Lotto 6aus49 in Rheinland-Pfalz

Rhineland-Palatinate sits in the solid middle for Lotto stakes: €41 per capita, rank 8 out of 16. As a share of disposable income, 0.15 percent is also middle ground. The absolute play volume of €172 million matches a medium-sized state with around 4.1 million residents.

What makes Rhineland-Palatinate special in lottery terms is an ownership structure known in only one other German state: Saarland. Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz was founded in 1948, and its shareholders are now 51 percent the state and 49 percent the three Rhineland-Palatinate sports associations: Sportbund Rheinland, Sportbund Pfalz and Sportbund Rheinhessen. The sports associations therefore do not just receive funding like in other states. They are direct co-owners of the company. RLP shares this model with Saarland, where the state sports association also holds 42.86 percent.

From 1948 to 2014, Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz generated total turnover of €13.9 billion and made almost €6 billion available for charitable purposes. Across 76 years, that is a considerable contribution to the local club and funding landscape.

Since 2007, the Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz Foundation has complemented the funding setup. Based in Koblenz, it grants more than €1 million a year to over 1,000 partners in welfare, sport, culture, education and science. Its self-understanding is not just individual funding, but the strengthening of volunteering and social cohesion. Applications can be submitted year round, which makes the foundation comparatively accessible. What is not funded: construction projects, personnel costs and vehicle purchases.

A better-known sports connection is the long partnership with 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Lotto Rheinland-Pfalz was the FCK's main sponsor and held the naming rights to the East Stand of the Fritz-Walter-Stadion from 2014. The sponsorship ended in 2024, with different press accounts of the reasons. Lotto RLP also supports the Kouta-Lotto cycling team and VC Neuwied 77, whose women's volleyball team entered the Bundesliga in 2021. All of that comes from the company's marketing budget, meaning voluntary sponsorship, not from statutory public-benefit levies.

If you hand in a ticket in Mainz, Trier or Koblenz, you fund a historically grown three-pillar system: the majority state share, the direct involvement of the three sports associations and the independent Lotto Foundation active since 2007. The distinction between statutory funding and voluntary marketing sponsorship, such as FCK, remains clear. One comes from the public-benefit machinery, the other from the advertising pot.