Who owns Admiral.ch?

As of 14 Oct 2026: Admiral.ch is the Swiss online casino of Casinò Admiral Mendrisio, a land-based casino in Switzerland owned by Novomatic AG, the private Austrian gaming-machine maker. The Swiss regulator ESBK lists admiral.ch as the online platform of Casino Mendrisio. It runs under the casino's concession with an online extension, granted in February 2025.

Ultimate owner	Novomatic AG (private (founder-controlled through the holding companies Novo Invest GmbH and Novum Swiss AG))
Operating company	Casinò Admiral Mendrisio, Switzerland
Licences	Switzerland — ESBK
Products	Casino
Website	admiral.ch
Also runs as	online.casinoadmiral.cz, admiral.lt, online.casinoadmiral.sk, admiralcasino.co.uk, admiral.hr
Companies of the other sites	Paradise Casino Admiral, a.s. (online.casinoadmiral.cz) · Czechia — Ministry of Finance UAB VSGA (admiral.lt) · Lithuania — LPT CBG, spol. s r. o. (online.casinoadmiral.sk) · Slovakia — ÚRHH 000338/2024 Greentube Alderney Limited (admiralcasino.co.uk) · UKGC account 39050 ADMIRAL .HR d.o.o. (admiral.hr) · Croatia — Ministry of Finance
Sister casinos	12
Fines and actions	Admiral.ch’s own company: 0 · whole Novomatic AG group: 3
Owner proof	verified
Last checked	14 Oct 2026

In numbers

Novomatic AG owns 13 casino and betting brands (25 websites) in our data.
3 fines and regulator actions against the owner since 2025, about €1.4 million in total (converted to euros).

Who is behind it

Novomatic AG is based in Gumpoldskirchen in Austria, and our data gives 1980 as its founding year. It makes gaming machines and runs casinos. It is not listed. Its founder controls it through two holding companies, Novo Invest GmbH and Novum Swiss AG; a 2026 reorganisation raised the stake of Novum Swiss AG. Novomatic runs Admiral and AdmiralBet sites in several European countries through local companies and its Greentube unit.

Licence and what it means for you

Casinò Admiral Mendrisio holds a concession from the ESBK, and the regulator granted it an online extension in February 2025. admiral.ch went live in July 2025. Our data shows no separate licence number; the right to run the site comes from the Mendrisio concession. Swiss rules on player protection apply to Swiss players on this site.

Licence records

Regulator	Type	Valid	Check it
Switzerland — ESBK	Casino concession with online extension (Casino Mendrisio; online since 16 Jul 2025)	active	register

Sister sites

Admiral also runs under its own name in other countries: online.casinoadmiral.cz in Czechia, online.casinoadmiral.sk in Slovakia, admiral.hr in Croatia, admiral.lt in Lithuania and admiralcasino.co.uk in the UK. Our data rates some of these links as reported or unclear. Beyond the Admiral name, Novomatic has 12 sister brands in our data, such as Kingsbet, Admiralbet DE and Stargames DE.

12 sister casinos

Same owner often means the same terms, the same support team and the same payout rules. A self-exclusion at one brand may not cover its sister sites.

Does self-exclusion at Admiral.ch cover its sister sites? · How national self-exclusion schemes work

Fines and regulator actions

Our data holds no fine against Casinò Admiral Mendrisio. Three actions concern other Novomatic companies. In January 2025 Greentube Alderney Limited, which runs Admiral Casino in the UK, made a £1 million settlement with the UK Gambling Commission, its second one. In Spain the DGOJ fined Beatya Online Entertainment, PLC €180,000 in March 2025 for technical failures, and BEATYA ONLINE, SA €18,000 in October 2025 over player-protection duties. These cases are not about admiral.ch.

All 3 fines and regulator actions, with sources

None of these 3 names Admiral.ch’s own company; they concern other companies of the Novomatic AG group. The company column names who was fined.

Fines from the 40 regulators, prosecutors and courts we track, online gambling only; fines against land-based casinos are out of scope. How we count fines.

Date	Company	Regulator / court	Amount	Reason
2025-10-28	BEATYA ONLINE, SA	Spain — DGOJ	EUR 18,000	Breached responsible-gambling and player-protection obligations. Nominal fine €30.000; reduced to €18.000 after the firm admitted liability and paid early. Case ES/2025/082; DGOJ lists it under 2026. source
2025-03-14	Beatya Online Entertainment, PLC	Spain — DGOJ	EUR 180,000	Did not meet the technical requirements set by the gambling regulations. Nominal fine €300.000; reduced to €180.000 after the firm admitted liability and paid early. Case ES/2025/014; DGOJ lists it under 2025. source
2025-01-09	Greentube Alderney Limited (Admiral Casino)	UK Gambling Commission	GBP 1,000,000	Second regulatory settlement for compliance failures; money paid to socially responsible causes. source

About Novomatic AG

Austrian gaming-machine maker and casino operator from Gumpoldskirchen. It is not listed: its founder controls it through the holding companies Novo Invest GmbH and Novum Swiss AG (a 2026 reorganisation raised Novum Swiss AG's stake). Its online brands include Admiral and AdmiralBet sites in several European countries, run through local companies and its Greentube unit.

Headquarters: Austria · Founded: 1980 · Ownership: private (founder-controlled through the holding companies Novo Invest GmbH and Novum Swiss AG)

How we know, and what we could not confirm

How we know: Online extension granted Feb 2025; launched July 2025. Listed by ESBK as the online platform of Casino Mendrisio.

We have no company registration number for Casinò Admiral Mendrisio.

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