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    Question ID:   4597         Current Version: 2
Question: What are the most popular sports in the world?
Category: Sports & Recreation > Other
Keywords: most, popular, world, sports
Type: what
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It seems that soccer (football outside US) is with no doubt the world's most popular sport. Britannica Online Encyclopedia states that:

Football is the world's most popular ball game in numbers of participants and spectators. ... ... Football's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), estimated that at the turn of the 21st century there were approximately 250 million football players and over 1.3 billion people "interested" in football; in 2002 a combined television audience of more than 28 billion watched football's premier tournament, the quadrennial month-long World Cup finals.

There are no official studies or surveys found to rank other most popular sports. Following sports are what you can find that people think they are popular. This is not a complete list and is listed in alphabet order:

  • badminton
  • baseball 
  • basketball
  • cricket 
  • cycling 
  • field hockey 
  • hockey
  • Judo
  • karate 
  • rugby 
  • swimming 
  • table tennis 
  • tennis 
  • volleyball
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