China’s lottery sales enjoyed a healthy boost in 2016 as the Euro 2016 football tournament helped offset the ongoing online lottery prohibition.

Figures released Monday by China’s Ministry of Finance showed overall lottery sales of RMB 394.6b (US $57.8b) in 2016, representing a year-on-year improvement of 7.3%. That marks a rebound from 2015, during which lottery sales fell 3.8%.

While the welfare lottery remains China’s top earner at RMB 206.5b, the welfare lottery’s 2.5% year-on-year rise was dwarfed by the sports lottery’s 13.1% gain to RMB 188.1b, the latter figure reflecting the hubbub over last summer’s Euro 2016 footie fest.

That said, the disparity was similar for December’s monthly results, in which the sports lottery gained 11.4% to RMB 16.6b while the welfare lottery rose a comparatively modest 4% to RMB 20b. Overall sales in December were up 7.2%.