Mozzartbet Group will stop operating under its Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) licence on 1 October 2026, closing the Mozzart.com brand and the affiliate programme attached to it.
The company confirmed the decision in a notice sent to affiliate partners on 27 August. It ends more than seven years of Mozzartbet Malta Limited trading under MGA oversight, and it is voluntary rather than the result of any regulatory action.
What happens on 1 October
Mozzart.com has run under Mozzartbet Malta Limited’s MGA licence since March 2019. Final affiliate commissions will be calculated on activity generated up to and including 30 September, with the brand closing the following day.
Affiliate links pointing at Mozzart.com will be deactivated through MyAffiliates, the platform the company uses to run the programme. Licence MGA/B2C/606/2018 was still listed as active on the MGA’s public register at the time of writing.
Mozzartbet Malta Limited told affiliate partners:
“We regret to inform you that, following a strategic decision by management, Mozzartbet Malta Limited will cease its operations under its MGA licence and discontinue the Mozzart.com brand, including the affiliate programme operated under that brand.”
The same notice set out the reasoning:
“This decision follows our determination to focus exclusively on the markets in which we hold local licences and operate under local regulation.”
A shift to national licences
That position puts the group’s business inside individual national regimes rather than under a Malta licence serving a dot-com brand across several territories. Mozzartbet holds local permissions in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Romania, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana, each of which licenses gambling nationally.
The MGA licence sat outside that structure. It covered Mozzart.com, the international brand, rather than any of the markets where the group runs a licensed local business. Dropping it removes a compliance and fee obligation that no longer maps onto where the company takes bets.
The Malta backdrop
The exit comes as the MGA reports rising licensing activity. The regulator’s 2025 annual report showed the number of licensing applications and approvals climbing while enforcement penalties fell, a combination the authority has attributed to a maturing compliance culture among licensees rather than lighter supervision.
Enforcement has continued in individual cases. The MGA has cancelled licences outright where it found serious breaches, and it has instructed licensees to monitor for suspicious betting activity ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Mozzartbet’s departure is not connected to any of that. It does add to a pattern of operators reassessing what an MGA licence delivers against what it costs, particularly those whose revenue now sits in locally regulated markets.
Local markets unaffected
Mozzartbet Malta operates from a registered office in St Julian’s. The wider Mozzartbet Group is headquartered in Belgrade and was founded in Serbia in 2001 by Dejan Čakajac. It has since become one of the larger betting groups in the Balkans, and signed a content partnership with Gaming Corps in 2025.
The company confirmed its affiliate programmes in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya and Nigeria will run as before. Mozzartbet said the decision “relates solely to the Mozzart.com business operated under the MGA licence” and that activities in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Nigeria and North Macedonia “continue unchanged.”
Its Romanian and Ghanaian licences were not mentioned in either the affiliate notice or the company’s follow-up comment.
What is still open
Affiliates have until 30 September to move Mozzart.com traffic elsewhere, after which the links stop paying. The MGA register will show in the weeks that follow whether the licence is formally surrendered or left to lapse at renewal.
Mozzartbet has not said what happens to Mozzart.com customer accounts and balances after the closing date, which is the detail affiliates and players will want next.
Source: Mozzartbet Malta Limited
