Where is Bet365 licensed in 2026? A 39-market evidence guide

Bet365 is recorded by iGaming Atlas across 39 regulatory relationships, but those records do not all say the same thing. Twenty-six relationships are recorded as licensed based on their dated evidence, four are under review, eight were not found in the relevant reviewed register and one carries a restricted label tied to the available MGA record. The under-review group includes Brazil’s fixed-odds shutdown transition and Mexico’s unresolved current permission after failed official-source access.

Those figures describe the current Atlas evidence set, not every place where the website may be reachable. Availability, marketing, registration and lawful product supply are different questions. A defensible answer therefore names the jurisdiction, the licensed entity, the product and the regulator record.

A licensed Atlas relationship means that the brand, an associated operating entity or a consumer domain was matched to licensing or operating evidence for that jurisdiction on the recorded check date. It does not expand the permission beyond the products and territory named by the authority, and an older reporting row cannot establish current permission.

Brazil's SPA record remains historical authorisation evidence. The complete MP 1.394/2026 text was reread on 25 October: it prohibits fixed-odds sports betting and online games and bars incoming bettor funds from publication. The official timetable sets unavailability from 6 October and 25 October as the statutory deadline for authorisations to end. That calendar does not certify individual implementation, completed refunds or a precise expiry instant. Atlas keeps the relationship under review and does not infer an exemption or product permission. Germany and Great Britain retain their separately dated product-specific evidence.

The CABA relationship is now under review because the required individual permission record remains incomplete. LOTBA’s consumer-list reference is retained and applies only to Buenos Aires City. The evidence qualification does not assert that the regulator revoked the permission or that the domain disappeared. The separately recorded Buenos Aires Province relationship is unchanged.

The evidence universe contains 39 relationships, each with its own verification date. Italy’s exact ADM row links www.bet365.it to Hillside (New Media Malta) Plc and concession 16030; the row was reread as normalized primary text on 25 October with direct ADM access blocked and no source edition or crawl date supplied. A further same-day review recovered Bet365’s filled account contract and substantive casino help/rules bodies. The contract identifies the same entity, concession and domain and governs sports betting, while the casino pages cover access, Blackjack/Roulette interruptions and settlement. This closes the previous product-source gap and moves the scoped Italy relationship review to 25 October. Direct help requests returned 403; normalized copies are not live-origin captures and establish no additional product category or concession term.

Ohio's OCCC licence list, updated 8 September 2026 and checked on 25 October, identifies Hillside Ohio, LLC (bet365) as an active mobile management services provider that is currently operating with the Cleveland Guardians. This supports the sportsbook relationship independently of the older revenue report. New Jersey's complete indexed DGE internet-gaming and sportsbook directories, retrieved on 25 October 2026, identify nj.bet365.com through Hard Rock. Direct retrieval returned 403; the casino copy was reported crawled two weeks earlier and the sportsbook copy that day. This supports the listed sportsbook and casino relationship without claiming a live page fetch or an individual licence-term audit.

Fresh evidence does not always raise the licensed count. Atlas previously matched bet365.mx to SEGOB’s June 2026 authorised-websites snapshot on 24 August. On 24 October the exact official PDF and institutional hub returned access errors, so Mexico now remains under review with a commercial hold; current entity, domain, product scope and permission have not been reconfirmed. The June source edition and 24 August evidence date are preserved. The existing dated register findings in South Africa, Hungary and the UAE do not show a suitable Bet365 operator match. Those negative findings remain local and dated. Greece's public online licence-holder register checked on 26 September identifies LUCKY STREAM and bet365.gr under valid Type 1 betting and Type 2 other-online-games licences ending 21 May 2028.

Hillside (New Media Malta) PLC now has a subsequent Dutch licence, decision 3598, for 1 October 2026 through 30 September 2031. It preserves casino, sports betting and horse-race betting after the original term ends on 30 September 2026. The KSA's 17 September announcement explicitly connects Hillside to bet365. This changes the documented term, not the market status or the 39-market totals; the complete consumer-directory snapshot remains separately dated.

Croatia changed separately on 24 October 2026 after the complete Tax Administration internet-approval table was inspected. Its 12 legal-entity and consumer-domain rows include product labels but no exact Bet365 brand, Bet365 domain or Hillside entity. Atlas therefore records a narrow not-listed result in place of under review. The table has no visible edition date, individual approval identifiers or expiry terms; this is not a finding of illegality, blocking, revocation or group-wide absence. The 2018 planning reference remains historical.

Regulators license companies, not visual brands in the abstract. The entity serving one market may differ from the company serving another, and a group licence cannot be reassigned to every related website without evidence.

A brand search should therefore be repeated using known legal entities, trading names and exact domains. Where the authority publishes an account or licence number, that identifier is stronger than a similar company name.

France's ANJ directory names HILLSIDE (New Media Malta) PLC, connects it to bet365.fr and lists sports betting, horse betting and poker. Denmark's Gambling Authority names Hillside (New Media Malta) Plc, connects it to bet365.dk and publishes online-casino and betting permissions, with Greenland coverage stated separately. These records are strong because the entity, consumer domain and product appear together, but each conclusion remains local to that authority.

The Dutch KSA decision uses the same Hillside entity but a different evidence structure. Decision 3598 grants remote casino, sports-betting and horse-race-betting permission from 1 October 2026 through 30 September 2031 and requires the operator to report its brands, domains and apps before use. The decision page does not itself publish a consumer hostname, so the KSA's separate successor-licence announcement supplies the documented Bet365 identity link. This comparison shows why an entity match alone is not enough: domain, product, term and jurisdiction still need their own evidence.

The word licensed is incomplete unless the licensed activity is also known. Germany's framework, for example, distinguishes sports betting, virtual slots, online poker and online casino products. US states and Canadian provinces likewise authorise products separately.

This is why the evidence file preserves product categories. A sportsbook match should not silently become proof of a casino or poker permission.

Not listed means the reviewed official source did not provide a suitable current match. It is narrower and safer than declaring the operator globally illegal. Restricted means the available evidence supports a material limitation, while under review means the record cannot yet support a stable conclusion.

These labels can change after a new licence, rebrand, surrender, regulator update or improved entity match. The review date is therefore part of the conclusion rather than a footnote.

Start with the market and product the user actually intends to access. Open the authority's current register, search the brand and associated legal entities, and confirm the exact consumer domain. Then inspect status, product scope, effective dates and any enforcement or surrender information.

Record the search terms that failed as well as the match that succeeded. This makes a not-listed finding reproducible and reduces the risk of adapting the evidence to a preferred answer.

The guide is not legal advice, does not test geolocation or account acceptance and does not claim that every regulatory database exposes the same fields. It also does not infer legality merely because an international website loads in a country.

Readers should open the linked authority record immediately before making a legal, compliance or commercial decision.

High-risk operator footprint guides are scheduled for review every 30 days and earlier after a licence change, enforcement action or new operator list. The subsequent Dutch permission was rechecked after taking effect and runs through 30 September 2031; the next scheduled review is 4 November 2026. The table summarises status and product scope; the CSV preserves each market’s source and evidence date.

The downloadable CSV is a dated research output. A later Atlas profile or official register may supersede it.

This guide includes 12 selected U.S. state records. They are dated evidence findings, not a complete list of every state where Bet365 may currently operate. Read the state and product together: sportsbook evidence does not establish casino or poker permission.

The selected records show sportsbook and casino evidence for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia; sportsbook evidence for Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Arizona, Louisiana, Virginia and Maryland; and a dated not-listed sportsbook finding for New York. Pennsylvania’s casino and sportsbook directories and Virginia’s and Louisiana’s sportsbook lists were rechecked on 24 October 2026. The Michigan directory rechecked on 25 October names Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians as Bet365’s local operator partner; Bay Mills is listed separately with DraftKings. This corrects Atlas’s partner attribution without asserting a new grant, transfer or effective date.

Follow a linked state name in the evidence table to open its local profile and official source. Check the local entity, exact domain, product scope and evidence date before relying on a record. Website access or account acceptance is not established by this guide.