All About Arizona Sports Betting Handle And Revenue

By Christopher Boan

@cgboan

February 23, 2026 10:41am

The experts at BetArizona.com have assembled this guide to explain what we mean when we talk about Arizona sports betting revenue and sportsbook handle that the state reports each month.

There is an active market with many online or mobile operators as well as a growing number of retail sports wagering options at brick-and-mortar casinos in the Grand Canyon State.

The handle is the total amount of money bet on sports in the state each month. Sports bettors wager hundreds of millions of dollars monthly often through the use of Arizona sportsbook promos. From the time legal sports betting launched in September 2021 to early 2023, legal, regulated sports bets were placed exclusively with online sportsbooks. Since then, physical casinos have begun taking retail wagers on sports, albeit in much smaller numbers.

The Arizona online gambling revenue on sports refers to the amount that operators have left after they pay out winning bets. From there, bookmakers pay 10% tax to the state on the adjusted gross revenue.

Arizona Sports Betting, December vs. November

The final month of 2025 delivered a mixed bag of results for Arizona sports betting operators and regulators. New state records for revenue, and the tax dollar that revenue generated, helped offset a drop in handle, according to a report from the Arizona Department of Gaming website.

Arizona’s revenue derived from sportsbooks finished December at $65,905,378, up 20.7% from November ($54,616,512) and set a state record, beating the mark of $57,458,370 from November 2024. On top of that, December’s sports betting revenue from mobile operators also reset the state record, at $65,412,089, beating the mark of $56,741,396, also set in November 2024. That December figure also was a 20.3% increase in a month-over-month comparison with November ($54,396,367).

Naturally, the tax figures also broke state records in December. Arizona collected $6,580,672 in taxes for the final month of 2025, a 20.6% increase from November ($5,457,248) and nearly a million higher than the mark of $5,731,498, set in November 2024. The statewide mobile taxes hit $6,541,209 in December, up 20.3% from November ($5,439,637) and ahead of the old mark of $5,674,140, set in November 2024.

Overall, December’s sports betting handle in the Grand Canyon State was $822,101,252, a 14.8% decline from $965,233,845 in November. The state’s mobile sports betting handle was $816,038,386, down 14.9% from November ($958,561,016).

December’s top five mobile sportsbooks by handle were: FanDuel ($252,704,906), DraftKings ($240,706,440), BetMGM ($99,354,646), Fanatics ($82,229,826) and Caesars ($47,552,047).

For all of 2025, Arizona sportsbooks took in a total sports betting handle of $9,127,988,954, up 14.7% from 2024 ($7,959,647,194). On top of that, the state’s total sports betting revenue finished up at $538,535,932, up 25.7% from 2024 ($428,288,431).

Nationally, the top 10 states for December 2025 sports betting handle were New York ($2.386 billion), Illinois ($1.441B), New Jersey ($1.064B), Ohio ($954.792 million), Massachusetts ($845.267M), Arizona ($822.101M), Pennsylvania ($797.437M), Virginia ($710.948M), Nevada ($691.224M) and North Carolina ($665.908M).

The national sports betting handle for December hit $15.808 billion, with Missouri becoming the latest state to offer legal, regulated online and retail sports betting that month.

The revenue from sportsbooks nationwide hit $1.639 billion in December, breaking the month-old mark of $1.635 billion. Across 2025, the country’s total national betting handle was $166.25 billion, with the U.S. total national betting revenue figure finishing up at $14.62 billion.

Arizona Mobile Sports Betting History