Sixteen gambling-related advertisements appeared every minute during televised English Premier League (EPL) matches last season, a new study has shown. In a sample of ten broadcast matches across the 2022/23 season, covering every club in the league, researchers documented 15,663 on-screen gambling-associated logos. While Premier League clubs have agreed to ban gambling logos from match-day shirt-fronts from 2026 onwards, the study found that these only accounted for 6.9 per cent of the total number of gambling adverts recorded. ‘National shame’Last season, the West Ham v Chelsea game featured the most betting logos with 3,522, or 37 for every game minute. The harm gambling advertising causes is no longer ignorable; the government needs to step in and end all gambling advertising in football.”The Government’s long-delayed White Paper reforming the Gambling Act 2005 has been criticised for offering little to curb the promotion of betting in sport.

Source: The Guardian July 20, 2023 14:19 UTC