Reports LITHUANIA MARKET
LOTTERY OPERATOR REVENUES 2018 DATE
Year 2018 104.8m Year 2017 88.8m
Q1-2 2019 57.1m Q1-2 2018 48.9m
€91.6m €54.4m
€49.7m
TICKETS SOLD TICKETS TURNOVER PAID OUT REVENUE €105.1m
€58.2m €26.8m €46.8m
€50.5m €41m €30.9m
€23.4m €22.9m
National Lottery operating licences are issued by the State Gaming Control Commission and can only be operated by Lithuania companies or foreign enterprises with a registered branch in the country. A survey reported that at least
63 per cent of people in the country have played the lottery at least once in 2017. It is feared the changes could see lottery income reduced as player numbers decrease.
out an independent audit and make this publicly available if grants exceed €10,000 per year.
Te lottery sector is regulated by the Law on Lotteries No. IX-1661 of 2003. Tere are two types of licences – one for national lotteries and another for local lotteries.
National Lottery operating licences are issued by the State Gaming Control Commission and can only be operated by Lithuania companies or foreign enterprises with a registered branch in the country.
A survey reported that at least 63 per cent of people in the country have played the lottery at least once in 2017. It is feared the changes could see lottery income reduced as player numbers decrease.
Lottery tax is based on sales revenue and is made up of five per cent lottery tax and an eight per cent allocation to charities (totalling 13 per cent), compared to gambling (bingo, totalisator and betting) which pays a 15 per cent tax on GGR, whilst online gambling pays 10 per cent on GGR.
In 2018, there were seven private companies and one small lottery company operating lotteries. Te main operators include:
Olifeja stands for an abbreviation of the word ‘Olympic Fairy’. It was set up to fund Olympic athletes in 1992 by two businessmen, Antanas Muraska and Donatas Kazlauskas, who today are CEO and Deputy Director General respectively. Te two later went on to set up a second lottery and online network called Perlas.
Olifera today operates games such as Telelotto, P76 NEWSWIRE / INTERACTIVE / MARKET DATA
Vikinglotto, Eurojackpot, Kenoloto and Force, plus a range of instant lotteries.
Meanwhile EuLoto, which stands for ‘Good lotteries’, organises the country’s biggest online digital lotteries. EuLoto was established in 2008 when Donatas Kazlauskas introduced phone sports lotteries to Lithuania. His first company was called Sporto Loterijos, which ceased operations after two years due to a lack of trust from players in phone lotteries and competition from other lottery set-ups.
Te company was later called Lietloto, but has since renamed itself EuLoto. Lottery tickets are distributed via a network of Perlas terminals and via the
perlas.lt website. Perlas Network operates around 2,000 PoS and online sites offering access to all its lotteries where players can buy tickets and check results.
In 2016, a five-year agreement was signed permitting NeoGames to enhance EuLoto’s interactive Perlas portal with a broad range of interactive games.
EuLoto now operates Sportloto, where players can guess the final scores of a basketball or football match (or combination of the two) and win up to €50,000; Blitz Lotto – an online platform of instant lotteries with over 50 games; instant lottery ‘Uz Zalgiri’ based on the board game Monopoly; SuperLoto and telephone lottery Loto 1634, where players send an empty text or call 1634 to enter a draw.
A third lottery is operated by Zalgirio Loto whose lotteries are accessible online via its
lottofx.eu site, including Bandit and various instant lotteries. Te lottery is drawn on a Friday and tickets have three combinations of numbers
with five, 10 or 15 digits. Prizes are around €3m and tickets can be bought online, via the phone, or in supermarkets and newsstands.
CASINOS AND GAMING HALLS Tere are 18 casinos operated by three
companies in Lithuania. Since 2013, only one new casino has been opened. Revenues are around €31m (GGR and tips).
Casinos must receive the consent of a local municipality council to open and cannot be located near education facilities, libraries, theatres, museums or health care centres.
Locations must have gambling warning signs in the venue. A casino must operate at least three gaming tables (including at least one roulette) and at least 30 Category A slots. Payout is at least 90 per cent.
Te authorised capital of a company operating a casino is at least €1.15m. Meanwhile, a minimum of €11,585 per gaming table and €7,241 per Category A must be kept as a bank guarantee.
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