Who owns Coral?

As of 14 Oct 2026: Coral is owned by Entain plc, the London-listed betting group once called GVC Holdings. coral.co.uk runs under LC International Limited, a Gibraltar company that holds UK Gambling Commission account 54743. In our data Coral serves only the UK. It offers sports betting, casino and bingo, but no poker.

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, Bingo
Website	coral.co.uk
Sister casinos	33
Fines and actions	Coral’s own company: 2 · 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

Coral and Ladbrokes share a past: the 2019 UK penalty in our data was paid by Ladbrokes Coral Group. Today both sit under Entain plc, a group founded in 2004 and listed in London. Entain also co-owns BetMGM in the US with MGM Resorts.

Licence and what it means for you

For coral.co.uk the licence holder is LC International Limited, UKGC account 54743. A Coral customer in Great Britain therefore gets UK Gambling Commission rules: identity checks, deposit limits and other safer-gambling tools, and a formal complaints route. GamStop blocks the site for anyone who has signed up to it. LC International also holds Irish licence GRAI-0622-RB-26-0001, but our data lists Coral for the UK market only.

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

Ladbrokes is Coral's twin: same licensee, same UK market, similar sports, casino and bingo offer. Gala Bingo and Foxy Bingo are the nearest matches for Coral's bingo players. Entain has 30 active sister brands in our data, including Eurobet, STS and Neds. A block on your Coral account alone does not stop play at these sites.

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

Fines and regulator actions

Coral's own history comes first. In 2019 Ladbrokes Coral Group paid £5.9 million to the UK Gambling Commission in a social-responsibility penalty package. In August 2022 LC International Ltd, the current holder of Coral's licence, and Ladbrokes Betting & Gaming agreed a £17 million settlement over safer-gambling and anti-money-laundering failures. Entain companies have 9 actions in our data in all.

All 9 fines and regulator actions, with sources

2 of these 9 concern Coral’s own company; the others 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.

Entain plc sister sites, fines and sources →

Ratings elsewhere

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Often compared

Are Coral and Ladbrokes owned by the same company? Yes, both are owned by Entain plc.

Questions and answers

Who owns Coral?

Entain plc, the group formerly called GVC Holdings.

Is Coral licensed?

Yes. LC International Limited holds UK Gambling Commission account 54743 for coral.co.uk.

Does Coral offer poker?

Not in our data. Coral lists sports betting, casino and bingo. Ladbrokes and partypoker are Entain brands with poker.

Has Coral been fined?

Ladbrokes Coral Group paid £5.9 million to the UK Gambling Commission in 2019.

Is Coral legit?

Coral is run by LC International Limited, which holds a licence from UKGC (account 54743) and a licence from GRAI (Ireland) for B2C Remote Betting. Check the licence in the UKGC licence register. Its owner is Entain plc, a listed company. Fines and regulator actions against Coral’s own company: 2; against the whole Entain plc group: 9. Sister sites with the same owner: 33. Guide: How to check a casino. We do not rate sites. A licence from your country’s regulator is the main protection.

What are Coral’s sister sites?

Coral has 33 sister casinos with the same owner, Entain plc: Ladbrokes, bwin, Sportingbet, partypoker, PartyCasino and 28 more. Full list: all Entain plc sister sites.

Sources

Last checked 14 Oct 2026. Review text checked against our data on 25 Oct 2026. How we check facts. Gambling can be addictive. Help: BeGambleAware, GamStop, Gamblers Anonymous.

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