106 Spain Sports Betting Statistics for 2026

Conventional online sports betting

The regulator separates conventional fixed-odds sports betting from betting placed during events. Its monthly download measures the nationally licensed online market, excluding reserved operators such as SELAE. This boundary counts when comparing the figures with lottery-product sales elsewhere in this article. The observations below come directly from individual monthly cells; they are neither estimates of total Spanish gambling nor measures of household expenditure. GGR is the operator margin after the specified deductions and balance adjustments. Amount wagered records participation and can include money played again after a win. Neither series identifies unique bettors or the amount transferred into their accounts. The source chart preserves the earlier quarterly-report vintage, while the text uses the subsequently revised monthly download. Differences between these vintages should therefore be investigated through the regulator's revisions, instead of silently reconciled.

DGOJ original conventional fixed-odds sports-betting figure, first through third quarters of 2025. Original quarterly-report vintage; chart uses a logarithmic euro scale and is not the later monthly CSV vintage. Source: DGOJ, 22 December 2025.

Live online sports betting

Live fixed-odds sports betting is a distinct product category in the regulator's download. The label refers to bets placed during an event, not to a separate geographical market or a count of people watching sport. These cells retain the same licensed online scope as the conventional series. They do not include retail betting premises, and they should not be added to product sales from a different reporting system to invent a national total. The monthly observations allow readers to inspect the operator margin within a consistent category and source vintage. They do not explain why individual months differ. Sporting results, promotional conditions and accounting adjustments would require additional evidence before any causal claim could be made. The original quarterly chart is included as an independently inspectable producer figure, with its older reporting period and logarithmic scale clearly disclosed.

DGOJ original live fixed-odds sports-betting figure, first through third quarters of 2025. Original quarterly-report vintage; chart uses a logarithmic euro scale and is not the later monthly CSV vintage. Source: DGOJ, 22 December 2025.

What do SELAE's sports-product sales show?

SELAE's annual accounts identify the sales of named sports and horse-racing pools separately from its lottery products. The observations selected here concern Quiniela, Elige8, Quinigol and Quíntuple Plus. The tables report amounts in thousands of euros, and that unit is retained instead of presenting the figures as exact single-euro receipts. These are operator product sales across the channels included in the accounts, not an online-only market series. They do not measure gross gaming revenue, profits, deposits or the number of people betting. SELAE is also authorised to operate in Andorra. These operator rows have no separate territorial or channel breakdown. No national total is constructed by adding them to the regulator's online figures. The hybrid number-and-horse product Lototurf and the other lottery rows remain outside this selection.

How did the operator's sports sales change annually?

The annual reports also publish percentage changes against the preceding year. These observations describe the movement in sales of each named product, not changes in the number of bettors or their average losses. A positive change and a negative change may occur in different products during the same year. The comparison does not establish why customers changed their behaviour, and it does not isolate the effect of any tournament, marketing activity or economic condition. The percentages are retained exactly as the producer reports them, including their signs. They are not recomputed from rounded sales entries. This counts because the displayed monetary precision can produce small differences when a reader calculates a percentage independently. The comparison period is stated beside each observation, keeping annual growth separate from a quarterly online-market change.

What did the household survey reveal about betting products?

The household survey EDADES asks about gambling during the preceding year and records the products respondents used in each channel. Its population covers residents aged 15–64, including minors. The percentages below condition on people who gambled in the named channel; they do not show the share of all residents who used a particular product. The online and in-person groups also need not be separate sets of people, since someone may use both channels. Product responses can overlap within a channel.

The report warns that online results require caution because they are based on relatively few cases. Differences between survey editions therefore should not be presented as precise changes in the number of bettors. The selected observations retain the source's categories for sports betting, football pools and horse-race betting. They are not added to the financial totals reported by regulators or operators.

How did students describe their online betting choices?

ESTUDES provides a separate view of secondary-school students aged 14–18, including minors. These results cannot be merged with the household survey to create an adult participation estimate. The product percentages here concern students who reported gambling online during the preceding year. They are not percentages of all students, and they do not establish whether respondents used licensed operators or complied with minimum-age rules.

The report presents both an overall product breakdown and a breakdown by sex. The latter uses the corresponding male or female group of online gamblers as its denominator. A difference between those percentages is not a count of students, nor does it identify a cause of gambling behaviour. The same person may report several products. These distinctions remain relevant when comparing sports betting with football pools, which the questionnaire records as separate choices.

Full source list

Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego. Resumen T3-2025. 2025-12-22.

Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego. GGR y cantidades jugadas por tipo de juego, 2T-2026 monthly download. dataset modified 21 September 2026. SELAE. Informe de gestión y Estado de Información no financiera 2024. 2024 annual report. SELAE. Informe de gestión y Estado de Información no financiera 2023. 2023 annual report. SELAE. Informe de gestión y Estado de Información no financiera 2022. 2022 annual report. Ministerio de Sanidad / OEDA. Informe sobre adicciones comportamentales y otros trastornos adictivos 2025. 2025 report. Original figure source. Mercado de juego online 2025.T3, Comparativa Evolución GGR y Cantidades jugadas por tipo de juego. Related evidence: Portugal, football, 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.

• DGOJ · Dec 2025
• DGOJ · Dataset modified 21 September 2026
• OEDA · 2025 report
• SELAE · 2024 annual report
• SELAE · 2022 annual report
• SELAE · 2023 annual report