Gambling regulation
Gambling in the country:
Licensing
Local License:
MF
iGaming news in the country
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All types of gambling are legal in the Czech Republic. Residents of the country over 18 years of age can play in both land-based and online casinos.
The law on gambling came into force on January 1, 2017, including online casinos in the permitted list. Lotteries, sports betting, bingo, poker, slot machines and casino games (note: roulette) are also permitted.
Gambling in the Czech Republic is regulated under the Betting and Gambling Act No. 186/2016 Coll. The gaming industry is managed by the local Ministry of Finance.
According to the mentioned law, it is allowed in the Czech Republic:
land-based casinos
slot machines
online games
lotteries
betting and sweepstakes
bingo
About blocking and liability
Medium
Legislation:
Ambiguous / requires verification
The activity of the authorities:
Medium
Risk of harassment of non-residents:
Low
The risk in entering the country:
Low
Risk of extradition to the country:
Low
Precedents (against non-residents):
No data
Comment on the level of risk:
Czech Republic: Current assessment is preliminary - local inspection is recommended. It is possible to work with caution if there are no explicit prohibitions. Risk of extradition to the country is low, requests are rare.
Blask.com data - index and top brands
Indicates the aggregate level of engagement and interest in all brands in a country. This indicator serves as a barometer for the iGaming industry and combines various indicators to give an overview of trends and changes in the market.
*BAP (Brand's Accumulated Power) - accumulated brand power, reflects the brand's share of consumer interest in the online gambling market. The relative presence of a brand in a country. The BAP graph is presented below:
Data for the section is provided by the analytical service Blask.com.. At the moment, the service's database contains information on more than 80+ countries and more than 2500 brands.
Gambling in the country
The Czech Republic shows a high interest in gambling on the part of the population, including online gambling.
It's not just online casinos that are popular. Participation in lotteries over the past 12 months was reported by 17.3%. Most often respondents bet on odds in land-based bookmaker offices.
The highest prevalence of gambling was observed in the 25-34 age category. The lower the age, the lower the interest.
Key Figures:
The prevalence of addiction is several times higher among men and young people aged 15-34. Men are the main audience for gambling in the Czech Republic.
2.5% of adults are at risk of gambling addiction - that's about 140,000-250,000 people. 1.3% of the population, according to doctors' estimates, suffers from gambling addiction - this is about 113,000 people.
The prevalence of gambling declined slightly in 2020-2021, but returned to 2019 levels in 2022, and much higher in the case of online gambling.
In 2022, among students aged 11 to 19, 15% respondents reported gambling in the past 12 months. 5% gambled repeatedly, i.e. several times a year, and 2% gambled regularly, i.e. almost every week/daily.
Gaming addiction and its growth among the population is a major problem that the government is highlighting and tightening the restriction measures.
Licensing. To organize gambling activities, operators are required to obtain a basic license from the Ministry of Finance. The permit is obtained separately for each specific type of gambling. The opening of a physical gambling establishment additionally requires a license from the municipality.
To obtain a license, an operator must register in the Czech Republic, another EU country or an EEA country. The application fee is CZK 5 thousand. At the same time, the authorized capital of the company must be at least CZK 50 million.
Taxation. The tax rate for the sphere is 30% for most types of games, except lotteries and slot machines - 35%. Taxation of online operators is similar to operators with an office in the Czech Republic.
Advertising Restrictions. Act No. 40/1995 Coll. on Advertising prohibits advertising gambling to persons 18 years of age (minimum age for participation) and advertising on facades and inside buildings.
At the beginning of 2024, the Czech Republic changed the regulation of gambling.
The Czech Republic's legislation is rapidly moving towards a pan-European trend, with an increasing emphasis on responsible gambling. Such changes may attract major players to the market.
| Lic | AVG | Rank | MS | Brand | Rank/MS | iGaming | Rank/MS | Sportsbook | Brand | iGaming / Sportsbook |
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What information is provided in the table?
Here are the statistics on search queries for the brand Czech Republic separately by different countries and separately by iGaming and Sportsbook clusters (for convenience the columns are visually highlighted: red - for iGaming information, blue - for Sportsbook information). In case the brand consists of a word or phrase in common use - Brand frequency is calculated summarising the frequency of queries from iGaming + Sportsbook clusters.
Lic - this column indicates the icon of local licence of the brand in the country. Licence data is updated manually, without automatic aggregation, so there may be discrepancies with reality.
AVG (Average Frequency) - in this table, this is the average frequency of a branded query over the year (yellow graph).
Rank - shows the brand's place (by frequency of brand query or query cluster) in the country compared to other brands found in the country.
MS (Market Share) - market share calculated by brand frequency (or query cluster frequency) compared to other brands across the country.
If a brand frequency is found in a country that was not previously found in that country, this country is marked as "NEW..." (i.e. it is labelled as a recommendation to study the brand+country bundle as a possible new promotion market). (i.e. it is labelled as a recommendation to study the brand+country combination as a possible new promotion market).
Data is updated at least once a month. Collected from Google search engine.
Can this data be trusted?
All frequency data for analysis is collected automatically via API directly from the Google search engine. To form queries, combinations of queries like (brand + word/phrase) are used. It should be taken into account that although the data is taken from the Google search engine, but in some places it may contain contradictory information, both due to anomalies in the analytics on the Google side and human errors in the formation of brand queries. We review the received and generated data on the site and, if anomalies are detected, we make adjustments, which in the subsequent update collects data more accurately.
The data from the website should not be relied upon as an accurate measurement. This data is collected and generated on the platform in order to understand the possible demand for brands in different countries, as well as to understand the gambling market and the distribution of "forces" in it.
How does the data collection process take place?
There are several stages of data collection:
1. brand query. The system takes the name of the brand and collects the frequency of the brand query across the countries of the world available on Google. It is not uncommon for a branded query to be a commonly used word or phrase (e.g. "Raspberry" or "Alpha" or "Las Vegas"), then the frequency of the query will have completely inaccurate data that is not relevant to the company in question. In this case, "brand + casino" or "brand + bet" is added to the branded query, or the sum of frequencies from iGaming + Sportsbook clusters is taken into account instead of the branded frequency. This is done in order to exclude complete zeroing of brand frequency, and to collect instead narrower queries, but allowing to keep the brand statistics in the general picture of brands in the world and in each country separately.
2. iGaming and Sportsbook clusters - are collected from combinations of queries like "brand + casino" (+casino, +cassino, etc.) and "brand + bet" (+betting, +paris sportifs, +apuestas, etc.). That is, for each country the phrase "brand + casino" is formed, as well as phrases with the local use of the word "casino" in the native language. The same for the Sportsbook cluster, queries with "sports betting" are used, both widely used and localised in each country. The overall graph (red and blue) shows the sum of frequencies from all countries for each cluster, as well as their dynamics. The table by country shows local data formed from the sum of frequencies of cluster queries just for the country in question. If a brand already has the words "casino" or "bet" in its name, for example, "Coral casino", "Premier bet" - then when forming phrases for iGaming and Sportsbook clusters the words "casino" and "bet" added through a space are automatically removed and are not used in the formed phrases. This allows to more accurately form the key queries of users used in the search.
3. Clusters Registration, Promocode, Bonus, App - are formed similarly to the previous clusters, from combinations of commonly used queries in each country separately.
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Gambling regulation
Gambling in the country:
Licensing
Local License:
MF
About the population of the country
Official Language:
Czech
Believers:
23 %
Second Religion:
About the internet in the country
Mobile Internet:
59.1 %
Landline Internet:
38.8 %
Cf. internet speed:
44.5 Mbps
The country's domain zone:
.CZ
Population growth:
Internet users:
Urbanization:
Population - 74.6%
Urbanization - 0.2%
Languages in the country:
Czech - 88.4%
Unspecified - 7.2%.
Others - 2.6%
Slovak - 1.5%
Age structure:
0-14 years - 15.7%
15-64 years old - 63.8%
65 years and older - 20.5%
Middle age:
Total - 44.2
Men - 42.7
Women - 45.7
Literacy:
Total - 99%
Men - 99%
Women - 99%
Real GDP:
2021 - $525.243 billion.
2022 - $540.198 billion.
2023 - $539.737 billion.
Real GDP growth:
2021 - 3.55%.
2022 - 2.85%.
2023 - -0.09%
GDP per capita:
2021 - $50,000
2022 - $50,600
2023 - $49,700
Basic information about the country
Name of country:
Czech Republic
Code (2-digit):
CZ
Continent:
Europe
Capital:
Prague
Area of the country:
78.866 square kilometers.
Phone Code:
420
Currency (currency code):
Czech crown (CZK)
Geographical features of the country
Edge (13): Vysočina, Zlinski, Karlovy Vary, Kralovegradec, Liberec, Moravsko-Silesian, Olomouc, Pardubice, Pilsen, Central Bohemia, Ustec, South Moravia, South Bohemia.
Capital: Prague.
The modern territory of the country was partially or fully occupied by the following states: Frankish state (Frankia), Hunnic Empire, Samo, Great Moravia, Holy Roman Empire, Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Czechoslovakia.
There are rivers running through the area: Elbe, Odra, Vltava, Morava, Ohře (Eger), Bubr, Lusatska Nisa, Die, Sazava, Lužnice, Jihlava, Svratka, Jizera, Orlice, Berounka, Otava, Bečva, Radbuza, Opava, Uglava and others.
Mountains within the country: Sniezka, Klinowiec, Bozydarski-Spychak, Meluzina.
Famous caves in the country: Amaterskei-a-Punkevni-Yeski, Rudichki-Propadani.
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