Who owns bwin?

As of 14 Oct 2026: bwin is owned by Entain plc, a betting group listed in London and based in the Isle of Man. bwin.com is active on the UK licence of LC International Limited, a Gibraltar company with UK Gambling Commission account 54743. bwin runs sports betting, casino and poker, with separate national sites in many European countries, Ontario and Colombia.

Ultimate owner	Entain plc (listed (LSE: ENT))
Operating company	LC International Limited, Gibraltar
Licences	UKGC account 54743 Ireland — GRAI (GRAI-0622-RB-26-0001)
Products	Sports betting, Casino, Poker
Website	bwin.com
Also runs as	bwin.dk, bwin.de, bwincasino.be, bwin.be, bwin.fr, bwin.pt, bwin.es, bwin.it, bwin.gr, on.bwin.ca, bwin.co
Companies of the other sites	ElectraWorks Limited (bwin.dk) · Denmark — Spillemyndigheden · Kahnawake — KGC · Ireland — GRAI (GRAI-0652-RB-26-0001) bwin (Deutschland) Limited (bwin.de) · Germany — GGL Infiniti Casino Oostende (SA/NV) (bwincasino.be) · Belgium — Gaming Commission LEADER BET (SA/NV) (bwin.be) · Belgium — Gaming Commission B.E.S. SAS (bwin.fr) · France — ANJ GOBET-Entretenimento, S.A. (bwin.pt) · Portugal — SRIJ Licença n.º 002 · Portugal — SRIJ Licença n.º 006 +5 more on the owner page
Sister casinos	33
Fines and actions	bwin’s own company: 0 · whole Entain plc group: 9
Owner proof	verified
Last checked	14 Oct 2026

In numbers

LC International Limited also runs 12 other gambling brands under the same company and licence.
Entain plc owns 34 casino and betting brands (67 websites) in our data.
9 fines and regulator actions against the owner since 2019, about €715 million in total (converted to euros).
Licensed in 2 countries: GB, IE.

Who is behind it

bwin is built around country sites: our data lists separate domains such as bwin.de, bwin.fr, bwin.it, bwin.gr and on.bwin.ca. Its owner Entain, founded in 2004, changed its name from GVC Holdings and keeps its shares listed in London. The bwin.party name in the Romanian case below shows the brand's earlier link with partypoker and PartyCasino.

Licence and what it means for you

UKGC account 54743 covers bwin.com for players in Great Britain. There, UK rules apply on identity checks, safer-gambling tools and complaints. Many bwin customers, though, use a national site: bwin.de, bwin.be, bwin.fr, bwin.es, bwin.it, bwin.pt, bwin.gr, bwin.dk, on.bwin.ca or bwin.co. Each of those follows its own national regulator, and the UK licence gives no protection there. Check the footer of your country site for the licence that applies.

Licence records

Regulator	Type	Valid	Check it
UKGC account 54743	—	active	register
Ireland — GRAI GRAI-0622-RB-26-0001	B2C Remote Betting	2026-07-01 – 2029-06-30	register

What each licence means, and self-exclusion

What a UKGC licence means · self-exclusion: GamStop

Sister sites

Sportingbet and Gamebookers are bwin's closest matches: both mix sports betting and casino under Entain. partypoker and PartyCasino share bwin's bwin.party history and its UK licence holder. In our data the Danish site bwin.dk runs under ElectraWorks Limited, the company also linked to Sports Interaction. Entain lists 33 other brands, from Coral to STS. Self-excluding on one bwin country site may not reach them.

33 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 bwin cover its sister sites? · How national self-exclusion schemes work

Fines and regulator actions

LC International Ltd, the licence holder for bwin.com, was one of the two companies that paid the 2022 UK Gambling Commission settlement of £17 million, together with Ladbrokes retail. Our data has 9 actions across Entain.

All 9 fines and regulator actions, with sources

None of these 9 names bwin’s own company; they concern other companies of the Entain plc 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
2025-01-23	Betent B.V. (BetCity)	Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands)	EUR 2,650,000	Fine for duty-of-care failures toward young adults (18 to 23) with large losses; all 10 player files reviewed showed breaches. Decision of 23 January 2025, published 28 October 2025; the objection was rejected on 5 August 2025 and BetEnt has appealed to the court. source
2024-12-17	Electraworks Ceuta, SA	Spain — DGOJ	EUR 217,200	Let a person registered in Spain's gambling self-exclusion register (RGIAJ) play. Nominal fine €362.000; reduced to €217.200 after the firm admitted liability and paid early. Case ES/2024/208; DGOJ lists it under 2025. source
2023-12-05	Entain plc	Crown Prosecution Service / HMRC (UK DPA)	GBP 585,000,000	Deferred prosecution agreement for failing to prevent bribery in former Turkey-facing business (2011-2017), under GVC ownership; plus £20m charity and £10m costs. source
2023-11-30	BetEnt B.V. (BetCity)	Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands)	EUR 3,000,000	Anti-money-laundering (Wwft) breaches: weak customer due diligence and transaction monitoring. source
2023-06-27	UAB Baltic Bet (Optibet)	Lithuania — LPT	EUR 16,705	Website content and search keyword ads for Optibet judged to encourage gambling (date is the report date). source
2023-04-20	Betent B.V. (BetCity)	Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands)	EUR 400,000	Advertising aimed at young adults (date = trade press report). source
2022-08-17	LC International Limited (ladbrokes.com, coral.co.uk, foxybingo.com)	UK Gambling Commission	GBP 14,000,000	Social responsibility and AML failures across 13 online sites; Entain paid GBP 17m in total including GBP 3m for its retail arm. source
2019-06-26	ElectraWorks Limited	Spelinspektionen (Sweden)	SEK 5,500,000	Warning and fine for taking bets on matches with under-18 players. source
2019	Ladbrokes Coral Group	UK Gambling Commission	GBP 5,900,000	Earlier social-responsibility penalty package for Ladbrokes and Coral. source

About Entain plc

Formerly GVC Holdings, Entain owns Ladbrokes, Coral, bwin, partypoker and a long list of European, Australian and Canadian brands. It co-owns BetMGM in the US with MGM Resorts. It has paid the largest UK gambling penalties on record, including a £585m bribery-related deferred prosecution agreement.

Headquarters: Isle of Man · Founded: 2004 · Ownership: listed (LSE: ENT)

How we know, and what we could not confirm

How we know: Active domain on LC International Ltd UK licence.

We have no company registration number for LC International Limited.

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