The list of Top 10 Most Popular Sports in The World. Most popular means, most watched, most played and highly revenue generating sports in the world.

1. Talking of the most popular sportsin the world, weneed to look at the key factors
that make a sportqualify into this list:
• Most watched- the fan base of any sportall around the world is what actually
makes it all important. The morethe fans the morepopular a sportis
• Revenue generation- so if a sportis very popular with a big and solid fan base,
it generates revenue easily through watched games and promoting brands from
big companies
• Most played- a sportis ultimately popular if it is played all over the world.
Here I may like to categorically name them as global sports and regional sports,
the latter referring to sports thatare popular in a confined region, country of
continent. Below are the list of top 10 most popular sports in the world.
1. Soccer
With an approximate fan baseof about 3.5 billion all over the world. Soccer is by
far the most popular sport. Soccer is played in almostevery partof the world,
simple and easy to play, it is well organized and managed, making it the most
watched and enjoys an extensive coverageby sports news media. That makes it
the richestsporting event by revenue. It’s one of the mostwatched and best
sports in the world.
2. Cricket
Cricketis second with about 2.5 billion fans. It’s especially very popular among
former British colonies such as India, westindies, Australia and south Africa.
Cricket is second mostwatched sports games in the world.
3. Field hockey
Field hockey has about 2.2 billion fans, and is very popular sportalmost in every
part of the world. Itcan also be called a family sport.
4. Tennis
Tennis comes fourth with about 1 billion fans. It’s a popular sportin Asia, Europe
and the Americas. The William sisters arethe mostnotable female best tennis
players in recent times. Tennis is one of the mostpopular sports games in the
world.

2. 5. Volleyball
With about 900 million fans, volleyballcomes fifth in the ranking. It’s an easy
game to play. All that is needed is a ball, net and an opponent. It can be played on
any surfaceand does not requirea lot of space. It’s oneof the mostpopular
sports in the world.
6. Table tennis
Also known as ping pong, table tennis is hugely famous in China and of late parts
of Asia. Ithas a fan base of about 850 million. It’s an equally easy game to play
and equipment is cheap. And though much of the fan baseis fromChina, the
sportis gaining prominencequickly and may rise ranks.
7. Baseball
Baseball has an approximatefan base of about 500 million, who mainly come
fromthe US, Cube, Japan and the Dominican republic. Though popular it’s not
played in most parts of the world, but it is most watched and best sports in USA.
8. Golf
Golf has a fan base of about 450 million. Though watched in mostparts of the
world, it's majorly played in north America, parts of Europe and Asia. Here
opponents don’t take on each other directly like in almost all other sports, and
perhaps the most interesting feature. Golf is growing popular nowadays and
supposed it is one of the elite sports games in the world.
9. Basketball
With about 400 million fans around the world. basketball is a very interesting
sport, and of late, the sportis becoming rapidly popular in what may take leading
sports like soccer by surpriseas one of the most popular sports in the world.
10. American football
With about 400 million fans around the world, American football is extremely
popular in north America whereby no surprise, closeto haveof the fan base

3. comes from. The sportis becoming popular in Europe and Africa, and it’s
expected to increase its fan presence.
There are many sports games like athletics that are popular but, the difference is
that they arenot regular sports, finding a consistentfan baseis hard.
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