Fanatics Announces Missouri Sports Betting Access Deal
Fanatics Sportsbook secured Missouri mobile sports betting market access through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, the two groups announced Monday.
Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile wagering gain access to through a partnership with Boyd Gaming, gaining rights for both online and retail sportsbooks.
- The deal makes Fanatics the eighth operator with Missouri market gain access to, joining DraftKings, Circa, FanDuel, bet365, BetMGM, Caesars, and PENN/ESPN BET.
- Fanatics, now a top-five U.S. sportsbook after obtaining PointsBet in 2024, continues to broaden nationwide while taking on FanDuel and DraftKings.
The offer gives Fanatics a course to statewide mobile betting in Missouri. It becomes the eighth book to protect a license or announce a market access partner. Missouri needs all but two of its sportsbooks to partner with either a state professional sports group or a brick-and-mortar casino before it can make a mobile betting license.
Fanatics will likewise brand retail sportsbooks at Boyd's two Missouri homes, Ameristar Kansas City and Ameristar St. Charles, near St. Louis.
The partnership comes a month after Boyd sold its 5% ownership stake in FanDuel back to the sportsbook's parent company, Flutter Entertainment. Boyd had previously partnered with FanDuel in numerous states for retail and online sports wagering gain access to.
Financial regards to the deal were not revealed. Boyd had gotten several million dollars each year in past partnership handle FanDuel.
Boyd runs a mobile sportsbook in its home state of Nevada. It does not appear it plans to open the book in Missouri.
Fanatics' mobile sportsbook is reside in 22 states and Washington D.C., and the company likewise handles retail books in 8 states.
Fanatics has actually become one of the nation's 5 highest-grossing sportsbooks nationwide considering that it got PointsBet in 2024. Though it routes U.S. market share leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, state revenues reports show Fanatics is making greater market share than other leading books such as BetMGM and Caesars.
More Missouri sports betting alternatives
Fanatics will join a crowded field of sportsbooks that collectively accept more than 99% of all legal bets placed nationwide.
DraftKings protected among Missouri's 2 "untethered" mobile sports wagering licenses, which permit it market access without partnering with a sports team or gambling establishment. Circa Sportsbook protected the other untethered license.
FanDuel, the U.S. national leader by gross gaming income and manage, announced market access plans with MLS club St. Louis CITY soon after it lost out on the untethered license to Circa. Previously, bet365 announced a market access handle MLB's St. Louis Cardinals.
Four other groups could partner with a sportsbook: the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, MLB's Kansas City Royals, the NHL's St. Louis Blues, and the NWSL's Kansas City Current.
BetMGM announced an online and retail market access offer with Century Casinos. BetMGM moms and dad operator MGM Resorts does not handle a gambling establishment in Missouri.
Missouri sportsbooks that have actually gotten, applied or announced strategies to obtain a Missouri mobile sports betting license:
bet365.
BetMGM.
Caesars.
Circa.
DraftKings.
ESPN BET.
Fanatics.
FanDuel.
Underdog
Caesars and PENN Entertainment, which both handle three Missouri gambling establishments, revealed plans to release their respective mobile sportsbooks in the state. Both Caesars and ESPN BET have market gain access to due to their affiliations with state casinos.
Underdog is the only other sportsbook operator to make an application for a Missouri sports betting license as of Aug. 25. The business has actually not announced its market access .
BetRivers, based in neighboring Illinois, is amongst the other leading prospects for a Missouri license. Hard Rock, which manages an Illinois gambling establishment and has launched its mobile sportsbook in the state, might likewise seek a license.
Bally's is the just other Missouri gambling establishment operator that handles a mobile sportsbook. The company has not publicly announced launch plans in the state.