All About Arizona Sports Betting Handle And Revenue

By Christopher Boan

@cgboan

April 15, 2026 01:33pm

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, February vs. January

The first two months of 2026 delivered a mixed bag of results for Arizona sports betting operators. The Grand Canyon State saw a 7.2% jump in handle from December 2025 to January, only to have the total drop by 13.7% between January and February. 

The Arizona Department of Gaming released both January and February financial figures on April 15.

Overall, February’s total sports betting handle in Arizona was $760,440,372, down 13.7% from January ($881,109,374) and up 8.7% from February 2025 ($699,732,379). The state’s mobile sports betting handle hit $757,397,494 in February, a 13.5% decline from January ($875,992,152) and a 8.8% increase from $696,187,630 from a year earlier.

The Arizona total sports betting revenue dropped 29.3% month over month, from $57,558,926 in January to $40,718,648 during the second month of 2026. However, that February total was 2.3% higher than February 2025 ($39,820,807). The state’s mobile sports betting revenue was $40,664,468 in February, down 28.3% from $56,732,303 in the previous month and up 2.3% from the $39,744,126 total from 12 months earlier.

That slump in revenue during the second month of the year meant Arizona’s total taxes derived from sports betting were down 31.9%, from January’s $5,739,360 to $3,909,665. That latter figure was also a 1.8% drop from $3,980,547 from a year earlier.

February’s top mobile handles by provider were: DraftKings ($229,782,033), FanDuel ($196,862,041), BetMGM ($91,442,674), Fanatics ($88,411,618), Caesars Sportsbook ($74,416,110), Bet365 ($40,739,688), Hard Rock Interactive ($11,552,082), theScore Bet ($11,371,313), Rush Street Interactive ($5,604,449), Desert Diamond ($3,531,078), Bally Bet ($2,248,32), Plannatech ($925,994), Sporttrade ($370,205) and Golden Nugget ($139,886).

National Sports Betting Recap: Arizona was fifth in the nation for total sportsbook wagering in the second month of the year. February’s national top 10 saw New York lead the way in handle, as always, at $2,010,593,318. Illinois ($1,167,568,855) was second, followed by New Jersey ($846,392,452), Ohio ($767,811,186) and Arizona ($760,440,372). The rest of the top 10: Massachusetts ($619,905,414), North Carolina ($596,137,211), Pennsylvania ($592,462,454), Nevada ($579,681,726) and Virginia ($574,599,139).

In February, the national handle was $12.651 billion, with revenue wrapping up the second month of the year at $1.207 billion. Those numbers were up slightly from February 2025, when nationwide handle hit $12.527 billion and revenue was $1.073 billion.

Arizona Mobile Sports Betting History