Top football-themed online slots popular amongst Iranians playing at offshore online casinos

Football can be easily termed as the most popular sport in Iran. Everyone who is born in the country plays soccer all through his growing up years. Many wonder if the game is so passionately followed in Iran, how can there be no sportsbooks operating in the country. The reason is that being a Muslim country, there is a strict ban on gambling in Iran. 

However, as with anything, people always find a loophole to indulge in their favourite things. In this case, as Iranian government has no jurisdiction over the online gambling companies operating from out of Iran, these portals freely accept players from the country and allow them to open accounts and bet with them. Considering their love for football, a large number of slot lovers from Iran can be seen playing some well-known football-themed online slot games. Below we will acquaint you with two of them.

You will not find any land-based casinos in the country and even indulging in a hand or two within the four walls of your home, is considered a risky affair.

Equally strict restrictions are placed on online gambling operations too. No online casino can be licensed and operate within the Iran’s borders. In fact, even game shows were pulled off the air recently owing to religious gambling row. 

On an interesting side note, while in this case a gambling ban is forced by the country, in countries like UK, there is a national level online gambling self-exclusion scheme called Gamstop through which you can ban yourself from online gambling for 6 months, 1 year or 5 years. All reputed gambling websites have signed up with the Gamstop to prevent and reduce problem gambling cases in the country. However, there is a list of non-Gamstop casinos where you can still indulge in your favourite pastime, whenever the urge strikes! 

Football Star - Microgaming

One of the most popular football themed online slots, Football Star is a creation of Microgaming, the biggest brand in the online casino games development world. Despite the fact that it was released in 2014, it is still going strong in the online gambling circles. Football Star is a 5 reel online slot game whose symbols are represented by the images of a referee, football boots, football pitch, a football itself, amongst others. The Football Star logo makes up the wild symbol and can appear anywhere on reels 3 to 5. When it comes up on the screen, it can replaces all other symbols except for the scatter symbol (represented by a football image). Do try out this game to bag some handsome wins.

The Champions – Pragmatic Play

Sometimes the simplest of the games can surprise us with their amazing gameplay and The Champions from Pragmatic Play is exactly that. Although it’s not innovative or flashy by any measure, the features offered by it definitely make it a standout online slot game. There are 25 pay lines, 3 rows and 5 reels, and you need to select your team from the 32 teams that participated in FIFA World Cup 2018. On the whole, it has various attractive features that make it enjoyable not only for the football lovers, but all online slot enthusiasts too.