Dutch gambling market shrinks to €4.1 billion in 2025 as online accounts climb to 1.48 million, KSA says

The Netherlands Gambling Authority (Kansspelautoriteit, KSA) said on 29 October 2026 that the country's licensed gambling market shrank in 2025, mainly because of lower revenue from online operators. The regulator published its annual market scan for 2025 together with its half-year monitoring report on the online market for the first half of 2026.

Total GGR falls to €4.1 billion

According to the market scan, gross gaming result (stakes minus prizes paid) for the combined online and land-based market fell from €4.5 billion in 2024 to €4.1 billion in 2025. Online casino GGR fell 18.2% and online betting GGR fell 30.2%.

KSA said the declines are at least partly due to player protection measures introduced at the end of 2024, such as the net deposit limit. It added that the men's European Football Championship in 2024 had pushed sports betting GGR higher that year.

In the land-based market, GGR from slot machines in arcades and hospitality venues fell 4.7%. Holland Casino's GGR rose 2.8%, mainly from slot machines rather than table games, KSA said. Lottery GGR fell 1.8%. According to KSA's factsheet, the average Dutch adult lost €282 to gambling in 2025, and gambling tax receipts totalled €1,047 million.

Online accounts rise in H1 2026

The monitoring report says the number of online gambling accounts rose to 1.48 million in the first half of 2026, up from 1.38 million six months earlier. KSA estimates that the number of people who gamble online has not risen significantly, at about 490,000 a month, and that around 820,000 people gambled online at some point in the period.

KSA said the increase may partly reflect the men's FIFA World Cup, which began in June, but could also mean people are opening several accounts to get around per-account deposit limits.

Channelisation and treatment figures

KSA estimates that about 94% of people who gamble do so only with licensed operators. Measured by GGR, channelisation rose from 54% in the second half of 2025 to 59% in the first half of 2026. The regulator said the gap between the two measures suggests people who gamble illegally lose considerably more on average than those who use licensed operators.

Citing the national addiction care database LADIS, KSA said more than 14% more people were in treatment for gambling addiction in 2025 than in 2024. Ipsos figures in the report estimate that 65% of people who gamble online do so without problems, unchanged from 2025. Young adults aged 18 to 23 make up 9.2% of the adult population but account for 22% of accounts used, according to the factsheet.

Earlier this week, KSA published media guidelines on reporting gambling and gambling harm and announced it will tender the sole horse racing totalisator licence for 2027–2032.

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