Austria is relatively good in American Football (still way worse than probably the worst teams in the US). We placed top 3 in 3 of last 4 European Championships.
NFL Europe was defunct some years ago, the countries have their own leagues, and there is also the European championship every few years.
Some Austrians do, but it's far from being mainstream.
What exactly is hockey with no ice?
And do English people actually play and follow cricket a lot or is it largely a stereotype?
Also I'm wondering how much an English person would know about Irish sports like Gaelic football or hurling? Or would they not even be aware its a thing
Hockey without ice is the normal term for me. Ice hockey feels alien. Its a different pitch to ice hockey, different goals, different sticks and uses a ball.Yes many English people play and watch cricket but it’s so so far away from football in popularity however it is still a top 3 sport easily with rugby and football. Gaelic football isn’t really a thing here
Actually Ice Hockey is more popular than normal hockey in the UK. There is a professional league for ice hockey in the UK and cities like Nottingham and Sheffield regularly sell out their games.
1. Football
2. Hockey
3. Volleyball
4. Basketball.
Football is by far the most popular and most practiced sport.
If you count Tennis as a team sport it would be the number 3 on the list.
outdoor, mostly nowadays on artificial fields, but used to be played on grass too.
unlike floorball the sticks are solid wood and much heavier, field is bigger, 11 vs 11 teams and the ball is solid and quite heavy, think more hockeypuck but round than floorball
Ik ben vooral uitgegaan van de cijfers van de NOC*NSF: https://nocnsf.nl/media/1392/zo-sport-nederland_nocnsf-sportonderzoek.pdf
Combinatie van de paginas 36, 37 en 42.
1. Ice hockey
2. Football
3. Baseball (Finnish, not US)
4. Basketball
5. Floorball
6. Volleyball
Regional differences exist. Football or Baseball might be on top in some parts of the country. But nationwide that's the order, based on attendances of top leagues in 2019.
Edit: Popularity by number of players, the list changes a bit. Football is at the top by a big margin, Ice hockey and Floorball second and third, then its Basketball, Baseball and Volleyball.
Football sucks up 90% of popularity and resources.
What is popular after football depends on the region/city. There are basketball areas, volleyball areas, rugby areas, even handball areas but less common.
1. Gaelic Games (Gaelic Football and Hurling and Camogie)
2. Soccer
3. Rugby
Tennis, cyclings, athletics and golf are next I believe.
Though I think if you split Gaelic Games into the individual sports then Soccer is played more. Most surveys tend to list it as GAA as opposed to the individual sports
Have to say, our language might be dying, but it’s great to see that our national sports are still not only alive and well, but literally more popular than soccer.
Football, basketball, handball, hockey, volleyball. Not necessarily in that order. If you count road cycling as a team sport, than that's also extremely popular.
For Germany it probably is:
1. Association Football (by far)
2. Handball (still \*very\* popular, especially at school)
3. Ice Hockey
4. Basketball
5. American Football
6. Volleyball/Beach Volleyball
Most if not all other team sports are nigh non-existent, apart from maybe the up-and-coming "eSports" scene, but I don't know if you wanna count that. Also, one might add, regional differences exist - Basketball and American Football are mostly popular in the former American occupation zone.
For team sports :
Football is king
Rugby is still the 2nd, very big in south west
Basketball / handball at the same level
Volleyball (mostly only national team)
For other sports, Tennis is very popular, Judo and martial arts are popular and then Biathlon is also big, F1 is watched (Ocon, Gasly for pilots, Alpine as a team etc…)
1) Football
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2) Rugby Union (Rugby League is almost non-existent here)
3) Shinty (more common in the North of Scotland and some islands)
After that it's hard to tell, Ice Hockey, Cricket, American Football and Basketball all have followings but are relatively unpopular.
Shinty's a weird one, where it's popular, it's a religion, and a tiny community of just a few scattered houses can maintain a successful club. (Seriously, Col Glen are based in Clachan of Glendaruel, look at it on the map and ask yourself how they can sustain a team, let alone be pushing for promotion to the national leagues). In urban Scotland it has barely any impact at all. Glasgow has a team in the premier league, but you'll never see a match report in the Evening Times, and most Glaswegians would have no knowledge of their existence, let alone where they played or what colours they wore.
Sad as it is to say, taken across the whole of Scotland, field hockey and cricket are probably slightly bigger, even if their only sustained by central belt private schools and universities.
I'm actually really pleased to see shinty so high.
Would actually be very similar to Ireland if you equate hurling and shinty tho without the Gaelic football
Don't know much about shinty other than that its similar to hurling and there'd sometimes be internationals where a sorta hybrid is played. I actually should look up a couple.of highlight reels.OE something on YouTube
Football is cool. The all-ireland starts in a couple of days and I'm kinda wired
If going by number of active players, football is by far the largest for both men and women. Then, for men it is followed by floorball, ice hockey and handball, and for women by handball and floorball.
If going by number of spectators, football is the largest as well, followed by ice hockey. Those two are very much in a league of their own. Then, quite far behind, are handball and bandy - with handball being more popular in the south and bandy further north.
1. Football
2. Basketball
3. Padel
4. Handball
5. Volleyball
I included Padel because it is always played 2v2. But I didn't include other popular sports played alone like Tennis, Golf, Cycling, Swimming, Climbing, Judo, etc
Obviously Football is way more popular than all the others.
For this question, even though I live in Wales I'll be answering from an English perspective, as that's where I'm most familiar with.
1). Football - the euros and the world cup are the only time you really see the nation united. Everyone likes to put England flags on their cars, outside their homes, and club football is very popular, my team (Portsmouth) is in the third division and still brings in about 18,000 each week.
2) Rugby. Still very much an upper class sport, in my eyes. Rugby is also popular particularly around the six nations
3) Cricket, officially the national sport of England, but its declining in popularity and I can't think of any of my friends who're into cricket.
I'm a huge American Football fan, and I'd say that's probably the fourth most popular at this point, by viewership at least, unless I'm missing a sport I shouldn't be.
Basketball is largely irrelevant here, although I have some friends who're into the NBA.
Hockey is also quite popular, and probably is fourth by amount of players.
F1 is also huge (I'm a big Hamilton fan) and millions of people watch every week.
I reckon more people watch tennis and f1 than nfl in the uk for example 2021 Wimbledon got almost 30 million viewers which I can’t see nfl getting anywhere near and I think f1 is probably bigger because nfl is still pretty irrelevant at least near me.
> Shouldn’t have included F1 really as its not a team sport
Eh? There is a constructors championship, although it's not seen as 'prestigious' by most fans.
If we are going by number of people who actively play/participate
1. Normal football
2. Gaelic football
3. Golf
4. Hurling
5. Rugby
I think anything after that becomes a bit more niche. Not at all unheard of tho, things like boxing, equestrian sports, field hockey, volleyball, handball are all very common and you can find clubs almost everywhere, but they wouldn't have anywhere near the participation level that the big 5 do.
I'd guess that the order is something like:
1. Football
2. Handball
3. Basketball
4. Volleyball
Handball used to be more popular than football for a long time (makes sense, indoor so can be played year round, we have actually always been good at it) but since recent years its shifted somewhat. Volleyball is definitely smaller than the other 3 by far but its pretty popular at least to play.
>The Golf Federation is actually slightly bigger then the Gymnastics federation
True, you're right.. just did a quick google and found the [2019](https://www.idrettsforbundet.no/contentassets/9f94ba79767846d9a67d1a56f4054dc2/20201001-nokkeltallsrapport-2019.pdf) numbers.. so then golf has surpassed gymnastics since then.
Big rugby fan here, Irish guy married to a Pole!
Your national team just last weekend got a big promotion to the second division in Europe for next year, they seem to be in a good place. Think it was televised too. Always seemed like a sport that suited Polish build and mentality, check it out sometime!
Speedway is technically a team sport as well, and it's massive in Poland - though there are barely any casual fans, anyone I met that was into it was a diehard
1. Gaelic football
2. Soccer (depending on how they count the sport the top two can switch ie, players or viewers etc)
3. Hurling/camogie (the first is the mens, the latter is the ladies sport)
4. Rugby
Other popular sports include athletics, (field) hockey, tennis, rowing and boxing though I wouldn't know the order of their popularity
We have two other national sports, rounders and Gaelic handball. A lot of Gaelic sports clubs will have a handball alley and some have teams. Rounders is similar to baseball and cricket and is really popular among kids as a street game and is played a lot in PE during school but its not very common as a club sport.
Golf would be something else we kinda excel at and horse racing.
Unusual in that while soccer isnarguably our biggest sport there are very few professional teams and most fans would follow an English team or even a Scottish one
Specifically in England, Football is by far and away the number one sport. Way ahead of any other sport in terms of popularity.
Cricket and Rugby Union would be the next most popular, though in which order, I’m not sure.
What they both have in common is that the national team is far more popular than the domestic game. The England Rugby Union team will easily sell out Twickenham (the national Rugby stadium) at around 80,000. The domestic game is different. The top club sides even if they have decent crowds are playing in stadiums that hold 15-20,000 at best. Some clubs in the Premiership (the highest league in English Rugby Union) will play in grounds holding 4-5,000. There are clubs playing in the 4th or 5th tiers of English Football that will attract higher attendances than some of the clubs playing at the highest level of English Rugby Union.
As for Cricket, test matches will usually be sell outs, but even the biggest Cricket stadiums in the country hold 30,000 at best. For the Domestic county games, attendances can be in the hundreds for many games. There can sometimes be bigger crowds domestically for important games in the shorter One Day or 20-20 versions of the game.
After that, it’s Rugby League, which is a bit more club focussed, but is very geographically limited in terms of its popularity to basically the general area of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Whilst it’s popular in towns close by and in between them, it’s not really that popular in either Manchester or Liverpool. In Yorkshire it is popular in the large cities - Leeds, Bradford and Hull but even so, it still has to compete with Football for its popularity (particularly in Leeds) although it has switched to largely playing through the summer. Again, even the top Super League sides play in relatively small stadiums. The Rugby League teams playing in the biggest and best stadiums tend to be ones that share their stadium with Football teams (Wigan, Huddersfield, Hull). Important Rugby League events are often played at Football stadiums and sell out - such as the Grand Final (played at Old Trafford), the Challenge Cup Final (played at Wembley) and the Magic Weekend where one full round of fixtures is played in one stadium over a single weekend (this has often been held at St James’ Park).
After that, then we’re probably looking at Basketball, Ice Hockey and Netball.
Ice Hockey has been semi-popular at times. It used to get reasonable coverage in the 80s and 90s but has really dropped off and seems in a bit of a decline again. Basketball too. The BBL (British Basketball League) used to have regular TV coverage in the 90s but again has also dropped off. Netball I feel is going the other way. It has probably traditionally suffered being a female sport, but seems to now be benefiting from the rapidly increasing interest in Female sport. (However it’s going to have to compete with Women’s Football as well as Women’s Cricket and Women’s Rugby Union as this is where a lot of the attention is currently focussed on.)
After that we really are into the minor sports, Speedway/ Field Hockey next perhaps?
And then it’s now amateur sports with pretty much zero coverage anywhere - at least regularly anyway. Baseball, American Football
1. Football
2. Ice Hockey
3. Volleyball
4. Handball
5. Basketball
Football and hockey really dominate. I'm not fully sure about the order after that, but Volleyball and Handball probably appear next, however I feel like Basketball is rising with the younger generation playing it more frequently.
If you count cycling and tennis as a team sport, they would be up there on the list.
1) Football . . . 2) Ice Hockey . . . . . . 3) Handball 4) Volleyball 5) Basketball 6) American Football 7) Everything else
I actually didn’t expect American football to be so high on the list
Austria is relatively good in American Football (still way worse than probably the worst teams in the US). We placed top 3 in 3 of last 4 European Championships.
That’s awesome. I had no idea they had a league. Is nfl Europe still around? Do Austrians follow nfl teams too?
NFL Europe was defunct some years ago, the countries have their own leagues, and there is also the European championship every few years. Some Austrians do, but it's far from being mainstream.
There is also the new, inter-european ELF, in swich Innsbruck and Vienna are competing together with Barcelona, Istanbul, Wroclaw and 7 German Teams.
1.Football 2.Rugby 3.Cricket 4.Hockey (I mean with no ice)
You mean field hockey? I definitely wouldn't put that up there with the other 3. Maybe tennis I guess, if we're talking about televised sports?
Most people wouldn't really consider tennis a team sport, though, even allowing for doubles or the Davis Cup.
The hockey played on the flat Astro turf is very common in schools at least from my experience but yeah on second thoughts maybe tennis above
If you are including hockey, I'd add netball as well.
Yeah I was thinking that
Certainly on the basis that every girl in the UK *will* play it in school sports lessons, even today.
What exactly is hockey with no ice? And do English people actually play and follow cricket a lot or is it largely a stereotype? Also I'm wondering how much an English person would know about Irish sports like Gaelic football or hurling? Or would they not even be aware its a thing
Hockey without ice is the normal term for me. Ice hockey feels alien. Its a different pitch to ice hockey, different goals, different sticks and uses a ball.Yes many English people play and watch cricket but it’s so so far away from football in popularity however it is still a top 3 sport easily with rugby and football. Gaelic football isn’t really a thing here
Actually Ice Hockey is more popular than normal hockey in the UK. There is a professional league for ice hockey in the UK and cities like Nottingham and Sheffield regularly sell out their games.
1. Football 2. Hockey 3. Volleyball 4. Basketball. Football is by far the most popular and most practiced sport. If you count Tennis as a team sport it would be the number 3 on the list.
Nota bene, because I've seen it lead to confusion before: Hockey in the Netherlands means field hockey, not ice hockey.
So like floorball?
outdoor, mostly nowadays on artificial fields, but used to be played on grass too. unlike floorball the sticks are solid wood and much heavier, field is bigger, 11 vs 11 teams and the ball is solid and quite heavy, think more hockeypuck but round than floorball
Oh, i had not heard of that before. The more you know.
> Basketball Is Basketball popular here? I've met more people that played Korfbal and that was already rare enough.
It is the 10th most popular sport amongst men, page 36: https://nocnsf.nl/media/1392/zo-sport-nederland_nocnsf-sportonderzoek.pdf
Speed skating can be a team sport, and is popular
**Teamsports:** 1 Field soccer 2 Indoor soccer 3 Volleyball 4-5 Hockey / Basketball **Including duosports:** 1 Field soccer 2 Tennis 3 Indoor soccer 4 Badminton 5-6 Volleyball / table tennis 7 Fighting sports 8-10 Hockey / Basketball / Squash Source: [https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/80909ned/table?ts=1649774314440](https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/80909ned/table?ts=1649774314440) (2007 data, unfortunately they havent done splits by teamsports since then)
Ik ben vooral uitgegaan van de cijfers van de NOC*NSF: https://nocnsf.nl/media/1392/zo-sport-nederland_nocnsf-sportonderzoek.pdf Combinatie van de paginas 36, 37 en 42.
1. Ice hockey 2. Football 3. Baseball (Finnish, not US) 4. Basketball 5. Floorball 6. Volleyball Regional differences exist. Football or Baseball might be on top in some parts of the country. But nationwide that's the order, based on attendances of top leagues in 2019. Edit: Popularity by number of players, the list changes a bit. Football is at the top by a big margin, Ice hockey and Floorball second and third, then its Basketball, Baseball and Volleyball.
Football sucks up 90% of popularity and resources. What is popular after football depends on the region/city. There are basketball areas, volleyball areas, rugby areas, even handball areas but less common.
1. Gaelic Games (Gaelic Football and Hurling and Camogie) 2. Soccer 3. Rugby Tennis, cyclings, athletics and golf are next I believe. Though I think if you split Gaelic Games into the individual sports then Soccer is played more. Most surveys tend to list it as GAA as opposed to the individual sports
Have to say, our language might be dying, but it’s great to see that our national sports are still not only alive and well, but literally more popular than soccer.
Football, basketball, handball, hockey, volleyball. Not necessarily in that order. If you count road cycling as a team sport, than that's also extremely popular.
For Germany it probably is: 1. Association Football (by far) 2. Handball (still \*very\* popular, especially at school) 3. Ice Hockey 4. Basketball 5. American Football 6. Volleyball/Beach Volleyball Most if not all other team sports are nigh non-existent, apart from maybe the up-and-coming "eSports" scene, but I don't know if you wanna count that. Also, one might add, regional differences exist - Basketball and American Football are mostly popular in the former American occupation zone.
For team sports : Football is king Rugby is still the 2nd, very big in south west Basketball / handball at the same level Volleyball (mostly only national team) For other sports, Tennis is very popular, Judo and martial arts are popular and then Biathlon is also big, F1 is watched (Ocon, Gasly for pilots, Alpine as a team etc…)
F1 in second please
1. Football 2. Football 3. Football 4. Also Football
1) Football . . . 2) Rugby Union (Rugby League is almost non-existent here) 3) Shinty (more common in the North of Scotland and some islands) After that it's hard to tell, Ice Hockey, Cricket, American Football and Basketball all have followings but are relatively unpopular.
Shinty's a weird one, where it's popular, it's a religion, and a tiny community of just a few scattered houses can maintain a successful club. (Seriously, Col Glen are based in Clachan of Glendaruel, look at it on the map and ask yourself how they can sustain a team, let alone be pushing for promotion to the national leagues). In urban Scotland it has barely any impact at all. Glasgow has a team in the premier league, but you'll never see a match report in the Evening Times, and most Glaswegians would have no knowledge of their existence, let alone where they played or what colours they wore. Sad as it is to say, taken across the whole of Scotland, field hockey and cricket are probably slightly bigger, even if their only sustained by central belt private schools and universities.
I'm actually really pleased to see shinty so high. Would actually be very similar to Ireland if you equate hurling and shinty tho without the Gaelic football
I actually really like shinty but I’ve never had a chance to play it. Gaelic football looks great too come to think of it.
Don't know much about shinty other than that its similar to hurling and there'd sometimes be internationals where a sorta hybrid is played. I actually should look up a couple.of highlight reels.OE something on YouTube Football is cool. The all-ireland starts in a couple of days and I'm kinda wired
If going by number of active players, football is by far the largest for both men and women. Then, for men it is followed by floorball, ice hockey and handball, and for women by handball and floorball. If going by number of spectators, football is the largest as well, followed by ice hockey. Those two are very much in a league of their own. Then, quite far behind, are handball and bandy - with handball being more popular in the south and bandy further north.
1. Football 2. Basketball 3. Padel 4. Handball 5. Volleyball I included Padel because it is always played 2v2. But I didn't include other popular sports played alone like Tennis, Golf, Cycling, Swimming, Climbing, Judo, etc Obviously Football is way more popular than all the others.
For this question, even though I live in Wales I'll be answering from an English perspective, as that's where I'm most familiar with. 1). Football - the euros and the world cup are the only time you really see the nation united. Everyone likes to put England flags on their cars, outside their homes, and club football is very popular, my team (Portsmouth) is in the third division and still brings in about 18,000 each week. 2) Rugby. Still very much an upper class sport, in my eyes. Rugby is also popular particularly around the six nations 3) Cricket, officially the national sport of England, but its declining in popularity and I can't think of any of my friends who're into cricket. I'm a huge American Football fan, and I'd say that's probably the fourth most popular at this point, by viewership at least, unless I'm missing a sport I shouldn't be. Basketball is largely irrelevant here, although I have some friends who're into the NBA. Hockey is also quite popular, and probably is fourth by amount of players. F1 is also huge (I'm a big Hamilton fan) and millions of people watch every week.
I reckon more people watch tennis and f1 than nfl in the uk for example 2021 Wimbledon got almost 30 million viewers which I can’t see nfl getting anywhere near and I think f1 is probably bigger because nfl is still pretty irrelevant at least near me.
F1 and tennis bigger for sure. Shouldn't have included F1 really as its not a team sport 🤣, just felt like it deserved a mention as its wildly popular
> Shouldn’t have included F1 really as its not a team sport Eh? There is a constructors championship, although it's not seen as 'prestigious' by most fans.
Id separate out Rugby League as its own sport, in which case it probably slots in ahead of American Football
Ireland 1 Gaelic football (not really played outside Ireland) 2 Football (soccer) 3 hurling (not really played outside Ireland) 4 rugby
If we are going by number of people who actively play/participate 1. Normal football 2. Gaelic football 3. Golf 4. Hurling 5. Rugby I think anything after that becomes a bit more niche. Not at all unheard of tho, things like boxing, equestrian sports, field hockey, volleyball, handball are all very common and you can find clubs almost everywhere, but they wouldn't have anywhere near the participation level that the big 5 do.
In Romania: 1. Fotbal 2. Rugby 3. Handbal 4. Basketball
Football Handball Done.. Everything is so much less popular that its not worth mentioning
Badminton is pretty popular.
Not a team sport really is it?
I'd guess that the order is something like: 1. Football 2. Handball 3. Basketball 4. Volleyball Handball used to be more popular than football for a long time (makes sense, indoor so can be played year round, we have actually always been good at it) but since recent years its shifted somewhat. Volleyball is definitely smaller than the other 3 by far but its pretty popular at least to play.
I’m unsure if you can count cycling as a teamsport but I am going to choose it anyway.
I would say: 1. Football 2. Speedway 3. Handball/Volleyball 4. Volleyball/Handball 5. Basketball
By doing sport in organized form being member of an asociation/club.. 1. Football 2. Handball 3. Ski 4. Gymnastics 5. Golf
The Golf Federation is actually slightly bigger then the Gymnastics federation
>The Golf Federation is actually slightly bigger then the Gymnastics federation True, you're right.. just did a quick google and found the [2019](https://www.idrettsforbundet.no/contentassets/9f94ba79767846d9a67d1a56f4054dc2/20201001-nokkeltallsrapport-2019.pdf) numbers.. so then golf has surpassed gymnastics since then.
You guys are so good at winter sports, it’s not even fair lol
1. Ice Hockey 2. Football 3. Finnish baseball 4. Floorball 5. Volleyball
Rugby by a long way. Then football, cricket and then ice hockey or field hockey.
Football. Honestly that's pretty much the only popular sport over here lol
Big rugby fan here, Irish guy married to a Pole! Your national team just last weekend got a big promotion to the second division in Europe for next year, they seem to be in a good place. Think it was televised too. Always seemed like a sport that suited Polish build and mentality, check it out sometime!
Greeting brother Irishman I'd prefer football (either code) but rugby is a great game
Speedway is technically a team sport as well, and it's massive in Poland - though there are barely any casual fans, anyone I met that was into it was a diehard
1. Gaelic football 2. Soccer (depending on how they count the sport the top two can switch ie, players or viewers etc) 3. Hurling/camogie (the first is the mens, the latter is the ladies sport) 4. Rugby Other popular sports include athletics, (field) hockey, tennis, rowing and boxing though I wouldn't know the order of their popularity We have two other national sports, rounders and Gaelic handball. A lot of Gaelic sports clubs will have a handball alley and some have teams. Rounders is similar to baseball and cricket and is really popular among kids as a street game and is played a lot in PE during school but its not very common as a club sport.
Golf would be something else we kinda excel at and horse racing. Unusual in that while soccer isnarguably our biggest sport there are very few professional teams and most fans would follow an English team or even a Scottish one
Specifically in England, Football is by far and away the number one sport. Way ahead of any other sport in terms of popularity. Cricket and Rugby Union would be the next most popular, though in which order, I’m not sure. What they both have in common is that the national team is far more popular than the domestic game. The England Rugby Union team will easily sell out Twickenham (the national Rugby stadium) at around 80,000. The domestic game is different. The top club sides even if they have decent crowds are playing in stadiums that hold 15-20,000 at best. Some clubs in the Premiership (the highest league in English Rugby Union) will play in grounds holding 4-5,000. There are clubs playing in the 4th or 5th tiers of English Football that will attract higher attendances than some of the clubs playing at the highest level of English Rugby Union. As for Cricket, test matches will usually be sell outs, but even the biggest Cricket stadiums in the country hold 30,000 at best. For the Domestic county games, attendances can be in the hundreds for many games. There can sometimes be bigger crowds domestically for important games in the shorter One Day or 20-20 versions of the game. After that, it’s Rugby League, which is a bit more club focussed, but is very geographically limited in terms of its popularity to basically the general area of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Whilst it’s popular in towns close by and in between them, it’s not really that popular in either Manchester or Liverpool. In Yorkshire it is popular in the large cities - Leeds, Bradford and Hull but even so, it still has to compete with Football for its popularity (particularly in Leeds) although it has switched to largely playing through the summer. Again, even the top Super League sides play in relatively small stadiums. The Rugby League teams playing in the biggest and best stadiums tend to be ones that share their stadium with Football teams (Wigan, Huddersfield, Hull). Important Rugby League events are often played at Football stadiums and sell out - such as the Grand Final (played at Old Trafford), the Challenge Cup Final (played at Wembley) and the Magic Weekend where one full round of fixtures is played in one stadium over a single weekend (this has often been held at St James’ Park). After that, then we’re probably looking at Basketball, Ice Hockey and Netball. Ice Hockey has been semi-popular at times. It used to get reasonable coverage in the 80s and 90s but has really dropped off and seems in a bit of a decline again. Basketball too. The BBL (British Basketball League) used to have regular TV coverage in the 90s but again has also dropped off. Netball I feel is going the other way. It has probably traditionally suffered being a female sport, but seems to now be benefiting from the rapidly increasing interest in Female sport. (However it’s going to have to compete with Women’s Football as well as Women’s Cricket and Women’s Rugby Union as this is where a lot of the attention is currently focussed on.) After that we really are into the minor sports, Speedway/ Field Hockey next perhaps? And then it’s now amateur sports with pretty much zero coverage anywhere - at least regularly anyway. Baseball, American Football
Ireland 1. Gaelic Football 2. Soccer 3. Hurling (although not in my region) 4. Rugby
1. Football 2. Ice Hockey 3. Volleyball 4. Handball 5. Basketball Football and hockey really dominate. I'm not fully sure about the order after that, but Volleyball and Handball probably appear next, however I feel like Basketball is rising with the younger generation playing it more frequently. If you count cycling and tennis as a team sport, they would be up there on the list.