Montenegro's Games of Chance Administration collected €43.52m ($48.43m) from gambling in the first ten months of 2026, a 24.52% increase year-on-year.
The figures, released by the authority and reported by national agency MINA on 11 November, measure receipts to the administration rather than operators' gambling turnover or gross gaming revenue.
Online gambling was the largest reported contributor at €17.57m, up 36.76% from January to October 2025. It accounted for roughly 40% of the ten-month total. The online figure had already exceeded the €16.78m collected from internet gambling across the whole of 2025, according to the administration's published full-year figures.
Slot halls produced €10.5m in receipts, an increase of 47.36% year-on-year. Betting contributed €9.46m, up 11.17%, while casino games generated €5.38m.
The authority did not give a comparative growth rate for casinos in its latest announcement. Prize games, tombola and one-off fees paid in October made up the remaining receipts.
For October alone, the administration reported €5.24m, up 38.67% from October 2025. Its January-to-October total is also close to the €43.61m collected throughout all of last year, although the periods are different and the 2026 figure does not yet include November or December. That full-year 2025 sum was 28.99% higher than in 2024.
The administration attributed the latest increase partly to an updated legislative framework, closer supervision and more consistent collection of operators' legal obligations. It said its fully operational information system gives officials direct visibility of licensed operators' business activity and financial flows. Those are the regulator's explanations for the rise; the figures alone do not isolate how much each change contributed.
The administration said it would continue working with the Ministry of Finance on gambling policy and applying the current Games of Chance Act. The act came into force in August 2025.
An earlier official update showed first-half 2026 receipts of €24.57m, up 35.9% from the corresponding period, placing the new ten-month data in the authority's ongoing series of collection reports.
The same trend appeared in the authority's first five months of 2026, when state gambling receipts reached €19.9m, up 33.69% year-on-year. Online gambling was already its largest category at €8.7m. The latest release extends that series through October and shows how much each major segment contributed.
The current Games of Chance Act was published on 6 August 2025 and took effect on 14 August 2025
