Licensed UK Betting Sites

UK Betting Sites: List of 70+ Licensed Sites

Use the table of UK betting sites below to pick the one that meets your needs — whether you want to bet on sports, play poker, bingo, casino games, or just discover a new betting site. Updated for September 2026.

Hand-Checked
UKGC Licensed Only
18+

Discover over 70 UK betting sites in the table below. We only include the betting information that matters, so you can easily compare sites before you sign up.

What Counts as a UK Betting Site

“UK betting sites” covers six different products, and a company licensed for one is not automatically licensed for the rest. A sportsbook prices up a match and takes the other side of your bet. A casino runs games with the edge built in. A bingo room sells tickets and pays out what it collects. A poker room takes a cut of each pot. A lottery site either bets on a draw or buys you a ticket. An exchange matches you against another customer, and a spread betting firm settles on how far the result finishes from its quote.

All six need a UK Gambling Commission licence to take bets in Britain. That obliges an operator to verify your identity, keep customer money separate from its own, publish the rules before you stake, and give you deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion on request. Every row above carries the licensee’s account number and links to its entry on the public register, so you can check any of it yourself.

The sections below cover what each product gives you and what to expect from a good one.

Sports Betting Sites

A sportsbook prices up an outcome and takes the other side of your bet. Expect football, horse racing, tennis and cricket as standard, with in-play betting, cash out, bet builders and accumulator boosts common across the market, and live streaming on some sports once your account is funded.

What separates one from another is narrower than the advertising suggests. The margin built into the odds is what betting somewhere actually costs you, and market depth matters on the sport you follow rather than on how many sports get advertised – we take that sport by sport in our football, horse racing and tennis guides. Worth knowing too: stake limits and account restrictions are legal, common, and applied very unevenly once you start winning. Our sports betting sites guide goes wider than the three below.

Three UK sportsbooks from the table above, each known for something different.
Site Known for Welcome offer Visit site
Midnite Known forEsports and a modern app Welcome offerGet £30 When You Bet £10 Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. 18+ New customers only. Place a £10+ bet at min odds 1/1 (2.0) within 14 days of sign-up. Get £30 in Free Bets, valid for 7 days on selected bets only. Free stake not returned with winnings. T&Cs apply. GambleAware.org
BoyleSports Known forIrish and UK horse racing Welcome offer£40 When You Bet £10 Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. 18+. New UK customers (Excluding NI) only. Min Deposit £10. Min stake £10. Min odds Evs. Free bet applied on 1st settlement of any qualifying bet. 30 days to qualify. Free bets expire in 7 days. Cashed out/Free Bets won’t apply. Account & Payment method restrictions apply. 1 Free Bet offer per customer, household & IP Address only. 18+. T&Cs apply. GambleAware.org Play Responsibly
DAZN Bet Known forWeekly free bets from three bet clubs Welcome offer£10 in Free Bets Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. 18+ | Available within 7 days of registration | Opt-in required | Min. stake £10 | Excludes Boxing | Min. odds EVS (2.0) 2x £5 Free Bets credited per customer, valid for 7 days on selected markets with stake not returned | UK only & excl. NI | T&Cs apply.

Casino Sites

Casino games are played against the house, with the edge built into the game rather than set by the site. Expect slots to dominate the lobby, alongside live dealer roulette, blackjack and game shows streamed from a studio, jackpot titles, and demo play on most slots before you stake anything. Every game’s return to player figure has to be findable in its own information.

Two things vary more than the marketing does. The first is getting money out: whether identity checks happen at sign-up or are held back until your first withdrawal, how long a withdrawal sits pending, and whether the site invites you to reverse it. The second is what a bonus is worth – the wagering multiple, which games count towards it, and the cap on what you can win – rather than the figure in the headline.

Three UK casino sites from the table above, each known for something different.
Site Known for Welcome offer Visit site
Mr Q Known forInstant withdrawals — or you get £10 free Welcome offerSpend £10 Get 30 Spins Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. First deposit only. Min deposit & spend £10. Max 30 spins on Book of Dead at 10p per spin. Spins credited upon spend of £10. 18+ Full T&Cs apply.
Duelz Known forUnique Player v Player casino feature Welcome offerDeposit £25 Get up to 140 Free Spins Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. Full T&Cs apply. 18+. New players. Min deposit £25. Up to 140 Free Spins (20/day for 7 consecutive days on selected games). Manually claimed daily or expire at midnight with no rollover. Free spin value £0.10. Max winnings £100/day as bonus funds with 10x wagering requirement to be completed within 7 days. Game restrictions apply. Play Responsibly! GambleAware.
NY Spins Known forSlot bonus games based on NYC landmarks Welcome offerUp to 140 Spins Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. Full T&Cs apply. 18+. New players. Min deposit £25. Up to 140 Free Spins (20/day for 7 consecutive days on selected games). Manually claimed daily or expire at midnight with no rollover. Free spin value £0.10. Max winnings £100/day as bonus funds with 10x wagering requirement to be completed within 7 days. Game restrictions apply. Play Responsibly! GambleAware.

Bingo Sites

Bingo is one of two products here where the site is not the other side of your bet: the prize comes out of ticket sales and the operator takes a cut. Expect 90-ball and 75-ball rooms at ticket prices from a penny up, chat rooms with hosts running side games, pre-buy so you can enter a game while you are away, and a slots lobby alongside.

The thing worth knowing before a first deposit is that a bingo welcome offer is almost never cash. It arrives as bingo bonus – spendable on tickets, but it has to be played through before any of it converts, and there is usually a cap on how much converts at all. The headline figure is the least informative part of the offer.

Three UK bingo sites from the table above, each known for something different.
Site Known for Welcome offer Visit site
Fruity King Bingo Known forBingo, slots, & casino site Welcome offerDeposit £10 Get £50 Bingo Bonus Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. New Players Only. Wager from real balance first. 2X wager the bonus on Bingo games. The wagering requirement is calculated on bonus bets only. Bonus valid 30 days from receipt. Max conversion: 3 times the bonus amount. Min Deposit £10 required. Withdrawal requests void all active/pending bonuses. Excluded Skrill and Neteller deposits. Full Terms Apply.
Mecca Bingo Known forBritain’s longest-standing bingo brand Welcome offerStake £5 Get £20 Bingo Bonus Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. New players. Dep (exc. Paypal & Paysafe) & spend £5 on select bingo rooms for bonus. 5x wagering. PromoT&Cs apply.
Kitty Bingo Known for5 free spins every day promo Welcome offerStake £10 Get £35 Bingo Bonus Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. New players. Dep (exc. PayPal & Paysafe) & spend min £10 on a selected slot for spins or in Main Event Bingo for bonus. Wagering & max wins apply. Individual promo T&Cs apply.

Poker Sites

Poker is the other product where the operator is not your opponent: it takes a cut of each pot and has no stake in who wins. Expect cash games, sit-and-gos and scheduled tournaments, satellites into bigger events, freerolls, and a loyalty scheme that returns part of your rake.

The room you actually sit in is what differs. Some UK licences share a player pool with a far larger international network while others run a smaller ringfenced one, and that single fact decides what is running at your stake on a Tuesday night more than the software ever will. A poker bankroll also tends to sit in an account for months rather than days, which makes the operator’s statement on customer funds more relevant here than anywhere else on this page. A poker welcome is rarely cash: it arrives in pieces as you play, against rake or as tournament tickets, and those pieces expire.

Three UK online poker rooms from the table above, each known for something different.
Site Known for Welcome offer Visit site
888poker Known forAward-winning UK poker site Welcome offerMake First Deposit & Get £50 Free Play Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. First depositors only • Min. deposit: $10 • Bonus will be granted as tournament tickets gradually over 6 days, and will expire after 24 hours
GGPoker Known forWorld’s biggest poker room Welcome offer100% up to $600 Match Bonus Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. Only players that are yet to make their first deposit are eligible to participate in this promotion. Only one bonus per person, per IP address and/or per device is permitted. The minimum deposit necessary to obtain a matched bonus is £10. In order for players to receive the bonus, they must download the GGPoker app, register an account and make a first deposit at GGPoker. A player may make additional deposits within sixty (60) days of their first deposit to claim the full value of the bonus.
PartyPoker Known forFastForward cash games Welcome offer100% up to £1,000 Match Bonus Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. 18+. New UK players only. Min 1st £10+ dep & get a matched bonus max £1K, valid 90 days, bonus released in 5% increments in Loyalty Points + £50 Free Play credited over 6 days: Party Dollars, Partypoker Tour Path Tournament Tickets & SPINS Overdrive Tickets + £25 Partypoker Tour Path Tournament. Restrictions T&Cs apply.

Lottery Sites

Two different products share this heading, and the difference decides who owes you the money if your numbers come up. Betting on a lottery means the operator prices the draw and takes your bet on it: you hold no ticket, and the real lottery’s prize fund never sees your stake. A messenger service does the reverse, buying a genuine ticket as your agent for a fee. Either way, expect the big global draws plus subscriptions and syndicate entries.

If you are betting on the draw, a jackpot is the company’s own liability rather than a slice of money already collected in ticket sales, so the questions worth asking are what cap it puts on a win and how it says that liability is covered.

The only UK-licensed lottery brand in the table above.
Site Known for Welcome offer Visit site
Lottoland Known forGlobal lottery draws Welcome offerGet 3 for 2 US Jumbo Jackpot Bets for £7 Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. 18+. New players only. Click ‘More Info’ to redeem. Redeemable once per player. Ends 31/12/2026 23:59 GMT. Full T&C’s Apply. gambleaware.org.

Spread Betting Sites & Betting Exchanges

Neither product here works the way a sportsbook does. An exchange does not take your bet at all – it matches you against another customer and charges commission on what you win, which is what lets you lay an outcome as well as back it. A spread betting firm does take the other side, but quotes a buy and a sell price instead of fixed odds, and what you win or lose scales with how far the result finishes from that quote.

What both share, and what separates them from a fixed-odds account, is that the amount at risk is not the figure you typed in. Laying on an exchange exposes you to the payout rather than to your stake, and a spread position that keeps moving against you can cost more than you deposited. Expect to check the commission rate and how much money is actually matched in a market before you commit.

Three sites from the table above, covering both halves of the group: two betting exchanges and one spread betting firm.
Site Known for Welcome offer Visit site
Matchbook Known forBetting exchange with low commission Welcome offer10% Rebate on Losses, up to £1,000 Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. Sign up today with Bonus code ‘REBATE”. Qualified Users will receive a 10% rebate on Overall Net Losses recorded 30 calendar days from Registration. These losses are exclusive to Matchbook Exchange markets only. T&Cs Apply. 18+. Be Gamble Aware
BETDAQ Known forGlobal sports betting exchange Welcome offerGet up to £1,000 Cashback Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. 18+ only. New customers only. Up to £1,000 commission back at the end of the first 30 days as withdrawable funds. Standard 2% commission rate applies. Not available to API or RDT customers. T&Cs Apply.
Spreadex Known forOffers 1 account for sports & spread betting Welcome offerBet £10 Get £60 in Free Bets Visit Site
T&C’s Apply. Spread betting losses can exceed deposit. 18+ www.gambleaware.org. Place a £10 fixed odds single or £10 each-way bet at minimum odds of 1/2 and get 3 x £10 free fixed odds bets, 3 x £5 Total Goals football spread bets and 3 x £5 Winning Favourites spread bets and a £1 racing Race Index spread bet.

How We List Betting Sites

We do not rank the sites on this page and we do not score them. Any site holding a UK Gambling Commission licence is eligible to be listed, and the order you see is simply how recently we last updated each review. That is a fact about us rather than a judgement about them.

The choice is deliberate. This list mixes sportsbooks, casinos, bingo, poker, lottery, spread betting and exchange sites, and there is no honest methodology that places a poker room above a bingo site. What we do instead is check the same things at every site and report what we find, so you can weigh them against what you personally want.

Odds Value

We check pre-match and in-play prices across the major sports against where the rest of the market sits.

Market Range

We check how many sports, leagues and bet types a site actually runs, rather than the headline count it advertises.

Welcome Offer

We check the headline figure, what you have to do to qualify for it, and how demanding the wagering conditions are.

Mobile Experience

We check how the app and mobile site handle navigation and loading, and whether anything is missing against desktop.

Withdrawals

We check which payment methods are supported, the processing times stated, and any limits attached to them.

Customer Support

We check which contact channels are offered, the hours they are staffed, and how quickly a question gets a useful answer.

Deposits and Withdrawals

Debit cards are accepted almost everywhere in the UK market and are the default at most sites. Credit cards are not accepted anywhere, having been banned for gambling in Great Britain since April 2020.

Beyond that the picture varies. PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and e-wallets such as Skrill and Neteller are common without being universal, and bank transfer is usually available while being the slowest route in either direction.

Two things are worth checking before you deposit rather than after. Welcome offers frequently exclude e-wallet deposits, so funding an account with one can quietly void the offer you signed up for. And a withdrawal time quoted by a site is how long it takes them to process the payment, which is not the same as when the money reaches your account.

Responsible Gambling

Gambling should stay something you can comfortably afford to lose. Deposit limits, time-outs and self-exclusion are built into every UKGC-licensed site, and setting them when you open an account is far easier than doing it later.

If it stops feeling like a choice, free and confidential help is available from GambleAware (0808 8020 133), GamCare (0808 802 0133) and GamStop, which blocks you from every licensed site in Great Britain at once.

Our responsible gambling guide covers the tools and the support in more detail. You must be 18 or over to open a betting account in the UK.

Frequently Asked Questions

What counts as a UK betting site?

The phrase covers six licensed products: sportsbooks, casinos, bingo rooms, poker rooms, lottery sites, and spread betting sites and exchanges. They work in different ways, and a company licensed for one is not necessarily licensed for the others. The list on this page covers all six and can be filtered by type.

Which betting site is the best?

We do not answer that, because we do not rank. The useful version of the question is which site is best for you, and that depends on the product you want, whether price matters more to you than the interface does, and what you intend to bet on. Filter the list to the type you are after and compare the sites on the things we check.

How do I check a betting site is licensed?

Every licensed operator appears on the Gambling Commission’s public register. Each row on this page shows that site’s UKGC account number and links to its register entry, where you can see which activities the licence covers and whether it is still active. A site you cannot find there should not be taking your money.

Why do some sites here show the same licence number?

Because they are the same licensed company. Several familiar brands are operated by a single licensee, and the register records exactly that. It is normal in this industry and it is not a fault, but it is useful to know when a group has closed or restricted an account.

Are UK betting sites safe?

A UKGC licence means the operator has obligations around keeping customer money separate, handling complaints, and offering safer gambling tools, and that there is a regulator you can escalate to. It does not guarantee competitive odds, good service, or that a winning account will be treated the way you expect.

Can I use a credit card to bet?

No. Credit cards have been banned for gambling in Great Britain since April 2020. Debit cards are accepted almost everywhere, while e-wallets, PayPal and bank transfer are common but vary from site to site. Note that some welcome offers exclude e-wallet deposits.