Spillemyndigheden — the Danish Gambling Authority
Denmark’s single licensing and supervisory authority for gambling, and operator of ROFUS and StopSpillet
Last verified: 2026-10-05
The Danish Gambling Authority grants gambling licences, supervises licensees and approved suppliers, runs the ROFUS self-exclusion register and the StopSpillet helpline, and obtains court orders to block illegal gambling sites.
The Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden)
Overview
Spillemyndigheden, the Danish Gambling Authority (DGA), is the body that grants gambling licences and supervises licensees in Denmark. The Gambling Act defines the gambling authority as the Minister for Taxation or whoever the minister authorises, and the Authority sits among the agencies listed on the Ministry of Taxation’s website. It issues licences for online casino and betting (up to five years), land-based casino (up to ten years), slot machines, land-based bingo and lotteries, supervises licensed operators and approved game suppliers, and may attach conditions to licences, issue injunctions and revoke licences for serious breaches.
Beyond licensing, the Authority runs two player-protection services: ROFUS, the register of voluntarily self-excluded players, and StopSpillet, a helpline for players, relatives and professionals. It publishes monthly statistics and an annual market report, brings court cases to have illegal gambling sites blocked by DNS, and publishes fines and convictions against companies on its website for five years. Its decisions can be appealed to the Danish Tax Appeals Tribunal and then to the courts.
Authority, supervision, revocation, appeals and publication of fines under the Gambling Act. [1]
Licences in force during 2025
| Gambling category | Licences in 2025 | Verified against primary source | Note |
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| Betting | 25 | ✓ | Up to five years |
| Betting (revenue-restricted) | 2 | ✓ | One year; GGR cap DKK 1 million |
| Online casino | 38 | ✓ | Up to five years |
| Online casino (revenue-restricted) | 3 | ✓ | One year; GGR cap DKK 1 million |
| Slot machines (restaurants and halls) | 277 | ✓ | 23,172 machines licensed on 31 Dec 2025 |
| Land-based casinos | 7 | ✓ | Up to ten years |
| Monopoly lotteries | 4 | ✓ | Four operators hold the lottery monopoly |
| Land-based bingo | 12 | ✓ | Liberalised 1 Jan 2025 |
| Charity lotteries, category 1 | 666 | ✓ | Annual sales DKK 15,000 to 200,000 |
| Charity lotteries, category 2 | 922 | ✓ | Annual sales DKK 15,000 to 5 million |
| Charity lotteries, category 3 | 14 | ✓ | Annual sales DKK 5 million to 100 million |
| Total | 1970 | ✓ | All categories |
Licence counts from the Authority’s 2025 market report. [2]
Key facts
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The gambling authority under the Gambling Act is the Minister for Taxation or whoever the minister authorises; in practice this is the Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden), which grants licences, supervises compliance with the Act, the rules issued under it and licence conditions, and may attach conditions to licences (§§4, 32 and 46).
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The Authority may inspect, without a court order and on proper identification, the premises used by a licensee and supplier and their technical facilities, books and correspondence (§47), may issue injunctions to bring a breach to an end immediately or within a set time (§49a), and may revoke a licence for grave or repeated breaches, a criminal conviction creating a risk of misuse, failure to meet the soundness requirement, repeated failure to declare or pay duty, or overdue public debt above DKK 100,000 (§44).
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Appeals against the Authority’s decisions go to the Danish Tax Appeals Tribunal (Landsskatteretten) and from there to the courts, and a decision may be brought before the courts within three months; a revocation on grave-breach grounds has suspensive effect on appeal unless the tribunal decides otherwise, and the Authority must publish fines and convictions against companies on its website for five years (§§50, 51, 55 and 63a).
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The Authority administers the ROFUS self-exclusion register and the StopSpillet helpline, publishes monthly statistics and an annual market report, and in 2025 received 727 helpline inquiries (416 from players, 291 from relatives, 20 from professionals), the busiest year since StopSpillet opened in 2019 and up from 544 in 2024.
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Every licensed operator must display the Authority’s label of approval on the front page of its website and in marketing, and the Authority states that sites carrying the label are legal in Denmark; the label may not be used by an operator’s partners that do not themselves hold a Danish licence.
European Commission TRIS (Danish Ministry of Taxation notification), Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden)
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The Gambling Act sets fees in 2010 price levels, indexed under the Personal Tax Act §20: an application fee of DKK 250,000 for an online-casino or betting licence (DKK 350,000 for both together; DKK 100,000 and DKK 125,000 for existing licensees), an annual fee that depends on the licensee’s taxable gaming revenue in seven steps from DKK 53,250 to DKK 4,695,900, and for suppliers an application fee of DKK 49,200 and an annual fee of DKK 32,800 (§§42, 42a and 42e). The indexed current amounts were not verified.
Sources
- Danish Ministry of Taxation (retsinformation.dk)Primary source — LBK nr 1182 af 22/09/2025: Bekendtgørelse af lov om spil (Gambling Act, consolidated) — https://www.retsinformation.dk/api/pdf/244581
- Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden)Primary source — The Gambling Market in Numbers 2025 (annual market report, June 2026) — https://spillemyndigheden.dk/media/n30foncu/the-gambling-market-in-numbers-2025.pdf