Fanatics Announces Missouri Sports Betting Access Deal

Fanatics Sportsbook protected Missouri mobile sports betting market access through a partnership with Boyd Gaming, the 2 groups revealed Monday.


Fanatics Sportsbook secured Missouri mobile betting access through a partnership with Boyd Gaming, acquiring rights for both online and retail sportsbooks.


- The deal 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 acquiring PointsBet in 2024, continues to broaden nationwide while taking on FanDuel and DraftKings.


The offer offers Fanatics a course to statewide mobile wagering in Missouri. It ends up being the eighth book to protect 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 casino before it can earn a mobile wagering license.


Fanatics will also brand retail sportsbooks at Boyd's two Missouri 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 multiple states for retail and online sports .


Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. Boyd had received a number of million dollars yearly in past partnership offers with 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 manages retail books in 8 states.


Fanatics has actually become one of the nation's 5 highest-grossing sportsbooks across the country because it obtained PointsBet in 2024. Though it routes U.S. market share leaders FanDuel and DraftKings, state incomes reports show Fanatics is earning greater market share than other leading books such as BetMGM and Caesars.


More Missouri sports wagering alternatives


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


DraftKings secured one of Missouri's two "untethered" mobile sports wagering licenses, which allow it market access without partnering with a sports team or casino. Circa Sportsbook secured the other untethered license.


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


Missouri sportsbooks that have gotten, applied or revealed 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 casinos, revealed plans to launch 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 use for a Missouri sports betting license since Aug. 25. The company has not announced its market gain access to partner.


BetRivers, based in neighboring Illinois, is amongst 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, could likewise seek a license.


Bally's is the just other Missouri casino operator that handles a mobile sportsbook. The business has not openly revealed launch plans in the state.