CGIA-As.Tro reports Italian Lotto and instant-lottery spend at €5 billion 681 million
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A CGIA Mestre-As.Tro analysis puts Italy’s 2025 spending on Lotto and instant lotteries at €5 billion 681 million across physical and online channels. The underlying ADM monitoring data, annexed to the MEF’s parliamentary report, allocate €2 billion 339 million to Lotto and €3 billion 343 million to instant lotteries.
Spending on Lotto and scratchcards across Italy's physical and online channels reached about 5 billion and 681 million euros in 2025, according to an analysis of ADM monitoring data annexed to the MEF's report to parliament. The analysis attributed 2 billion and 339 million euros to Lotto and 3 billion and 343 million euros to instant lotteries. For instant lotteries, physical outlets accounted for 3 billion and 273 million euros in spending, while online spending was 69.2 million euros.
Physical-channel wagering on Lotto and lotteries was 20% above its 2019 level, according to a CGIA Mestre-As.Tro report using a broader measure. That measure put physical-channel wagers at 17 billion and 217 million euros in 2019, rising to 20 billion and 306 million euros in 2024 and 20 billion and 622 million euros in 2025. Online wagering reached 612 million euros in 2025, up from 507 million euros in 2024 and 160 million euros in 2019.
The MEF listed 33,639 retailers for fixed-odds number games and about 52,500 sales points for instant lotteries. Pool-based number games, including SuperEnalotto, are in a separate category. A CGIA appendix using 2024 Istat data ranked scratchcards first for prevalence, followed by Lotto and lotteries and then SuperEnalotto.