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Sweden recorded SEK6.68bn in licensed gambling revenue in Q1 2026, according to Spelinspektionen, with online casino and sports betting taking a larger share of the market.
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The Swedish gambling market grew only 0.8% year on year in Q1, but the split between online and offline gaming kept changing. Commercial online gambling, covering online casino and sports betting, rose 3.4% to SEK4,439m from SEK4,295m a year earlier.
That performance gave digital betting and casino the clear lead in the licensed market. Since Sweden re-regulated gambling in 2019, online operators have taken a growing share of revenue, while several retail-led categories have lost ground.
State lottery and slot machine gaming fell 3.4% to SEK1,274m. Public benefit lotteries and games also declined, dropping 2.6% to SEK863m. Hall bingo stayed flat at SEK47m.
One smaller offline category improved. Land-based commercial gaming, mainly restaurant casinos, increased 3.6% to SEK57m from SEK55m in Q1 2025.
Casino Cosmopol no longer adds revenue to the market total. State-run casino revenue disappeared for a third straight quarter after the final venue closed in early 2025. The segment had produced SEK26m in Q1 2025 and SEK8m in Q2 2025 before exiting the figures.
Spelinspektionen said full-year 2025 licensed market revenue across all segments reached SEK28.2bn. The regulator does not publish operator-by-operator figures, so the quarterly data only shows totals across licensed operators.
Player protection data also increased. By the end of March 2026, almost 138,000 people had signed up to Spelpaus.se, the national self-exclusion register. That was 2.6% higher than at the end of Q4 2025.