Sweden’s regulated gambling market reached SEK 7.4 billion in Q2 2026, driven by online gaming and sports betting

Sweden’s licensed gambling market closed Q2 2026 at SEK 7.4 billion, or $776 million, up 5.1% year on year, according to Spelinspektionen. For PSPs and operators watching regulated volume, the detail that matters is simple: online gaming and sports betting still do the heavy lifting, while land-based channels remain a side story.

1. Online gaming and sports betting generated SEK 4.96 billion, or about $520 million, and rose a little more than 7% year on year. That was the main driver of growth in Sweden’s licensed market.
2. State lotteries and slot machines produced SEK 1.43 billion, about $150 million, essentially unchanged from the same quarter a year earlier. Public-benefit gaming, including lotteries and land-based bingo halls, added SEK 863 million, or about $90.5 million, while land-based bingo held steady at around SEK 51 million, or $5.35 million.
3. Commercial land-based gambling, mainly casino games inside restaurants, increased to SEK 73 million, or $7.65 million, up almost 13% from SEK 64 million, or $6.71 million, in Q2 2025. The increase came after the closure in 2025 of Casino Cosmopol, the last venue of this kind operated by Svenska Spel, which stopped reporting meaningful revenue in that period.
4. Spelinspektionen also reported on Spelpaus.se, Sweden’s national self-exclusion system, which has been in place since the 2019 regulatory reform. The register fell 0.7% quarter on quarter to just under 138,000 self-excluded players at the end of the quarter.
5. In April, Spelinspektionen introduced stricter rules to standardize operators’ technical connection to Spelpaus, including unique identifiers and stronger verification checks. The move followed a documentary last year that questioned the system’s security by alleging a possible data leak; the regulator denied the allegation.

Spelinspektionen counted 2,186 gambling sites outside the regulated market as of April 30. For licensed operators and their payment providers, that is the number that keeps the pressure on: regulated volume is growing, but the unlicensed market is still sitting there in plain sight.