The Danish Gambling Authority has published its annual report describing the authority’s work on illegal gambling. In the 2025 report, you can among other things read more about the Authority’s partnerships, website blocking efforts and visits to upper‑secondary education institutions.

Each year, the Danish Gambling Authority publishes a report explaining the rules that determine when gambling is legal in Denmark, and reviewing the initiatives carried out in the past year to combat illegal gambling.

One of the initiatives conducted annually as part of the fight against illegal gambling is the blocking of illegal gambling websites. In 2025, the DGA obtained district court orders to block 334 websites offering illegal gambling. The Authority has entered into a new cooperation agreement with the Danish Telecommunications Industry (Teleindustrien), which provides the basis for blocking mirror sites without a prior court order when the court has already ruled that the content of the original site is illegal.

The DGA also participates in several national and international partnerships focused on combating illegal gambling. For example, through a collaboration with Google, the DGA can report illegal gambling apps in Google Play, after which Google may remove the illegal content. Anders Dorph, Director of the Danish Gambling Authority, also serves as Chair of GREF (Gaming Regulators European Forum), where the focus is on supporting each other in combating illegal gambling and keeping one another updated on trends observed across the illegal gambling market in Europe.

2025 was also the year in which the DGA was once again invited to visit upper‑secondary education institutions across the country. There was an increasing number of inquiries from sports clubs in 2025 requesting gambling‑related presentations for both amateur and elite clubs, and the DGA’s team of presenters delivered 100 classroom presentations last year.

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According to Section 7(1) of the Anti‑Money Laundering Act, gambling operators are required to identify and assess the risk that they may be misused for money laundering. The risk assessment must be based on the operator’s business model and must cover risk factors associated with customers, products, services and transactions, as well as delivery channels and countries or geographical areas.

The Danish Gambling Authority points out that this obligation means that any new technology used by a gambling operator must be risk‑assessed before it is launched, ensuring that no part of the operator’s business remains unassessed. New technology could, for example, include the introduction of new games or new payment solutions. The introduction of new technology therefore constitutes a change to the operator’s business model, which requires an update of the risk assessment.

When launching a new game product or other technology with which the operator has no prior experience, the operator must investigate whether relevant sources exist that can support the risk assessment.

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Danes’ gambling spend increased in April 2026 compared with the same month last year, according to the latest monthly statistics from the Danish Gambling Authority. The online casino market in particular experienced notable growth.

The figures show that total gambling spend in April 2026 rose by 2.3% compared with the same month last year. Betting saw a decrease of 22.5%. Online casino recorded an increase of 18.4%. Gaming machines experienced a 2.8% increase. For land‑based bingo, there was an increase of 17%, while land‑based casinos saw a decline of 8.3%.

More Data on ROFUS

From this month onwards, additional statistics on ROFUS (the Danish Gambling Authority’s Register of Voluntarily Excluded Players) will be available. In addition to information on the number of registered individuals and their gender, it is now also possible to view the age distribution of the nearly 72,000 people who have excluded themselves from gambling. For example, 40.7% of those registered in ROFUS are men under the age of 30.

The monthly statistics also include figures from the Danish Gambling Authority’s helpline, StopSpillet.

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