Fanatics Announces Missouri Sports Betting Access Deal
Fanatics Sportsbook secured Missouri mobile sports betting access to through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, the 2 groups announced Monday.
Fanatics Sportsbook secured Missouri mobile wagering gain access to through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, getting 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 getting PointsBet in 2024, continues to expand across the country while taking on FanDuel and DraftKings.
The offer offers Fanatics a path to statewide mobile betting in Missouri. It ends up being 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 team or a brick-and-mortar gambling establishment before it can make a mobile betting license.
Fanatics will also brand name retail sportsbooks at Boyd's 2 Missouri homes, Ameristar Kansas City and Ameristar St. Charles, near St. Louis.
The collaboration comes a month after Boyd offered its 5% ownership stake in FanDuel back to the sportsbook's parent business, Flutter Entertainment. Boyd had previously partnered with FanDuel in multiple states for retail and online sports wagering access.
Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. Boyd had actually gotten several million dollars every year in previous collaboration handle FanDuel.
Boyd operates 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 live in 22 states and Washington D.C., and the company likewise handles retail books in 8 states.
Fanatics has emerged as one of the country's 5 highest-grossing sportsbooks across the country considering that it obtained PointsBet in 2024. Though it routes U.S. market share leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, state earnings reports reveal Fanatics is making greater market share than other leading books such as BetMGM and Caesars.
More Missouri sports betting options
Fanatics will sign up with a congested field of sportsbooks that jointly accept more than 99% of all legal bets positioned nationwide.
DraftKings protected one of Missouri's 2 "untethered" mobile sports betting licenses, which permit it market gain access to without partnering with a sports team or gambling establishment. Circa Sportsbook secured the other untethered license.
FanDuel, the U.S. national leader by gross gaming income and manage, announced market gain access to prepares with MLS club St. Louis CITY quickly after it lost on the untethered license to Circa. Previously, bet365 announced a market gain access to deal with MLB's St. Louis Cardinals.
Four other teams 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 gain access to handle Century Casinos. BetMGM moms and dad operator MGM Resorts does not handle a casino in Missouri.
Missouri sportsbooks that have gotten, applied or announced strategies to acquire a Missouri mobile sports wagering license:
bet365.
BetMGM.
Caesars.
Circa.
DraftKings.
ESPN BET.
Fanatics.
FanDuel.
Underdog
Caesars and PENN Entertainment, which both manage 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 just other sportsbook operator to look for a Missouri sports betting license as of Aug. 25. The company has actually not revealed its market access partner.
BetRivers, based in surrounding Illinois, is among the other leading candidates for a Missouri license. Hard Rock, which manages an Illinois casino and has launched its mobile sportsbook in the state, might also seek a license.
Bally's is the only other Missouri gambling establishment operator that manages a mobile sportsbook. The company has actually not publicly revealed launch plans in the state.