Dutch Licensed Gambling Market Shrinks to €4.1bn in 2025
Gross gaming revenue across the Dutch licensed market slid to €4.1bn in 2025, down from an inflation-adjusted €4.5bn the year before. Land-based and online both count toward that total. The numbers come from the Kansspelautoriteit's annual market scan, out Thursday 29 October, which landed alongside the regulator's half-yearly monitoring report on remote gambling covering the first six months of 2026.
Online took the hit. Total online GGR for 2025 was €1.20bn, a 21% fall from €1.52bn in 2024. Online casino revenue dropped 18.2% to €947m. Online sports betting did worse, down 30.2% to €254m against €364m a year earlier. The Ksa puts at least part of the slide down to stricter duty of care rules that took effect on 1 October 2024, the net deposit limit among them. Higher gambling tax gets a mention too, as does a tough comparison with 2024, when the men's European Championship lifted betting activity.
Gambling tax climbed from 30.5% to 34.2% in 2025. That's why total tax receipts of €1.05bn fell less sharply than revenue itself.
Land-based held up better. Holland Casino, the state operator, grew GGR by 2.8% to €683m, though the Ksa notes the increase came from slot machines rather than table games. Machines in arcades and hospitality venues lost 4.7%, and lottery revenue was 1.8% lower. Land-based betting was the only other segment in growth, up 8.5%. The arcade estate barely moved, from 197 venues at the end of 2024 to 194 a year later, following 23 closures in the previous year.
So far, 2026 looks different. Licensed online GGR reached €670m in the first half of the year, up around 11% on the €602m recorded in the second half of 2025. Roughly €110m per month. The Ksa suggests the men's World Cup in June and July may have played a part.
Active accounts at licensed operators climbed to 1.48m from 1.38m. Yet the regulator estimates the number of people gambling hasn't grown significantly, at about 490,000 per month. One possible explanation, in its view: some players open several accounts to get around per-account deposit limits. Channelisation measured by participants sits at roughly 94%, meaning most Dutch players only use licensed sites. Measured by revenue, the estimate improved from 54% to 59%. That gap, the Ksa says, suggests people who gamble illegally lose considerably more on average than those who stay with licensed operators.
Going after that illegal segment remains a priority. The regulator recently fined EOD Code a record €37m over twelve illegal casinos. Treatment data cited in the report also show over 14% more people were in care for gambling addiction in 2025 than in 2024.
The number to watch next is the online run rate: €110m a month in the first half of 2026 against a 2025 full-year online total of €1.20bn. Whether that recovery holds once World Cup betting volumes fade will shape the Ksa's next market scan.