Most Popular Sports In The World

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Golf

Golf is at No 10 in Popularity in the World among other Sports. with more than 390 million fans in the US, Canada, and Europe. Golf is a precision club and ball sport in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course using the fewest number of strokes.

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American football

9th most popular sport with around 390-410 million fans (US mainly) American football (known as football in the United States and gridiron in some other countries) is a sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field 120 yards long and 53.3 yards wide with goalposts at each end.

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Rugby

9th most popular sport with around 390-410 million fans (France, England, New Zealand and South Africa mainly) Rugby is widely played in France and has a strong tradition in the people of Basque, Occitan, and Catalan areas along the border regions between Spain and France.


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Baseball

There are Around 500 million fans in the US, Japan, Cuba, and Dominican Republic, making Baseball 8th Most Popular Sport in the World. Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players who take turns batting and fielding.


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 Table Tennis

Around 900 million fans from Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas makes Table Tennis 7th most popular sports in the world. Table tennis, also known as ping pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth using table tennis rackets.


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Volleyball

With around 900 million fans across Asia, Europe, Americas, and Australia Volleyball is the 6th Most Popular Sport in the World.Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.


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Tennis

At No 5 in This List is Tennis. with around 1 billion fans in Europe, Americas, and Asia.


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 Hockey

hockey [ field + Ice] is the 3rd Most Popular Sport on Earth with 2-2.2 billion fans in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia etc.Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent’s goal using a hockey stick.


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Basketball

With approximately 2-3 billion fans in the US, Canada, China and Philippines, Basketball is the 3rd most popular sport in the world.


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Cricket

Cricket is 2nd Most Popular Sport in the World with 2-3 billion fans (Across India, UK, Pakistan, Asia, Australia, etc.


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Soccer

At the top of the list is soccer with 3.3-3.5 billion fans all over the world.