Arizona sports betting handle declines year-over-year in March
Bettors wagered $836.9m, down 5.7 per cent year-over-year.
US.- The Arizona Department of Gaming (ADG) has released sports betting figures for March. Bettors wagered $836.9m, down 5.7 per cent year-over-year and down from February 2026. The state collected $4.8m event wagering privilege fees for the month.
There are 14 licensed event wagering operators and 14 licensed fantasy sports operators in the state. For fiscal year 2026 year-to-date, regulated event wagering and fantasy sports have generated $47.8m in privilege fees: $46.7m from event wagering and $1.1m from fantasy sports. Since the launch of legal sports betting in Arizona in 2021, people have wagered $33.9bn, generating $179.9m in privilege fees.
US District Judge Michael Liburdi recently barred Arizona from applying its gambling statutes to prediction markets. He granted a preliminary injunction on May 5, siding with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), declaring that wagers on future events qualify as federally regulated “swaps.”
