Ghana
Betting in Ghana: bookmakers, licensing and payments
Betting in Ghana is licensed by the Gaming Commission of Ghana, and every row below repeats the permit that operator publishes about itself rather than one we looked up.
What is settled here
- Minimum age
- 18
- Currency
- GHS
- Authority
- Gaming Commission of Ghana
- Legal basis
- Gaming Act 2006 (Act 721). The tax on winnings was repealed by Act 1129 on 2 April 2025.
How money moves in Ghana
- MTN MoMo
- Telecel Cash
- AirtelTigo Money
- bank transfer
These are the rails the country runs on. Whether a given bookmaker reaches all of them is a separate question, and it is answered on the rows that publish it.
Bookmakers licensed in Ghana
Read this as an overview and not as a country table: it puts every row on one page so the differences between the three markets are visible side by side, and the Licensed in column is the first column for that reason. The table you act on is the one under your own country, because a permit issued next door is not a permit here. The first column repeats the country named on the operator's own licence line. The second gives the body named beside that line, and where a footer prints a number with nobody attached to it this column says so rather than supplying a plausible name; two of the Nigerian rows are in that position, and for anyone about to fund an account it is the most useful cell on the row. The third column carries the permit numbers themselves, all of them where a footer prints more than one. Nothing in these three columns has been checked against a register. They are quotations, and the ordering figure beside them is arithmetic over the weights published on How we rate.
What each way in costs at each book
One page per method, with the minimum, the stated speed and the fee each bookmaker publishes for it, and an empty cell wherever it publishes none.