The German Gambling Authority (GGL) has published its latest activity report for 2025, showing the country’s legal gambling market a total GGR of €14.4bn ($16.4bn), broadly unchanged from 2024.
Land-based market continues to dominate, with online contributing just €3.5bn to total GGR.
Lottery products continued to dominate the market overall, generating €5.4bn in revenue. Gaming machines in halls and hospitality venues remained the second-largest segment, generating €4.9bn in GGR.
Sports betting recorded €1.9bn in GGR, of which €1.2bn came from online channels.
Land-based casino operations accounted for €1.5bn in GGR, with 13% attributable to table games. Online casino activity remained minimal at around €2m. Virtual slots and online poker generated €600m.
The 2025 activity report does not provide new estimates of the illegal online gambling market. Instead, it relies on a previously published scientific study, which found that 23% of the online gambling market in 2024 was illegal, resulting in a 77% channelisation rate.
While earlier years were primarily centred on issuing licences, the GGL said supervision of legal providers became significantly more systematised in 2025.
This included increased supervisory discussions, both ad hoc and proactive, based on reports and market monitoring, alongside closer cooperation between internal departments to ensure more consistent oversight.
The authority also continued expanding its technical infrastructure to improve data collection and analysis, with the aim of supporting supervision and future regulatory decisions.
On enforcement, the GGL said its approach to tackling illegal online gambling was further refined and expanded beyond targeting operators alone, with increased focus on the wider ecosystem, including service providers and digital intermediaries.
Looking ahead, the regulator said priorities will include the formal evaluation of the State Treaty on Gambling, preparations for the next licensing cycle from 2027 and further development of data-driven supervisory tools.
The GGR under the GGL’s responsibility in 2025 was approximately €3.9bn, or 27% of the total market, as some forms of gambling are overseen separately by the federal states
