Betting by Country
Brazil and Portugal are the priority markets; the remaining Lusophone countries are long-term growth opportunities.
Brazil
Fixed-odds online sports betting is regulated at federal level.
Portugal
Online sports betting and online casino gaming are nationally regulated.
Angola
Sports betting is nationally regulated; individual operator licence numbers are reported by secondary sources, not directly confirmed in this research pass.
Mozambique
Gambling is nationally regulated; individual operator licence numbers are reported by secondary sources, not directly confirmed in this research pass.
Cape Verde
The regulator confirms that NO online gambling licence has been issued to any operator to date; online gambling operates in a legal gray zone, with no locally licensed operators.
São Tomé and Príncipe
Land-based gambling is regulated by Law No. 1/2004; online gambling is not addressed by the law and the government appears not to block offshore sites. No operator could be verified with reasonable confidence in this research pass.
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau has no gambling law or regulatory body, per multiple independent sources, for either online or land-based gambling.
Monitor only
- East Timor: Very small market: monitoring only, no dedicated page for now.
- Macau: Chinese-language market with Portuguese heritage: monitoring only.