Who owns Ladbrokes Australia?

As of 15 Oct 2026: Ladbrokes Australia is owned by Entain plc, listed (LSE: ENT). The site runs under Entain Group Pty Ltd, AU, with a licence from Australia NT Racing and Wagering Commission for Racing and Wagering Act 2024. The same owner has 33 other casinos.

Ultimate owner	Entain plc (listed (LSE: ENT))
Operating company	Entain Group Pty Ltd, AU
Licences	Australia NT Racing and Wagering Commission
Products	Sports betting
Website	ladbrokes.com.au
Also runs as	ladbrokes.com
Companies of the other sites	LC International Limited (ladbrokes.com) · UKGC account 54743 · Ireland — GRAI (GRAI-0622-RB-26-0001)
Sister casinos	33
Fines and actions	Ladbrokes Australia’s own company: 2 · whole Entain plc group: 9
Owner proof	verified
Last checked	15 Oct 2026

In numbers

Entain Group Pty Ltd also runs 1 other gambling brand 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).

Licences

Regulator	Type	Valid	Check it
Australia NT Racing and Wagering Commission	sports bookmaker licence (Racing and Wagering Act 2024)	active	register

What these licences mean for you

What a Northern Territory licence means

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: Run by Entain Group Pty Ltd under an NT licence (the regulator lists it as LADBROKES AU).

We have no company registration number for Entain Group Pty Ltd.

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

Entain plc sister sites, fines and sources →

Fines and regulator actions

2 of these 9 concern Ladbrokes Australia’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

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