Online casino licensing in Sweden
Updated 14 October 2026. General information, not legal advice.
Sweden has required a licence to offer gambling for money since 1 January 2019, under the Gambling Act. A casino without a Swedish licence can't lawfully accept Swedish players.
Who regulates online casinos in Sweden
The regulator is Spelinspektionen. These facts come from its own website.
- Regulator
- Spelinspektionen, the Swedish Gambling Authority
- Law
- The Gambling Act (2018:1138). The licensing system came into force on 1 January 2019.
- What a casino needs
- A licence to offer gambling for money. A commercial online gambling licence covers casino games such as roulette, card games and dice games.
- Player protection
- Licence holders open a player account for each registered player and must give players the option of self-exclusion. The national self-exclusion register is Spelpaus.
Source: Spelinspektionen. Checked on 14 October 2026. General information, not legal advice.
A visitor from Sweden your casino can't accept
A casino that holds no a Swedish licencecan't accept a registration from Sweden, so the visit would normally end there. With a country rule for Sweden, 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.
Payments in Sweden
Players in Sweden often expect to pay with Swish. A casino that doesn't offer it can lose those visitors at the cashier. Adboundary can also show the screen based on a payment rule. See payment-restricted traffic.