Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-06-11
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001698991-25-000029
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Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-06-11
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 11, 2025</div>

#### Registration No. 333-

### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### Form S-8
<div align='center'>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>

#### Accel Entertainment, Inc.
<div align='center'>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>

| Delaware                                            |     | 98-1350261         |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of                     
 Incorporation or Organization)                      |     | -I.R.S. Employer   
 Identification No. |
| 140 Tower Drive                                     |     |                    |
| Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527                          |     |                    |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) |     |                    |

<div align='center'>(630) 972-2235

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Accel Entertainment, Inc. Second Amended and Restated Long Term Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plans)</div>

#### Scott Levin

#### Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

#### 140 Tower Drive

#### Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527
<div align='center'>(630) 972 -2235

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</div>

<div align='center'>Copies to:</div>

| Per B. Chilstrom   |     | Scott Levin                                 |
| Fenwick & West LLP |     | Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary |
| 902 Broadway       |     | Accel Entertainment, Inc.                   |
| New York, New York |     | 140 Tower Drive                             |
| (212) 430-2600     |     | Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527                  |
|                    |     | (630) 972 -2235                             |

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |