The Kansas City Chiefs are helping to lead the way here, as the team has signed sponsorship deals with both BetMGM and DraftKings. Kansas was able to go live with sports betting in time for the 2022 NFL season and that helped it tally over a billion dollars in betting handle in the 2022 NFL season alone. That is one reason Iowa and Iowa sports betting regularly has $200 million or more in monthly handle despite not having a pro sports team.
Iowa used to have an in-person registration requirement for a time, but it now allows online registration. Iowa went live with sports betting just before the 2019 football season and now has 18 online sportsbooks operating in the state. Colts fans can partake of legal sports betting on game day, as WynnBET and Caesars Sportsbook have betting lounges in Lucas Oil Stadium. The top Indiana sports betting apps went live with in-person retail betting in September 2019, added three online sportsbooks in the next month and now has 14 online sportsbooks operating. The landscape of places where sports betting is legal is frequently changing, so we’ve put together this chart to illustrate states where online sports betting is legal as well as highlighting states where sports betting is legal in-person.
