Reports SWITZERLAND - MARKET UPDATE
SWISSLOS GGR YEAR
2019 2020
GGR LOTTERY GGR INSTANTS GGR SPORTS BETTING GGR SKILL GAMES GGR TOTAL €1.23m
€1.12m
CHF382m CHF378m
LOTERIA ROMANDE GGR YEAR - GGR
2019 2020
CHF170m CHF174m
1.1%
CHF42m CHF66m
ELECTRONIC INSTANTS SPORTS PMU LOTTERY
BETTING
CHF76.1m CHF42.5m
of the Swiss population over the age of 15 had played a gambling game at least once in their life and 55 per cent within the last 12 months. Lotteries were played the most frequently.
Illegal gambling remains one of the main priorities of the federal law on gambling. Tere are blocking procedures and a blacklist in place. Chapter seven of the Gaming Act states:
- Access to online gambling offer must be blocked when the offer is not authorised in Switzerland.
- Access is blocked to those foreign operators domiciled in offshore states. Foreign operators can cooperate with Swiss casinos to offer online services, but this cooperation must be approved.
- Te CFMJ and canton authorities will keep a list of the blocked gambling sites.
- Swiss telecommunications providers (ISPs) are required to block access for those on the blacklist.
- Te CFMJ and canton authorities can authorise a user to access blocked gaming sites for monitoring or research purposes.
Te blacklist is published on the CFMJ and the Interkantonale Geldspielaufsicht (canton authority GESPA) website. ISPs can submit a written opposition to the decision-making authority within 30 days of notification. When a game no longer meets ‘blocking conditions,’ the authority will withdraw it and the blocked website is then removed from the blacklist.
Te system initially came into force in July 2019, six months after the LJAr and in September 2019 the CFMJ published its first list of blocked game offers which contained 41 domain names linked to online casinos not authorised in Switzerland. By the end of 2019 there were 110 blocked websites. In 2020, an additional 206 website addresses were added to the blacklist bringing the total by the end of 2020 to over 316 blocked sites.
P58 WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS
CHF121.8m CHF19.7m CHF28.7m CHF161.6m CHF128.8m CHF25.6m CHF23.6m CHF153.5m
The blacklist is published on the CFMJ and the Interkantonale
Geldspielaufsicht website. ISPs can submit a written opposition to the decision- making authority within 30 days of notification. When a game no longer meets ‘blocking conditions,’ the authority will withdraw it and the blocked website is then removed from the blacklist.
Enforcement of the law includes licence withdrawal for casinos plus high fines and custodial sentences for illegal operations.
LOTTERIES AND SPORTS BETTING
Lottery and sports betting remain a state monopoly and are operated via SwissLos and Loterie Romande.
Tere are said to be around 1.5 million active sports betting players in Switzerland. Te games are offered via SwissLos and Loterie Romande, under their brands Sporttip and Jouez Sport via traditional outlets and online.
Te lottery and sports betting sector is overseen by the inter-cantonal Lottery and Betting Board (Comlot) which was re-branded last year and is now known as the Swiss Gambling Supervisory Authority (GESPA).
Te core task of GESPA is to supervise the lotteries and sports betting section, supervise gambling games, combat illegal activities and to function as a competence centre for gambling.
CHF408m CHF374.2m
Operators of large-scale gambling in Switzerland require an operator licence and a game licence from GESPA.
According to GESPA, in 2020 the turnover for the lotteries and sports betting sectors (land- based and online) amounted to CHF2.86bn (five per cent less than 2019) and a GGR of CHF992.8m of which 84 per cent of revenue is generated by lottery products. With a population in the country of 8.6 million, the average amount bet per inhabitant was CHF330.
Te share of the online gambling channels in 2020 was 17 per cent compared to 14 per cent in 2019
Sports betting (land-based and online) saw a turnover in 2020 of CHF421.8m and revenues of CHF88.5m. Tis was the only sector which saw a huge increase from 2019 data with a 58 per cent increase in turnover and 52 per cent in GGR.
Although betting on unlicensed sports betting sites is technically illegal, no actions have been taken against players who bet on them. Players simply access by using a VPN to evade internet blocking measures and the best odds are available via the foreign betting sites.
However, since the new legislation in 2019 the government has been blocking websites of unlicensed providers and many of the bigger- name operators have pulled out of Switzerland in anticipation of partnering with a casino down the road to offer legal online gambling.
SwissLos offers lotteries, sports betting and instant tickets throughout the German speaking territory of Switzerland in Ticino and principality of Liechtenstein.
It offers four number lottery games - Swiss Lottery, EuroMillions, Subito and Bingo - plus sports betting via Sporttip and PMU (horse racing), scratchcards and skill game Jass online.
GGR in 2020 for SwissLos amounted to CHF620m of which CHF66m came from sports
CHF1m CHF2m
CHF595m CHF620m
DRAW GAMES GGR TOTAL
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