All About Arizona Sports Betting Handle And Revenue

By Editorial Staff

@BetArizona

April 28, 2025 12:47pm

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, January vs. December

The opening month of the calendar year delivered strong improvements in sports betting handle and revenue for operators in Arizona, with a 1.8% increase in the former and a 106.1% surge in the latter during January.  

Overall, Arizona sports betting operators took in $864,246,556 in total sports betting handle in January, up 1.8% from the $849,316,636 reported to the Arizona Department of Gaming in December and 22.3% from the $706,382,862 taken in during January of 2024.  

On the revenue side, things were even more impressive for Arizona sportsbooks, with $53,201,146 in total sports betting revenue (or adjusted gross event wagering receipts), representing a 106.1% surge from December’s total of $25,810,840.  

Of that total, mobile operators in Arizona chipped in $53,096,046 worth of revenue, up 106.1% from December’s total of $25,765,837, while the state’s sports betting tax bill of $5,318,013 was up 106.1% from December, when the state took in $2,580,184.  

In January, the top five mobile sportsbooks by handle were FanDuel Arizona Sportsbook ($286,510,825), DraftKings Sportsbook ($268,178,970), BetMGM ($99,801,517), Fanatics ($55,564,121) and Caesars Sportsbook ($47,634,901).  

Nationally, Arizona finished January with the sixth largest sports betting total handle, behind New York ($2.488 billion), Illinois ($1.474B), New Jersey ($1.152B), Ohio ($1.012B) and Pennsylvania ($873.150 million). 

Arizona 2024 Sports Betting Numbers

Arizona’s yearly total sports betting handle in 2024 finished at $7,959,647,194, up 21.1% from 2023 ($6,573,800,272). The revenue rose even faster, climbing 22.6% from $349,309,387 in 2023 to $428,288,431 last year.

Overall, the total national sports betting handle in December was $15.789 billion, with a total sports betting revenue figure of $781.5 million. All states combined reported a wagering handle of $149.6 billion in 2024, up 23.5% from 2023 ($121.1B). Revenue around the nation’s sportsbooks hit $11.85 billion in 2024, up 24.6% from $9.51B the previous year.

2024 National Sports Betting Numbers

Arizona Mobile Sports Betting History