Online casino licensing in Germany
Updated 14 October 2026. General information, not legal advice.
In Germany the GGL supervises cross-state online gambling and licenses online poker, virtual slot games and online sports betting. A casino without a German licence can't accept German players for those products.
Who regulates online casinos in Germany
The regulator is GGL (Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder). These facts come from its own website.
- Regulator
- GGL, a public-law institution based in Halle (Saale)
- Legal basis
- The State Treaty on Gambling 2021 (Glücksspielstaatsvertrag 2021)
- What it supervises
- Cross-state gambling offers on the internet, including approval of offers, player and youth protection, and action against illegal offers and their advertising.
- What it licenses
- Online poker and virtual slot-style games, online sports and horse-race betting, among other categories.
Source: GGL (Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder). Checked on 14 October 2026. General information, not legal advice.
A visitor from Germany your casino can't accept
A casino that holds no a German licencecan't accept a registration from Germany, so the visit would normally end there. With a country rule for Germany, that visitor sees the Adboundary screen instead. It lists partner casinos that can accept them, and Adboundary has verified every partner's licence before it can receive traffic.