Official language: German, French, Italian
Population: 7,700,200
Currency: Swiss Franc (CHF)

Current Exchange Rate
1 EUR = 1.5134 CHF
1 GBP = 1.6439 CHF
1 USD = 1.0084 CHF

Sports Betting in Switzerland
In Switzerland, sports betting is forbidden under the Federal Lotteries and Commercial Betting Act. This only applies to commercial enterprises. The state lottery, on the other hand, does offer a few forms of sports betting to Swiss punters. There are no fixed-odds or pari-mutuel bets offered in Switzerland. All sports betting is lottery-style.

Swisloss, which has been in operation since 2003, runs the sports lotteries and pools in Switzerland. They offer several games, including Sporttip set, Sporttip one, SuperTOTO, JOKER, and extraJOKER that all involve sports somehow – usually it is match results that provide numbers the games are based upon. It's not true sports betting, but it is the best available.

Online Sports Betting in Switzerland
Swiss punters who want to place proper bets on sports have to do so on the internet. Unfortunately, there are no true Swiss sportsbooks to be found online. This is because online gambling in Switzerland is prohibited, and the local government does not give licenses to operate online sports betting websites.

Swiss players still place bets on the internet in spite of the ban. The government does not enforce it since there is no legislature that gives them the power to do so. This means that players can use foreign-hosted online sportsbooks and bookmakers. There are many sites on the internet that accept players from Switzerland, and several of them have sites in other languages, such as German, Italian, and French, making it easier for Swiss players to find a place to wager on Swiss and world sporting events on the internet.