32 Most Popular Sports in the World

Association football, more commonly known as football (especially in countries where association football is the only popular code of football) or soccer...

1. Football (Soccer)

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket...

2. Cricket

Field hockey is a widely played team sport of the hockey family. The game can be played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf or synthetic field,...

3. Field hockey

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each...

4. Tennis

5. Volleyball

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...

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball,...

6. Table Tennis

Basketball, colloquially referred to as hoops, is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular...

7. Basketball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding...

8. Baseball

Rugby Union

Rugby union, widely known simply as rugby, is a full-contact team sport that originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the...

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Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf,...

10. Golf

Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international auto racing for single-seater racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération...

11. Formula One

12. Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a...

13. Sport of athletics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions...

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Athletics - Track and field

Track and field (Athletics) is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing. The name is derived...

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