The Scorepesa betting site does not load; its licence claim names a regulator that was abolished in 2025, and no archive has captured the site working since 2023. Here is what is established, what is not, and what to do if your money is in an account.
Do Not Send Money to Scorepesa
We have no evidence that Scorepesa is currently trading, and we could not get the site to load. Do not deposit to paybill 290080 or any paybill presented as Scorepesa, and do not pay anyone offering to recover a balance for you. This page carries no link to the operator.
Is Scorepesa Still Working in Kenya?
We cannot confirm that Scorepesa is operating, and we cannot confirm that it has formally closed. The scorepesa.co.ke domain is still registered and still resolves in DNS, so it has not been abandoned outright, but the site did not load when we checked, and the Internet Archive holds no capture of the home page since 2 October 2023.
The licence claim attached to this brand names the Betting Control and Licensing Board, which was abolished and replaced by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya. On that evidence, nobody should be depositing.
What We Checked, and What It Does and Does Not Prove
Being precise about evidence matters more than usual here, because “the site is down” is easy to assert and easy to get wrong.
| What we checked | Result | What it establishes |
| DNS for scorepesa.co.ke | Resolves to a Google Cloud address | The domain is live and has not lapsed. It does not mean a service is running on it |
| Loading the site | Did not load | Suggestive only — see the caveat below |
| Internet Archive captures | Nothing since 2 October 2023 | No crawler has recorded a working home page in nearly three years |
| The two final captures | Rendered only the word “SCOREPESA” | An application shell that never loaded its content |
| Licence claim | Names the BCLB | Confirmed obsolete — that body no longer exists |
| Published licence number | None found anywhere | Nothing a bettor could verify, even when the site was up |
| Reports of suspension | Third-party Kenyan sites only | Unverified. No operator or regulator statement located |
The Caveat on “It Did Not Load”
Connectivity to Kenyan domains was unreliable from where we tested. A government control site we tried alongside it, on an unrelated domain, also failed to connect. So a failure to load is not by itself proof that Scorepesa is gone, and we are not presenting it as such. It is one signal among several, and the archive gap and the obsolete regulator are the stronger ones. If you are in Kenya and the site loads for you, we would like to know: [email protected].
If You Have Money in a Scorepesa Account
This is the section most readers need, so it comes before the product detail rather than after it.
- Get your M-Pesa statement first. Request it from Safaricom for the period you were depositing. It is the only independent record of what you sent, when, and to which paybill, and it does not depend on the betting site being reachable. Everything else you do rests on it.
- Screenshot everything you can still see – your account balance, any pending withdrawal, any error the site returns, with the date visible. If the site later comes back and the balance is different, contemporaneous screenshots are the difference between a claim and an assertion.
- Complain in writing to the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya. The GRA replaced the BCLB and holds the enforcement powers. Give it your M-Pesa transaction references, your registered phone number and the amounts. A regulator cannot act on a complaint it never receives, and volume is what makes a defunct operator a priority.
- Ask about the Gambling Appeals Tribunal. The Gambling Control Act 2025 created a dedicated tribunal for gambling disputes, intended to resolve them faster than the courts. It is the formal escalation route where a complaint does not produce a result.
- Keep your expectations realistic. A paybill payment to a merchant is not a card chargeback, and there is no simple reversal mechanism once it has settled. That is not a reason to skip the steps above – it is a reason to do them properly and in writing.
Nobody Can Recover Your Balance for a Fee
People whose betting accounts stop working are a targeted group. The approach arrives by WhatsApp, SMS or social media, offers to recover the balance, and asks for a processing fee, a verification deposit or your M-Pesa PIN first. It is a scam every time, and it takes a second payment from someone who has already lost the first. No genuine recovery process asks you to pay to be paid, and no legitimate party ever needs your PIN.
Is Scorepesa Licensed? The BCLB No Longer Exists
Scorepesa was described as licensed and registered under the Betting Control and Licensing Board. That statement cannot be true today in the form it is usually written, because the BCLB has been wound up.
Under the Gambling Control Act 2025, signed into law in August 2025, Kenya replaced the BCLB with the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya. The GRA is an independent state corporation with broader enforcement powers than its predecessor, and the formal transfer of regulatory authority from the BCLB was completed in February 2026.
Two consequences follow for anyone reading a Kenyan betting review:
- A page describing an operator as currently licensed by the BCLB is describing a regulator that no longer exists. That is true whether the page was written in 2022 or last week, and it is a reliable marker of copy that has not been checked.
- No Scorepesa licence number appears anywhere we could find – not in the operator’s own material, not in the third-party coverage. A regulator’s name with no number attached is not a verifiable claim. There has never been anything here for a bettor to look up.
What the Scorepesa Licence Check Establishes
- The regulator named in the licence claim was abolished and its functions transferred to the GRA.
- No licence number was ever published, so the claim could not be checked even when the site was running.
- Every gambling licence in force in Kenya expires on 24 September 2026 under the Gambling Control Act 2025, and operators must reapply to continue lawfully.
- Unlicensed gambling operations in Kenya are an offence carrying a fine of up to KES 50 million.
- We are not asserting Scorepesa was unlicensed. We are saying its licensing was never evidenced, and the body it invoked is gone.
What Scorepesa Was
For readers trying to identify the brand they used, this is the Scorepesa that operated at scorepesa.co.ke: a Kenyan sports betting site, shillings only, mobile-money funded, with no casino product. Betting ran on soccer, cricket and tennis alongside ice hockey, handball, volleyball, basketball, rugby, table tennis and badminton, plus a league section carrying England League and Champions League football and a set of simulated markets – horse racing, greyhounds, camel racing, supercars, Spin & Win and Color-Color. Jackpot sports extended to baseball. The minimum age to register was 18.
One detail is worth correcting because it has been copied widely. The site’s “esport” section did not carry esports. It listed soccer, ice hockey, tennis, handball, volleyball, basketball, cricket, rugby, table tennis and badminton – conventional sports under a label that means competitive video gaming. If you are searching for Scorepesa esports betting, that section was mislabelled.
The brand is also frequently written as “scorepesa com” or Score pesa. The domain was scorepesa.co.ke, not a .com. That distinction matters more now than it did: a lapsed or imitated brand name is exactly what gets re-registered on a different extension and pointed at something else. Treat any Scorepesa site on a domain other than the original as unidentified until proven otherwise.
Scorepesa Bonus, Jackpots and Bet Types, on Record
These details are recorded because people search for them and deserve an accurate answer. They describe how the site operated. None of it is an offer you can claim, and none of it is a reason to look for a way in.
The Scorepesa Bonus
Scorepesa advertised a welcome bonus of up to KES 2,000 on a first deposit, with a minimum deposit of KES 20. The mechanism was a stake refund rather than a deposit match: 10% of each stake was returned as bonus funds where the bet carried total odds of 10 or above, drawn from the bonus balance until exhausted. On a KES 1,000 stake that returned KES 100, leaving KES 1,900 of bonus balance.
Note what that requires. Total odds of 10 or above means an accumulator, not a single bet at short odds – a structure that pays the refund only on the kind of bet least likely to win. The headline number was the ceiling on a balance drawn down slowly, not money credited on deposit.
Mega Milli and Midweek Jackpots
Two jackpots ran. The Mega Milli Jackpot required correct predictions on seventeen pre-selected football events; the Midweek Jackpot on thirteen. Both changed weekly, both divided the prize equally among winners, and both required proof of identity before payment, with jackpot winnings payable by cheque or bank transfer and a seven-day window to claim. A jackpot bonus was payable across classes for near-misses.
Types of Bets
Bets could be placed by SMS as well as on the site. Single bets used the format GAMEID#PICK#AMOUNT and multi bets GAMEID#PICK#GAMEID#PICK#AMOUNT, sent to 238020. Markets included double chance (DC12, DC1X, DCX2), goal/no goal, over/under 1.5 and 2.5, and Asian handicap. Balance checks ran by SMS. Duplicate bets carrying the same selection could be treated as one, with all but the first voided.
Scorepesa M-Pesa Paybill, Deposits and Withdrawals
Funding ran through M-Pesa and Lipa na M-Pesa paybill using paybill 290080. Deposits ran from KES 20 to a stated maximum of KES 70,000, and the minimum bet was KES 49 with a maximum of KES 20,000 on a single or multi bet.
Three problems in the published payment details are worth setting out, because each one costs a bettor money differently.
| What was published | The problem |
| Account name given variously as Scorepesa, SCOREPESA and Scorepes | Three spellings for one field. A paybill account reference that does not match sends a deposit unallocated, and recovering it means proving what you meant to do |
| “The maximum withdrawal amount is KES 50” | Almost certainly the minimum, printed as the maximum. Read literally, it caps every payout at roughly forty US cents, which cannot be right and should never have been published |
| Maximum win KES 500,000, maximum payout KES 70,000 per customer per day | Both cannot bind at once without a queue. A half-million shilling win paid at 70,000 a day takes over a week, and that is the term that decides when you actually hold the money |
None of this should be used to make a payment now. Paybill numbers are reassigned, and a number published against a brand years ago is not a number to trust today.
Scorepesa Login, Registration and the App
Registration and Scorepesa login both worked on a phone number and password, with password reset by a forgot-password link. Accounts were restricted to 18 and over. A mobile app was offered for Android and iPhone by direct download from the operator’s own site rather than through an app store.
If you are searching for the Scorepesa app now, that last point is the one to hold on to. An app distributed outside the official stores, for a brand whose site does not load, is not something to go hunting for. A betting brand that stops trading leaves its name available to anyone willing to publish an APK under it, and the install asks you to disable the protection Android applies by default.
Betting Tax in Kenya: What Comes Off Your Money
Kenya taxes betting at more than one point, which is why a deposit and a payout are both smaller than the number you typed.
- Excise duty on the amount you move into a betting account, deducted as the money leaves mobile money, so the balance credited is less than the amount sent.
- A further charge on withdrawal, applied as funds move back out.
- Withholding tax on winnings, deducted by the operator before payout. This rate has moved repeatedly across recent finance bills, and a 20% rate was carried in the Finance Bill 2026 with effect from July 2026.
Because these rates change with almost every finance bill, confirm the current position with the Kenya Revenue Authority rather than relying on any review, including this one. The stable point is structural rather than numerical: in Kenya you are taxed going in, taxed coming out, and taxed on the win in between. This is general information, not tax advice.
What Changed in Kenyan Gambling Law
The regulatory ground under every Kenyan betting review moved in 2025 and 2026, and it explains why so much of the coverage of this market is now wrong.
| When | What happened |
| April 2025 | The BCLB flagged 58 betting websites as operating unlawfully and ordered them shut, directing Safaricom to suspend the associated paybill and STK push services |
| August 2025 | The Gambling Control Act 2025 was signed into law, creating the Gambling Regulatory Authority and a Gambling Appeals Tribunal |
| February 2026 | The BCLB formally transferred regulatory authority to the GRA |
| July 2026 | A High Court interim order temporarily restrained enforcement of the Gambling Control (Licensing) Regulations 2026, in a dispute over licence fee increases |
| 24 September 2026 | Every gambling licence in force in Kenya expires. Operators must reapply to continue lawfully |
We have not established whether Scorepesa was among the 58 sites named in the April 2025 shutdown, and we are not going to imply it was. The list is relevant as context for how many Kenyan-facing brands stopped working in this period, not as a finding about this one.
How to Check Any Kenyan Betting Site Yourself
The useful thing to take from this page is a method, because Scorepesa will not be the last brand to go quiet.
- Look for a company name and a licence number, not a regulator’s name. “Licensed by the GRA” with nothing after it is unverifiable. A number and a named licensee can be checked.
- Reject any site still citing the BCLB as its current regulator. That body is gone, and citing it means nobody has reviewed the page since at least 2025.
- Check that the licence is current after 24 September 2026, when every existing Kenyan licence expires and operators must reapply.
- Test a small withdrawal before a large deposit, and never let a balance build up on a site you have not successfully withdrawn from.
- Keep your M-Pesa statements. They are the record that survives when a site stops loading.
FAQs: Scorepesa
Is Scorepesa still working in Kenya?
We could not get scorepesa.co.ke to load. The domain is still registered and still resolves, so it has not lapsed, but a resolving domain is not a working betting site. The Internet Archive holds no capture of the home page since 2 October 2023.
Third-party Kenyan sites report that Scorepesa suspended its operations during 2025. We have found no statement from the operator or the regulator confirming that, so we report it as an unverified claim. Our honest position: we cannot confirm it is operating, and we cannot confirm it has formally closed.
Is Scorepesa licensed by the BCLB?
The Betting Control and Licensing Board no longer exists. The Gambling Control Act 2025 replaced it with the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya, with the formal transfer completed in February 2026.
No Scorepesa licence number appears anywhere we could find, so there has never been anything for a bettor to check against any register.
What do I do if I have money in a Scorepesa account?
Get your M-Pesa statement from Safaricom first – it is the independent record of what you paid and to which paybill, and it does not depend on the site being reachable. Screenshot your balance and any error, with the date visible.
Then complain in writing to the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya with your transaction references, and ask about the Gambling Appeals Tribunal created by the Gambling Control Act 2025.
Do not pay anyone who offers to recover your balance for a fee. That approach is a scam without exception, and no legitimate party ever needs your M-Pesa PIN.
What was the Scorepesa paybill number?
M-Pesa paybill 290080. The account reference was published inconsistently as Scorepesa, SCOREPESA and the truncated Scorepes – three spellings for one field, which is how deposits end up unallocated.
Do not send money to it. We have no evidence the service is trading, and paybill numbers are reassigned over time.
What was the Scorepesa bonus?
Up to KES 2,000 on a first deposit, minimum deposit KES 20. It worked as a stake refund rather than a deposit match: 10% of each stake returned as bonus funds where the bet carried total odds of 10 or above, drawn down until exhausted.
Total odds of 10 or above means an accumulator, so the refund applied to the bets least likely to win. This is on record, not on offer.
What tax applies to betting in Kenya?
You are taxed at more than one point: excise duty on money moved into a betting account, a further charge on withdrawal, and withholding tax on winnings deducted before payout. A 20% rate on winnings was carried in the Finance Bill 2026 with effect from July 2026.
These rates change with almost every finance bill, so confirm the current position with the Kenya Revenue Authority. General information, not tax advice.
How can I check whether a Kenyan betting site is licensed?
Insist on a named operating company and a licence number — a regulator’s name alone cannot be checked. Verify against the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Kenya, not the BCLB.
Every Kenyan gambling licence expires on 24 September 2026 under the Gambling Control Act 2025, so operators must reapply. Operating unlicensed is an offence carrying a fine of up to KES 50 million.
Why is there no rating on this page?
Our rules bar ranking an operator whose licence cannot be verified on a regulator’s register, and require a completed withdrawal test before any score. Neither is possible, and the site does not load.
Recommending a betting site we cannot confirm is trading – to readers who would have to send money by paybill to find out – is not something any rating would justify.
Sources for This Scorepesa Investigation
- Gambling Control Act, 2025 (Kenya) – Establishment of the Gambling Regulatory Authority, the Gambling Appeals Tribunal, licence expiry on 24 September 2026, and the penalty for unlicensed operation.
- Betting Control and Licensing Board transition notice – Transfer of regulatory authority to the GRA, completed in February 2026.
- Kenyan press reporting, April 2025 – The BCLB order against 58 betting websites and the suspension of associated Safaricom paybill and STK push services.
- Kenyan High Court, July 2026 – Interim order restraining enforcement of the Gambling Control (Licensing) Regulations 2026 pending determination of a fees dispute.
- Finance Bill 2026 reporting – The 20% withholding tax on gambling winnings and the excise position on deposits and withdrawals.
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If Gambling Has Stopped Being a Choice
Over time, gambling costs money – that is how the industry pays for itself. If it has stopped feeling like a choice, help exists, and it is free and confidential.
Losing access to an account with money in it is its own kind of pressure, and it pushes people toward chasing the loss somewhere else. If you are about to open an account at another site to make back what is stuck in this one, that is the moment worth pausing on. In Kenya, the Gambling Control Act 2025 requires licensed operators to provide responsible gambling tools, including self-exclusion; ask for them by name.