Catalonia's Directorate of Taxes and Gaming data showed 68 open bingo halls in 2025, up from 66 in 2024. The region had 198 open gaming venues overall, including 126 gaming halls and four casinos, according to the data cited in the report.
The figures give operators and regulators a view of Catalonia's reported gaming-venue counts and year-on-year change in bingo halls.
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Catalonia's Directorate-General for Tax and Gaming recorded Encarnación Vega Guardia's departure on retirement from her role overseeing enforcement proceedings, according to the headline. The available text provides no further details.
A Generalitat Valenciana report counted 512 gaming halls in the region at the end of 2025, compared with 285 in 2015. It linked the rise to regulatory changes, including a 2015 rule increasing the minimum distance between halls, and said 31 hall relocations were authorised under the previous regional government while 29 licences were later extended.
Seven authorised bingo venues in Castilla-La Mancha sold 695,520 tickets in the fourth quarter of 2025, generating €1.14m in gross sales, according to the reported figures. Electronic bingo recorded €3.66m in sales and €840,000 in gross gaming revenue during the quarter.
Bingo play in Spain’s Valencian Community reached €376m in 2024, up about 9.7% on the previous year, according to figures attributed to the regional government and industry sources. The report says the sector maintained operational stability in 2024 and 2025, with no significant venue closures, citing electronic bingo and interconnection between halls among the factors.
Timișoara’s local council unanimously approved a ban on new gambling halls, Mayor Dominic Fritz said. Existing venues may operate until their current licences expire and will not receive new authorisations; the National Lottery’s outlets are exempt. The report says 173 authorised gambling venues were in the city earlier in the spring.