10 biggest sports markets in the world (by country)

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HomokHarcos on 07 August 2017

10.India

9.Canada

8.Australia

7.Brazil

6.Spain

5.Germany

4.France

3.Italy

2.United Kingdom

1.United States

It's a shocker that neither China nor Japan (the 2nd and 3rd largest economies) are in the top 10.

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The Fury on 07 August 2017

I'd say that looks about right. What sports are popular in Japan? Baseball and Football, right? But the best Japanese players of football aren't in Japan, they are in Europe. The most popular football league in China? The premier league because there's more money involved in it and it's not rigged. :P It's all about sponsorship.

Although Canada is kind of high, aren't most their 'leagues' joined with the USA?

Hmm, pie.

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ktay95 on 07 August 2017

Population of 24m and we're 8th, just incase you didn't know how sports crazy we are down here.

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palou on 07 August 2017

40% of global market for Football is kind of crazy, though...

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HomokHarcos on 07 August 2017

ktay95 said:
Population of 24m and we're 8th, just incase you didn't know how sports crazy we are down here.

Must be really popular per capita. I know Victoria's obsession with the AFL is fanatical.

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HomokHarcos on 07 August 2017

twintail said:

HomokHarcos said:

It's a shocker that neither China or Japan (the 2nd and 3rd largest economies) are in the top 10.

what exactly makes this shocking?

Neither being in the top 10 seems about right when it comes to sport.

Now that I think of it, there doesn't seem to be any big spectator sport. I'm pretty sure India being in the top 10 is probably almost entirely due to cricket.

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HomokHarcos on 07 August 2017

spurgeonryan said:
What is big in the UK? Just soccer?

Rugby is also pretty popular. It's considered the national sport of Wales and is popular in southern England.

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ktay95 said:
Population of 24m and we're 8th, just incase you didn't know how sports crazy we are down here.

Yeah, Austrailia is the big surprise for me. Canada's the second least populous country on the list, but still has 12 million more than people than Austrailia, yet you're ahead of us. Never would have guessed.

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spurgeonryan said:
Well then it is pretty amazing that just off a few popular sports the UK is so high.

The US has everything from Hotdog competitions to Basketball to Golf to 50 other popular sports.

The Premier League season is very long. It goes from August-May. And every 2 years there's a major international tournament (FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro). So in even years it goes from August-July.

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RJ_Sizzle on 07 August 2017

WE'RE #1! And now it seems our politics have become the number one spectator sport of the world.

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