Ksa Reports Online Betting GGR Down 30.2%, Land-Based Up 8.5%

Online Casino Shed €213m, Online Betting €110m

The figures were released on 29 October in the annual market scan by the Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa), the gambling regulator in the Netherlands. It came alongside the half-yearly monitoring report on the online market.

Segment

2024 GGR

2025 GGR

Change

Online casino

€1.16bn

€947m

−18.2%

Online betting

€364m

€254m

−30.2%

Land-based betting

€80m

€86m

+8.5%

Holland Casino

—

—

+2.8%

Arcade and bar machines

—

—

−4.7%

Lotteries

—

—

−1.8%

Total market

€4.5bn

€4.1bn

−9%

Online casino GGR fell 18.2%: from €1.16bn in 2024 to €947m in 2025. Online betting GGR fell 30.2%, from €364m to €254m. All in all, this represented a €323m fall, roughly 80% of the market’s whole dip — a 15M calculation on the Ksa tables.

The Ksa says this was likely down to player-protection rules that only came into force in online gambling in October 2024. Other reasons could include the lack of a men’s Euros, higher gambling tax and a sponsorship ban.

The Regulator Says Its Own Rules Moved the Money

Land-based betting went the other way. The Ksa calls the split striking. The gap is "possibly caused by differences in regulation", the market scan says. It attributes the land-based rise to lighter duty-of-care rules and no Cruks self-exclusion check required in betting shops.

All licensed operators and venues must check customers against the Cruks, a national exclusion register, whilst physical betting shops are not required to do so. In addition, land-based gambling operators are required to pay a larger contribution to sports and good causes.

Since 1st October 2021, online gambling has been legal in the Netherlands with a Ksa licence. Enforcement challenges are not unique to the Netherlands. As the UK Gambling Commission recently studies illegal play against a £17.5bn yield, regulated European jurisdictions are increasingly grappling with offshore leakage.

Accounts Grew to 1.48 Million, Players Did Not

There were 1.48m online gambling accounts in the Netherlands in the first half of 2026. This is an increase on the 1.38m recorded six months earlier. However, the number of people gambling, at around 490,000 a month, has not increased. About 820,000 people gambled online at least once in the first half of 2026.

That works out at 1.8 accounts per online gambler, a 15M calculation. The Ksa’s own reading is that some players open several accounts to get around per-account deposit limits.

Channelisation has stalled rather than risen. About 94% of gamblers use only licensed offers, but measured by money, it is 59%, up from 54%. Illegal play costs far more per head.

What This Means for iGaming

• Operators: the deposit limit is not holding one account per player. Build duplicate-account detection before the Ksa treats 1.8 accounts per gambler as a compliance failure rather than a statistic.
• Affiliates: on Dutch traffic, 94% of players against 59% of money means the high-value tail is still offshore. Legal-market CPA will keep tightening, so price Dutch deals on retention, and watch land-based betting brands, which now grow without a Cruks gate.
• Providers: online casino supplied 31% of the country’s €1,047m gambling tax while its GGR fell 18.2%. That mix makes the segment politically expensive to squeeze further.

What’s Next

The next monitoring report covers the second half of 2026 and is due in spring 2027. It is the first that will show a full year under the 2026 tax rate.

Source: Kansspelautoriteit, "Stand van zaken Nederlandse gokmarkt 2025-2026" and "Marktscan kansspelen over 2025", 29 October 2026