Esports Betting: Top Esports Betting Sites and Apps in the US and UK

Esports betting has moved from grey-market skin sites to the apps of licensed sportsbooks. You can now bet on Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends or Dota 2 at DraftKings, FanDuel or bet365 in states that allow it, and at most major UK bookmakers. It remains a niche. In Colorado, the only US state that reports it separately, esports took about 1% of all money bet in August 2026.

This guide lists the licensed esports betting sites in the US and the UK, explains how the markets work and sets out where betting on esports is legal. It also looks at the market in numbers and where it is heading. Every fact comes from regulators, game publishers, tournament organizers or the operators themselves.

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Esports betting sites in the US: licensed sportsbooks with esports

These state-licensed sportsbooks show esports markets on their own sites or rules pages. Which events you can bet on depends on the state you are in.

• DraftKings Sportsbook
• FanDuel Sportsbook
• bet365
• Hard Rock Bet
• Caesars Sportsbook
• Fanatics Sportsbook

BetMGM, BetRivers and theScore Bet do not publish esports markets or rules on their public pages, so they are not on this list.

Top US esports sportsbooks in detail

1. DraftKings Sportsbook

   DraftKings lists an E-Sports section on its sportsbook, currently featuring the League of Legends World Championship and the LCP, Riot’s Pacific league. Its help center answers “Can I bet on E-Sports?”, and markets appear only in states whose regulator has approved the event. The app is rated 4.8 from 1.4 million ratings on the US App Store, and DraftKings is live in 27 states plus DC and Puerto Rico.

   Who it suits: League of Legends fans who already use DraftKings for traditional sports. sportsbook.draftkings.com

2. FanDuel Sportsbook

   FanDuel has a dedicated esports navigation page, with eSoccer odds and Dota 2 DreamLeague markets among those listed. It has the most-rated betting app in the US, 4.8 stars from 2.3 million ratings, and operates in 25 states plus DC and Puerto Rico.

   Who it suits: casual bettors who want eSoccer and Dota 2 in an app they already know. sportsbook.fanduel.com

3. bet365

   bet365 publishes esports betting rules for its US sportsbook and covers League of Legends Worlds 2026 odds on its US news site. The app is rated 4.8 from 355,000 ratings, and bet365 is licensed in 18 states plus DC. The same brand is the largest bookmaker app in the UK.

   Who it suits: bettors who follow esports in both the US and international calendars. bet365.com

4. Hard Rock Bet

   Hard Rock Bet added eSoccer, including the GT Sports League played on EA FC, in Florida in November 2024. In August 2025 it added H2H Global Gaming League eBasketball and eSoccer, short-format games that run all day. eSoccer markets include winner, total, spread, first to score and half results, with live betting. The app is rated 4.9 from 361,000 ratings.

   Who it suits: Florida bettors and anyone who wants fast eSoccer and eBasketball markets. hardrock.bet

5. Caesars Sportsbook

   Caesars’ house rules include an eSports section, and they state that it takes no wagers prohibited by the relevant state gaming board. Markets vary by state. The app is rated 4.7 from 116,000 ratings.

   Who it suits: Caesars Rewards members who bet on the occasional esports event. caesars.com/sportsbook-and-casino

6. Fanatics Sportsbook

   Fanatics’ house rules in Ohio and Tennessee cover eSports and eBasketball. The app, rated 4.8 from 291,000 ratings, rewards every settled bet with FanCash for Fanatics merchandise.

   Who it suits: bettors who want rewards they can spend on team gear. sportsbook.fanatics.com

For welcome offers, states and full app comparisons, see our guide to the top US online sportsbooks.

Esports betting UK: the top licensed bookmakers

All ten are licensed by the Gambling Commission and confirm esports betting on their own sites or rules pages. They are listed by the number of ratings their apps have on the UK App Store.

1. bet365

   The UK’s most-rated betting app, at 4.7 stars from 456,000 ratings. bet365 runs an esports hub on its UK site and publishes an esports calendar. It is operated by Hillside (UK Sports) ENC under Gambling Commission account 55148. Check bet365’s site for its current welcome offer. bet365.com

2. Paddy Power

   Paddy Power, part of Flutter, publishes dedicated e-sports rules for its sportsbook. Its app is rated 4.7 from 265,000 ratings. paddypower.com

3. William Hill

   William Hill publishes one of the most detailed esports market lists in the UK. It covers Counter-Strike, League of Legends, football esports on EA FC, sim racing and ice hockey esports, with live match and handicap markets. New customers get “Bet £10 & Get £30 in free bets” with Promo Code R30. The app is rated 4.7 from 200,000 ratings. Read our William Hill esports review.

4. Betfair

   Betfair’s sportsbook prices League of Legends, Dota 2 and Counter-Strike, with map, handicap, total, round and objective markets such as dragons, Barons and Roshans. The separate Betfair Exchange also publishes esports rules. The sportsbook app is rated 4.7 from 112,000 ratings. betfair.com

5. Ladbrokes

   Ladbrokes, part of Entain, prices Counter-Strike and League of Legends, settled on the official result. New customers get “Bet £5 Get £30” in free bets. The app is rated 4.7 from 102,000 ratings. Read our Ladbrokes esports review.

6. Sky Bet

   Sky Bet publishes the widest set of esports rules on this list: Counter-Strike, League of Legends, Dota 2, Overwatch and Call of Duty, plus eFootball leagues. Markets run from match winner and map handicap to next kill, next Roshan and player stats, with several events in-play. The app is rated 4.7 from 74,000 ratings. skybet.com

7. Betfred

   Betfred runs esports and Counter-Strike sections and publishes esports previews, such as for the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational. The app is rated 4.6 from 70,000 ratings. betfred.com

8. Coral

   Coral shares Ladbrokes’ licence and platform and lists esports among its sports. New customers get “Bet £10 Get £50” in free bets. The app is rated 4.7 from 69,000 ratings. Read our Coral esports review.

9. Betway

   Betway has the broadest confirmed range of titles among the big UK brands: Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Dota 2, Rainbow Six, VALORANT and Overwatch 2, with an esports in-play tab. Its “Bet £10 Get £40 in Free Bets” offer excludes eSoccer and in-play bets from qualifying. The app is rated 4.7 from 47,000 ratings. Read our Betway esports review.

10. 888sport

    888sport, part of Evoke, lists Call of Duty, Overwatch, League of Legends and Fortnite, with pre-match and live markets. The app is rated 4.5 from 19,000 ratings. 888sport.com

Unibet, owned by Kindred, is the specialist pick outside the top ten by app ratings. It covers Counter-Strike, League of Legends, Dota 2, Overwatch and EA FC esports, and it streams FIFA esports matches on its site. Read our Unibet esports review.

Esports betting apps compared

App Store ratings checked in November 2026: the US store for US sportsbooks, the UK store for UK bookmakers. Apple rounds rating counts.

Operator	Market	App Store rating	Ratings	Esports confirmed on official pages
FanDuel	US	4.8	2.3M	eSoccer, Dota 2
DraftKings	US	4.8	1.4M	League of Legends
Hard Rock Bet	US	4.9	361K	eSoccer, eBasketball
bet365	US / UK	4.8 / 4.7	355K / 456K	League of Legends; esports hub
Paddy Power	UK	4.7	265K	Esports rules published
William Hill	UK	4.7	200K	CS, LoL, EA FC, sim racing, NHL sims
Betfair	UK	4.7	112K	CS, LoL, Dota 2
Ladbrokes	UK	4.7	102K	CS, LoL
Sky Bet	UK	4.7	74K	CS, LoL, Dota 2, Overwatch, CoD, eFootball
Betway	UK	4.7	47K	CS2, LoL, Dota 2, R6, VALORANT, Overwatch 2
Unibet	UK	4.3	6.8K	CS, LoL, Dota 2, Overwatch, EA FC

The esports betting market in numbers

Is esports betting still alive? The short answer is yes, but it is smaller than the headlines of the late 2010s suggested, and it now runs mostly through regulated sportsbooks rather than skin sites. These are the most recent official figures.

How much is bet on esports

Colorado is the only US state that reports esports as its own line. In August 2026, bettors there staked $4,450,916 on esports out of $388.1 million in total handle, about 1.1%. Almost all of it was placed online. July 2026 was similar, at $4,244,833.

In the UK, the Gambling Commission requires licensed bookmakers to report esports revenue as a separate line, but it does not publish a national total.

Audiences and prize money

The tournaments behind the betting keep growing. The Esports World Cup 2026 in Riyadh carried a record $75 million prize pool across 24 games, after the 2025 edition drew 750 million viewers and a peak audience of 7.98 million for League of Legends. ESL FACEIT Group called the IEM Cologne Major in June 2026 the most-watched Counter-Strike tournament of all time. Team Falcons beat FURIA 3-0 in the final.

Publishers are opening the door

The biggest shift came from Riot Games. In June 2025 it began allowing betting sponsorships for top-tier League of Legends and VALORANT teams in the Americas and EMEA. Partners are vetted by Riot and must use official GRID data, and Riot’s own broadcasts stay free of betting ads.

Regulators are widening the menu

US regulators are approving more esports events, slowly and event by event. Tennessee’s catalog, updated in October 2026, now includes CS2 events run by BLAST and ESL Pro League, League of Legends leagues, Call of Duty League and the Esports World Cup. Kansas added CS2, Dota 2, VALORANT and Rainbow Six in its April 2026 catalog. North Carolina adopted esports guidance in September 2024, and a 2026 New Jersey bill (A2370) would widen esports betting further.

Not every regulator is convinced. Louisiana refused to approve the Esports World Cup as a betting event in July 2025, and Pennsylvania’s regulator says it lacks the authority to allow esports betting at all.

Integrity: the number to watch

Esports draws more integrity alerts than its share of betting suggests. The International Betting Integrity Association logged 34 esports alerts in 2025, 11% of its 300 alerts across all sports, with a spike of 15 in the third quarter. That is why US regulators insist on approved leagues, official data and integrity monitoring before they allow a new event.

Where esports betting is heading

The direction is toward the licensed market. More publishers are accepting betting partners on their own terms, US catalogs keep adding leagues, and Valve has been acting against skin gambling sites since 2016. In the UK, the rules are tightening: bonus wagering has been capped at 10x since January 2026, and from April 2027 online bets, esports included, fall into a new 25% remote betting duty. The likely result is steady growth built on tier-one events, rather than a return to the skin-betting boom.

Is esports betting legal in the US?

There is no federal ban. Since the Supreme Court struck down the federal sports betting ban in 2018, each state decides what can be bet on, and most treat esports as an event that needs specific approval. The table covers states where we could confirm the position from a regulator, statute or official catalog.

State	Status	What the rules say
Arizona	Allowed	State law includes “e-sport events” in the definition of a sports event
Colorado	Allowed	Professional esports allowed; high school events and those with mostly under-18 players excluded
Kansas	Allowed (approved list)	Catalog includes CS2, LoL, Dota 2, VALORANT, Rainbow Six, Call of Duty League and others
Kentucky	Allowed with approval	Events must be sanctioned, approved and backed by third-party integrity certification; youth events banned
Louisiana	Case by case	Events must meet Esports Integrity Commission standards; Esports World Cup refused in 2025
Massachusetts	Allowed with approval	Esports barred unless sanctioned by an approved body and endorsed by the Gaming Commission
Michigan	Allowed with approval	Every event category needs board approval; high-school-level events excluded
New Jersey	Allowed	Professional esports allowed; high school events and those with mostly under-18 players prohibited
North Carolina	Allowed with approval	Electronic sports guidance adopted September 2024; operators petition event by event
Ohio	Allowed	Law defines an esports event; school events excluded
Tennessee	Allowed (approved list)	Catalog includes CS2 (BLAST, ESL Pro League), LoL, Call of Duty League and the Esports World Cup
Virginia	Allowed	Law includes electronic sports and competitive video game events; youth events excluded
Indiana	Not on approved list	The December 2025 approved events list includes no esports
Pennsylvania	Not allowed	The law covers sporting events only, and the regulator says it cannot approve esports

Elsewhere, check your state regulator’s list of approved events, and the esports tab of a licensed app once you are inside the state. The minimum age is 21 in most states. Our legal sports betting states guide covers each market in detail.

Bitcoin and offshore esports betting

Crypto esports books that accept American players hold no US state license. Some are licensed in Curaçao, which gives US players no regulator to complain to if a withdrawal is refused. No US state licenses crypto esports betting or skin betting, so the legal route is a state-licensed sportsbook.

Esports betting in the UK: the rules

In Great Britain, esports betting is ordinary betting under the Gambling Act 2005. Bookmakers need a Gambling Commission licence, customers must be 18 or over and pass identity checks, and credit cards have been banned for gambling since April 2020. There are no esports-specific rules, though the Commission expects operators to manage the risk of children trying to bet on esports.

Two recent changes affect esports punters. Since 19 January 2026, bonus wagering requirements are capped at 10x, and promotions that mix products, such as a bet that earns casino spins, are banned. From 1 April 2027, online bets including esports will fall under a new 25% remote betting duty.

Skin betting and unlicensed sites

Skin betting, where in-game items with real-world value are used as stakes, is not legal in Great Britain without a licence. In 2017 the Gambling Commission secured the first prosecution of a virtual-currency gambling site, FutGalaxy, whose directors were fined £174,000 and £91,000. A government review in September 2025 found 54 skins sites still reachable from the UK and said the problem is enforcement, not the law. Use a UKGC-licensed bookmaker, and use GAMSTOP and GamCare if you need to stop.

Which esports can you bet on?

Counter-Strike 2 betting

CS2 is the deepest esports market. Two teams of five play on maps from the active pool, and the first to 13 rounds wins a map. Bookmakers price match winner, map winner, map and round handicaps, total rounds and pistol rounds. The big events are the Majors, ESL Pro League, BLAST and IEM. The PGL Major Singapore runs from November 25 to December 13, 2026.

League of Legends betting

League of Legends has the largest audience. Markets cover series and game winners, kill handicaps and totals, first blood and objectives such as dragons, Barons, towers and inhibitors. The 2026 World Championship final is on November 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The regional leagues LCK, LPL, LEC and LCS run most of the year.

Dota 2 betting

Dota 2 markets mirror League of Legends, with Roshan and barracks in place of Barons and inhibitors. The International 2026 was played in Shanghai in August, and Team Spirit beat Team Vision 3-2 in the final.

VALORANT betting

Riot’s tactical shooter uses CS-style markets: map winner, map handicap, round handicap and total rounds. The VCT season builds to Masters events and Champions, which was held in Shanghai in September and October 2026.

EA FC and eSoccer betting (FIFA esports)

What used to be called FIFA esports betting now runs on EA Sports FC. Most of the volume comes from eSoccer leagues, short simulated matches between pro players that run around the clock, such as the GT Sports League. Markets look like football: match result, goals totals, handicaps and correct score. They are approved in Kansas and Tennessee and offered by Hard Rock Bet, FanDuel, William Hill and Unibet, among others.

Call of Duty, Rainbow Six, Overwatch and drone racing

Call of Duty League and Rainbow Six events appear in several US catalogs, and Overwatch, Rocket League and NBA 2K simulations are priced by some books. New Jersey’s approved list also includes Drone Racing League races, the sport this site was built around. See our drone racing coverage.

Esports betting markets explained

Match winner and series betting

The simplest bet: who wins the series. Most esports matches are best-of-one, best-of-three or best-of-five, so check the format before you bet.

Map handicap and round handicap

A map handicap is a spread on the series score. In a best-of-three, a team at -1.5 maps must win 2-0, while +1.5 maps wins if the team takes at least one map. A round handicap works the same way inside a single map in CS2 or VALORANT. Back a team at -4.5 rounds and it must win the map by five or more, such as 13-8. A 13-10 win would lose the bet.

Totals

Over/under bets on maps played, rounds on a map or kills in a game. Over 2.5 maps in a best-of-three simply means the series goes to a deciding map.

First blood and objective props

Bets on the first kill of a game, the first team to 10 kills, or the first dragon, Baron, Roshan or tower. They settle early, which makes them popular for live betting.

Outrights

Tournament winner and MVP markets for events such as the Majors, Worlds and The International, available long before the event starts.

Live esports betting and streaming

Most licensed books that offer esports also offer in-play markets, with odds that move between rounds and objectives. Some US states approve events for pre-match betting only, so the live option can be missing for particular tournaments. Streaming inside betting apps is rare for esports: Unibet streams FIFA esports, but most bettors watch on Twitch or YouTube alongside the app.

Esports betting tips

Esports rewards homework more than most sports. Patches change which strategies and heroes are strong, map pools change which teams are favored, and rosters move between seasons. Follow official league sites for confirmed line-ups, compare prices across more than one book, and keep stakes small on low-tier events, where integrity risks are higher. Our odds converter and implied probability calculator help you compare prices.

Esports betting calendar: late 2026

Event	Game	Dates	Venue
League of Legends World Championship final	League of Legends	November 14, 2026	Barclays Center, Brooklyn
PGL Major Singapore	Counter-Strike 2	November 25 to December 13, 2026	Singapore Indoor Stadium (finals)

21+ in US states (18+ in the UK). Bet only where it is legal. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (US) or visit GambleAware.org (UK).