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10. 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 one sport that is more popular in the elderly as compared to the young people being a sport of rich upper class. The sport has 390 million fans around the world. The major tours include PGA Tour, European Tour, LPGA Tour, and PGA Tour Champions.golf gets high levels of prominence in the sports bulletins in the US and Japan (sporteology page1) -
8. 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" The sport is widely watched in the US, Cuba and Japan. The viewership is not that good in other countries of the world. There are only a handful of countries where professional leagues of baseball are in place" (sporteology) -
4. Hockey
2 billion fans.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. One sport typically field hockey or ice hockey is generally referred to as hockey. Field Hockey is the National game of Pakistan as well as India. On the other hand, ICE HOCKEY is popular in Europe specially in Canada, USA, Latvia and Sweden. Above mentioned number of fans are for both forms of hockey" (sporteology) -
9. American football
"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. Sport that is mostly played in the US.American Football is one of the most watched sports. The professionals in the largest league of the game ,NFL, enjoy average salary of $1.9 million. The biggest event of American Football is the Super Bowl" (sporteology) -
2. Cricket
"Cricket is 2nd Most Popular Sport in the World with 2-3 billion fans (Across India, UK, Pakistan, Asia, Australia, etc.Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field at the center of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. The two competing teams take turns to bat, attempting to score runs. While one team is batting, the other team fields. Each turn is known as an innings. Cricket has three different formats i.e.Test, ODIs and T20" (sporteology) -
3. Basketball
"With approximately 2-3 billion fans in the US, Canada, China and Philippines, Basketball is the 3rd most popular sport in the world.One of Most Paying Sports: Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The number of Basketball fans range from 2 to 3 billion. Most of the fans are concentrated in the US, Canada, China, Japan and Philippines. Many countries in the world have professional leagues for Basketball" (sporteology) -
1. Soccer
"At the top of the list is soccer with 3.3-3.5 billion fans all over the world. Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world’s most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The biggest competition of Football is World Cup that is held after every four years" (sporteology) -
5. Tennis
"Tennis. with around 1 billion fans in Europe, Americas, and Asia.Tennis is a sport that people usually play individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent’s court.Tennis is an individual sport. There are national tennis federations in almost all the countries of the world" (sporteolog) -
6. Volleyball
6th Most Popular Sport in the World with around 900 million fans across Asia, Europe, Americas, and Australia. Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. In majority of the countries volleyball is mostly played by men and women (sporteology) -
7. 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. The fans of table tennis are scattered around the world. When it comes to professional leagues, table tennis is quite popular in almost all the countries of the world"( sporteology)
