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Entain has written to 10 English football clubs asking them to withdraw from sponsorship arrangements with operators lacking a UK licence. The appeal comes ahead of the 9 September deadline for the DCMS consultation on sponsorships involving unlicensed gambling operators.
Entain has written to 10 English football clubs asking them to withdraw from sponsorship arrangements with operators lacking a UK licence. The appeal comes ahead of the 9 September deadline for the DCMS consultation on sponsorships involving unlicensed gambling operators.
The report said that Birmingham City named Coral as its new shirt sponsor. The agreement comes as EPL clubs face a prohibition on front-of-shirt gambling sponsorships.
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Entain wrote to 10 English football clubs urging them to reconsider offshore betting partnerships, citing published reporting. Entain said the partners lacked UK licences and raised concerns about player protection and money laundering. The report places the letters ahead of the close of a government consultation on such sponsorships.
Tesco reported an unlicensed casino using its branding to Report Fraud and the National Cyber Security Centre. The site remained accessible in Britain over the weekend. Police acknowledged the complaint but had not assigned it for formal investigation by Sunday; Meta removed associated Facebook content after the Guardian contacted it.
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The case involves an unlicensed casino using a recognised retailer’s identity to attract British customers through Facebook advertising.
Offshore betting partners face Entain's calls for clubs to reconsider sponsorships over UK licensing, player protection and money laundering concerns.
The appeal puts clubs’ sponsorship agreements with operators lacking UK licences under scrutiny as the government consults on their legality.
The agreement gives Coral shirt exposure at a club outside the EPL ban.
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