Is online gambling legal in Poland?
Partially legal
Poland requires online gambling sites to have Polish licenses starting April 2017.
Poland is one of 5 countries classified “Partially legal” for online gambling — 23% of the 22 with data. (Also searched as online betting.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Online gambling
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Germany
- Illegal Germany bans most online gambling, with only horse racing allowed, despite EU court rulings for liberalization.
- Belarus
- Legal & regulated Belarus legalized online gambling in 2018, with licensed operations allowed from April 2019 under strict state controls.
- Ukraine
- Legal & regulated Ukraine legalized online gambling, bookmaking, and casinos in August 2020 through bill 2285-D.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Varies by region Online gambling is legal but regulated differently by each entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Serbia
- Partially legal Serbia requires online casinos to comply with new certification games.
- France
- Partially legal France proposes to regulate and tax online gambling, but betting exchanges remain illegal.
Other laws in Poland
- Cryptocurrency
- Legal
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