Why football failed to catch on in certain countries

[Teno]

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).

Actually my Source was this Bloomberg report: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-12/soccer-is-the-world-s-most-popular-sport-and-still-growing

Edit: I think soccer and basketball growth is also really well reflected by vgchartz numbers and sales for NBA2k and FIFA sales each year, noticing the small decline in favor for digital sales, both games usually peak all 2-3 years, while Madden had it's peak more than a decade ago. The gaming demographic is usually a lot younger and is at least a great source for visualizing trends at least within the digital games playing nations.

Last edited by Teno - on 24 July 2018