Top 5 Most Popular Sports In The World

Top 5 Most Popular Sports In The World.

Soccer(Football)
Fans: 3.5 bn

With 3.5 billion fans around the world, soccer is the one sport that pretty much the whole world can agree upon can be claimed the most watched sports in the world.

With its combination of adrenaline-pumping excitement, man-on-man aggression, tough competition, it’s really no wonder it comes on top.

Cricket
Fans: 2.5bn

Cricket’s popularity is in large part because of the British Empire and the East India Company, and their fervent determination to spread their culture across the world in their hopes of bringing ‘civilization’ to the different nations.

Field Hockey
Fans: 2.2bn

This game has been around since the 3rd Century BC, having been established in Europe and Asia as well.

While India and Pakistan dominated this sport during the first half of the 20th century, the Netherlands and Australia quickly took over that sport.

Tennis
Fans: 1bn

This is one of the longest standing and most reputable sports out there with a fan base of over 1 billion people! It has been around since the early 14th century, it is said that King Louis X of France had made for himself an indoor tennis court.

Volleyball
Fans: 900m

Volleyball is an extremely simple game with little equipment and few rules. All you need is a ball and a net.

Furthermore, the popularity of this sport has been evenly distributed around the world which accounts to its fan base of 900 million around the world. It was introduced in the Olympic Games back in 1964 and its beach variation was a real kickstarter for its rapid growth in popularity around the world

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