Bet365 claims more than one-third of Italy’s online sports betting market

Bet365 continues to dominate Italy’s online sports betting market, according to new stats covering the first quarter of 2016.

Italian gaming industry news site Agimeg.it reports that Bet365 garnered more than one-third of all online sports wagers handled by Italian-licensed operators in the three months ending March 31, roughly on par with Bet365’s performance on the FY15 charts.

Italian-licensed online operators reported total sports wagers of €970m in Q1, of which €346.2m (35.7%) was wagered with Bet365’s local site. The next closest operator, Gala Coral Group’s Eurobet brand, was a very distant second with €101.3m (10.4%), while third place went to William Hill with €75.9m (7.8%).

The rest of the online top-10 reads as follows: Sisal €71.3m (7.3%), SNAI-Cogetech €68.4m (7%), Lottomatica €50.4m (5.2%), Paddy Power €45.2m (4.7%), Bwin €44m (4.5%), GoldBet €33m (3.4%) and Unibet €13.8m (1.4%).