In Sweden, licenses are issued by the governmental authorities, most of them being owned by the state-owned operator, Svenska Spel, which owns more than 51 % of all gambling facilities in the country.
“If we add to the domination of Svenska Spel the privileged position of the Swedish Horse Racing Totalisator Board (ATG), then we can clearly conclude that gambling in Sweden is governed by an oligopoly”
Namely, if we sum up the percentages of the market coverage in terms of gambling facilities than we can conclude that almost 85 % of the market is owned by these two companies while only 11% belongs other licensed operators, and a small percentage of 4 % falling on non-licensed operators in the country
Soon, a debate is to be started in Sweden on the changes of the gambling laws in the country, especially in the online gambling sector, looking forward to solving the main factors, the existence of Monopoly by the state in the gambling industry in case it exists the ending of Svenska Spel, and a long-term goal of the Swedish market like the economic liberalization of the market
