Top 5 Sports in the World

 

Do you know the current top 5 sports are which of these? Here we present the top 5 sports in the current world.

 

Though it’s quite difficult to get an exact number of sports that are playing right now around the world, it is easy to talk about the top 5 sports which are those, although we appreciate that the different opinions of others are valuable to think about.

1.

Soccer/Football

Football is one of the most popular sports in the world. It has the largest audience in attendance in the recent Final of World Cup football 2022 in Qatar. According to FIFA, the estimated attendance at World Cup Final 2022 is 88,966 but on television and the Internet, nearly 1.5 billion viewers are not unimaginable. So, undisputedly it is the most popular and largest viewing game in the current world.

2.

Badminton

I know you are a little bit surprised to see Badminton is second place in this top 5 sports list! But it is a reality that this is the most played indoor sport in the world right now. According to Fox News, “330 million people around the world are playing the game of badminton these days.”  It is particularly popular in Asia, Some of the legends of this game are produced in Asia.

3.

Field Hockey

This game started in the 19^th Century as a developed version of the previous formation. It has been played by men and women in over a hundred countries on five continents around the world. Olympic Committee added this game in 1908 and It’s 10 outfield players and 1 goalkeeper drawn from a 17 men's squad.

4.

Volleyball

It’s a complete team sport game where two teams containing six players are separated by a net. Volleyball originated in America and it has a global participation figure of 998 million people. Over 220 affiliated nationals registered with volleyball’s global governing body the ‘FIVB’.

5.

Basketball

A minimum of 450 million people play the sport around the world, Which is estimated by The Federation of International Basketball Association (FIBA). Legendary players like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, rise this game in global popularity from its American roots.

 

Conclusion

In the essence of the top 5 sports here mentioned, all are very popular and have global positions with their public figure around the world. Here I ranked these sports with their public figure but all I can say, people watch these games because they like to watch these sports not look into their public figures.