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Betway Canada joins Alberta's regulated iGaming market
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Betway Canada joins Alberta's regulated iGaming market

The Super Group-owned brand offers sports betting and online casino products in the province, which launched its competitive market in July.

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Betway Canada has been added to Alberta’s list of operating regulated iGaming platforms, the Alberta iGaming Corp announced on Monday, September 28.

The Super Group-owned brand will offer both sports betting and online casino products in the province.

Apollo Entertainment’s Golden Tiger Casino was also added to the list on the same day.

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"The AiGC’s announcement identified Betway Canada and Golden Tiger Casino as new sites in the regulated market and directed players to its updated list of registered platforms," the corporation said.

The arrivals add two brands to a competitive provincial market that launched on July 13, 2026, and now hosts more than 30 active platforms.

Betway joins a roster that includes FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM, bet365 and Caesars.

Super Group chief executive Neal Menashe said the company wanted the additional weeks to move its existing Betway customer base into the regulated product without disrupting the experience that had kept players engaged.

"Betway has already gone through a similar shift from grey-market to regulated operation in Ontario, giving the company a template to follow in Alberta," Menashe said.

The Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission initially required unregulated operators to stop all grey-market activity on July 13, the same day the regulated market opened, but allowed a case-by-case extension of up to three months for operators with a credible compliance path.

That extension pushed the effective deadline for qualifying operators to October 13.

Super Group’s Alberta rollout now covers five licensed brands under the AGLC framework: Betway, Spin Casino, Jackpot City, Royal Vegas and Ruby Fortune.

That list is one platform short of an earlier six-brand plan, after Grizzly’s Quest was removed from AGLC’s list of registrants in June without an official explanation given.

More than 50 platforms began registering for an AGLC licence in January 2026, with sites allowed to begin pre-registering customers from February, ahead of the market's formal July opening.

Operators have moved at different speeds through the same transition window.

Bally's launched Bally Bet and Monopoly Casino in Alberta on August 4, just over three weeks after the market's formal opening, while Betway waited until late September to confirm its listing on the AiGC’s registry.

The AiGC has also clarified what pre-launch operators can and cannot do while they wait out an extension: "coming soon" style pre-registration advertising is permitted provided it includes a responsible-gambling message directing players to 211 Alberta for support, while bonus or credit-based advertising remains barred outside an operator's own site and direct marketing channels.

Existing Betway and Spin Casino customers in Alberta have been able to keep playing on the operators' offshore-licensed products right up until the formal cutoff.

With Betway now confirmed on the AiGC's registered list, those players can move to the regulated version of the brand's online casino product, which carries Alberta-specific consumer protections that the offshore version did not.

Alberta became the second Canadian province, after Ontario, to move away from grey-market betting and establish a regulated framework.

Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis regulates and oversees iGaming in the province, while the AiGC announces the newly listed sites and maintains the operating-site list.

The remaining Super Group brands due to transition under the same October 13 window will be the next names to watch on the AiGC’s registry.