Online Casinos in Serbia

The Licensing Position

Online play in Serbia runs on an approval, and the approval has a name. The Games of Chance Administration publishes the form for it — the "Захтев за добијање одобрења за приређивање игара на срећу преко средстава електронске комуникације", an application for obtaining an approval to organise games of chance via means of electronic communication. On the same page the regulator lists its own separate approval applications for slot machines and for betting, so games offered over electronic communications are a category of their own rather than an add-on to a land-based permission. For casinos that page carries no approval application at all — only a form for changing the number of gaming tables — so we draw the parallel from the slot-machine and betting forms and not from a casino one.

The conditions attached to that approval are set by their own rulebook, which the regulator lists with its gazette citation: the "Правилник о начину утврђивања услова за добијање одобрења за приређивање посебних игара на срећу преко средстава електронске комуникације" ("Службени гласник РС", бр. 152 од 18. децембра 2020, 31 од 11. априла 2025). Two more rulebooks in the same list are worth a reader knowing about, and both are specific to online play. One governs player verification at online organisers. The other covers self-exclusion — the "Правилник о техничком поступку и начину размене података у вези са самоискључењем играча из учешћа у посебним играма на срећу преко средстава електронске комуникације", on the technical procedure and data exchange for excluding a player from online special games of chance. We read their titles in the regulator's published list and not their text, so we can tell you the mechanisms exist and not how either one works.

The Law, and How Far We Read It

The statute is the Закон о играма на срећу, and the regulator lists it on its own regulations page with its publication dates: "Закон о играма на срећу ("Службени гласник РС", бр.18/20 од 03.03.2020. године и 94/2024 од 28.11.2024. године)". The same list carries the amending act on its own — "Закон о изменама и допунама закона о играма на срећу ("Службени гласник РС", бр.94/2024 од 28.11.2024. године)" — and the earlier consolidations back to 2011. Three of those six entries carry an English version alongside the Serbian; the others do not.

We did not open the document. Our reading budget for Serbia was spent by the time we had the regulator's own list in front of us properly, so everything below rests on the regulator's forms, rulebooks and register rather than on the statute's words, and we quote no provision of it. The English translation published there is the first thing to read next.

Who Is Approved, and How to Check

The register is the part a reader can actually use, and the regulator says so plainly in its own English: "Citizens are recommended, before using any online offer (via the Internet), to check whether the organiser is included in the official List of Organisers available on the website of the Games of Chance Administration."

That list has a section headed "Приређивачи посебних игaрa на срећу - преко средстава електронске комуникације" — organisers of special games of chance via means of electronic communication — and it runs to twenty-five entries. Each row gives the company, a web address, and two registration numbers, so the register names the exact domain an approval attaches to rather than a brand. One of the twenty-five is DRŽAVNA LUTRIJA SRBIJE D.O.O. BEOGRAD, the state lottery. All twenty-five are recorded as limited-liability companies, the lottery included, so the register's own columns tell you nothing about ownership — the state lottery is identifiable by its name, not by anything the register records about it.

Read "twenty-five" carefully, because it is not twenty-five online casinos. The section is a single undivided category covering games of chance offered over electronic communications, and most of the domains in it are branded as betting sites rather than casinos. The register draws no line between the two and does not say which games any holder may offer, so we cannot tell you how many of the twenty-five run casino games, and neither can the list.

The regulator does publish a catalogue of game types — the "Правилник о врстама игара на срећу (каталог о врстама игара на срећу) ("Службени гласник РС", бр. 152 од 18. децембра 2020, 31 од 11. априла 2025)" — which we did not read. It would tell a reader what the types of game are; it would not say which holder offers which, and we are not going to imply it answers more than it does. So what a reader gets from the register is whether a given site is approved for online play in Serbia at all, which is still the question most worth answering before depositing anywhere.

Who Regulates It

One body. It calls itself the Games of Chance Administration in English and Управа за игре на срећу in Serbian, and its own pages place it under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Serbia, at Балканска 53 in Belgrade. It keeps the register, issues the approvals, and publishes guidance for players on illegal online offers, on its page headed "ЗАШТИТА ИГРАЧА ОД НЕЛЕГАЛНОГ КЛАЂЕЊА": two documents, each offered in English as well as Serbian. One is the "Смернице за заштиту корисника од нелегалног клађења на интернету", which the regulator also calls a brochure and heads "ILLEGAL ONLINE GAMES OF CHANCE – RECOGNISE, AVOID, REPORT" — in its own words, "Брошура (Смернице) и контролна листа се могу видети у посебном одељку Одговорно клађење". The other is that checklist. And the brochure is not the regulator’s alone: by its own account it was produced by "The Games of Chance Administration of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Serbia and the Association of Games of Chance Organisers – SPIS", an association of the organisers themselves, so the document a reader is pointed at was co-written by the industry it warns about.

It also publishes something we have not seen another regulator do: a table pairing licensed organisers with the address of their own responsible-gambling pages, under the heading "Приређивачи игaрa на срећу - Одговорно клађење". It is not quite complete. Twenty-four of the twenty-five approved online organisers appear in it; IGRANOVA D.O.O. BEOGRAD, approved for www.mrbit.rs, is not there at all, and FUL D.O.O. ČAČAK, approved for www.brazilbet.rs, is listed with no address beside it. Both names are spelled here exactly as the register spells them, so they can be matched against it. So if the site you are on is one of those two, the regulator's table will not send you anywhere.

Age

Minors may not play, and we cannot give you the number. The regulator states the rule itself — "Special attention is paid to the protection of minors, whose participation in games of chance is expressly prohibited by the applicable regulations of the Republic of Serbia" — and there is a rulebook on the mandatory poster carrying that warning. Since we did not open the law, no Serbian instrument we read sets a figure, so we print none rather than borrow one.