Germany’s state-licensed casinos organized in the DSbV Deutscher Spielbankenverband generated a gross gaming revenue (BSE) of €801.3m [$935.5m] in 2025, up from €729.3m [$851.5m], a year earlier, in what DSbV President Kerstin Kosanke described as a ‘brilliant result.’
In 2025, the association had more than 4.2m guests attending the casinos of its members. A year earlier, the figure was 3.8 million people.
The DSbV represents the state-licensed casino companies at 35 locations under public law in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Bremen, Saarland, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and the MERKUR casinos in North Rhine-Westphalia, which were privatized in autumn 2021
“It’s really a great progression,” Kosanke said. “After the major slump in the Corona crisis, when all casinos had to close temporarily, there has been an unbroken upward trend since mid-2021.”
