Allwyn merges with OPAP
Allwyn merges with OPAP to set its eyes on growth. Greep gaming operator OPAP. Award-winning Allwyn, will announce the transaction in a move to own 51.78% of shares in OPAP. UK gaming and Lottery operator Allwyn and OPAP from Greece are creating with the merger a 16bn Euro gaming business, run under the Name of Allwyn.
In this Article
- Allwyn and OPAP merger in numbers
- OPAP Products and Informations
- Allwyn Products and Info
- Playing the Lottery in the UK
- FAQs Lottery and the merger
Allwyn and OPAP merger in numbers
- OPAP -a greek organization of football prognostics
- OPAP is listed since 2001 on the Athen Stock exchange with an estimated value of 2bn Euros
- roughly 4000 employees are working currently for OPAP
- their estimated growth for 2025 is 20%
- OPAP own Stoixman, a casino and betting brand since July 2025 in Greece and Cyprus
- To engine its retail terminal access to betting in Greece, OPAP teamed up with OpenBet
- Allwyn UK and Allwyn role in the UK is slightly more broad, running operations in the UK, Europe and North america
- Allwyn has a history with the National Lottery UK , aiming to return revenue to good causes
- Allwyn was created in 1st February 2024 under the fourth licence award by the UK Gambling commission
- it acquired Camelot UK Lottery Limited in January 2024
- Growth was a a healthy 12% in 2024 and its outlook for the digital marketing is set to grow in the future
OPAP products and informations
OPAP, specializes mainly in Lottery, Sports betting, horse racing video lottery, and online online gaming
- OPAP can offer numerical draw lotteries,online lotteries, Bingo, and scratch cards
- Sports Betting includes most pre-match betting tapes and live bets
- Horse racing betting with traditional race betting formats
- Video Lottery Terminals, are exclusively in Greece installed terminals
OPAP S.A., The greek organization of football prognostics was founded in 1958 as a state run organization for lottery and sport prognostics. The entity expanded over the years from Greece to Cyprus and has since become the major player in Greek waters.
Since 2001, OPAP is officially listed as a publicly listed company on the Athens stock exchange being currently valued over 2bn Euros. OPAP has a growing workforce of over 4000 in Greece alone, and faces strong competition from outsiders.
