Fanatics Announces Missouri Sports Betting Access Deal

Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile sports wagering market gain access to through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, the two groups announced Monday.


Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile betting gain access to through a collaboration with Boyd Gaming, getting rights for both online and retail sportsbooks.


- The offer makes Fanatics the eighth operator with Missouri market access, joining DraftKings, Circa, FanDuel, bet365, BetMGM, Caesars, and PENN/ESPN BET.


- Fanatics, now a top-five U.S. sportsbook after acquiring PointsBet in 2024, continues to expand across the country while taking on FanDuel and DraftKings.


The offer provides Fanatics a course to statewide mobile betting in Missouri. It becomes the eighth book to secure a license or announce a market access partner. Missouri requires 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 wagering license.


Fanatics will also brand name retail sportsbooks at Boyd's two Missouri residential or commercial properties, Ameristar Kansas City and Ameristar St. Charles, near St. Louis.


The partnership comes a month after Boyd offered its 5% ownership stake in FanDuel back to the sportsbook's moms and dad business, Flutter Entertainment. Boyd had formerly partnered with FanDuel in several states for retail and online sports betting access.


Financial terms of the deal were not announced. Boyd had gotten a number of million dollars yearly in previous partnership handle FanDuel.


Boyd runs a mobile sportsbook in its home state of Nevada. It does not appear it prepares to open the book in Missouri.


Fanatics' mobile sportsbook is reside in 22 states and Washington D.C., and the business also handles retail books in eight states.


Fanatics has actually become among the nation's 5 highest-grossing sportsbooks nationwide since it got PointsBet in 2024. Though it tracks U.S. market share leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, state incomes reports show Fanatics is earning higher market share than other leading books such as BetMGM and Caesars.


More Missouri sports betting alternatives


Fanatics will sign up with a congested field of sportsbooks that collectively accept more than 99% of all legal bets positioned nationwide.


DraftKings secured among 2 "untethered" mobile sports wagering licenses, which enable it market gain access to without partnering with a sports team or casino. Circa Sportsbook secured the other untethered license.


FanDuel, the U.S. nationwide leader by gross video gaming earnings and deal with, announced market gain access to plans with MLS club St. Louis CITY quickly after it lost out on the untethered license to Circa. Previously, bet365 announced a market access handle MLB's St. Louis Cardinals.


Four other teams might 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 deal with Century Casinos. BetMGM moms and dad operator MGM Resorts does not manage a gambling establishment in Missouri.


Missouri sportsbooks that have actually gotten, applied or announced plans 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 3 Missouri casinos, revealed strategies to release their particular mobile sportsbooks in the state. Both Caesars and ESPN BET have market gain access to due to their associations with state gambling establishments.


Underdog is the just other sportsbook operator to obtain a Missouri sports betting license since Aug. 25. The business has not revealed its market gain access to partner.


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


Bally's is the just other Missouri casino operator that manages a mobile sportsbook. The company has actually not publicly announced launch plans in the state.