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Best Online Casinos in Italy
Italy runs online casino on a capped concession model: a 2025 re-tender cut the market to 46 operators holding 52 nine-year concessions from the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM). The operators below accept Italian players.
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How these operators serve this market
- 888 Casino — Served via 888casino.it (ADM)
- LeoVegas — Served via leovegas.it (ADM concession 16019)
Market at a glance
- Regulator
- Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM)
- Licensed market since
- 2011 for online casino
- Advertising
- Total ban since the 2018 Dignity Decree
- Domain requirement
- Licensed sites operate on .it domains
- Self-exclusion
- Autoesclusione through ADM, across licensed operators
- Tax on player winnings
- None — taxed at operator level
- Minimum age
- 18
- Currency
- EUR (€)
The advertising ban is total, and it changed the market
Italy's 2018 Dignity Decree banned gambling advertising and sponsorship outright — not restricted to certain hours or media, but prohibited. Football shirt sponsorships disappeared, and operators cannot advertise offers at all.
The consequence is a market where brand discovery happens through search, affiliates and word of mouth rather than through advertising, and where the loudest brand is not necessarily the biggest.
It also means an Italian player who sees a gambling advert is looking at something that should not be there — a useful signal about the operator behind it.
ADM concessions and the .it domain
Licensed operators hold an ADM concession and serve Italian players on .it domains. As in Spain, the domain is the quickest legality check available, and the licensed site is a distinct product from the brand's international one.
Concessions are awarded through periodic tenders with substantial fees, which keeps the licensed field smaller and more capitalised than in open-licensing markets.
Every licensed site displays its ADM concession number. It should match a live entry in the ADM register — a number that does not resolve is decisive.
Tax, exclusion and dispute routes
Italian players do not pay tax on winnings from ADM-licensed operators; taxation sits at operator level on gaming revenue.
Self-exclusion runs through the ADM framework and applies across licensed operators rather than site by site. Registration is made through the regulator's process, with periods running from a set minimum upward.
Complaints route through the operator and then to ADM. All of this works only inside the licensed market — an operator without an ADM concession sits outside every one of these mechanisms.
Italy: Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, but only under an ADM concession. The current concessions took effect on 13 November 2025 and cost around €7 million per vertical, which is why the number of licensed sites fell sharply from the previous regime.
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