The document lists the top 10 most popular sports in the world based on the number of fans. Soccer is ranked as the most popular with 3.3-3.5 billion fans globally due to its widespread popularity in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Americas. Cricket and basketball are respectively the second and third most popular sports, each with approximately 2-3 billion fans concentrated primarily in certain regions. The remaining sports in the top 10 are field hockey/ice hockey, tennis, volleyball, table tennis, baseball, American football, rugby, and golf.

1. Most Popular Sports in The World
Mariem Brahmi

2. • Here We Going To Make The List of Top 10
Most Popular Sports in The World. Most
popular” could mean “most watched,”
“most played,” or “most revenue-
generating” Sports. we will concentrate on
the sports are most watched in the world.
please feel free to leave a comment about
the list in comment section below.

3. • this is a updated list with some changes.
previously basketball was 10th in the list, so
after some research we realized, that the
basketball is the 3rd most popular sport in
the world, as you can see below with detail.
and “Rugby” included in the list as 9th most
popular sport, alongside with American
football. Golf goes back at number 10. so lets
start, have nice time here.

4. Most Popular
Sports in The
World

5. Golf
• Golf is at No 10 in Popularity in the World
Among other Sports. with more then 390 million
fans in US, Canada, Europe.
• Golf is a precision club and ball sport in
which competing players use many types of
clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a
course using the fewest number of strokes.
Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as
“playing a ball with a club from the teeing
ground into the hole by a stroke or successive
strokes in accordance with the Rules.”

6. American football
• 9th most popular sport with around 390-410 million fans
(US mainly)
• 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 by 53.3 yards wide with goalposts
at each end. The offense attempts to advance an oval
ball (the football) down the field by running with or
passing it. They must advance it at least ten yards in
four downs to receive a new set of four downs and
continue the drive; if not, they turn over the ball to
the opposing team.

7. Rugby
• 9th most popular sport with around 390-410 million fans
(France, England, New Zealand and South Africa mainly)
• Rugby is widely played In France and has a strong
tradition in the Basque, Occitan, and Catalan people
areas along the border regions between Spain and
France. The game is very popular in South Africa,
having been introduced by English-speaking settlers in
the 19th century. British colonists also brought the
game with them to Australia and New Zealand, where the
game is widely played. It has spread thence to much of
Polynesia, having particularly strong followings in
Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga

8. Baseball
• there are Around 500 million fans in US, Japan, Cuba,
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 offense attempts to score more runs than its
opponents by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with
a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of
four bases: first, second, third and home plate. A run
is scored when the runner advances around the bases and
returns to home plate.

9. 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 game takes place on a hard table divided by a
net. Except for the initial serve, players must
allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on
their side of the table and must return it so that
it bounces on the opposite side.

10. Volleyball
• with Around 900 million fans Across Asia,
Europe, Americas, Australia Volleyball is the
6th Most Popular Sport in the World.
• 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.[1] It has been a part of the official
program of the Summer Olympic Games since
1964.

11. Tennis
• at No 5 in This List is Tennis . with the Around 1
billion fans around the Europe, Americas, 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. The object of the game is
to play the ball in such a way that the opponent
is not able to play a good return.

12. Hockey
• hockey [ field + Ice] is the 3rd Most Popular Sport on
Earth With 2-2.2 billion fans in Asia, Europe, Africa,
Australia etc.
• 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. In
many areas, one sport (typically field hockey or ice
hockey is generally referred to simply as hockey. both
forms of hockey a lot popular in the world. Field
Hockey is the National game of Pakistan and India Also.
at the other hand ICE HOCKEY is Lot More Popular in
Europe specially in Canada, USA, Latvia and Sweden .
Above Mentioned Number of Fans Are For The Both Forms
Of Hockey.

13. Basketball
• with round about 2-3 billion fans US, Canada, chaina and
philippine mainly, Basketball is the 3rd and last sport of
our List.
• One of Most Paying Sports: Basketball is a sport played by
two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The
objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46
cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.0 m) high mounted to a
backboard at each end. A team can score a field goal by
shooting the ball through the basket during regular play. A
field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a
player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-
point line, and three points if the player is behind the
three-point line. The team with the most points at the end
of the game wins. Basketball is The 3rd Most Played and
Watched Sport in the World.

14. 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. Each team takes it in turn
to bat, attempting to score runs, while the other team
fields. Each turn is known as an innings.
• Cricket Has Three Different Formats i.e . Test, ODIs and
T20. after Introduction of T20 Format Popularity of Cricket
Has Been Increased Greatly. Cricket is hugely popular in
India, Pakistan, Australia, England, South Africa, Srilanka,
New Zealand, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

15. Soccer
• at the top of the list is soccer with 3.3-3.5 billion fans
all around the Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas, etc.
• 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 object of the game is to score by using any
part of the body besides the arms and hands to get the
football into the opposing goal. The goalkeepers are the
only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or
arms while it is in play and then only in their penalty
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