![]() Russian football sponsorship continues despite the war Source: The Gambling & Betting Regulatory System in Russia (2020, Deberti Jacchia) Table 2: Russian betting operators onlineĪverage monthly website visitors (2020), millions ![]() By 2020, there were 29 licensed betting operators with 11 taking bets online and the websites of the top five operators had more than 26 million visitors a month. In 2017, Bwin launched a Russian facing website,, in partnership with local businessman Alexander Mamut, owner of Russia-licensed bookmaker Digital Betting. Other bookmakers from outside the country also began looking to Russia for expansion. According to Credinform, by 2018 the 10 biggest operators with Russian licences had a combined income of 135 billion roubles (about U$D2 billion at 2018 rates). ![]() Online betting was banned in Russia until 2015, but since then licenced and unlicenced operators have grown swiftly. The massively expanding Russian betting market Big US operators Caesars, DraftKings, FanDuel, and PointsBet all stopped taking bets on games with Russia and Belarus, but looking to Russia itself, the Russian betting market is worth billions of roubles and has extensive involvement with sport and football in particular through international sponsorship deals. Some action has been taken by the betting industry itself to isolate Putin’s regime. UEFA, Everton, and German club Schalke 04 had all ended sponsorships with Russian companies before the call for action, but sporting sanctions on betting - a key fuel of football’s economy - have proved slow. On March 8 2022, 37 countries issued a joint statement calling for appropriate actions to be taken to “limit sponsorship and other financial support from entities with links to the Russian or Belarusian state”.
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