Switzerland’s Gespa reported regulated gambling turnover of CHF3.87 billion in 2025, down 2.4% from 2024. Gross player yield declined 3.7% to CHF1.203 billion; online revenue fell 1.7%, while land-based revenue dropped 4.3%.
The figures show operators a contraction in both total turnover and gross player yield across Switzerland’s regulated market.
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Switzerland's Gespa has published an overview of sports betting regulation, covering the Loterie Romande and Swisslos products Jouez Sport and Sporttip and locally licensed betting. The regulator says it sets binding limits on the scope of the lottery companies' betting offer to reduce match-manipulation risk. Net revenue from sports betting must go entirely to charitable purposes under the constitution.
Gespa has published guidance on Switzerland's lottery framework, stating that large-scale lotteries may be run only by Swisslos and Loterie Romande and are licensed and supervised by the authority. Small-scale lotteries are licensed by cantonal authorities, with Gespa approval also required where they operate across cantons.
OpenBet has launched its sportsbook technology with Loterie Romande across online, self-service terminals and 2,350 retail points of sale in Switzerland's six French-speaking cantons. The migration places the JouezSport omnichannel offering on OpenBet's platform, with a Cash Out feature live from launch. Loterie Romande is the exclusive regulated sports betting operator in those cantons.
A man in Switzerland’s Canton of Bern was convicted of operating unauthorised sports betting from a rented restaurant, according to a prosecutor’s accusation order cited in the report. The suspended financial penalty was CHF18,000, comprising 180 daily units of CHF100, with a three-year probation period; the activity dated to October–December 2020.
A Quaest poll found that 16% of respondents who were optimistic about Brazil's future cited regulation of betting and social media as a source of hope under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. That group represented 44% of respondents, making the combined issue about 7% of the full sample; the poll did not separate betting from social-media regulation. The survey interviewed 2,004 people from 30 October to 2 November.