Why football failed to catch on in certain countries

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Ka-pi96 said:

Teno said:
I think the fact that most popular sports like soccer and basketball are still heavily growing especially in other nations like China, Japan and in terms of soccer even in the U.S. are good signs for both of these in the future. However there is always room for more and since interest in athletics, tennis and motorsports are declining since 2016 I'm interested in the runner ups for place 3-5. Maybe even eSports....we'll see ;D

Source?

As for places 3-5, football is undoubtedly #1 and cricket has surely got to be #2, but that still leaves quite a few sports in the running behind them though. I don't think anybody's mentioned boxing or golf in terms of popular sports yet, but they've surely got to be up there too (probably not top 5, but a decent shout for top 10).

In terms of annual sporting events, the biggest are (according to this link).

1.UEFA Champions League Final
2.IPL Final
3.Super Bowl

But the IPL and NFL are probably mainly just due to huge ratings in one country. But other than football I don't know any team sports league that is popular throughout the world.

https://www.livemint.com/Sports/f0arJvs9Rpl4qRy7I4FQRP/IPL-Indias-T20-cricket-league-bats-for-global-sports-crown.html