105 Portugal Sports Betting Statistics for 2026

What did regulated online stakes and revenue show?

Portugal's regulator, SRIJ, distinguishes the money wagered from the operator's gross revenue. Its reports define gross revenue as stakes less the amount awarded in prizes. Stakes can include direct deposits, promotional bonuses and winnings wagered again, so they should not be read as the amount of new money deposited by customers. The observations here cover licensed online fixed-odds sports betting, with casino play excluded. They retain the regulator's published quarterly amounts and changes instead of recalculating growth from rounded chart labels. This is particularly useful when a reported change does not reproduce exactly from the displayed totals. The underlying quarterly data remain provisional until the economic year closes. These reports describe regulated market activity; they do not provide a measure of all spending through unlicensed operators.

SRIJ's original regulated online fixed-odds sports-betting gross-revenue chart (left), Q2 2026 report. The casino chart on the right has a separate product scope. Source.

Which sports and competitions attracted online stakes?

The sports breakdown adds detail to the headline market totals, but it introduces different denominators. A sport's share refers to all regulated online sports-betting stakes in the quarter. A competition's share refers only to stakes within its sport: football tournaments use football stakes, tennis tournaments use tennis stakes, and the basketball competition uses basketball stakes. These percentages are not counts of bettors or measures of the share of Portuguese residents who watched an event. They also do not measure the operator's gross revenue from a sport. The quarterly reports allow the composition of regulated wagering to be described without assigning an unsupported financial value to each competition. The original labels are retained, including the residual "other sports" category, and published shares are not adjusted to force a perfectly rounded total.

SRIJ's original sports stakes mix (left), Q1 2026. Football, tennis and basketball shares use all sports stakes; competition shares in the accompanying text use the named sport's stakes. The separate casino chart on the right is outside this article's scope. Source.

What do Santa Casa's sports sales and retail mechanisms show?

Santa Casa's sports products have different structures. Placard is its territorial fixed-odds sports-betting product, while Totobola is a sports pool. The sales rows describe those named products, instead of the whole lottery portfolio. Gross sales are recognised after recorded returns, but before prizes, stamp duty, mediator remuneration and the legal deductions shown elsewhere in the accounts. They must not be labelled gross gaming revenue or operator profit.

Channel descriptions also matter. The report expressly places Placard's QR-code registrations in the physical mediator network. Preparing a code on a digital device does not turn the eventual retail transaction into an online bet. Totobola's sales row is not split between channels. Separately reported Placard self-exclusions concern that product's own mechanism, instead of all customers of the Jogos Santa Casa website or app.

How were sports-betting deductions allocated to sports bodies?

The annual accounts identify distributions from legal deductions on territorial fixed-odds sports betting. The preceding explanatory page expressly introduces the table as allocations from Apostas Desportivas à Cota. These payments describe the destination of a deduction from betting revenue; they are not stakes placed on the recipient's sport, betting-market shares, sponsorship expenditure or the organisation's total annual funding.

The source distinguishes the sports-recipient allocation from Santa Casa's own deduction. Its separate EuroDreams deduction also accrues to Santa Casa, so the organisation's own combined recipient line and the table total are not selected here. Named sports recipients retain their individual reported amounts. The selection follows the largest nonzero sports-recipient amounts in the later year and matching earlier entries, without calculating a new aggregate or treating changes as evidence of growth in betting on a particular sport.

What did Portugal's survey report about sports-betting habits?

The CICS.NOVA research team's national household survey describes residents aged 15–74, including minors. Fieldwork ran from September 2021 to November 2022, and the report is dated November 2023. Results are weighted; they are not current adult participation estimates. The selected categories distinguish Placard, other sports betting and horse-race betting instead of pooling every form of gambling.

Two different denominators matter here. Channel choices describe players of the named product. Frequency percentages describe the whole target resident population, including non-players. The report does not provide product-specific sample sizes in these tables, so no player counts or subgroup precision are inferred. No fixed annual recall window is imposed on these questions. A zero at the published precision does not prove that nobody engaged in the activity.

Full source list

Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos. Registo da atividade de jogo online em Portugal, 2026q1. 2026-06-17.

Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos. Registo da atividade de jogo online em Portugal, 2025q4. 2026-03-17. Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos. Registo da atividade de jogo online em Portugal, 2026q2. 2026-08-06. Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Departamento de Jogos. Relatório e Contas 2024, Departamento de Jogos. 2024 annual report. Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Departamento de Jogos. Relatório e Contas 2025, Departamento de Jogos. 2025 annual report. SICAD. V Inquérito Nacional ao Consumo de Substâncias Psicoativas na População Geral, Portugal 2022, Relatório Final. November 2023 report. Original SRIJ publication-date announcements: 2026-03-17; 2026-06-17; 2026-08-06. Related evidence: football, tennis, horse racing and research methodology.

Methodology and sources

Every figure on this page comes from the organisation that produced it: regulators, statistics offices, public bodies, research institutes, and companies reporting their own data or surveys. Each one links to the original report or dataset and carries its release date. Survey results keep their population and fieldwork period, and financial figures keep the measure the producer used. Figures from different producers are not added together or ranked against each other. The page is reviewed monthly and updated when a producer releases newer data.

• CICS.NOVA · November 2023 report
• SCML · 2025 annual report
• SCML · 2024 annual report
• SRIJ · Jun 2026
• SRIJ · Mar 2026
• SRIJ · Aug 2026