. Apparently Morocco is second in the world after Turkey for the number of purebred Arabian horse races held annually.


SOREC organises more than 2,000 races each year at seven racecourses, of which 700 are for purebred Arabians. Some 90 per cent of Arabian horses are bred in Morocco which currently has around 3,000 horses and 1,000 owners.


On average there are six meets per week plus there are nine national Grand Prix events and two international events – the International Meeting of Morocco and the UAE Abu Dhabi


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