The licensed gambling market in the Netherlands got smaller in 2025, with online casino and online betting accounting for most of the decline. According to the annual market scan from the Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa), gross gaming revenue across land-based and online products came to €4.1bn last year, down from an inflation-adjusted €4.5bn in 2024.
The Dutch regulator released the figures on Thursday 29 October in an update on the state of the Dutch gambling market, alongside its half-yearly monitoring report on remote gambling covering the first six months of 2026.
Online revenue down by a fifth
The full market scan puts total online GGR at €1.20bn for 2025, compared with €1.52bn a year earlier, a fall of 21%. Online casino revenue dropped 18.2% to €947m, while online sports betting fell 30.2%, with the Ksa recording €254m against €364m in 2024.
The regulator links the slide at least partly to the stricter duty of care rules that took effect on 1 October 2024, including the net deposit limit. It also points to the higher gambling tax and a comparison with 2024, when the men’s European Championship lifted betting activity. Gambling tax rose from 30.5% to 34.2% in 2025, which explains why total tax receipts of €1.05bn fell less sharply than revenue.
Holland Casino bucks the trend
Land-based gambling held up better. State operator Holland Casino grew its GGR by 2.8% to €683m, although the Ksa notes that slot machines rather than table games drove the increase. Machines in arcades and hospitality venues lost 4.7%, and lottery revenue was 1.8% lower. Land-based betting was the only other segment to grow, rising 8.5%.
The arcade estate shrank only slightly, from 197 venues at the end of 2024 to 194 a year later, after 23 closures in the previous year.
More accounts, not more players
The monitoring report shows a different picture for 2026 so far. 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, or 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 has not grown significantly, at about 490,000 per month. In its view, one possible explanation is that some players open several accounts to get around per account deposit limits.
Channelisation measured by participants is put at roughly 94%, meaning most Dutch players only use licensed sites. Measured by revenue, the estimate improved from 54% to 59%. The Ksa says the gap between the two figures suggests people who gamble illegally lose considerably more on average than those who stay with licensed operators.
Tackling that illegal segment remains a priority for the regulator, which recently fined EOD Code a record €37m over twelve illegal casinos. Treatment data cited in the report also show that over 14% more people were in care for gambling addiction in 2025 than in 2024.
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The Ksa market scan shows the licensed Dutch gambling market fell to €4.1bn in 2025 as online casino and betting revenue dropped sharply.
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