Morocco

Sports betting in Morocco is a legal state monopoly operated by La Marocaine des Jeux et des Sports (MDJS), a state lottery whose capital is 90% held by the Treasury and 10% by the Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion and whose board is chaired by the Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, and which runs the Cote & Sport brand through a network of more than 1,300 retailers and an online platform (coteetsport.ma). Horse-race betting is likewise a legal monopoly run by SOREC (Société Royale d’Encouragement du Cheval), the exclusive pari-mutuel operator for Moroccan and French races, supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Private companies cannot legally offer online betting to Moroccan players and there is no licensing framework for private/offshore operators, leaving that segment grey/illegal — hence sports betting is classified as a grey market overall (state segment is a regulated monopoly). The 2025 Finance Bill introduced a 30% withholding tax plus a 2% solidarity contribution on winnings from foreign online platforms, and a February 2026 Court of Appeal ruling temporarily kept offshore sites accessible.

Prediction markets fall outside the three monopolies with no licensing pathway (grey market). Minimum age 18.

State-run gambling is legal in Morocco. The country has a handful of brick-and-mortar casinos as well as a national lottery that is available online.

Betting in Morocco is reserved to state operators: MDJS holds the nationwide monopoly on betting on all sporting competitions, including virtual sports, and SOREC is the exclusive pari-mutuel operator on horse races. Morocco does have local betting sites: MDJS takes sports bets online at coteetsport.ma and SOREC offers online horse-race betting, while offshore sites operate without any Moroccan licence.

Morocco Betting Sites

There is no Moroccan licence for a private operator to hold: betting in Morocco is reserved to MDJS for sporting competitions and SOREC for horse races.

Languages and Currencies

Arabic language gambling sites are far and few between. Not a single one of the world’s largest betting sites has anything to offer in Arabic. This is frustrating but apparently large gaming companies don’t find it worthwhile to translate their websites into Arabic since gambling is banned in most countries where the language is spoken.

English, German, Italian and other languages are much more common. If you can get by with one of these other languages, you’ll be able to sign up and get to the games. From that point, language doesn’t play a major role. If you’re familiar with the rules of the most common games, you won’t have any trouble participating.

Morocco’s own operators take bets online domestically: MDJS sells sports bets at coteetsport.ma and SOREC offers online horse-race betting. Offshore sites, which hold no Moroccan licence, generally keep balances in USD, EUR or GBP and convert deposits and withdrawals on the customer’s behalf.

At offshore sites a common deposit method is the e-wallet Skrill. Skrill charges a foreign exchange fee of up to 3.99% whenever a transaction requires a currency conversion.

Morocco Gambling Laws

Morocco has an interesting mix of Eastern and Western culture in which much of the country is shaped by Islamic culture but certain Western traditions exist as well. For example, state-run sports betting and horse-race betting are legal in Morocco. Casinos operate in several cities and offer all the same games you would find in any Western casino.

Online betting in Morocco sits inside the state monopolies: MDJS sells sports bets online and by its own account the monopoly covers innovative and remote formats, and SOREC offers online horse-race betting. The country does have a lottery which is available online at www.e-loterie.ma as well.

Morocco has become increasingly influenced by Islamic law since the political upheaval of 2012. That same year, the country’s new government banned the TV broadcasting of live lottery draws. The Moroccan telecommunications minister was quoted saying that he would not allow gambling games to be screened on live TV “even if it costs me my job."

Internet censorship in the country has been sporadic but the population strongly objects to any measures to block access to online betting sites in Morocco.

A few websites have been blocked for short times in the past; Freedom House reports that the government did not block or filter any websites for political, social, or religious content during its coverage period, while finding internet freedom in Morocco tenuous, with users still subject to surveillance, arrests and harassment for their online activities. To date, online gambling has never been targeted by censorship efforts. Hopefully this remains the case for a long time.