Gambling is legal and regulated in Macedonia. You can find 7 casinos in the country (2 in Gevgelija, 2 in Skopje and 3 in the countryside). Apart from these casinos there are about 200 slot halls in the country (one of the highest number per capita in all of Europe!). Online gambling is also legal, but it is the monopoly of National Videolottery of Republic of Macedonia, a consortium consisting of the company Casinos Austria and the Macedonian government. However, Casinos Austria – even though it’s been 6+ years since the deal – only launched one very bad online casino 2win.mk. 2win.mk is abysmal and I really don’t recommend it. Just a quick look at it is enough too see that they have barely any games and the games they do have are really low quality (just compare it with the online casinos below you will see the difference instantly if you don’t believe me). This is common in every country where online gambling is a monopoly, monopolies don1t have to be competitive, don1t have to fight for customers, and it shows. Despite some weak attempts to block foreign online casinos, players from Macedonia are able to visit numerous offshore online gambling websites. In fact, if you wish to play online these offshore websites are your best option currently. Players who play at these foreign websites are not prosecuted, but some websites might be blocked by the ISPs.

The online casinos below accept players from Macedonia.

Bingo is legal in Macedonia. Online gambling (including online bingo) is officially part of the online gambling monopoly. Only Casinos Austria LLC could operate online bingo websites in Macedonia. However, they don’t have any bingo halls in the country, and they don’t currently operate any bingo websites, despite the fact that they have the gambling license since 2014. The government blocks online casinos (a few of them) but international bingo websites don’t appear to be blocked. Players from Macedonia can play in many offshore online casinos and enjoy bingo online. Although not many online live bingo websites accept players from Macedonia. In fact I could only find one.

Land-based bingo doesn’t appear to be very popular in Macedonia. However, some of the casinos organize bingo events on the side, e.g: Casino Senator. The regular casino license covers bingo as well, only online bingo is subject to the monopoly.

The following online casino has live bingo and accepts players from Macedonia:

Players in Macedonia can enjoy poker in most land-based casinos around the country and play online on foreign poker websites. The center of the Macedonian poker scene appears to be Apollonia Casino & Hotel. The regular casino license covers poker as well. Online poker belongs to the Casinos Austria monopoly. However, despite them having a license for 6+ years there are no Macedonian online poker platforms for now. For now Macedonian players can only play on foreign websites or in land-based casinos.

The following online poker sites below accept players from Macedonia.

Sports betting is really popular in Macedonia. It is completely legal and it is regulated by the government. You can find many land-based bookmakers from different companies throughout the country. However, online sports betting is a monopoly. There are no licensed standalone Macedonian online sports betting websites at the time of writing. However, 2win.mk has a tiny sports betting section that barely functions and doesn’t even load on mobile devices. Sadly that’s the only domestic sports betting platform, and it’s a very low quality paltform. Players from Macedonia can place bets at offshore online bookmakers too. Macedonians who place bets with these bookmakers are not prosecuted.

The online sportsbooks below accept registrations from Macedonia.

Macedonia’s national lottery is called Државна лотарија на Македонија, АД Скопје – State Lottery of Macedonia, AD Skopje, which is in operation since 1972, but now it is jointly owned by Casinos Austria LLC, which owns 49%. Lottery, online lottery, keno and instant games are all the monopoly of State Lottery of Macedonia, which is part of the National Videolottery of Republic of Macedonia. In fact, this is the only functioning part of their online gambling empire currently (and it looks really bad tbh., expected much more, you can’t tell they just invested €6 million into this platform, I can make a better website in a week…) and this lottery website will be expanded with an online casino and online sports betting in the future (none currently, for 6+ years now, since 2014, I could put together a turn- key online casino in about a month…, they must fill a lot of deep pockets behind the scenes to get this off the ground…, allegedly of course). It has a really bad looking, not mobile compatible, Macedonian-only webpage. This sort of outdated, neglected web presence is really not typical of European lotteries. It’s definitely one of the worst online lottery website in all Europe. But still, it’s functioning, and you can purchase lottery tickets online too, making this the only form of online lottery that is currently available in the country.

Macedonian players can participate in lottery daws in foreign countries or purchase lottery tickets online from foreign lottery websites, it’s not illegal, the law only states that within the territory of The Republic of Northern Macedonia only the State Lottery of Macedonia can organize lottery, keno, online lottery and instant games. Purchasing lottery tickets from other providers is completely legal. In fact, I recommend that instead, especially the big European lotteries: Euromillions or Eurojckpot, or the Spanish El Gordo. They all have online platforms (don’t buy lottery tickets from websites that say they buy it for you in person and then just scan the tickets in, they are mostly scams, you will never see your money if you win, only buy from trusted national lotteries, officially participating in the Euromillions or Eurojackpot program, many of them are available in English). These big lotteries are even though more expensive, they have significantly bigger prize pools, and even partial jackpots net you more than the jackpot of a Macedonian lottery. Not to mention, your odds of wining are not significantly worse too; just better value for money overall.

Apart from Државна лотарија на Македонија, АД Скопје – State Lottery of Macedonia, the following websites allow people from Macedonia purchase lottery tickets online:

As of now, Macedonia does not have any specific law regarding Bitcoin gambling. However, bitcoin (litecoin and other cryptocurrencies) are illegal in Macedonia. In 2014, Dimitar Bogov, Governor of National Bank of Macedonia, called Bitcoin ‘a bubble’:

“In Macedonia, juridical means for cash and non-cash payments are denars. International payments operations are carried out by banks. Therefore, trading and use of Bitcoin is illegal.”

Therefore it’s unlikely the further use of bitcoin and other alternative digital currencies will be explored in the gambling sector. We consider bitcoin gambling de facto illegal in the country. However, people who use bitcoin or play in bitcoin casinos are not prosecuted.

The Bitcoin casinos below accept players from Macedonia.