KSA: Dutch gambling market falls to €4.1bn in 2025; H1 2026 monitor shows account growth

The licensed Dutch gambling market contracted to €4.1 billion in 2025, the Dutch Gaming Authority (KSA) reported, driven mainly by declines in the online offering. The KSA published its annual Market Scan for 2025 alongside a semi‑annual Monitoring Report for the first half of 2026; the monitoring data show the number of online gambling accounts increasing to 1.48 million by H1 2026.

Market size and GSR movements

The KSA's Market Scan records gross gaming revenue (GSR) for the total licensed market (online and offline) falling from €4.5 billion in 2024 to €4.1 billion in 2025. The drop was concentrated in online operations: GSR for online casino offerings declined by 18.2%, while GSR for online betting fell 30.2%. The KSA links part of these reductions to protection measures introduced at the end of 2024, including the net deposit limit. The Men’s European Football Championship in 2024 also inflated sports‑betting GSR that year.

Land‑based figures showed smaller shifts. The BSR for slot machines in gambling halls and hospitality venues declined 4.7% in 2025 versus 2024. Holland Casino's BSR increased 2.8% in 2025, a rise the KSA attributes primarily to land‑based slot machine revenue rather than table games. The BSR for lotteries decreased 1.8% compared with the prior year.

H1 2026 online monitoring: accounts, channelization and losses

The Monitoring Report covering January–June 2026 records the number of online gambling accounts at 1.48 million, up from 1.38 million six months earlier. The KSA estimates roughly 490,000 people gamble occasionally in any given month; across the first half of 2026 about 820,000 people gambled online at some point.

The KSA notes the increase in accounts may partly reflect demand related to the Men’s World Cup, which started in June 2026, but it also flags the possibility that some consumers are creating multiple accounts to circumvent per‑account deposit limits. Channelization—the share of gamblers using licensed providers—appears to have stabilised. About 94% of people who gamble occasionally do so only with legal providers. When measured by BSR, channelization rose slightly from 54% in the second half of 2025 to 59% in the first half of 2026.

The divergence between channelization by participant count and by BSR suggests that people gambling illegally incur substantially higher average losses than those using licensed providers.

Harm metrics and risk profiles

Figures on people receiving treatment for gambling addiction come from the National Alcohol and Drugs Information System (LADIS) and relate to 2025. In 2025 there were over 14% more people in treatment for a gambling addiction than in 2024. Ipsos risk‑survey data in the Monitoring Report show the number of people at high risk of gambling harm remained unchanged in 2026, the number at low risk increased, and the number at moderate risk decreased. Ipsos estimates 65% of people who gamble online do so non‑problematically; that share is the same as in 2025.

What the KSA highlights

The KSA pairs the Market Scan with the Monitoring Report to present a combined view: the licensed market contracted to €4.1 billion in 2025, online GSR fell sharply, but account volumes increased to 1.48 million in H1 2026 with channelization by participants staying near 94% and channelization by BSR edging up to 59%. The authority also flags the increase in treatment cases (+14% in 2025) and repeats the role of the net deposit limit and other late‑2024 measures in shaping 2025 results.

For operators tracking regulatory change, the reports pin the 2025 contraction to online declines while the H1 2026 monitor raises questions about account behaviour during major sports events and around per‑account deposit controls. For regulators and vendors the data supply concrete reference points on GSR movements, channelization and harm indicators.