Trust Score 79/100 · Tier 1
79/100Tier 16 componentsOnline since 2001, BWin runs as a sportsbook in the SharkBetting Atlas.
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Is it safe to bet with? Licence, owner and complaint record, verified 2026
Online since 2001, BWin runs as a sportsbook in the SharkBetting Atlas.
- ACTIVE LICENCES
- 12
- PLAYER REVIEWS
- 142
Across 12 jurisdictions
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- LicenseTier 1 UK Gambling Commission
- EnforcementNo fines
- Cert since19 years
- AppsiOS only
- Markets17 countries
Author and sources
BWin at a glance
At a glance
BWin sits in the top 1% of bookmakers we track and earns a Tier-1 licensing posture. The trust score and tier shown in the header above are broken down by 6 weighted components in the score panel below.
What's behind the 79/100
6 weighted checks, total 100. Each bar shows the score, weight, and what it means.
What this score means: Active licences in tier-1 jurisdictions provide strong consumer protection and dispute-resolution channels.
Evidence: Tier-1: UK Gambling Commission
What this score means: Ownership traces to a publicly-known parent group with documented filings.
Evidence: Companies House entry verified for parent group
What this score means: Multiple security signals failing. Mozilla Observatory grade poor or critical CVEs nearby.
Context: A technical measure of HTTP-header hardening and DNS hygiene, not evidence of a breach or unsafe funds.
Evidence: Mozilla Observatory: F
What this score means: Mixed review signals. Some platforms positive, others negative or sparse.
Evidence: Dispute mediation: 6.7/10
What this score means: No fraud-intel hits, no AML enforcement actions, no KEV CVEs on infrastructure.
Evidence: No threat-intel hits
What this score means: Domain age, hosting tier, and CDN posture indicate a stable long-running operation.
Evidence: Domain age: 25y
BWin overview
Online since 2001, BWin runs as a sportsbook in the SharkBetting Atlas. The brand was first registered online in 2001, giving it roughly 25 years of operating history. Ultimate ownership traces back to Entain Limited through a 3-step corporate chain. It holds 13 active licences, including ones from UKGC, ADM, and Spillemyndigheden. It accepts players from 17 countries.
Its SharkBetting Trust Score v2 sits at 69 out of 100 (high confidence, above-average band). Public review aggregators report 6.7/10 on a third-party dispute-mediation service.
How an Austrian sportsbook became part of an FTSE-100 group
bwin was founded in 1997 in Vienna by Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger as betandwin.com, listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 2000, and in 2011 merged with PartyGaming to form bwin.party Digital Entertainment. GVC Holdings acquired bwin.party in 2016 for approximately GBP 1.1 billion, then rebranded to Entain plc in 2020 (FTSE 100, ticker ENT). Today bwin sits alongside Ladbrokes, Coral, partypoker, Sportingbet and Foxy Bingo as one of Entain's roughly 30 brands.
The practical signal for a player is that bwin's market-leading product strengths, deep European football coverage, strong eSports book, multilingual interface across 25+ languages, persist as the operational moat, while the underlying compliance, payments and trading infrastructure is shared with the Entain group. UK and Spanish customers transact with the relevant Entain-owned licensee; central and eastern European customers typically transact with bwin International, the MGA-licensed Maltese entity that retained the original bwin operations.
What bwin's eSports book tells you about its product priorities
bwin was one of the first mainstream European sportsbooks to offer a fully fleshed-out eSports product (CS:GO, League of Legends, Dota 2, Valorant, Rocket League, etc.) and remains one of the deepest by market count. This is not just product trivia, it tells you something structural about the operator. eSports markets are higher-variance and harder to model than football, so a sportsbook that takes them seriously typically has a more mature trading desk and tighter risk controls than peers that sit on the same Pinnacle-feed.
The trade-off appears in margin posture. bwin's eSports market over-rounds run higher than its football lines, a deliberate choice to compensate for the operator's exposure to sharp money on these markets. If you are a recreational eSports bettor the depth and limit availability are excellent; if you are a sharp on the same markets, expect stake-limiting on these higher-variance markets.
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Activity timeline
Atlas tracked 4 timeline sources for this brand: licence registers, UKGC enforcement sitemap, certificate transparency, atlas verification. 2 returned signal so far. Atlas first observed this brand on 2026-04-19.Latest event: Atlas last verified on 2026-04-19.
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What to expect
Identity checks
Standard: ID on first withdrawal
A general expectation for this brand type, not an individually verified KYC audit. Check the operator’s own terms before depositing.
Mobile apps
How we know: Apple App Store + Google Play Store metadata, atlas brand catalogue. Last checked 2026-04-19.
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Frequently asked questions
Is BWin safe?
BWin has a Trust Score of 79/100 with high data confidence. It rates well on independent signals: licensing 93/100, reviews 49/100, corporate 80/100, security 23/100. No active red flags are recorded against the brand.
Who owns BWin?
BWin is operated by ElectraWorks Limited and ultimately owned by Entain Limited. The licensee is incorporated in Gibraltar (company number FC037925). Disclosed corporate chain: ElectraWorks Limited -> Entain Limited -> (Entain Limited - PSC-exempt: Overseas company - PSC regime not applicable. Entain plc is LSE-listed (LSE: ENT).). The same operator family also runs betboo, betmgm, borgata, bpremium and 8 other brands.
Is BWin licensed?
BWin appears in regulator registers classified by the Trust Score v2 scorer as UKGC (tier-1). Additional matches under Colombia-Coljuegos are not tier-mapped by the scorer, so they are reported as regulated without a tier claim. The licensing component scores 93/100 in Trust Score v2. Tier-1 status means strict KYC, AML, segregated player funds, and mandatory dispute resolution. Tier-2 covers Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Alderney, Kahnawake, and KSA-NL. Tier-3 covers Curacao-style light-touch frameworks.
Does BWin have a mobile app?
BWin ships a native iOS app verified against the App Store listing. On the App Store, "bwin FM 946" rates 4.56/5 across 142 reviews, published by EIDISEIS DOT COM S.A (App Store category: Sports). Store ratings reflect user satisfaction with the app itself, not the underlying betting product, and can drift after major updates.
What do third-party review platforms say about BWin?
BWin appears on multiple independent review aggregators that measure different aspects of player experience. A third-party dispute-mediation service, which mediates player complaints with operators, scores 6.7/10. Open consumer-review platforms reflect sentiment from any consumer who chooses to post; dispute-mediation services reflect how an operator behaves when disputes are escalated, so the two metrics measure different things.
When did BWin launch?
BWin was first indexed online in 2001 on the domain bwin.com, giving it roughly 25 years of recorded web history. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is the source for this first-snapshot evidence; corporate registration may predate the first archived crawl. 25 years on the public web is a long-established operator history relative to the rest of the atlas, which spans operators founded between the late 1990s and the present.
Where is BWin available?
BWin accepts players from 17 jurisdictions per atlas data, including Canada, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta and 11 more. Availability lists are derived from public terms-of-service pages and licence registers; geofencing rules can be tighter than what is publicly stated, and accounts opened from restricted IPs are usually voided. Always verify your specific country on the official site before depositing.
What are alternatives to BWin?
Alternatives in the same operator family (parent groups: bog-bookmakers, entain) include betboo, betmgm, borgata, bpremium, gamebookers and 7 other branded clones. Same-family sites typically share the platform, licensing posture, payment rails, and corporate ownership, so a complaint pattern, regulator action, or AML failure at one site frequently recurs across siblings. Compare independent Trust Scores side by side before switching, and check whether the alternative holds the same licences in your country.
Is BWin's site secure?
BWin scores 23/100 on the Trust Score v2 security component, indicating noticeable hardening gaps. Signals include: Mozilla Observatory grade F; HSTS + CSP (+5); CDN: Cloudflare (+3). The security component blends HTTP-header hardening (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options), TLS configuration, DNS hygiene (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), CDN/WAF presence, and hosting reputation; it does not assess the operator's internal security or breach history.
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| Metric | This brand BWin | Alternative 1 Not selected | Alternative 2 Not selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust Score | 79/100 | ||
| Tier | Tier 1 | ||
| Active licences | 12 | ||
| Player reviews | 142 | ||
| Top regulator | UK Gambling Commission | ||
| Regulator actions | None on file |
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Sources (5)
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Regulator records (1)
- [1]BWin licence record (no. 54743) (UK Gambling Commission)
Operator pages (1)
- [4]BWin licence record (Spillemyndigheden)
Other (3)
- [2]BWin licence record (no. GAD-16013) (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli)
- [3]BWin licence record (Gemeinsame Gluecksspielbehoerde der Laender)
- [5]Web-security scan of bwin.com (grade F) (Mozilla HTTP Observatory)Accessed
Trust score computed from 6 weighted components (licensing, corporate, security, reviews, threat intel, operational). License data verified against public authority records. Last verified 53 days ago. Sources cited: 5.
Last updated: 19 Apr 2026
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