NFL season data shows record-breaking volume of sports betting

The NFL season 2021/22 has been breaking records in sports betting volume during the first four weeks. As more states offer legal online betting, and the migration of players to legal sportsbooks, the first month of the season has produced the highest number of geolocation transactions ever recorded by GeoComply. 

According to the data collected and analyzed by GeoComply, there were 330 million geolocation transactions across 18 states and the District of Columbia for the first four weeks of the season, ending Sunday October 3. 

This represents a 122% increase from the same period of the 2020 NFL season when the company processed 149 million transactions. 

GeoComply supports nearly 100% of the US online sports betting market for geolocation compliance. 

The data also reconfirms the states with the highest volume of transactions were New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois. 

In an official press release, Lindsay Slader, Managing Director of Gaming at GeoComply, spoke about the collected data and said: “We’re excited to see the growth of sports betting from the first NFL weekend has carried over to the first four weeks of the season. The data also confirms the first week in Arizona was not just a one-off, but that the state has solidified its place as the fourth largest sports betting market in the U.S. With more states poised to come online in the coming weeks and months, we expect growth will continue to accelerate through 2021 and 2022.”

GeoComply plans to release its data periodically throughout the 2021/2022 sports calendar to help inform insight and discussions about the U.S. sports betting industry.