Who owns Sportingbet?

As of 14 Oct 2026: Sportingbet belongs to Entain plc, which also owns Ladbrokes, Coral and bwin and trades in London. LC International Limited, registered in Gibraltar, operates sportingbet.com under UKGC account 54743. That company also has Irish remote betting licence GRAI-0622-RB-26-0001, which runs until June 2029. Sportingbet focuses on sports betting, with casino games on the side.

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
Website	sportingbet.com
Also runs as	sportingbet.de, sportingbet.gr, sportingbet.co.za
Companies of the other sites	Sportingbet (Deutschland) Limited (sportingbet.de) · Germany — GGL Sporting Odds Limited (sportingbet.gr) · Greece — HGC (HGC-000012-LH) · Greece — HGC (HGC-000013-LH) GreatOdds (Pty) Ltd (sportingbet.co.za) · South Africa Western Cape — WCGRB
Sister casinos	33
Fines and actions	Sportingbet’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

Sportingbet is an international sportsbook name inside Entain, with country versions for Germany (sportingbet.de), Greece (sportingbet.gr) and South Africa (sportingbet.co.za). Its Brazilian site, Sportingbet Brasil, is listed as closed. The owner, Entain plc, is listed in London and co-owns BetMGM in the US with MGM Resorts.

Licence and what it means for you

Because Sportingbet is mainly a sportsbook, the Irish remote betting licence matters as much as the UK one. LC International Limited holds GRAI-0622-RB-26-0001 from the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, valid from July 2026 to June 2029, and UKGC account 54743 for sportingbet.com. Bettors in Great Britain get UK rules and GamStop. The German, Greek and South African sites follow their own national rules.

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

bwin is the closest match: the same licensee and the same sports-plus-casino mix across many countries. Ladbrokes and Coral are the UK sportsbooks on that licence. Further away sit BetCity, Eurobet and Neds. Entain runs 33 other brands in our data, 30 of them active. An account block at Sportingbet does not cover 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 Sportingbet cover its sister sites? · How national self-exclusion schemes work

Fines and regulator actions

Our data names no fine against Sportingbet itself. Its licence holder, LC International Ltd, was one of two Entain companies in the £17 million UK settlement of August 2022 over social-responsibility and anti-money-laundering failures. The largest group case is the £585 million deferred prosecution agreement Entain plc agreed in December 2023 over bribery in a former Turkey-facing business. In total Entain has 9 actions in our data.

All 9 fines and regulator actions, with sources

None of these 9 names Sportingbet’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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