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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 area. Don’t Forget to Join Us On Social Media.
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