Fanatics Announces Missouri Sports Betting Access Deal

Fanatics Sportsbook secured Missouri mobile sports wagering market gain access to through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, the 2 groups revealed Monday.


Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile wagering access through a partnership with Boyd Gaming, gaining rights for both online and retail sportsbooks.


- The offer makes Fanatics the eighth operator with Missouri market access, signing up with 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 broaden nationwide while taking on FanDuel and DraftKings.


The offer provides Fanatics a course to statewide mobile betting in Missouri. It ends up being the 8th book to secure a license or announce a market gain access to partner. Missouri needs all but two of its sportsbooks to partner with either a state expert sports group or a brick-and-mortar gambling establishment before it can make a mobile betting license.


Fanatics will also brand retail sportsbooks at Boyd's 2 Missouri properties, 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 moms and dad company, Flutter Entertainment. Boyd had formerly partnered with FanDuel in multiple states for retail and online sports betting access.


regards to the deal were not announced. Boyd had actually received a number of million dollars every year in previous partnership 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 reside in 22 states and Washington D.C., and the company also manages retail books in 8 states.


Fanatics has become among the nation's five highest-grossing sportsbooks nationwide since it obtained PointsBet in 2024. Though it tracks 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 choices


Fanatics will join a crowded field of sportsbooks that jointly accept more than 99% of all legal bets put nationwide.


DraftKings protected one of Missouri's 2 "untethered" mobile sports betting licenses, which enable it market gain access to without partnering with a sports team or gambling establishment. Circa Sportsbook protected the other untethered license.


FanDuel, the U.S. nationwide leader by gross video gaming profits and manage, revealed market gain access to plans with MLS club St. Louis CITY quickly after it lost out on the untethered license to Circa. Previously, bet365 revealed a market gain access to 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 revealed an online and retail market access handle Century Casinos. BetMGM parent operator MGM Resorts does not manage a casino in Missouri.


Missouri sportsbooks that have actually gotten, applied or revealed plans to acquire a Missouri mobile sports betting license:


bet365.
BetMGM.
Caesars.
Circa.
DraftKings.
ESPN BET.
Fanatics.
FanDuel.
Underdog


Caesars and PENN Entertainment, which both manage three Missouri casinos, announced plans to introduce their respective mobile sportsbooks in the state. Both Caesars and ESPN BET have market gain access to due to their associations with state casinos.


Underdog is the only other sportsbook operator to request a Missouri sports betting license since Aug. 25. The business has actually not announced its market gain access to partner.


BetRivers, based in neighboring Illinois, is among the other leading prospects for a Missouri license. Acid rock, which manages an Illinois casino and has released its mobile sportsbook in the state, might also seek a license.


Bally's is the just other Missouri casino operator that manages a mobile sportsbook. The company has not openly revealed launch strategies in the state.