The top 10 popular team sports of all time
Raja, The Great
1. Association Football: Soccer, the world’s most popular game, has
the largest fan following on the planet. Its origin is Chinese, where
it was discovered by the English and is now the de facto sport in 93
countries - home to two billion people. It has 208 member nations and
thus is easily the world’s richest sport. It also has the largest
contingent of diehard fans, players and professional leagues in the
world’s largest economy, Europe. The English Premier League and the
Champions League are the most popular football leagues, with the
matches shown live to half a billion people in 202 countries.
Manchester United is the richest club in the world with a valuation of
$1.87 billion. The FIFA World Cup is the largest and most lucrative
sporting event in the world. The 2006 tournament, with 64 matches
featuring 32 nations and television coverage in 214 countries, had a
cumulative television audience of 26 billion people. The final between
defending champions Italy and France was watched by 700 million
viewers.
2. Cricket: With Twenty20, the three-hour, 20-overs-a-side version,
One-Day internationals and Test matches, cricket is the second most
popular sport in the world. The English gentleman’s game is the most
popular sport in the Indian subcontinent, which has a 1.5 billion
population. It attracts crazy fans with a religion-like following in
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Then there is the
West Indies and the 20 million or so non-residential Indians - figures
that can be matched only by the soccer buffs of Europe and South
America. Cricket is among the top three most popular sports in
Australia, England, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, New Zealand,
Afghanistan and Mauritius. The ICC, its ruling body, has 10 Test
playing nations and 104 member countries. The game also cherishes the
‘most popular’ tag in 20 countries. The ICC World Cup is the world’s
second largest single sporting event, drawing a cumulative television
audience of five billion. A final involving India could draw up to 400
million TV viewers (India has 130 million television sets). BCCI is
the world’s richest sporting organisation, with a valuation in excess
of $2 billion. The IPL attracts two billion and is the most popular
and richest cricket league with the average attendance figure of
57,500. India are the defending Twenty20 World Cup champions and
Australia the ODI champions.
3. Basketball: Amongst the most popular sports in the USA, China,
Russia, the Philippines, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain and
Puerto Rico. The National Basketball Association (NBA), with 30 teams
and an average attendance of 17,500, is the richest and most popular
basketball league and arguably the most viewed American sporting
action in the world, attracting an accumulative television audience in
excess of a billion. Induction of players of different nationalities
to the NBA has ignited the general population to take up and follow
the sport in a big way across various nations. The FIBA world
championship and Olympics are the major international events, with
Spain and the United States is the respective current gold medalists.
4. Baseball: The national pastime of the United States is the most
popular sport in Japan, Taiwan, Cuba, Venezuela and South Korea. It is
amongst the most popular in the USA, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada,
Colombia, Panama, the Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua and the
Dominican Republic . With 117 member nations, it has passionate fans
nearing the half-a-billion mark and is arguably the richest bat-and-
ball game. Major League Baseball is the premier baseball league and
attracts the highest attendance (79.5 million in 2,430 matches). New
York Yankees are the most valued and popular club, and after the
preamble of the not-so-popular baseball World Cup, the international
think-tank initiated the successful World Baseball Classic - a 16-
nation tournament with MLB players, where Japan are the multiple
defending champions.
5. Rugby Union: The most popular sports in New Zealand is also very
popular in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, France,
Italy, Madagascar, Fiji, the Cook Islands, Romania, Samoa, Tonga and
Argentina . It is also played in the USA, Japan, Georgia, Belgium,
Germany, Chile, Paraguay, Malaysia, Russia, Canada and Spain. The 16-
nation Rugby World Cup is the third largest single sporting event,
achieving an average attendance of more than 45,000 and an estimated
television audience in excess of two billion. The Six-Nations
championship, British Lions tours and Tri-Nation series are the major
tournaments outside the World Cup, followed by millions of passionate
rugby fans. The International Rugby Board has 103 member nations
spanning every continent. South Africa are the defending world
champions.
6. Field Hockey: The national sport of India and Pakistan is amongst
the top five sports in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Germany, Holland
(the six-time world champions), Australia (three Olympics golds),
South Korea, Japan, Argentina, Malaysia and England. The Olympics and
the World Cup, the most prominent events, have been dominated by
India, with eight Olympics golds, and Pakistan, winners of four World
Cups. The Champions Trophy and the Sultan Azlan Shah tournament are
other prominent events. The International Hockey Federation comprises
more than 100 countries. Germany are the current World and Olympic
champions.
7. Volleyball: The national sport of Sri Lanka is a very popular
participant sports in almost all countries and amongst the top six in
the United States, Brazil, Canada, Russia, Italy, the Netherlands ,
Japan, China, India, Philippines and Poland. Volleyball is also a
popular sport in the south of India, North America, Eastern Europe and
Brazil, enjoying a surge in popularity in schools and colleges. The
most important tournament is the Olympics where the USSR, Brazil and
the USA are multiple gold medallists. FIVB is the international
governing body with more than 150 volleyball-playing nations. The
United States are the current Olympic champions and Brazil the
defending world champions. Another hugely popular version is beach
volleyball, which often rivals even the main sport.
8. Ice Hockey: A winter sport boosted by the advent of artificial
turf, Ice Hockey enjoys popularity throughout the seasons and is
amongst the top four sports in the United States, Russia, Canada,
Norway , Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Czech Republic, Great Britain
and Slovakia. The National Hockey League is the most popular league
and captures the lion’s share among all the hockey leagues, pulling in
average crowds of 40,000 to the stadiums in the US and watched by
millions on TV across Europe and America. The International Ice Hockey
Federation, with 66 members, stages the World Championship where
Russia are the defending champions.
9. American Football: The most popular sport in the United States has
its roots in English soccer and rugby football. It is loved by more
than half the nation’s population of 306 million. With more than 200
million passionate fans residing across the US, Canada, Japan, the
Caribbean and Europe, it has mass appeal and glamour. The National
Football League (NFL) is the richest sporting league in the world,
netting $6.2 billion annually and attracting a world-record average
attendance of around 67,700. IFAF, with 45 members, is the
international governing body that oversees the sport’s World Cup,
where the United States are the defending champions. Outside the US
and Canada, American football is also played domestically in the
United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria,
Mexico and Japan, the multiple world champions in 1999 and 2003.
10. Rugby League: The other version of rugby football is played
extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Wales, France, England
and Papua New Guinea, where it is considered a national sport. It is
played in more the 30 nations, growing in popularity particularly in
Europe and in New Zealand, after being crowned world champions in
2007. Passionate rugby league fans dwell mainly in northern parts of
England, Australia and New Zealand. National Rugby League, with 16
teams, is the most prominent domestic league and probably the most
popular rugby football club competition in the world. It draws huge
crowds across the grounds of Australia and New Zealand.
TT
Rugby union and rugby league. I have no idea what they are. maybe it's
just not an European thing.
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Raja, The Great
me too. I didn't know there two types of Rugby sports. :-)
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Tratnana
> Why do you keep cross-posting football posts to rec.sports.tennis Mr
> Raja Nadar, who works for JP Morgan Chase, aged 33, from Houston,
> Texas or at least someone pretending to be him?
Actually, this is not a problem. He can keep entertaining his wanker
buddies in rec.sport.tennis for as long as he likes. It only becomes a
problem when he cross-posts his inane drivel to rec.sport.soccer.
Mike Hall
It is weird though. I pulled up his telephone number and home address
quite easily from the internet. Most trolls make even a slight effort
to cover their tracks, so I am a little worried that Mr Raja Nadar's
good name is abused by someone disgruntled by JP Morgan Chase, who is
trolling to stir up trouble for him, especially since the guy is a
computer programmer and should know better!
Mike Hall
Sakari Lund
Actually rugby is much more European thing than American football or
baseball. It is big in England and France. What seems to be very wrong
in the list is volleyball being so low, and obviously baseball way too
high. I have complained about cricket so many times that I won't say
anything about it any more...
ixion martin - GdBx
> Rugby union and rugby league. I have no idea what they are.
> maybe it's just not an European thing.
Raugby XV and XIII ?
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Ixion
Contre une équipe étrangère, quand on dit diplomatiquement
que l'arbitre n'est pas dans un bon soir, c'est toujours le
club français qui morfle.
billy
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2006 — Present (4 years )
Technical Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
(Public Company; Banking industry)
2005 — Present (5 years )
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