Betfair Site Availability Around The World WIKI

Albania: YES
Argentina: YES
Australia: YES (no in play)
Austria: YES
Barbados: NO
Belgium: YES
Bolivia: YES
Bosnia-Herzegovina: YES
Brazil: YES
Bulgaria: YES
Cambodia: YES
Canada: YES
Chile: YES
China: NO
Colombia: YES
Costa Rica: YES
Croatia: YES
Cyprus: NO
Czech Republic: YES
Denmark: YES
Ecuador: YES
Egypt: YES
Estonia: NO
Falkland Islands: YES
Finland: YES
France: NO
Gambia: YES
Germany: YES (residents: NO)
Greece: YES
Guatemala: YES
Holland: YES
Honduras: YES
Hong Kong: YES
India: YES
Indonesia: YES
Ireland: YES
Italy: NO
Japan: YES
Jordan: NO
Laos: NO/YES (latest reports suggest NO)
Latvia: YES
Lithuania: YES
Macau: YES
Macedonia: YES
Malaysia: YES (but unsure of legality...)
Mali: YES
Malta: YES (but no Poker or Multiples)
Mexico: YES
Moldova: YES
Montenegro : YES
Namibia: YES
Nepal: YES
New Zealand: YES
Nicaragua: YES
Norway: YES
Oman: YES (legality uncertain)
Panama: YES
Philipines: YES
Poland: YES
Portugal: YES
Romania: YES
Russia: YES
Serbia: YES
Singapore: YES
Slovakia: YES
Slovenia: YES
Spain: NO
South Africa: YES
South Korea: YES
Sweden: YES
Thailand: NO
Turkey: NO
Ukraine: YES
UAE (Dubai): NO
United Kingdom: YES
USA: NO
Vietnam: YES

Albania: YES
Argentina: YES
Australia: YES (no in play)
Austria: YES
Barbados: NO
Belgium: NO
Bolivia: YES
Bosnia-Herzegovina: YES
Brazil: YES
Bulgaria: YES
Cambodia: YES
Canada: YES
Chile: YES
China: NO
Colombia: YES
Costa Rica: YES
Croatia: YES
Cyprus: NO
Czech Republic: YES
Denmark: YES
Ecuador: YES
Egypt: YES
Estonia: NO
Falkland Islands: YES
Finland: YES
France: NO
Gambia: YES
Germany: YES (residents: NO)
Greece: YES
Guatemala: YES
Holland: YES
Honduras: YES
Hong Kong: YES
India: YES
Indonesia: YES
Ireland: YES
Italy: NO
Japan: YES
Jordan: NO
Laos: NO/YES (latest reports suggest NO)
Latvia: YES
Lithuania: YES
Macau: YES
Macedonia: YES
Malaysia: YES (but unsure of legality...)
Mali: YES
Malta: YES (but no Poker or Multiples)
Mexico: YES
Moldova: YES
Montenegro : YES
Namibia: YES
Nepal: YES
New Zealand: YES
Nicaragua: YES
Norway: YES
Oman: YES (legality uncertain)
Panama: YES
Philipines: YES
Poland: YES
Portugal: YES
Romania: YES
Russia: YES
Serbia: YES
Singapore: YES
Slovakia: YES
Slovenia: YES
Spain: NO
South Africa: YES
South Korea: YES
Sweden: YES
Thailand: NO
Turkey: NO
Ukraine: YES
UAE (Dubai): NO
United Kingdom: YES
USA: NO
Vietnam: YES

Tenerife?

who said Estonia No?

is a definite yes

Albania: YES
Argentina: YES
Australia: YES (no in play)
Austria: YES
Barbados: NO
Belgium: NO
Bolivia: YES
Bosnia-Herzegovina: YES
Brazil: YES
Bulgaria: YES
Cambodia: YES
Canada: YES
Chile: YES
China: NO
Colombia: YES
Costa Rica: YES
Croatia: YES
Cyprus: NO
Czech Republic: YES
Denmark: YES
Ecuador: YES
Egypt: YES
Estonia: YES
Falkland Islands: YES
Finland: YES
France: NO
Gambia: YES
Germany: YES (residents: NO)
Greece: YES
Guatemala: YES
Holland: YES
Honduras: YES
Hong Kong: YES
India: YES
Indonesia: YES
Ireland: YES
Italy: NO
Japan: YES
Jordan: NO
Laos: NO/YES (latest reports suggest NO)
Latvia: YES
Lithuania: YES
Macau: YES
Macedonia: YES
Malaysia: YES (but unsure of legality...)
Mali: YES
Malta: YES (but no Poker or Multiples)
Mexico: YES
Moldova: YES
Montenegro : YES
Namibia: YES
Nepal: YES
New Zealand: YES
Nicaragua: YES
Norway: YES
Oman: YES (legality uncertain)
Panama: YES
Philipines: YES
Poland: YES
Portugal: YES
Romania: YES
Russia: YES
Serbia: YES
Singapore: YES
Slovakia: YES
Slovenia: YES
Spain: NO
South Africa: YES
South Korea: YES
Sweden: YES
Thailand: NO
Turkey: NO
Ukraine: YES
UAE (Dubai): NO
United Kingdom: YES
USA: NO
Vietnam: YES

cut and paste the list, highlight changes in bold simples

2014 1st of june.

Latvia will put IP ban to those sites who dont buy a license to operate in Latvia. Dunno whether it means restriction to hold an account on betfair.

Albania: YES
Argentina: YES
Australia: YES (no in play)
Austria: YES
Barbados: NO
Belgium: NO
Bolivia: YES
Bosnia-Herzegovina: YES
Brazil: YES
Bulgaria: YES
Cambodia: YES
Canada: YES
Chile: YES
China: NO
Colombia: YES
Costa Rica: YES
Croatia: YES
Cyprus: NO
Czech Republic: YES
Denmark: YES
Ecuador: YES
Egypt: YES
Estonia: YES
Falkland Islands: YES
Finland: YES
France: NO
Gambia: YES
Germany: YES (residents: NO)
Greece: YES
Guatemala: YES
Holland: YES
Honduras: YES
Hong Kong: YES
India: YES
Indonesia: YES
Ireland: YES
Italy: NO
Japan: YES
Jordan: NO
Laos: NO/YES (latest reports suggest NO)
Latvia: YES
Lithuania: YES
Macau: YES
Macedonia: YES
Malaysia: YES (but unsure of legality...)
Mali: YES
Malta: YES (but no Poker or Multiples)
Mexico: YES
Moldova: YES
Montenegro : YES
Namibia: YES
Nepal: YES
New Zealand: YES
Nicaragua: YES
Norway: YES
Oman: YES (legality uncertain)
Panama: YES
Philipines: YES
Poland: YES
Portugal: YES
Romania: YES
Russia: YES
Serbia: YES
Singapore: YES
Slovakia: YES
Slovenia: YES
Spain: NO
South Africa: YES
South Korea: YES
Sweden: YES
Thailand: YES It worked last month when i was there, in play as well
Turkey: NO
Ukraine: YES
UAE (Dubai): NO
United Kingdom: YES
USA: NO
Vietnam: YES

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Apologies but it seems no one has answered my question. Can you get betfair in Tenerife to have a bet.

Thanks in advance.

Tenerife belongs to Spain, so probably not.

Thanks Mr.Anderson.I know it's banned but I see many over there with their tablets so was hoping.I'm taking mine on the off chance.

buy a ukvpn for a month just in case

Cheers for that brendanuk1

Don`t know about you but the fact that the two biggest gambling countries in the world are shut out of this game really flujs me off.
New Jersey offers a little hope I spose..

Anybody know about Qatar...

You can in Cyprus now. Was banned for a while but OK now.

UAE (Dubai): NO but you can use Betting asistant -Gruss as usual
Turkey: NO but you can use Betting asistant -Gruss as usual
Spain-Barcelona working fine

Swedish customer

Albania is now a NO.I was there yesterday, a message comes up in Albanian with a date from last year so i pressume it's a recent thing.
Everywhere else in the Balkans is fine though.

Currently on sun lounger in Tenerife and via hotel public network Kubi.com its a yes.

Spain seems to be a strange one.I tried accesing the site from Madrid airport about a month ago and it wasn't working.

Anybody know about the Carribean/West Indies?

Dom. Rep. YES. No problem.
Spain. NO. Tried alot of different things, VPN services. So much hassle. They must have done something. Worst I have ever encountred.

Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria are all a yes for me.
coming home next week  :(

Armenia :YES
Georgia :YES
Kosovo  :NO

Somalia - yes

Pakistan : YES Serioulsly!I'm in Lahore right now.It's an amazing country...

Its far safer than people would have you believe and because there is almost no tourism people are amazingly friendly...basically zero of the type of hassle you get in India.I love it.

Is it cheap Davy?

Dirt cheap mate.A little bit cheaper than India.Very few beggars, no hassle, extremely friendly people and about a 100 times cleaner than India.
Id recommened anyone to visit the country..

Italy update: BF haven't accepted new players for ages but they kept the ones already registereds so far.
So there are probably thousands of italians still operating, as of today.
Heard somewhere they are the 2nd or 3rd on BF in terms of matched money.

No more, monday 7th april all those accounts will be terminated and forced to operate on the new italian site, launching the same date.

There won't be any liquidity sharing between the italian platform and the international one so if you'll notice lesser liquidity, that's why.

Bump... Anyone know about Zimbabwe or Jamaica?

Also according to the latest list South Africa is a yes, but I thought betfair had pulled out of South Africa...

Zambia and South Africa were fine as of May last year if this assists in any way.  Which I doubt it does.

No it doesn't, rang Betfair this morning and they said South Africa is definitely a no. Zimbabwe should be ok though apparently.

Greece is a definite no,the only bookie I could use was unibet.

TTT for tashkent trader

Any updates on Spain?

specifically
Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria - please ?

Tried logging in from Toledo a couple of weeks ago.

Not able to offer this service or something to the same effect.

You cannot access Betfair in SPAIN, certainly as of Feb 2014

Fuerteventura....NO

Iceland - YES. 

(First time holidaying here, amazing country, lovely people, thanks to you all. x)

spain via vpn no problems

Off to Germany next week and called Betfair customer service to check whether the Exchange was allowed.

Was informed the Exchange is definitely a no in Germany and any customer found using the Exchange in a banned country would have their accounts closed.

Lucky I checked with Betfair as I could have easily went to Germany and phoned the London office to place a bet on the Exchange without any problems. This would be an unintentional breaking of the law in Germany committing a criminal offence.

About time Betfair provided a proper service to customers with a published list of those countries where the Exchange is available ensuring that it is promptly updated with changes.

so is germany the only country that has a law in place where it is illegal to access a non registered bookie?

as far as im aware these companies may face restricitions but there are very few countries who have actually made laws making it a criminal offence to access such sites.

some countries have other things which you may get done on other things like avoiding tax....
but as far as im aware germany must be the only one which has a law on individuals????

try this.

if your not sure your account will get banned use a bookie you dont want to use again.

get a vpn.
log in from a "banned destination".
then log in from your normal ip address..

you will see they have taken the correct steps.

if you have an address from a abanned country your account will be closed.
if you try to use a bank card from a banned country you wont be allowed to.

all bookmakers who dont have agreements in countries who insist on them cant do **** all if bokies and exchanges follow this.

so if you use a vpn abroad how the hell is that country goign to find out?

are betfair and co realy goign to shoot themselves in the foot.
if an indvidual gets "found out" betfair and co wont get done.

tbh most countries wont give a sh1t.
most wont even give a sh1t unless you have tax to pay....then you may have a big problem lol

bump. in case you want it

No mention of Morocco in the last updated list.

Anyone been recently, and can Betfair be accessed?

What's happening with Singapore?  I see on another thread a law's been passed banning online gambling starting next year?  Bet365 (and others) already closing accounts.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/online-gaming-firms-start/1415526.html

no prob in Morocco

in 2013

Indonesia is now a NO, based on my experience in Bali a couple of months back.

Note I have used BF in Indonesia many times previously with no problems.

I placed bets from Bali around November 1st

France was no problem 2 x holidays last year- Loire region

NZ currently very much a 'yes'

is Norway still a yes ? thanks

Costa Rica is a YES
I'll add to the full list but there might have been other changes since this was last done in November?

Or not as it is already there...

Yep, I added it back in 2010

Great country eh?

Sri Lanka???

UK Grand National Day - AM only

Anyone know about Dubai?
About Saudi Arabia?

Betfair just told me that Azerbaijan is ok as is India and Sri Lanka. Germany is also ok but Spain is a no go.

Canada still a Yes, but commish up to 6.5% now that the purple guys have banned us.

Bulgaria still a yes

USA Yes

UK Grand National Day No

Is South Africa still a no?

Argentina is now a No.Couldn't access the site from Buenos Aires last month.Brazil,Bolivia,Peru and Uruguay still fine though.

Colombia and Mexico still fine too

Heading to Malaysia tomorrow then Vietnam on my first overseas trip. Will be exciting to bet in-play

er didnt you visit the motherland last year or earlier?

no i didnt .

Greece is a NO.When you try to log in a message appears in Greek from betfair.I downloaded Flash VPN on my phone, it worked just fine using that.It's free too.

Belgium and Cyprus have gone.  I saw the helpdesk also said South Africa is a banned territory.  Is this correct?

Cyprus OK for now, but as from today unable to place Tote bets on here.

Where did you see Cyprus had gone, TP?

Someone on Twitter although I had it clarified today it was just something affecting horse racing and the dogs.

Does anyone know if betfair can be accessed in Hongkong.???

Worked well in Colombo last week, so Sri Lanka is a YES.

Anyone in Cyprus about?

Good detective work there, osgood

Hungary : YES

Austria is still YES?

Surprised if this hasn't been mentioned but while I've been unable to place bets through WiFi in France on a few occasions recently, Spain and the US (wife likes to spend my winnings), I've never had a problem getting on to Betfair through the app on my phone, as long as I've paid for data abroad. I'm assuming, if it's been thought about at all by the authorities, that it's counted as betting at home, as effectively using a domestic data connection, just one hosted abroad.

bf can't determine the location of a phone in the way they can with an IP address.

Some governments block bf (at least from time to time like Indonesia) but other countries are blocked by bf itself. Which is why you can access from a phone.

Slogger, if you want to avoid data charges, try using a VPN hosted in the UK. I've heard bf blocks some VPNs, but not others.

When bf Australia was down for several days, I could access bf UK using a VPN, but got kicked off when I logged in. I assume because I'm an Australian account, which won't apply to you.

Always buy data when abroad so isn't really a problem but will keep the vpn idea in mind.

I notice that Singapore is down as a 'YES'
Try as I might, using my laptop in my Singapore hotel, trying to log into Betfair I got a message saying that I was not allowed access to that website. Clearly I was doing something wrong.

Been told Australia is a no, but anyone know if I will get away with it on my mobile phone?

Has anyone tried to keep a list and keep it up-to-date?

Early 2017 Andorra was a YES.

Now Andorra is a NO :(

Slovakia appears to have become a NO within the last 2 or 3 weeks. You now get re-directed to a web-page telling you about the Finance Act's restrictions on betting sites.

All I ever see in this thread is Yes's becoming No's ........love to see some No's becoming Yes's like Germany, France & Italy.

Anyone now the availability in Rwanda?

If holidaying in USA you rang up Betfair phoneline to authorise a bet, do you get arrested by USA police?

Even in UK if you try to logon to Betfair from a Public Library you will likely be blocked.  My Library will not even allow logon to RacingPost.com

If USA blocks Betfair access and it is against their law, so be it.
Pesumably they would not allow anyone there to ring up Ladbrokes in UK to strike a bet either?

Spain is a no

US could be a yes this year, that would be giant for betfair liquidity if they legalize it

Loggin in from a shared wifi is (1st) unsane (2nd) proibited from betfair as they know is a manner to get your data stolen

Great thread. Thanks everyone! :)

Is there any chance Spain will be a 'Yes' in the near future?

I´m moving out there next month with my gf.

I know they do have Betfair (a Spanish version it seemed) but very poor liquidity.

"US could be a yes this year, that would be giant for betfair liquidity if they legalize it"
any source ?

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