Welcome once again to MasterTop5.com and today we are going to break down the Top 5 most popular sports in the world … keep reading!
This Top Five is a difficult one: sport preferences are very subsjective and come down to personal tastes. Here is the Top 5 Most Popular Sports in the World not ranked by general turnover but based on the estimated number of fans … hence popularity.
5. Volleyball – 900 Million Fans
Volleyball was invented by William G. Morgan in 1895 in USA and nowadays is very popular in America and in the western Europe. This sport has an estimated global following of 900 million fans and the number is growing.
4. Tennis – 1 Billion Fans
Tennis is a sport that doesn’t need any introduction. Tennis seems to have a global estimated following of 1 billion fans all over the world.
3. Field Hockey – 2 Billion Fans
Probably you didn’t aspect this sport ranked so high in the top 5 most popular sports in the world, did you? As a matter of fact Field Hockey has a huge following due to to the fact that is widely played in India, Australia, and Pakistan where the population is almost devoted to this sport almost as much as …
2. Cricket – 2.5 Billion Fans
In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries this sport is probably the most popular at all and it is played as a national sport in former British colonies such as India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Australia. Cricket has got a following of 2.5 billion of fans.
1. Association Football (Soccer) – 4 Billion Fans
Perhaps not yet as popular in the north America as in the rest of the world but Football (Soccer for the Americans) is by far the most followed sport in the World with more than 4 billion fans.
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Main Source: worldatlas.com
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