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Abstract Let Γ be a Schottky semigroup in {\mathrm{SL}_{2}(\mathbf{Z})} ,and for {q\in\mathbf{N}} , let {\Gamma(q):=\{\gamma\in\Gamma:\gamma=e~{}(\mathrm{mod}~{}q)\}} be its congruence subsemigroupof level q . Let δ denote the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set of Γ.We prove the following uniform congruence counting theoremwith respect to the family of Euclidean norm balls {B_{R}} in {M_{2}(\mathbf{R})} of radius R :for all positive integer q with no small prime factors, \#(\Gamma(q)\cap B_{R})=c_{\Gamma}\frac{R^{2\delta}}{\#(\mathrm{SL}_{2}(%\mathbf{Z}/q\mathbf{Z}))}+O(q^{C}R^{2\delta-\epsilon}) as {R\to\infty} for some {c_{\Gamma}>0,C>0,\epsilon>0} which are independent of q .Our technique also applies to give a similar counting result for the continued fractions semigroup of {\mathrm{SL}_{2}(\mathbf{Z})} ,which arises in the study of Zaremba’s conjecture on continued fractions.