Euromillions today, Friday, August 14: jackpot of 28 million, schedule and when the result comes out

In Spain, draws for state-level gambling games like Euromillions are governed by a rather dense regulatory framework, centered on Law 13/2011, on the regulation of gambling, developed by royal decrees and ministerial orders, and complemented by rules on consumer protection, anti-money laundering, and specific taxation of prizes.

1. Basic regulatory framework

• Law 13/2011, of May 27, on the regulation of gambling (BOE). It is the key sectoral regulation for state-level games (including lotteries). It defines:
  • The purpose: to regulate state-level gambling activities, especially those carried out by electronic or telematic means.
  • The scope of application: lotteries, bets, and other games where money is risked on future and uncertain outcomes, as well as raffles, contests, and promotional random combinations.
  • The reservation of state-level lotteries to specific operators (SELAE and ONCE), subject to strict public control.
  • A comprehensive regime of prohibitions, licenses, control, sanctioning regime, and taxation.
• Royal Decree 1614/2011, of November 14, on licenses, authorizations, and gambling registries (BOE). It develops Law 13/2011 regarding:
  • Requirements to obtain general licenses (to operate in certain types of games).
  • Requirements and procedures for specific licenses for each particular modality (for example, a type of draw).
  • Administrative registries of operators and banned persons.
• Historical and specific regulations on lotteries and bets, such as Royal Decree 419/1991 and its amendments, or Royal Decree 716/2005 on horse racing bets, which regulate the distribution of revenue and prizes in games managed by Loterías y Apuestas del Estado.
• Anti-money laundering: Law 10/2010, on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, to which Law 13/2011 refers to impose enhanced obligations on gambling operators.
• Taxation of prizes: the special tax on prizes from certain lotteries and bets is established in Law 16/2012, of December 27 (BOE) and is developed by regulations including the following orders:
  • Order HAP/70/2013, which approves forms 230 and 136 for self-assessment of the special tax (BOE).
  • Order HAP/2368/2013, which approves form 270 for the annual summary of withholdings and payments on account on prizes from these lotteries (BOE).

2. Division of powers between State and Autonomous Communities

Law 13/2011 applies to state-level games, which exceed the territory of a single autonomous community or are offered by telematic means throughout the State. In this scope:

• The State regulates and controls state lotteries (SELAE, ONCE) and operators with state licenses.
• The Autonomous Communities retain their powers over games and bets of exclusively regional scope (casinos, bingo halls, machines, regional lotteries, etc.), coordinating through the Gambling Policy Council provided for in Law 13/2011.

3. Authorization and organization requirements

• To operate state-level games, it is necessary to have:
  • General license (granted after a call) that authorizes operation in a category of games.
  • Specific licenses for each type of game or particular draw, with limited duration and conditional renewals.
• Authorization of state-level lotteries corresponds to the competent Ministry of Finance, which sets:
  • Minimum and maximum percentage allocated to prizes.
  • Conditions for holding draws, number of draws, and game structure.
  • Rights of participants and complaint procedures.
  • Conditions for advertising and sponsorship.
  • Measures for protection of minors, dependent persons, and prevention of fraud and money laundering.
• Law 13/2011 establishes subjective prohibitions: minors, incapacitated persons, self-excluded individuals, persons linked to the operator, and certain participants in sports betting (athletes, referees, executives…) cannot play.

4. Consumer protection, responsible gambling, and money laundering

• Obligation to implement technical systems that prevent access by minors and banned persons, especially in online games.
• Requirement for a Responsible Gambling Measures Plan by authorized operators, including:
  • Measures to prevent addictions and reduce social harm.
  • Control of gambling patterns, deposits, payment methods, etc.
• Enhanced obligations for anti-money laundering (client identification, transaction monitoring, reporting suspicions) according to Law 10/2010.

5. Tax obligations on prizes

Prizes from Euromillions and other state lotteries are subject to a special tax regulated in Law 16/2012 and subsequent rules. SELAE applies withholding tax on prizes subject to the tax and reports these amounts using forms 230, 136, and 270 approved by the cited ministerial orders, so that the taxpayer receives the prize net of the corresponding tax.

The State Society of Lotteries and Bets of the State (SELAE) is the public company, attached to the Ministry of Finance, responsible for managing state-owned lotteries and bets in Spain. Its powers are framed within Law 13/2011, on the regulation of gambling, which exclusively reserves state-level lotteries to operators designated by the State, including SELAE, and in its own statutes as a state commercial company.

Basic legal framework

The marketing of state-level lotteries is subject to a specific regime: Law 13/2011 reserves the exploitation of these lotteries to specific operators, so that no private operator can organize or sell state lotteries on their own. One of these designated operators is SELAE, which acts as a public gambling operator.

The Court of Auditors and the General Courts have audited its activity, especially regarding prize management and anti-money laundering, as reflected in the Resolution of May 8, 2025 on the control system applied to SELAE's prizes.

Management, operation, and marketing of gambling

SELAE has the power to organize, manage, operate, and market most public state-level games, including:

• National Lottery, including the Extraordinary Christmas Draw and the Children's Lottery.
• Numerical gambling games such as La Primitiva, Bonoloto, El Gordo de la Primitiva and their associated modalities (for example, Joker).
• Games managed in international consortiums, such as Euromillions.
• State-level sports bets, such as La Quiniela and other similar products.

As an operator, it approves the operating conditions of each game (bet prices, prize structure, categories, refunds, draw calendars and schedules) and is responsible for the official publication of results and the articulation of prize collection procedures through its network of sales points and collaborating financial entities.

Sales network and online channel

SELAE is also responsible for the organization and regulation of the official sales network, formed by lottery administrations and other authorized points. According to the press, this network exceeds 10,800 administrations and sales points nationwide, with thousands of associated jobs, and its economic relationship (commissions, commercial conditions, etc.) is unilaterally set by the public company, which explains recent conflicts noted in Demócrata articles.

In parallel, SELAE manages the state online gambling channel: it defines its own platform, conditions for remote participation, and integration, when appropriate, of digital platforms of sales points. Parliament has urged the entity to boost online sales and ensure that online marketing allows for adequate identification of participants and compliance with gambling and anti-money laundering regulations.

Prize control and fraud prevention

A central part of SELAE's powers is prize management and control:

• It establishes and applies payment procedures for minor and major prizes, either through the sales network or through collaborating financial entities.
• It must implement internal control and IT systems that detect fraud risks in prize payments and ensure that supporting documentation of operations is preserved and reviewed.
• It acts as an obliged entity in anti-money laundering, with a specific Operational Unit and the obligation to report suspicious operations to the Executive Service of the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering (SEPBLAC), especially when large prizes concentrate in a short time.

These obligations have been the subject of specific recommendations by the Joint Congress–Senate Commission and the Court of Auditors in the cited 2025 Resolution, which urges SELAE to strengthen human resources, protocols, and communication times with SEPBLAC.

Social responsibility and agreements

Beyond its strictly revenue function, SELAE carries out a social responsibility policy, financing social and research projects through agreements with Third Sector entities. Examples include agreements with the Spanish Association Against Cancer —amounting to more than 13 million euros between 2026 and 2029, according to news collected by Demócrata— and with the Red Cross, institutionally supported by the Ministry of Finance.

Overall, SELAE concentrates the operational, commercial, financial, and legality control management of state lotteries and bets, under parliamentary supervision, the Court of Auditors, and gambling and anti-money laundering regulatory bodies.

Based on the information available from consulted sources, it can be said that Euromillions revenue in Spain has grown in recent years, at least up to 2025, and that the game remains one of the most dynamic products within the catalog of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE). However, the reviewed news and documents do not provide a detailed annual series by game, so only a qualitative evolution and some recent variation percentages can be outlined.

Recent evolution: Euromillions grows above the overall SELAE

The best clue about Euromillions' trend comes from an analysis published by the newspaper Demócrata on SELAE's 2025 accounts. That article indicates that:

• In 2025, SELAE reached record sales of 10.586 billion euros across all its games, with an increase of 1.87 % over the previous year (source: Demócrata).
• Within that total, Euromillions was one of the fastest-growing games: the news states that its sales increased by 5.62 % in 2025, favored by longer jackpot cycles and higher average prizes.
• Other games had more moderate behavior or even slight declines (for example, drops in Bonoloto or parts of La Primitiva), reinforcing the idea that Euromillions is among the products with the best commercial dynamics within the state portfolio.

Although the article does not break down Euromillions sales in euros, the fact that SELAE's total grew less than 2 % while this particular game grew more than 5 % indicates that Euromillions has been driving the volume of state revenue upwards for several years.

Percentage allocated to prizes and game structure

The same Demócrata piece, based on SELAE's management report, allows contextualizing what that revenue implies in terms of returns to players:

• In 2025, of the 10.586 billion euros sold by SELAE, 6.775 billion were allocated to prizes and provisions, and the public company obtained a profit of 2.177 billion.
• For Euromillions, it is detailed that:
  • The “community” part of the game (the jackpot shared among countries) distributes around 50 % of sales in prizes.
  • The local part associated with El Millón in Spain distributes approximately 60 % of the amount played in that component.

This means that, as Euromillions revenue in Spain has increased, the total amount returned to players through prizes has also increased proportionally, maintaining the return percentages set by the game rules.

What cannot be stated with the available data

The searches located:

• Parliamentary and Court of Auditors documents on SELAE's auditing (resolution on prize control, BOE).
• Press releases from the Ministry of Finance and SELAE related to agreements and the social function of lotteries.
• Press articles with aggregated figures of SELAE sales and prize distribution percentages.

However, none of these sources provide an official table, year by year, with the specific revenue of Euromillions in Spain (for example, “x million in 2020, and in 2021, z in 2022, etc.). We know that:

• The state lottery market has grown steadily after the pandemic, with a global sales record in 2025.
• Within that growth, Euromillions is noted in specialized press as one of the games with the highest recent percentage increase (+5.62 % in 2025).

But, to obtain an exact quantitative series of revenue by year, one would have to go directly to the annual reports and accounts of SELAE, where sales are broken down by game type. Those tables do not appear reproduced in the reviewed news and notes.

How to consult the complete series

If you need precise annual revenue data for Euromillions in Spain (in millions of euros per year), the most reliable channel is:

• Access the official website of SELAE or the Ministry of Finance and download the “Annual Reports” or “Management Reports” of SELAE for recent years.
• In those documents, locate the table of “Sales by game”, where Euromillions billing is usually broken down separately from La Primitiva, Bonoloto, National Lottery, etc.
• From there, calculate the year-on-year variation (for example, growth rate of Euromillions between 2021 and 2022, 2022 and 2023, and so on).

With the information provided by the news — global sales record in 2025, 5.62 % increase in Euromillions, and high proportion of in-person sales — it can be concluded that Euromillions revenue not only remains high but has been growing notably in recent years, at least up to 2025, consolidating as one of the pillars of state lottery income.