The Most Popular Sports on Earth

The Mosts Popular Sports on Earth.

There is a lots of sports and every nation have their own, most important one. Individual sports or teamsports? This analysis, made by „Sportek” was ranked by using informations from 13 categories like global viewers, number of professional leagues, average salary, number of countries doing sport, gender equality or accessibility to general public worldwide.
Let’s check most popular sports around the globe!

TOP:

1. Soccer:  over four billion fans. The World Cup is the most watching sport event in the world and the Champions League is the highest paid sport event in the world. Football also holds the record for the amount and value of rights to television transmissions, the number of professional leagues. Also soccer players are highest paid athletes. The popularity of soccer is also reflected in the value of clubs – on the list of the 50 most valuable, 30 are football clubs. Those numbers make soccer one of the most popular sports on Earth!

2. Basketball: over a billion fans. The NBA alone has annual revenues over $ 5 billion. Only football has more registered, professional leagues than basketball. Average earnings in the NBA (about $ 5 million per year) are the highest among all sports leagues in the world, and NBA stars’ advertising contracts place them among the tops of the annual Forbes rankings.

3. Cricket: over 2 billion fans. For most of the world, cricket is an exotic discipline. But not for the British or Indians! Only the world’s major football and rugby tournaments have higher TV viewers than cricketers.

4. Tennis: over a billion fans. The four Grand Slam tournaments (Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wilbledon, US Open) have the highest individual money prizes in sport. It is also the most global sport – with tournaments played practically all year round in every country in the world.

5. Athletics: the most global (there are athletes from nearly every country in the world) sport discipline. What’s important – athletics are most viewed by both women and men.

The other sports in the top ten are: rugby, Formula 1, boxing, ice hockey and volleyball. What is your favourite sport, you could watch all-the-time?

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