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.
Arizona Sports Betting, June vs. May
| Total handle | Mobile handle | Revenue (AGWR) |
June | $542.955M | $539.965M | $50.462M |
May | $707.103M | $702.532M | $51.808M |
Change | Down 23.2% | Down 23.1% | Down 2.6% |
The Grand Canyon State’s gaming regulatory body dropped two months of Arizona sports betting reports on Aug. 19, posting both June and May numbers. The Arizona Department of Gaming reported more than $1.2 billion in handle between May and June combined.
Overall, Arizona’s sports betting handle of $707,103,199 in May was down 5.3% from April’s total of $746,436,864, while June’s sum of $542,954,635 represented a 23.2% drop from the month prior. The silver lining for Arizona sports betting operators was that May’s handle was up 24.3% year-over-year from the $568,493,315 reported in 2024, while June’s was up 16.4% from $454,116,117 in the same month of 2024.
In May, the state’s revenue from sports betting came out to $51,808,107, which was 2.6% more than June’s sum of $50,462,163. The state’s tax bill of $5,028,579 for the sixth month of 2025 was down 2.7% compared to May’s total of $5,169,342.
As for market share, FanDuel Sportsbook Arizona was the top dog in the 48th State in May and June, with $222,479,964 taken in during the fifth month of the year and $177,149,143 in June. Overall, the New York-based operator finished ahead of DraftKings Sportsbook in both months, with the Boston operator taking in handles of $205,598,903 in May and $157,292,928 in June.
The other top five operators for June were BetMGM, with $53,903,659 in wagers, followed by Fanatics ($44,547,177), Bet365 ($32,183,390), Caesars Sportsbook ($29,151,226) and ESPN BET ($28,255,652).
Nationally, the top 10 states for June sports betting handle were New York ($1.653 billion), Illinois ($957.109 million), New Jersey ($790.415 million), Ohio ($586.873 million), Arizona ($542.955 million), Massachusetts ($532.727 million), Nevada ($496.609 million), Pennsylvania ($483.637 million), Virginia ($477.849 million) and North Carolina ($433.185 million). Nationally, the country’s betting handle in June finished at $10.016 billion, while the U.S. betting revenue in June was $1.118 billion.
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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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