Spain’s online gambling market generated €539.18m in gross gambling revenue in Q2 2026, according to data published by the DGOJ. Revenue rose 18.66% from the previous quarter and 31.16% year on year; betting and casino accounted for €253.59m and €261.25m, respectively.
The figures show quarterly revenue and activity trends across Spain’s licensed online gambling market.
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Spain’s DGOJ took part in a European regulators’ meeting in Halle, Germany, on 4 November 2026. Discussions covered information-sharing on illegal sites and apps, blocking unauthorised platforms and prediction markets; the DGOJ also presented findings from its assessment of commercial gambling communications rules.
Spain’s Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030 and Ceuta agreed to extend their automated exchange of gambling-exclusion register data until 8 November 2030. The four-year extension was signed on 15 October 2026 and published through a resolution by Spain’s Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling dated 21 October.
Spain's official gazette, the Boletín Oficial del Estado, published on Saturday 31 October 2026 an addendum extending the agreement between the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030 and the autonomous city of Ceuta. The agreement covers the automated interconnection of their gambling-exclusion registers.
Spain’s DGOJ reportedly tests a system that combines each player’s deposits across licensed operators and blocks further payments above €700 daily, €1,750 weekly or €3,300 every four weeks. The system is due to become mandatory on 26 March 2027.
Spain's DGOJ reportedly adds up each player's deposits across all licensed operators and blocks the next deposit once the total passes €700 a day, €1,750 a week or €3,300 every four weeks. The mechanism has reportedly been in place since 21 October. The system is currently running in a test phase. It is due to become mandatory on 26 March 2027.
Spain’s Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and the 2030 Agenda and the Autonomous City of Ceuta extended their agreement linking their gambling self-exclusion registers, according to the published addendum. The four-year extension runs until 8 November 2030. The agreement enables automated information exchange so registrations in one jurisdiction are recognised in the other.
According to a notice in the BOE of 31 October 2026, an addendum has been published extending the collaboration agreement between the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and the 2030 Agenda and the Autonomous City of Ceuta. The agreement concerns the interconnection of their respective registers of people entered in the prohibited-persons registers. The addendum adds four years to the original agreement, signed in November 2022, and sets 8 November 2030 as the new end date.
Spain’s DGOJ director general Mikel Arana addressed prediction markets at MERGE Madrid 2026 on 2 November. He said platforms offering products classed as gambling under Spanish law need a licence, and unauthorised services of that kind cannot operate legally in Spain; measures are taken to block access to affected platforms.
Spain's gambling regulator, the DGOJ, took part in MERGE Madrid 2026, an international event on cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and Web3, according to a DGOJ notice dated 2 November 2026. Mikel Arana, the DGOJ's director general, said that unlicensed prediction markets that qualify as gambling cannot legally offer their services in Spain.