Germany’s national gambling self-exclusion programme OASIS has recorded almost 350,000 registrations during its first four years of operations, official data from the scheme has revealed.
Launch in July 2021, OASIS went live shortly after the country’s legal online gambling market opened. It was introduced under the terms of the State Treaty on Gambling (GlüNeuRStV).
As of the end of July 2025, a total of 336,980 registrations had been reported. As people can self-exclude more than once, the overall number of individuals in the scheme may vary.
Several self-exclusion options are available to players, with users able to block themselves for over 10 years. Of the 341,327 registrations reported through to 14 August this year, 22,381 elected for the longest possible blocking period.
The most popular option among players is a one-year ban, with 182,057 of users selecting this option. Some 49,168 opted in for the shortest possible ban – under one year. The GlüNeuRStV states self-exclusion can be no shorter than a period of three months.
Short-term self-exclusion popular with players in Germany
Players can only request a ban be lifted after they have served their exclusion period. This means that players self-excluding for 10 years or more would not be able to gamble via legal operators in Germany for over a decade.
However, there is an option for a short-term, temporary ban. Players can block themselves for a 24-hour period, after which the ban would be automatically lifted without the need to request a return to gambling. During the last full month (July 2025), 40,358 players made use of this tool.
Meanwhile, OASIS allows players to self-exclude from gambling or for third-party referral. Some 97% of all registrations were done so by players themselves, with the other 3% being through third parties. Anyone referred by a third party must be excluded for a minimum of 12 months.
The number of new registrations remained relatively stable during the 12 months to the end of July 2025. New monthly sign-ups for the period ranged between 7,300 and 9,600. On the other hand, the number of monthly cancellations of exclusion has been on the decline, falling from 7,404 in August 2024 to 2,821 in July 2025.
Publication of self-exclusion data came after regulator Gemeinsamen Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL) released its first breakdown of quarterly data on cross-border sports betting and iGaming stakes.
For Q1, total gambling stakes, excluding lotteries, amounted to €3.51 billion. Of this, €2.18 billion was attributed to sports betting, €1.1 billion to virtual slots and €204 million to internet poker.
As for Q2, total gambling and betting revenue amounted to €3.22 billion, which was an 8.3% drop from Q1. Sports betting wagers topped €1.89 billion, virtual slots €1.12 billion and online poker spend €184 million.
Some 336,980 registrations were reported in Germany during the first four years of the self-exclusion scheme.