Spain’s Directorate General for Gambling Regulation (DGOJ) has published its 2025 Gambling Activity Report, adding a regulatory annex that compares the rules applied across the country’s autonomous communities and cities.
The report was prepared with Spain’s regional administrations and validated by the Gambling Policy Council in June. The council was established under Gambling Act 13/2011 to coordinate gambling policy between the central Government and autonomous authorities.
Spain operates a divided regulatory system. The DGOJ supervises gambling offered across more than one autonomous community, including the nationally licensed online market.
Regional authorities oversee gambling conducted within their territories, particularly land-based casinos, betting premises, bingo halls and gaming machines.
This division has produced differences in permitted gambling products, licensing conditions, advertising controls and player-protection arrangements. Operators active across several regions may therefore be subject to separate territorial requirements alongside national rules.
The annex brings the main elements of those frameworks into one publication. It includes the legislation currently applied in each territory, authorised forms of gambling and information on regional registers for people who have excluded themselves from gambling.
According to the DGOJ, the content and structure were agreed through two years of work with the autonomous communities and cities. The regulator said future editions will be expanded as the authorities continue sharing information through the Gambling Policy Council.
The publication also provides consolidated information on activity across Spain’s national and regional markets. Its release follows continued growth in the state-regulated online sector, where GGR reached €1.7bn ($1.98bn) in 2025, an increase of 16.99% year-on-year.
Online casino accounted for much of that expansion. The segment remained Spain’s largest online vertical in Q1 2026, generating €247.8m and representing 54.56% of quarterly GGR. Total online GGR reached €454.2m during the period, up 13.9% year-on-year.
Earlier this month, the DGOJ allocated more than €1m to 20 projects examining gambling disorders, associated risks and prevention measures under its 2025 research grant program.
The Gambling Policy Council includes equal representation from Spain’s central administration and autonomous authorities, with the DGOJ acting as its permanent secretariat
