The Czech online gambling market enters this cycle with a stable licensing core and an active enforcement edge. Twenty-seven entities, twenty-four Czech and three foreign, hold an online-casino licence as of 11 May 2026, and the Ministry of Finance continues to issue licences on a rolling basis under Act No. 186/2016 Coll., the Gambling Act. The defining development this cycle is not a change to that statutory core but an enforcement extension: the Ministry of Finance added Polymarket, a decentralized prediction-market platform, to the Blacklist of unauthorized internet games, mirroring coordinated action against the same platform in France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Romania, and the Netherlands. Read together with the first major 2026 licence-renewal cycle applying revised technical and anti-money-laundering conditions, the jurisdiction reads as a stable, mature regulated market whose enforcement perimeter and compliance floor are both moving upward this cycle.
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Czech Republic Gambling — Overview: What kind of market is this?
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Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Czech Republic (CZ) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Mixed |
| Confidence | Confirmed |
| Review status | Not reviewed |
| Last collected | 25 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
The Czech online gambling market enters this cycle with a stable licensing core and an active enforcement edge. Twenty-seven entities, twenty-four Czech and three foreign, hold an online-casino licence as of 11 May 2026, and the Ministry of Finance continues to issue licences on a rolling basis unde…
Key headwinds & conditions
- High GGR tax (30%/35%)
- Substantial security deposits (CZK 30-50m per game type)
- Concentrated market dominated by incumbents
- Tightening RG and advertising rules