All About Arizona Sports Betting Handle And Revenue
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.
| Total handle | Mobile handle | Revenue (AGWR) |
September | $851.332M | $846.962M | $19.576M |
August | $610.663M | $608.881M | $41.499M |
Change | Up 39.4% | Up 39.1% | Down 52.8% |
The first month of the NFL season delivered strong returns for Arizona’s sports betting market.
The statewide handle, or amount wagered, in Arizona rose 39.4% in a month-over-month comparison, according to numbers posted at the Arizona Department of Gaming website. Arizonans bet $851,331,639 in September, compared to August’s total of $610,663,049.
The state’s mobile sports betting handle finished at $846,962,119 for the ninth month of 2025, up 39.1% from August ($608,881,480).
The Grand Canyon State’s surge in betting handle was not matched in the other financial figures, as bettors had a fairly good month in September. The statewide sports betting revenue fell 52.8%, from $41,498,814 in August to $19,576,306 in September. Revenue derived from mobile sports wagering was $18,583,605 for September, down 54.8% from $41,115,998 in the previous month.
That Arizona sports betting revenue slide corresponded directly with a drop in state taxes, with September’s tax bill wrapping up at $1,937,776, down 53.2% from August ($4,142,225). Taxes from online wagering fell 54.8%, from August’s $4,111,600 to $1,858,360.
When broken down by market share, Arizona’s top five mobile sportsbooks by handle in June were DraftKings ($268,201,450), FanDuel ($254,487,970), BetMGM ($97,727,313), Fanatics ($73,121,734) and bet365 ($60,225,540).
Nationally, Arizona’s September sports betting handle ranked fifth overall, behind New York ($2.293 billion), Illinois ($1.423 billion), New Jersey ($1.130 billion) and Ohio ($967.404 million). Arizona finished ahead of Pennsylvania ($850.549 million), Massachusetts ($800.264 million) and Nevada ($791.285 million).
September’s national betting handle finished at $15.5 billion (10.6% higher than $14.014B wagered in September 2024), while national betting revenue for the month was $1.081 billion (down 20.7% from $1.363 billion in a year-on-year comparison).
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In 2024, Arizona sportsbooks took in about $7.96 billion in wagering handle, up more than 21% from the $6.57 billion operators took in during 2023. Each month, the vast majority of bets are taken by Arizona sportsbook apps.
Author
Christopher Boan is the lead writer at BetArizona.com after covering sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
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