Algeria maintains a closed state-monopoly gambling market with no private licensing pathway; the PSA lottery and sports pool and the PMU horse-racing tote remain the only lawful operators. The 2025 legislative wave, anchored in Law No. 25-10 of 24 July 2025, tightens enforcement of the offshore and online perimeter by criminalising the use of a VPN to bypass state blocking orders and access offshore gambling or crypto platforms. This is a civil-law jurisdiction where the statutory licensing stack (enabling law plus implementing measures) governs the field, and the current cycle's activity is entirely enforcement-oriented rather than liberalising. No new entrant, product vertical, or licensing category has emerged; the market's structural closure is unchanged, but the state's capacity to police circumvention of that closure has been extended into individual criminal liability.
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Algeria · Question 01 of 11
Overview: What kind of market is this?
Unfavourable · Confirmed · AI-generated · Back to full Algeria report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Algeria (DZ) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Unfavourable |
| Confidence | Confirmed |
| Review status | AI-generated |
| Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
Algeria maintains a closed state-monopoly gambling market with no private licensing pathway; the PSA lottery and sports pool and the PMU horse-racing tote remain the only lawful operators. The 2025 legislative wave, anchored in Law No. 25-10 of 24 July 2025, tightens enforcement of the offshore and …
Key headwinds & conditions
- Layered statutory prohibition (Penal, Civil, Family Codes + Law 18-05)
- FATF grey list October 2024 – 19 June 2026 (MENAFATF member); Algeria removed from the list at the June 2026 plenary — no longer an active EDD headwind
- Crypto and VPN use criminalised (Law 25-10, July 2025)
- ARPCE active website blocking; no licensing pathway