Online Casino Licensing in Italy: What the ADM Actually Requires

Italy’s 2025 reform introduced a new concession framework for remote gambling. The new concessions have a maximum duration of nine years and require a €7 million one-off payment for each concession, split into €4 million at the time of award and €3 million when the operator actually begins the gambling service. In September 2025, ADM awarded 52 concessions to 46 operators. The current authorised-concessionaire list should be treated as the definitive source for checking which operators and domains are authorised.

Italy has maintained a broad prohibition on gambling advertising since the Decreto Dignità entered into force in 2018. The prohibition covers advertising, including indirect advertising, for games and betting involving cash prizes across television, radio, print, outdoor advertising and digital channels, including social media. The prohibition was extended to gambling sponsorships from 1 January 2019. As a result, licensed gambling operators cannot market themselves in Italy through the conventional advertising and sports-sponsorship model common in many other European markets.

Check an operator directly against ADM’s official list of authorised remote-gambling concessionaires and the domains associated with each concession. ADM also maintains an official list of unauthorised gambling websites subject to ISP-level blocking. The list is periodically updated; ADM’s August 2026 update remains the relevant current blocking publication at the time of writing.

RUA (Registro Unico Autoesclusi) is Italy’s national self-exclusion system for remote gambling. ADM states that it allows a player to self-exclude across all remote-gambling concessionaires rather than having to exclude separately at each operator. Players can choose a fixed exclusion period of 30, 60 or 90 days, or an indefinite exclusion.

Cryptocurrency is not a standard payment method offered by ADM-licensed remote-gambling concessionaires. Italy’s regulated gambling framework requires identified players and controlled, traceable payment processes. If a website targeting Italian players advertises Bitcoin, stablecoins or other cryptocurrency deposits, that should not be treated as evidence of Italian licensing; check the operator and its authorised domain directly against ADM’s concessionaire list.

Since August 2026, ADM has activated its Portale delle segnalazioni for complaints and reports concerning remote gambling. The system provides a formal channel for players dealing with issues involving remote-gambling concessionaires. A player should first raise the matter directly with the concessionaire before using the ADM reporting channel. The portal is part of ADM’s broader supervision of regulated remote gambling and should not be treated as a dispute-resolution route for an unlicensed offshore gambling site.

Italy’s regulatory framework makes the distinction between an ADM concessionaire and an unauthorised gambling website particularly important. ADM actively blocks unauthorised gambling domains at the ISP level, while the RUA self-exclusion system and other responsible-gambling protections operate within the regulated concession framework. Rather than recommending specific casinos, this page explains how consumers can verify whether a gambling operator and its domain appear in ADM’s authorised system.