There are 3 global sports: rugby, soccer, and cricket. Only one country has been world champs in all of them

basketball isn’t a sport

Wrong

it's
Football
Hockey
Handball

Basketball probably, or field hockey

first time I agree with a creatura
maybe rugby as a close 4th

Snooker

>tfw basketball will overtake soccer as THE global sport within our lifetimes
Feelsgoodman

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maybe in spain

Sports in terms of popularity in order

>football
>cricket
>basketball
>tennis
>baseball
>rugby (union)
>ice hockey
>volleyball
>????

what bizarro world do you live in?

Please specify which kind of football you mean when you post football.

Maybe I should have put boxing above volleyball but it’s pretty accurate

>>baseball
kek

‘ate rugby
‘ate cricket
‘ate poshos
‘ate pakis
‘ate islarm
‘ate tories

luv ngubu
luv blacks
luv england
luv footy
luv benidorm

simple AS

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baseball
>Caribbean
>south america
>asia
>north america

Darts is not a sport.

>south america
'no'

>asia
japan isn't the whole of asia

This

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SA = Venezuela.
Asia = Japan.

Nice.

>boomerpaddle
>toffegg

>relevant

baseball is the biggest sport in korea and taiwan

cricket is seen as a boomer sport over there?

yes

>korea
which one?
>taiwan
not a country

How can cricket be above basketball? Yeah pajeets love cricket but Chinamen are obsessed with Basketball so that should cancel out.

Crabcock

Football is more popular in China than football. Pajeets (and all those countries surrounding them, also highly populated) all only like cricket

>Japan, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, USA, Canada, Korea
Baseball man

than basketball*

south and yes it is

Ignore the population of countries and look instead at things like crowd attendance, tv viewers, sponsorship dollars, registered players, media coverage.

FUCK THE ENGLISH

totalsportek.com/most-popular-sports/

This is a pretty objectively true list, except remove F1 because it's not a sport.

>motorsports aren't sports

They aren't.

Chinas national sport is ping pong
China’s most popular sport is soccer

>muh sponsorship deals
>muh revenue streams
Most watched events were football, cricket and rugby world cups
That's all you need to know

t. Alasdair "Shite-kecks" Macpherson

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We managed to outnig the americans in the niggiest sport ever. That should count.

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haha

Netball of course.

In what fucking way is pooswing more global than handball and tennis?

love that

"won" them all on home soil as well

the eternal homebabbies/refballbabbies

>Cricket
Gayest and most boring activity in existence, I would rather watch curling.

Because chinemen aren't really obsessed with basketball ball and they're are a lot of almost poo nations that also play cricket

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How many billions follow Handball?

it

Ooh là-là! The Grande Finale was a spectacle of moustaches, muscle and mayhem! Our teams were on peak form and sailed through a routine drugs test, though some stooped to new lows offering croissant-bribes to the Umpire. Good sportsmanship was displayed overall, and at whistle-blow it was anybody’s game.

Basketball isn't global, noone gives a fuck outside of the NBA.

Truly global sports are football, tennis and F1.
We only speak about shits like field hockey and cricket because there are 2 billions poos following it but absolutely noone in Europe and the US besides britbong gives a fuck about it, I couldn't name one player to save my life.

china only cared about basketball when that one chink was in the nba, now they only watch soccer and even then its not that popular there. india, bangladesh, and pakistan almost have 2 billion people and cricket is a religion there. plus it's got south africa, caribbean, australia, new zealand, england, zimbabwe, afghanistan, and to a lesser extent kenya and UAE

>unironically naming Afghanistan and B/C/Z tier British colonies to make an argument

Even swimmers are more relevant

So we can both agree the only relevant people are first world white countries, so western europe, australia, and new zealand, right?

Formula 1

>cricket
>world cup had to reduce the teams involved because so few teams give a shit
fuckoff you shitskin poo working for mcdonalds wages on your h1b

Its actually the opposite way round it was cut down because there were too many teams and it was taking too long

The sad part is you actually believe cricket and rugby are relevant worldwide.

Btw, I love rugby.

theyre the only competitive international sports besides soccer and thats a fact.

What would you pick as the biggest then? I can't think of any sports that people will watch world cups for all over the world

cricket isnt a sport more like a hobby

any country winning the wc in it it is about as relevant to me as them winning the tiddlywinks world cup, that said congratulations to england since it seems to mean a lot to them

>congratulations to england
Found the west-brit

It's unironically F1. They race on four continents, and possibly five soon if the South Africa race comes back. You could make the argument it's the #2 international sport behind football.

da da da da da da da

Just because you say its a fact doesnt make it one.

Cricket is not watched all over the world, dont delude yourself. Nobody in all of the Americas watches it. Few european countries watch it and to be honest the most relevant asian countries, China and Japan, dont watch it either.

Rugby is like cricket only more countries watch it (latinamerica and almost all of europe, for example), but it is not a thing in China or India or Japan, so the total amount of viewers might be similar.

To me, the other relevant sport worldwide is track and field (Olympics are watched worlwide even though not with the best of numbers). Basketball is also sort of relevant since every continent plays and watches it (except africa because it fucking doesnt matter).

>Nobody in all of the Americas watches it
Stopped reading there.

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You have never been to america havent you, Liam?

If Americans could field 1 or 2 decent drivers F1 would be #2 behind football in no time.
Liberty has already began pandering to burgers with the Netflix meme documentary.

What sport has global international competition from several countries where it's the #1 sport then?

It's the number 1 sport in Guyana which is literally in South America. It's #1 all over the caribbean too.
Your seethe at British superiority is making you extremely biased lmao

Roller hockey

>but it is not a thing in China or India or Japan
Rugby is massive in Japan, dumbarse. They are literally hosting this year's world cup. Their game against Samoa last world cup was one of the most watched television broadcasts in the nation's history.
Thanks for demonstrating that you're clueless.

I have never been to America that's true but I can read a fucking map.

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Basketball is more popular than rugby, which cannot really be claimed to be a mass popular global sport. And the GB/UK/England team are pretty rubbish. But 2/3 world cups is pretty good.

field hockey is bigger than rugby

Who on earth knows anyone who watches plays hockey? I know literally one person who plays it at a local level, not popular here at all at least

Do you understand what global means? How many countries follow pooswing?

>Rugby is massive in Japan
>The league is mostly amateur
>League ratings are insignificant when compared to table tennis or football
>National Team does not participate in relevant tournaments constantly
>It is not a relevant sport in School

Fuck off you ignorant thirdworld cuck. Television ratings != relevance.

Are you honestly saying that Cricket is relevant in the Americas? Are you drunk? Well, what a stupid question, of course you are.

>Basketball is more popular than rugby
Lol

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It's very relevant in the Caribbean at least, it's got a presence in most commonwealth places

There's a very big amateur cricket community in Argentina. Because the UK and Argentina used to be best buds before the Falklands. Fun fact, Margaret Thatcher's government toyed with the idea of selling the Falklands to Argentina a couple years before the invasion.
If the Argie generals hadn't been such grasping niggers, they would probably have the Falklands by now.

If ratings were inditiary of relevance, handegg would be a "relevant" sport in latinamerica because of the super bowl show. It is not by any definiton.

>Nobody in all of the Americas watches it
Is what you claimed, and it's wrong.
If you can't argue without strawmanning, shifting goalposts, or ad hominem, don't.

Same with cricket and rugby, nobody gives a shit about it apart from you guys.
Field hockey, however, is big with panjeets AND in South America.

The smallest most insignificant countries.

It is like the 165th sport in Argentina. Theres also handegg amateur "leagues". But lets not stretch meanings here. Chess would be relevant in latinamerica by that metric.

Stop backpedalling you idiot. We were discussing relevant sports, cricket is NOT a relevant sport in Latinamerica because one or two small caribbean countries have some people that watch it.

Totally correct. Basketball is popular in the USA & Canada (350 million people) and almost all of continental Europe. Rugby is an elite minority sport in UK&Irl, NSW&QLD, RSA, France, Italy, Argentina and a mass popular sport in NZ. They don't even come close in terms of popularity.

>It is like the 165th sport in Argentina.
You're literally making shit up now. I looked it up because you were clearly shitting yourself, and there's two whole divisions of pro teams playing cricket. It's the third biggest sport in Argentina after football and Rugby.
cricketargentina.com/tabla-historica-de-campeones-1-division/

Why are you such a bitter angry cunt?

Oh, I see you're retarded and angry. Sorry for your mother.

How the FUCK haven't the Chinks been memed into playing cricket yet? Pakistan and India are proof that any nation can succeed at it no matter how athletically inept your natives are. Surely there is money to be made there.

not him but field hockey is a lot bigger, they've been world champions a couple of times as well

Lay off the booze.

>t's the third biggest sport in Argentina after football and Rugby

By which metric? Youre just inventing shit up to save face. Basketball and Volleyball are much much bigger by any metric (including revenue).

This is unironically why cricket is a good sport. It gives the Asians something to be proud of that they can't really get from any other sport.

>forgetting the Caribbean was in the Americas
>not knowing rugby was popular in Japan

some desperation posting going on here

>Youre just inventing shit up to save face.
You literally just did that. And you're still doing it.

You are just angry that cricket is not relevant to white nations and your world title means nothing to the rest of the world.

Cope more.

Caribbeans barely make up 1 or 2 percent of the total population of the Americas you retarded bong.

By which metric is cricket the third sport in Argentina? Are you afraid of answering?

people watching and enjoying the sport doesn't make it relevant? okay.
Rugby is played internationally, no one gives a fuck about domestic rugby. even in NZ it gets dogshit crowds.
You don't know what you're talking about but keep sperging at the Brits

the absolute state of this dutch faggot having a mental breakdown lads
grim stuff

Football, basketball, field hockey, tennis, golf, cycling, polo, skiing and volleyball.
These are all sports that ate A LOT bigger than >>>>cricket in Argentina.

>sport is irrelevant to the majority of people in the country
>sport is relevant to the country

Embarassing preformance tbqh.

Theres other poster besides me.

And cricket is still irrelevant.

Chinks are already pretty good athletes in agility/dexterity based sports like gymnastic, bouldering, ping pong, ice-skating, etc...

They don't have much money in commercial league and the sport is tightly controlled by the party.

Does tennis not count??

>cricket is still irrelevant

How the fuck is this Dutch faggot still claiming this?

It's literally the second or at least third most popular sport in the world.

What sport other than football does he think is relevant if he applies this standard?

Sumo wrestling is considered Japan's national sport. Basketball was introduced to the country by visiting Americans in the 19th century. The Nippon Professional Baseball league is Japan's largest professional sports competition in terms of television ratings and spectators. Martial arts such as judo, karate and modern kendō are also widely practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. Association football has gained wide popularity since the founding of the Japan Professional Football League in 1992. Other popular sports include figure skating, rugby union, golf and racing, especially auto racing.

Do you know how to count? Ill give you a hint, its 6 (probably lower).

Thats only because a lot of Indians play it.
Since shitting in the streets is popular there too, that MUST mean its a popular thing in the world right?

"England" is not a country
The name of the country is "United Kingdom"

t. SEETHING cricket fanboi.

Yes it's popular in the Indian subcontinent, which has a population of 1.7 billion. And it is the number 1, 2 or 3 sports in a lot of former British colonies. That makes it relevant.

What sports, other than football, do you think are relevant.

But its still not a worldwide popular sport. Apart from Anglos and Indians nobody gives a single fuck about cricket. Bringing up obscure Argentinian leagues like that Brit to make a point is absolutely retarded because even we have cricket leagues yet I can assure you that a huge majority of the people here don't even know how its played.

In my opinion, track and field, which all of you conveniently ignore, perhaps basketball or maybe rugby.

Basketball, tennis, motorsports, cycling, field hockey, golf and volleyball just to name a few.
And those are sports that aren't just popular in India.

>Apart from Anglos and Indians
that's like half the world's population lad

Yes but it doesn't mean its popular WORLDWIDE.

football is the only sport that is popular worldwide
then there's cricket and rugby and basketball and then a load of irrelevant shite after that

All of those except cycling are popular in India. Basketball and Volleyball in terms of kids playing the sport and tennis and f1 in terms of viewership. Golf is something the rich play to pass time. They aren't unheard of just that cricket is hugely popular among the masses.

Again, cricket is nowhere near a worldwide sport.
Sports like basketball and tennis are. Stop with this retarded cope.

By your metric no other sport except football is global.

You completely misread my point. I didn't say those sports aren't popular in India, I said they aren't just popular in India.

It is impossible that you think cricket has a worldwide scope as basketball or track and field or even rugby.

Youre just coping.

Rugby is far less relevant than cricket lol.

I pointed out that basketball is #2 ahead of cricket or #3 behind cricket.

Track and field is also popular, probably #4 although it's basically a consortium of different sports so I'm not sure if it really counts.

tennis isn't even a sport lmao

>mfw POOtherlands gets worked into a shoot over cricket of all things
Who pissed in Van van der Van's cereal?

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Plenty.
Like I mentioned a lot of times before, tennis, basketball, cycling, field hockey, even golf are all worldwide sports.

I am not him, but what you say is partially true. Other lesser global sports are basketball, tennis, motor sports, track and field etc etc.
Definately not cricket.

sick cope

i can't get my head around thinking rugby is a more relevant sport than cricket. it isn't

it might be played at an amateur level with a niche following in more countries (although this probably isn't true) but in terms of every metric you could actually think of (registered players, fans, money) cricket is a bigger sport

Do you even read the thread? Cricket has a "massive" following only because Indians like it and they make up a huge part of the world population. But it isn't a WORLDWIDE sport because nobody apart from them and anglos care about it.

but then who cares about rugby apart from anglos?

In terms of sheer fan numbers? Maybe, I am not even sure.

In terms of global relevance? No way.

Basketball is #2, Tennis/TnF #3/4, Rubgy/Motors/Cycling/Baseball etc

Cricket is mass tier.

Friendly reminder Wales also won the Cricket World Cup.

French

how often do you see diamond league threads get more than a handful of replies? or cycling outside of tdf?
athletics and cycling are not "relevant", they're just there

These are my posts, not once have I mentioned rugby. Thats the other dutch poster.
Think of it like this; if you erase a country like Switzerland or Spain, tennis is still a worldwide popular sport. If you erase the USA, basketball is still popular everywhere around the world. But if you erase India, its literally just a couple anglos, nobody else.

In Latinamerica: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brasil to a lesser degree (the only relevant countries). Maybe Mexico? Im not sure, I know in the US its not big.

In europe: UK, France, Italy, Germany to a lesser degree (again, the most relevant countries). Here in the Neverlands it is a niche thing.

Australia, South Africa, NZ, etc etc

You're giving every country the same value?

>basketball is still popular everywhere around the world.
Howling at this delusion

>If you erase the USA, basketball is still popular everywhere around the world
no lol

>field hockey

Popularity is more spread out than cricket, but it's not the #1 male sport in any country

>cycling, tennis, golf

These are all elite pastime sports. There's no country where these are anywhere close to being the # 1 or # 2 sports for young teenage and 20 something males.

> basketball

Everyone has now said that this is the number 2 or 3 sport

lmao ok basketball is popular everywhere? lmao fuck off van der van

Yes, cycling is not relevant in Yea Forums but it is a widely practiced sport around the world with a multimillion dollar industry.

You cannot just discard TnF to your convenience. The Olympics are a big deal globally and people practice and enjoy watching it (even though the Olympics has declined somewhat in viewrship it seems).

Yes, thats what WORLDWIDE means.

But it is? I've been in plenty of countries all over the world and I've always seen basketball courts wherever I was. Honestly claiming basketball isn't a worldwide popular sport is complete delusion.

I'm giving up on this guy. He's unbelievably thick and just refuses to admit that cricket is the number 2 or 3 sport worldwide. His only argument is that poo in loos like it, which makes it bad somehow.

>it is a widely practiced sport
it's a widely practiced mode of transport mate, not a sport
>with a multimillion dollar industry.
that is dwarfed by the cricket industry

did you really just use how many replies a Yea Forums thread gets as a litmus test for how popular a sport is?

lol go outside

Players, watched and cared about by millions from all corners of the world.

>But muh former yugoslav repbulic of northern wallonia doesn't play so its not global lmao

>worldwide
There is that word again lmao

You can't compare erasing India to erasing Spain or Switzerland because India has over a billion people and they have 40 and 8 million people respectively

Would still be south africa, zimbabwe, kenya, sri lanka, pakistan, afganistan, nepal, bangladesh, australia, new zealand, england, caribbean, and guyana where cricket is either the most or second most popular sport.
Basketball doesnt reach this level of popularity in any country besides America. In Europe its completely irrelevant compared to soccer.

Next step in your narrative will be to call all the aforementioned countries irrelevant and/or shitholes

Now you are arguing cycling is not a sport? Come on Nigel.

>that is dwarfed by the cricket industry
That might be true, I have already said that cricket is massive, cycling is not as massive but much much wider.

>Yes, thats what WORLDWIDE means.

I'm afraid Tonga, Fija and Somoa only play rugby so i guess football isn't a global sport

Not everywhere, but it is the #2 sport behind football in a lot of big continental european countries.

worldwide includes india you retard. The subcontinent holds over 20% of the world's population.

>Now you are arguing cycling is not a sport?
no, i'm arguing that the sport of cycling is not widely practiced

He didnt say its bad because Indians play it. He said its not relevant because it does not have a worldwide reach, which is absolutely true.

Godamn it man, stop drinking for a second and concentrate.

12 countries treating cricket like a religion means more than a sport being minnow in a few extra countries kek

You're serious? India is a sub-continent with 1.5b people, and you think that it carries the same value as Spain or Switzerland or Lesotho?
Wiping out India for cricket would be akin to wiping out S.America for soccer.

You anglos are so deluded you literally ignore simple facts.
Everybody in the world knows about sports like tennis and basketball, probably even played it a couple of times. Literally wherever you are.
THATS NOT THE SAME FOR CRICKET. Most people outside of India and Anglo countries don't even know the rules to it, let alone play it.

Worldwide means EVERYWHERE in the world retarded paddy.

>sport is relevant because someone in another countries threw hoops once
This delusion lads, yikes. We're obviously talking about professionally and not recreationally

Again, cricket is more massive than cycling yes. Cricket is still not of worldwide relevance, and cycling is not the best example either.

So? Wiping out S.America still wouldnt change the fact that football is big in the rest of the world.
Your sport is regional, not worldwide.

>it does not have a worldwide reach, which is absolutely true.

It's the most popular sport among >20% of the global population, which is more than can be said for any sport other than football. It's worldwide because the world includes the Indian subcontinent which has 1.7 billion people.

No one who shoots hoops outside of America could tell you the rules of basketball dumbcunt
They play it recreationally and dont give a fuck about professional basketball

>moving the goalpost
Epic.

Bravo to the Yank OP for breaking this Dutchie's mind

No, you are trying to act as if a billion pajeets make a sport worldwide relevant, it does not.

But if thats how you wanna cope, go ahead, the rest of the world will be playing tennis or basketball outside if you wanna join.

>B-but Lithuania plays basketball as well

Howling lads

But thats the same with a lot of sports. Most people don't even know how the offside rule works in football, or when an indirect free kick is given. Yet that doesn't mean people don't give a fuck about it.

Its played in at least one country on every continent. That seems pretty worldwide to me lad.

Nobody is arguing that cricket is the biggest sport globally though. You seem to be trying to argue that only global sports can be considered, and then making up your own rules for what constitutes a global sport.

>Cricket played by countries on five continents
>"Hurrt isn't global because India big"
This retarded ABE swampnigger

Kek ignoring No sport besides soccer or rugby has close to the reach that cricket does.

There's not a single sport that is played everywhere in the world though. Not even soccer.

It seems that both of you are poor since you dont travel much. Professional basketball is big in countries like Argentina, Spain, Brazil, China and Japan.

Best thread on spuh for a while
We should win worlds cups more often

It means theyre fucking casuals. Ask anyone from a cricket nation how lbw works and they could explain the gist of it

Isnt it the same with Rugby, Tennis and TnF, for example?

Football is the only sport that beats cricket in terms of worldwide reach apart from maybe basketball. Field hockey, competitive cycling, golf and tennis are only played in rich countries.

Cricket is the most popular sport for >20% of the worldwide population. In the countries where field hockey, tennis, competitive cycling and golf are played, they are minority sports played by elites and are second fiddle to football and or basketball by a huge distance.

There's no comparison you fucking retard.

The dutch pleb would make be making a better argument if he wasn't insisting on Basketball being globally relevant

Conclusion of the thread, cricket is a regional sport.

A sport can only be properly recognised worldwide If there sports is played at an international level.

Therefore the following sports are not relevant

>American football
>Aussie rules
>Gaelic football
>Hurling

And don't tell me it is becasue there are some less than pub league level league of hurling i London or some local NFL league in Dublin. Ireland don't play the USA at hurling and England don't play Brazil at NFL.

No international competition - IRRELEVANT

>I like gaa but the way

rugger falls short by a considerable distance as well. Basketball probably does though

You are just trying to make cricket relevant because of pajeets. Sadly, the fact that a vast majority of the population confuse cricket with crocket should tell you something about your sport.

>Wiping out S.America still wouldnt change the fact that football is big in the rest of the world
I'm not even arguing this. Soccer would still be the biggest sport in the world even if Europe was not considered.
I can argue that soccer is regional also because it literally isn't popular in every country. Soccer is an irrelevant niche activity in several countries infact.

i went to japan september last year and never saw a basketball court or any advertisements for it. Was nothing but baseball, soccer and rugby (largely advertisements for the world cup)

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Real conclusion of the thread: Basketball isn't the 2nd biggest sport in the world by any metric

Pretty big fucking region m8
An almost global region you might say

Yes, I live in a neighborhood in Leiden with no hockey fields close to it, guess what, field hockey is big here.

It's a close third to cricket. Don't underestimate its reach.

You are strawmanning again. Fuck, I hope you're just trolling hard otherwise I worry for your family.

Kek nice goalpost shifting buddy. You think fucking tokyo wouldnt have a single advert somehwere for professional basketball. Every add had a baseball player advertising products.
You're deluded with ABE rage mate

Globally:
#1 football
#2 motorsports (if we can count them as a unit)
#3 basketball/tennis

Everything else is a delusion

Conclusion of the thread:

Anglos cant deal with the irrelevance of their sport for the rest of the world.

Basketball is second or third, and track and field is ignored by everyone because fat fucks cant run.

This but unironically

Didn't Holland play in the cricket world Cup the other year? Kek

>motorsports

WEW.

You made a stupid argument.

"I saw no basketball courts, therefore, it is not big"

Do you not see how stupid you are sounding?

There adverts for baskball, what are you blabbering about?

I didn't say anything about basketball courts.

Croatia is not a globe
More of a dog's head shape

>you will never be english and cause this this much arsehurt amount minnow nations with your mere presence
at least im anglo and can ride of dad's coattails haha

totalsportek.com/most-popular-sports/

1. Football
2. Basketball
3. Cricket
4. Tennis
5. Athletics
6. Rugby
7. F1
8. Boxing
9. Ice Hockey
10. Volleyball
11. Golf
.....
.....
.....
15. FIELD HOCKEY lmao

I literally spent 2 weeks in Japan, (tokyo and kyoto) and never saw basketball anywhere, not an advertisement, not a court, not even products in stores.
your exact words:
>It seems that both of you are poor since you dont travel much. Professional basketball is big in countries like ... Japan.
I went there last year and this is simply not true. You've just exposed that you're full of shit.

M8 You made a stupid argument, Basketball is NOT a big sport in japan

Don't let /hoc/ see this

>There adverts for baskball

English beginning to fail, seethe levels reaching maximum

t. Coping

kek you are absolute furious that you were just exposed by someone who's actually been overseas. the state of you lad

medium.com/@shotarohondamoore/a-look-into-japanese-sports-culture-cbe8cb0f3617

Cope more.

Not an argument. How do you say exposed in dutch?

The word is "cricket".

eggshposhd

Lel

Are you even dutch? Are you some faggot over there on vacation with your parents or some shit?

japantimes.co.jp/sports/2018/11/23/basketball/b-league/b-league-revenue-increased-30-percent-second-season/#.XS8QrOgzZPY

literally says nothing about basketball. seems like youre coping here
genuinely perplexed why you'd claim someone else isnt travelled and knows nothing about a country when you yourself dont even know. is this a dutch thing?

>basketball mentioned once in passing
>had to ctrl F to even find it
kek

KEK

K E K

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue

Fourth in Japan (B1) by revenue after two football leagues and baseball.

Keep coping.

>OPERATING revenue of only 140 mil
>not even broadcast on tv
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
the state of you lad

>He is, as we speak, deperately sifting through websites in an attempt to prove basketball is relevent in Japan

ohohoho

hmm, not sure he is dutch. If I was dutch I'd be mad at him for bringing the good name of toothpaste nation into disrepute the way he has itt

the amount of seethe you lads cause among these minnow "countries" is genuinely hilarious

Third sport in revenue total in Japan, makes you wonder.

Butt mad arent ya?

>sport
You mean league. Imagine sumo brings in more yen

I hate soccer, but it's the only global team sport. Every other sport, even the big international ones, are typically followed and seriously played in about 6-12 countries of varying sizes at which point the talent pool dramatically tapers off (i.e. the Netherlands are ranked 13th in ODI cricket and it has beyond niche status sport in that country). The 100th ranked soccer team in the world is just as obsessed with the sport as the number 1 ranked in most cases.

pajeets don’t care about field hockey these days. i doubt south americans do either, they never mention it in threads like this. hockey is quite popular amongst girls here though.

You are right, sorry, league sport. And yes, sumo is by far the biggest.

you're comparing a league to a sport mate. sumo and rugby aren't played in leagues there.

Only argies I think still care about hockey

Baseball is more global. Cricket is just boosted by all the South Asians.

Basketball is the globe’s second game and you literally don’t play it

Even hockey is more popular in countries with actual money and power than Rugby or Cricket

So when you get exposed revenues dont count? As a sport, it has the third biggest revenue (imagine NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB etc). If you prefer not to deal with that fact thats not my problem.

Seething

>Even hockey is more popular in countries with actual money and power than Rugby or Cricket

Now this is delusion

this is a good point. while cricket match be popular in South Asia and a few former Anglo colonies, it might as well not exist anywhere else.

you'd have to compare the revenue of the japanese rugby union as a whole since they play almost entirely internationally. which is hard because they dont make that public.
japan regularly fills 70k+ seat stadiums for rugby games and their world cup games literally all got over 20 mil tv audience each, so its pretty safe to say it probably shits all over basketball

outside of anglo countries and south asia it still has caribbean, guyana, south africa, zimbabwe, kenya, and afghanistan.

Hockey is big in Argentina and uruguay and upper class Chile. Id say it fights third place with basketball after football and rugby.

I can't believe we're back at "if you just ignore the Indian subcontinent, cricket isn't that popular"

I dont deny rugby is growing in Japan or that people like it. I am just saying that denying basketballs relevance is cricket-fan tier delusion.

Theres also a reason Slam Dunk became a thing.

>Cricket is only popular where it's popular but in other places where it isn't popular, it isn't popular

Cutting analysis here

>if you just ignore multiple countries with massive populations it’s not popular

>cites basketball anime
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
you can NOT be serious LMAO

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Lad, argue basketball popularity and you might make the thread
Don't die on hockey hill

Dutchtard. Imagine India is 30 countries instead of 1.
Problen solved

It would be tantamount to saying that basketball is not a thing in Argentina, even though it is not second, perhaps the third or fourth sport, it is still big, they even won in Athens 2004. Everyone knows Ginobili.

all Anglo colonies except Afghanistan and these """""countries"""""" have an average population size of 2 million... and cricket is dead as a sport can be everywhere else

simple as

Read the thread retard. Nobody is arguing popularity.

the absolute state of american education
south africa has a population of almost 60 million, kenya is 50 million, zimbabwe is 17 million, afghanistan is 35 million, and the caribbean nations combined would be closer to 7 million.
them being british colonies doesn't matter, it's a literal non argument
>if you ignore all the countries that play cricket, cricket is not popular
what the fuck kind of """""logic"""""" is that?

How is it that for one poster showing how cricket is an irrelevant hobby three triggered cricket fags appear?

>Japanese Wogball Revenue - 1157 million yuros
>Japanese Baseball Revenue -1253 mill yuro
>Japanese basketball Revenue - 125 mill yuro

Yeah, totally a big sport in japan m8

Yep, third biggest. Stay triggered.

t. guy pretending to be two different dutch flags

Litmus test(s) for international "relevancy."

Do the participating countries continue to support the sport away from an International competition (citing television ratings as be all, end all can be misleading because people tune into sports they usually don't care about if their country is competing, like swimming during the Olympics) to the point where a professional league can thrive.

However, professional league interest isn't a be all, end all as well, since some countries who love the sport in question simply produce talent for one of the big leagues in the world, so at this point, I think we can gauge how seriously the sport is played in a country by looking at how many professional players it has in a thriving league (i.e. Cuba doesn't have a big professional baseball league, but players from there can be found around the biggest leagues in the world, or the West Indies in cricket, who I don't think have a strong T20 league).

I think those are good gauges, since global tv ratings and participation rates can be misleading.

Japan's Rugby World Cup win over Samoa was watched by 25 million people, which represents nearly 20% of the nation's population.
The landmark viewing figure, revealed by the sport's governing body, eclipsed the previous record of 20.7m viewers for the 2007 World Cup semifinal between France and England on French broadcaster TF1.
edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/sport/rugby-world-cup-japan-fans-set-tv-record-news/index.html
find any basketball game that got even half of these tv ratings in japan and i will concede.

>LE U R GRIDDERED XDXD

Who knows m8? Now tell me more about massive argentine niche sports

>Do the participating countries continue to support the sport away from an International competition
nope.
just found out cricket is irrelevant in australia lads. i dont know how the fuck they are our most paid athlete or how cricket is woven into every single cultural aspect of our lives, but apparently it's irrelevant here because no one watches shield cricket.

>or the West Indies in cricket, who I don't think have a strong T20 league
the caribbean premiere league is massive dumbcunt

There are allot of cricket fans on spee. This is due to it being the second largest sport in the world.

this is the USA cricket team. literally every single one is an expat from south asia/caribbean lmao. meanwhile every single country on earth fields natives for their basketball team.

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>But muh revenue

Apparently the NFL is the biggest sport in the world

>backyard cricket was ever a meme
Is anything real in Australia?

>The litmus test for international relevancy should be based on national competition instead of international competition

This is what a lack of cricket can do to a nations mind

this is the dumbest post i've ever read on Yea Forums and i've been on this board for 9 years. incredible.

just found out cricket is relevant in japan because their team is all japanese natives, lads.
shall be shilling crickets relevancy in japan from here on out.

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>every single country on earth fields natives for their basketball team.
Yikes

Yeah, "dumbcunt" the Big Bash League doesn't exist and it isn't one of the highest rated and most attended sports in Australia.

Fine. I don't give a shit if the West Indies has a thriving professional league. You missed the fuckin' point (as dumbshit Aussies usually do). Cite Nepal then or Zimbabwe.

the big bash league has lost money every single year its existed
heraldsun.com.au/sport/cricket/cricket-australia-reveals-the-big-bash-has-lost-33-million-over-its-first-five-years/news-story/04e15a632db26d7e8a39deee31020384

cricket and rugby are played internationally, simple as that. looking at revenue of fucking leagues to compare popularity is dumb.

Simmering

>be non-anglo
>have a literal mental breakdown at the sight of a big strong muscular anglo
howling lads, will never get old.

Imagine toothpaste and the US thinking they could team up to take on mighty commonwealth shitposting.

Embarrasing display 2bh

americans on the ropes

got to say, im quite a fan of the "if you exclude countries where the sport is popular, its not popular" meme lads

cricket is a major sport in at least one nation of every inhabited continent in the world
reminder no sport not even soccer can make that claim

based

Dammit, Joao!

based antipodes cucking wogball out of international relevancy

Dutchie getting BTFO right here lads.

Tipping its the same one

Revenue loss hasn't nothing to do with popularity and more do to with incompetence or league growing pains (I'm not looking at revenue, but attendance and tv ratings). The BBL is a top ten in the world attended league on a per match basis. It has outdrawn the Australian Open head to head on television and is a ratings hit. How is it not a "thriving" league? Again, revenue loss doesn't mean much. Half of all NBA teams lose revenue, even when there local ratings and attendance is strong.

This is just classic Aussie shitposting, since you fucks kneejerk every time a "seppo" has an opinion about your beloved cricket or anything else Aussie. If you actually took time to read and think instead of just start slamming the keys when you saw the flag, the criteria I laid out basically confirms cricket doesn't need to rely on patriotism to be internationally "relevant," unlike sports like gymnastics or swimming.

>when there
*their

shan't be reading that

You read it and realized how wrong you were.

America?

guyana and the caribbean

The seppo is right damo

Falkland Islands

>cricket is a major sport in at least one nation of every inhabited continent in the world
No. No relevance in North American outside of the Caribbean, which has less population combined than New York city, meaning it's a niche sport on the continent.

Oceania/Australasia

Football is popular in the Caribbean now.

Wait for it.

hmm don't remember overall population being the criteria mate explicitly said "major sport in at least one nation of every inhabited continent"

and so is cricket
you can have more than one major sport mate

He's trying to make some retarded argument that since cricket is a major sport in a region inhabited by 7 million people within a continent of a half of billion, it's a "major sport" in North America. Be like saying Pesapallo is a major European sport since it's huge in Finland.

Aussies really are this retarded. It's not just shitposting.

seething sceptics and apoplectic poorupeeans on the ropes lads

Based slab of tl;dr yank SEETH.

really interesting to see the different types of mental gymnastics that ABEs employ lads

>cricket is a major sport in at least one nation of every inhabited continent in the world
>reminder no sport not even soccer can make that claim

If you're claiming that football can't make that claim because of Guyana and the Caribbean , you're wrong because football is popular there now too.

No he's not. What he said is that cricket is a major sport within a country on every continent.
On the continent of Namerica, cricket is a major sport in several Caribbean islands.
On the continent of Samerica, Guyana.

clearly meant oceania, being Australia, PNG and New Zealand none of whom give a fuck about wogball

Football is no where close to a major sport in Australia, which is a continent.

>hmm don't remember overall population being the criteria mate explicitly said "major sport in at least one nation of every inhabited continent"
I never said that. I said diversity/number of talent around the world's major leagues of that sport is a good gauge of the sport's relevance within that country, since some countries are too poor to sustain a professional league of their own and just farm talent to the big leagues.

Australia
>cricket
>aussie rules
>rugby league
>rugby union

PNG
>rugby league
>aussie rules
>cricket

New Zealand
>rugby union
>cricket
>rugby league

simply no room for wogball in our club

The Bruce claims this:
Soccer is not the most popular sport in any Oceanic country.

I'm saying what I said you obese braindead mong lmao switch on mate

I was responding to an Aussie who said football can't make that claim because of Guyana and The Caribbean, and in that post I said it can't make that claim in
Oceania/Australasia.

Here's the post I was responding to
Here's what I wrote

Pétanque too
>France
>Saint Pierre-tet-Miquelon
>Guadeloupe
>French Guyana
>Réunion island
>Mayotte island
>French Polynesia
>New Caledonia

thought you were asking who played it in america not whether I meant america

based
played here too actually
that makes two (2) internationally relevant sports in the world

based Oceania btfoing the global ambitions of soccerfags

He's probably shitposting, because the logic of that argument is bad if he thinks this puts cricket on global equivalency with soccer. If a sport was popular in only Curacao, Chile, Papa New Guinea, Chad, Luxembourg, and Bhutan, we can say, "how global! It's a sport that is popular in countries in every region/continent!" but it's nowhere near as globally popular as a sport that is popular in 30 different European countries or something.

sceptics seething

Just give it up. Cricket isn't as global as soccer, and I hate soccer. But you're straining. Guyana. Lol.

How can a bait this bad survive almost a whole day, get your shit together Yea Forums

america and not understanding someones post is such a quintessential combination lads

hehe

Nice and also hypothetical cherry picking. The fact is that cricket is popular in at least one country on every continent, and soccer is not.

>drop an irrefutable two line logicbomb
>receive multiple furious walls of text

In all the years Yea Forums has existed, NEVER have we seen a race as FURIOUS as the american.

Every singe post they make is just oozing with ABSOLUTE FURY.

I can literally picture them right now sitting at their PCs, drinking their monster energy drinks while smashing their fists on the keyboard in abject fury

KEK

Guyana. Lol.

howling lads

tipping he's half way through another furious 2000 word essay lmao

>Nice and also hypothetical cherry picking.
It's not a hypothetical. That's exactly how soccer and cricket's followings work around the world, with soccer being popular in a shitload of countries vs. a few countries (and Guyana lol) scattered around.

>If a sport was popular in only Curacao, Chile, Papa New Guinea, Chad, Luxembourg, and Bhutan, we can say, "how global! It's a sport that is popular in countries in every region/continent!"
>not hypothetical
Please just stop.

>10 minutes build up for for that pathetic reply

WAHEY!

do europeans know just how much rugby and cricket countries actually care about the sport? its on the same level as soccer in europe or south america. basketball is minnow in all the basketball countries outside of america

At the end of the day the three most popular/relevant sporting world cups are the three sports mentioned in the OP

FIBA (basketball) world cup definitely up there ahead of rugby union

Go ahead and make the claim cricket is as popular, relevant, whatever as soccer based on that shit logic. I'll wait.

>basketball is minnow in all the basketball countries outside of america
>Let me tell you about countries I've never been too.

Basketball is big in a lot of the former Soviet Bloc countries. And what's your criteria for a sport not being a "minnow" sport in any given country?

Nobody was making that claim though. We should be friends and stop arguing about nothing.

This is bait? I'd rate the rugby league world cup ahead of the basketball world cup.

so true

Seem that football and cricket are the only globally relevant sports

>We should be friends and stop arguing about nothing.
Sure. Cheers.

:^)

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if the countries professional league or nation team doesnt draw at least 20% tv audience and average 30k crowd attendance over a season, it's minnow and pathetic.
no one would dream of calling soccer popular in australia for example.

>doesnt draw at least 20% tv audience and average 30k crowd attendance over a season
20 percent tv audience for a final? Because regular season NFL games and AFL games doesn't draw that in our countries.

>30k crowd attendance over a season,
To clarify, per match or over the course of season? I'm assuming per match since 30K over a season would be low. This isn't a good indicator since many stadiums/arenas seat fewer than that. We know Ice Hockey is THE sport in Canada above all else, but teams won't draw 30K per game since there isn't arenas that big aside from when they occasionally play in stadiums.

Some excellent points here

Lolno, there's more poeple that play basketball

regular season AFL games on FTA television get over 1 mil which is usually around 27-30% draw. Same with NRL. Cricket in the summer as well. Those are the three relevant sports in this country. The only other one that gets this is rugby union but that's only for bledisloe games.
And yes, per match, obviously. AFL averages 38k attendance over a season.

Hockey in Canada I'm sure gets good tv ratings.

It's jsut downright disingenuous to say basketball or handball is popular in europe when in most cases they their leagues barely will draw 5% tv audience or even fill a stadium/arena.

That's true but I think the rugby union and cricket world cups are both bigger than the basketball world cup.
Basketball though is possibly the second biggest sport in the world, just not as big when it comes to the world cup.

Everyone talking about cricket being a mayor sport in "the caribbean" where exactly tho? The island spics are all about baseball, haitians are into football i think, Jamaica, trivago and tripadvisor are Also places where the most popular sport is football i believe, in wich of the other nooneverremebertheirnames islands is cricket a thing?

Tennis and boxing are pretty global

>the cricket meme

nobody gives a fuck about cricket

All the cricket islands are the West Indies, I think it's every island that's English speaking but I'm not sure about that.
Here's info:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team?wprov=sfla1

French cricket is a popular game for school children and drunk people at outdoor parties.

english colonies
barbados, trinidad, st lucia, jamaica, bermuda, st kitts and nevis etc pic related rhianna at a cricket game

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>Jamaica, trivago and tripadvisor are Also places where the most popular sport is football i believe
what you believe is not what is fact.

that french cricket thing isnt french i had to google it

>i had to google it
mdr

*checks the combined population of all the countries that do, in fact, give a fuck about cricket*
hmmm

Well sportswise I only hear about non-spic island negritos during their murderball matches at concacaf or when theres a very fast one, now i know something new

>1 mil which is usually around 27-30% draw.
Gotcha. Going by share. Thought you were going by percent of the population.

Euroleague draws over 8K per match, which is solid for an indoor sport. NBA is about twice that, but arenas are smaller on average in Europe. Do you have ratings data for the Euroleague? Be interested to see that.

Yeah fair, there's not really one single basketball world cup like there is for other sports

While you're here, Frenchman. How does basketball do on television over there during Euroleague or EuroBasket?

>crowd attendance, tv viewers, sponsorship dollars, registered players, media coverage

all of which are dictated by the amount of people watching the sport, which is directly related to the population of the countries where the sport is popular

ping pong is probably more popular overall and it's still an irrelavant game

even if each and every chink was obsessed with it that wouldn't be close to true

niche sport
nba has probably more follower in frnace imo

Its ratings poison mate

Some of which. Media coverage wouldn't be predicated on total population, for example if it's being written about in every paper it's being written about in every paper whether there are only 2 or 200.

>nobody gives a fuck about cricket
We want it so bad to be this globe spanning sport so we can feel like we're a great global sporting nation. There's only one world sport. Cricket would be on the level of waterpolo worldwide if not for >muh India.

Call me a wog, mates. No. Just dislike the cricket. That atrocious World Cup Final should've enlightened your thick heads about how awful the sport is, misapplying rules and deciding a match on which chubby cunt hit the ball farther.

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fuck up josh

found this euroleague.net/news/i/71714/final-four-attracts-record-tv-audiences
2.1 mil for spain and 1 mil for greece in the finals which each had a team in. not bad, but pretty shit given their population.

funny thing is, i found this
marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2018/12/29/5c279603268e3ea7628b45a9.html
this is all i can find for la liga, but apparently its only on pay tv and still gets shit ratings, not even a million average per game. i guess europoor countries just dont like sports the same way america / australia does. these are pathetic ratings. fucking AFL gets better average than that and we only have 20 mil people and half the country doesnt even watch AFL.

so it seems like basketball actually isnt that far behind their biggest soccer league, which is insane to me but i guess sports just arent that big in these countries in general?
i just take america/australia for granted and assume other countries also watch sport the same way we do kek

no one's questioning soccer's global popularity so you can put this shitck away lad.

You know it to be true. Boundary tie breaks. Be like in footy if after a tie, they gave the World Cup to the side that scored a goal from the furthest out.

>Cricket would be on the level of waterpolo worldwide if not for >muh India
Even if this is true - soccer, rugby, cricket, and many other sports would not even exist if not for England.

We talked about this in a liga mx thread early this week, basketball is a cheap sport so participation numbers kinda overinflate its relevance, as an expectator sport is Just not that big other than some niche following of the NBA worldwide, specifically we talked about the case of if basketball was bigger than american football in México and althoug yeah theres more people playing basketball than registered handegg players barely anyone watches the NBA while theres like 30 million fans for the NFL and our domestic handegg college and pro leagues are way more important than the basketball league in attendance, broadcasting, history and overall media coverage

No, but you're trying to sell cricket as "global." It isn't, mate. The inferiority complex about the sport vs footy is "cringe." It's popular in about a dozen countries, a couple with massive populations that boost it. No significant portion of the world's population outside of the subcontinent and Oceania care about it. Cricket is very much a two region sport.

no josh, the argument is that no other sport comes close to the global relevancy of cricket or rugby (barring soccer), not that cricket or rugby is close to being on soccer's level.

josh's worst gimmick

>i just take america/australia for granted and assume other countries also watch sport the same way we do kek

Yeah, I don't think the average European country could sustain a Big 4 or 5 team sports. It's usually soccer and everything else

>cricket is a global sport
so global the world cup only had 10 teams in it.

yeah but what's crazy to me is even soccer doesn't get particularly good ratings. i thought their leagues were massive
we have 3 leagues here that run simultaneously that EACH get the same tv ratings as their one league with a population 3 times ours. wtf

Maybe I should pick a team for liga mx and check in with you lads now and then.

They all watch epl

because when a game talks a whole day you can't feasibly fit in more

Jannies caught up with our slag posting and really fucking up the general but yeah you should check it out

>However, those numbers are still behind the Premier League, where Sky had an average of 819,000 viewers over the past season.
i'm guessing they're talking about Spain (since the article was about spanish tv ratings), but that's really shit too. AFL has 23 round regular season and 18 teams and it averages higher than this, and only 3 states in the country watch it.

If you pretend that they're traps the jannies will think they're traps and leave them up

Are the afl games on fta?

some but if you want to watch them live in WA you have to pay

Don't like six people and a koala live in WA?

>this thread is still going on
It's okay guys, we all love different sports. It doesn't have to be global.

There is no koala in WA

2.5 million

what? every thursday / friday night game is on FTA here and same with all the big saturday / sunday games.

I’d say cycling. Extremely popular in Europe, South America, even the US. The tour is a global event.

back in the 00s that was the case

I live in Victoria now

>I live in Victoria now
im so sorry mate

Dont know how the afl is, but european soccer leagues (and soccer leagues in general) tend to be dominated by one or 2 teams that generate all the buzz, i guess the average rating is brought down because of that Also theres more game so not all games are as relatively relevant as they would be in the afl, a Madrid vs Barcelona match Will draw viewership in the millions, but some midseason game between málaga and Bilbao? No one gives a shit

>rugby
Baseball.

The big rugby countries are: England, Wales, France, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Scotland, Argentina, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Australia? (seems to differ depending. Some say >Yawnion, Relevant in Australia, we just happen to be good). Growing in Georgia. 13 different countries, combined pop about 280 million. (we're ranked 15th in Union and are a terrible, terrible team and the sport has ultra niche relevance here, so Rugby's talent pool crashes quite quickly).

Baseball:

US, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Cuba, Dominican, Venezuela, Curacao, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico. 14 different countries, combined pop about 650 million.

The World Baseball Classic has become a strong international tournament, and baseball playing countries tune in en masse. In Japan, matches will draw 50 shares, along with the other countries (a match drew an 80 share in Puerto Rico). Oddly, we don't watch as intently as them, probably because it's club over country for baseball here.

Baseball has the global relevancy of rugby, but I'd agree that the World Baseball Classic trophy (which is baseball's World Cup) doesn't yet have the prestige.

>Rugby World Cup
>Baseball Classic
Which of these is bigger?

Rugby is the third biggest sport in Japan and their national team draws similar tv rating that their soccer team does at the soccer world cup.

I wouldn't argue the World Baseball Classic is bigger than the Rugby World Cup, but he was just talking about global relevance and not relevance of any particular tournament. Baseball was first a professional sport and has had trouble over its history organizing a decent international tournament since it would conflict with the professional season. Even currently, many professionals elect not to play.

Genuine question, what kind of draw does domestic leagues get in these countries
>Taiwan, South Korea, Cuba, Dominican, Venezuela, Curacao, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico
I know Japanese league is massive there and MLB is second biggest sport in America. I've only ever heard about soccer from South Korea and I don't know if those others even have domestic leagues.

>>south america
>baseball
I wish.

So, cricket is a regional sport and the third largest sport would be what then? Rugby? Athletics? Motor sports?

cricket is popular almost everywhere rugby is popular and then some

Baseball is the most attended spectator in South Korea at 11K per match vs. 6500 for their soccer league. Mexico's league draws nearly 10K. Taiwan is at 5K. And the other countries are basically farm countries for their MLB. They just have training/workout leagues, essentially.

I know those numbers seem small when we look at our attendance for domestic sports, but not many leagues in any sport draw over 10K.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attendance_figures_at_domestic_professional_sports_leagues

>cricket is popular almost everywhere
Oh my god...

>asia
>just two countries and not even the big ones

I'd throw in Italy, Japan and possibly, maybe Uruguay for union

Okay, fair enough, so it's the most popular sport then, but still not that popular in respect to their total population. In Australia we have 5 leagues that average more than all of those countries despite our population only being 20 mil. One of our leagues is the fourth most attended in the world and it runs simultaneously to 4 other leagues here.

All I've taken away from this thread is that the only country that gives a fuck about sport is Australia and America. Even in these places with 1 sport they can't even beat the ratings / attendances we get here. What a joke. Even countries like India are a fucking joke. 1.3 billion people, $5 tickets to the IPL and they barely beat the BBL's average.
USA/Australia puts every other country to shame kek

its relevant in your country. you are ranked 13th in odi. test status could come.

only because of boers moving there

>cricket is popular almost everywhere rugby is popular
please learn english before trying to converse with english speakers

Only cultural reason I can think of why we're more "sports mad" than most countries is our climates. Most of the US has great enough weather all year around (like Australia) to play any outdoor sport you like, this translates into an appreciation and thus following of many different sports. We have a Lacrosse League here that averages 9K per game, only 5K less than England's top Rugby league, which is supposed to be a major sport there. Of course, they'll say they filled the stadiums for International matches, but following a sport/team out of patriotism for a few games doesn't require the level of commitment of following a team over a season. Europe is colder and rainier over more months. And other countries with great year around climates tend to be poorer, so not enough money to support various leagues/sports.

Just a theory. Or maybe they're just that obsessed with soccer.

based retard

>cricket
played only by literal bugmen
the 3 real CHAD global sports, only for CHAD nations is:
fútbol
tenis
basquet
the rest is for cucks that can't into real competition

Basado y verdadpastillado

>fútbol
>tenis
>basquet
These aren't sports anyone is familiar with.

speak english

>Or maybe they're just that obsessed with soccer.
Yeah, but that's the thing. People posted tv ratings for soccer in big countries like Spain, England, Greece etc and they don't even get a million per game average which is just a joke given their population and supposed "obsession" that Europeans claim to have with soccer.
If a country has a population of 30-40 million and they average 600k tv audience per game for their biggest soccer league, I'm sorry but that's just pathetic. AFL, NRL, and the Big Bash (cricket league) all average over 900k per game and the first two ahve 23 round seasons with 18 teams.

Also, to be fair, in Europe and down here most national teams will end up playing around 14-15 games per year, which is basically the same amount as NFL teams. So averaging 60-70k for the year is pretty respectable.

I really think it's just America and Australia that are sports mad. The rest are cazzies.

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To be honest the only true global sport is football the rest Just have varying degrees of appeal in some regions

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Here's one for Germany
en.onefootball.com/german-tv-rankings-of-all-bundesliga-clubs/
Their biggest team only averaged 1 mil for the season.
I'm not even shitting on soccer or something, I'm just completely shocked by how little interest their leagues have compared to leagues here or America. What the fuck

the english love sport, I put it down to us all having an english legacy, admittedly you less than the rest of us

Canada is pretty sports mad. They follow hockey, baseball, basketball, soccer, NFL, and CFL.

>says the australian
what are your "familiar" sports then? getting chased by emus? kangaroo-boxing?

two are in the OP mate

I don't speak your subhuman language so I don't know what any of the sports you listed even are, lad.
Sports that are popular here include three of the most globally relevant sports: cricket, rugby, tennis. We also have Aussie rules football and rugby league.

Based Canada. New Zealand is pretty impressive for their population, too. Rugby gets good draws there and cricket does all right.

Don't you guys like boxing?

hockey (in any form almost) is more popular worldwide than cricket and rugby
just a handfull of british colonies play the latter 2, which doent make it exacteley global

it's somewhat of a niche sport, only old people really like it
every now and then a "big" fight will make a fuss then it'll die out again

>hockey

kek

KEK

K E K

not handball, probably basketball

no one gives a fuck about field hockey, mate. even the countries that are good at it dont care. we've won 3 world cups and its not even broadcast on tv here.

>every now and then a "big" fight will make a fuss then it'll die out again
think its like this everywhere. one of a fights here between our two GOAT boxers got like 1 mil PPVs recently, but i've never heard of someone who watches it regularly.

>just a handfull of british colonies play the latter 2, which doent make it exacteley global
Do they not teach geography or history in Europe? Or does learning just how massive the British Empire was cause too much seethe among the lesser Europoor nations?

Football
Basketball
Tennis
Track & field
Swimming
Boxing

Simple as

what the fuck is up with aussies and absolutely rimming americans on this website every board is just aussies gulping down american cum, must be descended from when aussie sluts threw themselves at americans during ww2

yes something like that must be all the irish dna

Only one country invented them all, too.

Probably tennis, I would argue. Which was also invented in Britain. Also F1 is pretty globally popular. And guess where nearly all F1 teams. And guess which country has the highest number of drivers' championship winners (and championships) and constructors' championship winners (and championships).

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majority of this thread was australians and a britbong shitting on americans

F1 is probably one of the most global sports. I'd probably even put it above rugby or cricket in all honesty, but it's not really in the same category as team sports like soccer, rugby, cricket etc.

f1 is not popular in countries where it is apparently popular
it's like golf and tennis

I understand the people trying claim the relevance of baseball and basketball. They're wrong but i understand them.
How someone can possibly think that fucking hockey is a global sport utterly shatters my mind.

yeah that's the thing. cricket might only be popular in 10 or so countries, but in all of them it's literally a religion followed by majority of the population. these fuckers citing basketball and stuff are listing countries where their leagues get like 3-4k average attendance and the games arent even broadcast on tv.

besides soccer, cricket and maybe rugby are the only sports with genuine hardcore following among majority of the countries' populations.

yeah I'd agree

Even rugby union can boast this more than basketball or fucking handball can. all of europe might "play" handball, but no one takes it remotely seriously there. Hell, even their soccer leagues get piss poor tv audiences as has been shown in this thread.
The only country where I'd say basketball is truly popular is America and maybe some balkan places. But even in America its ratings are completely shit on by NFL. It's basically rugby union here compared to AFL or NRL.

>basketball
I think this is bullshit, nobody in this country gives a fuck about basketball, and someone the other day was trying to say basketball is really popular in France, and yet what this guy says suggests the opposite: My point being that people always claim basketball is popular in Europe but I've never seen any evidence for this claim. Sounds like utter bollocks to me.

I think the most popular sports globally (that is, in most countries) would be things like:
>Football
>Tennis
>Golf
>Formula 1

Then sports that are popular in many countries, but not all, would be:
>Cricket
>Rugby

Baseball is popular in America and Japan but not really anywhere else. Basketball probably does have some popularity in some places, I hear Spain sort of likes it a bit, and some Eastern European countries, but again I've not really seen much first-hand evidence of it. Spain cares mostly about football, of course. And bullfighting.

England never won the Ski Jumping worldcup

Football matches mostly take place at the same time lad

Aren't afl matches staaggered or something?

Rugby and cricket are not popular in EVERY country but they are probably popular with a bigger segment of the world's population than basically all other sports, apart from football.

The other thing for me is how competitive these sports are on a global scale. Soccer is popular in most of the world, but majority of the planet is fucking trash at it. The world cup has only been won by 8 different nations. The cricket world cup has been won by 6 different nations, for comparison. Rugby has only been won by 4 different teams.
Soccer is basically a circlejerk between a few big european countries and brazil. Asia, Africa, South America, and the Middle east are all a fucking joke.

no? There is a Thursday night game, a Friday night game, then 2 games will run at the same time all of Saturday. There are times where in Melbourne a game will be played at the MCG while literally across the road another will be played at Docklands. Both will have over 50k people in attendance.

and what about cs:go?

there's big overlaps and timezone differences that your leagues don't need to worry about because Australia is about as large as Europe without Spain or Italy

Also AFL has a 23 round regular season and runs concurrently with super rugby, national rugby league, and the end of the A-league season.
If you combined all of them (assuming we watches one football code like Europe), regular season games would average nearly 2.5 million tv audience per game. And finals would be closer to 9 million.

I don't agree with that argument sorry mate, just because they're shit doesn't mean they don't like a sport and that isn't grounds for saying that it isn't global that really just makes no sense

don't forget that's with the sport being borderline non-existent in two states which amount to half the country's population

yeah, that's the other thing. a prime time game in WA will start at like 9pm in the eastern states.

Yup, if we only watched one football code like Europe or South America, our average crowd attendance would almost be NFL level and tv ratings would be through the roof. Pretty insane to think.

Basadó

im just genuinely perplexed by how little other countries care about sports compared to here. i knew we were "sports" mad but i didn't realise it was so much more so than everywhere else.

I don't know if F1 has as many fans as rugby or cricket, especially cricket since obviously there are hundreds of millions of Indian fans.

F1 is probably popular in more countries than rugby and cricket, because it isn't just restricted to former British colonies. But in terms of numbers of people watching it or attending it, I don't think it would be as big as rugby or cricket... could be wrong but that's my guess. F1 is still more of a niche sport even in the countries where it is the most popular, and I think this is the case for all motorsport really. E.g. NASCAR is nowhere near as big as the NFL. Aussie V8 supercars, I would assume, is not as big as AFL, cricket, or rugby... although maybe I'm wrong, I'm just guessing there.

>cricket might only be popular in 10 or so countries, but in all of them it's literally a religion followed by majority of the population.
Not so in Britain, I'd argue. It's definitely not as popular here as football, and I would say probably not as popular as rugby either. In fact cricket is surprisingly niche, I would say, given that we invented it. I think a big factor is that it's mainly private schools that play cricket - I think lots of state schools don't. So it's probably seen as a pretty posh thing. But yes, in countries like India, it does seem like cricket is a religion.

>these fuckers citing basketball and stuff are listing countries where their leagues get like 3-4k average attendance and the games arent even broadcast on tv.
I also doubt basketball is that popular. I've not really seen first-hand evidence of it.

>cricket might only be popular in 10 or so countries, but in all of them it's literally a religion followed by majority of the population
i like cricket but this just isn’t true, it’s a relevant sport here but most people don’t follow it. it is completely dwarfed by football, and rugby is more popular too.

think he was excluding England and Zimbabwe from that list

Yeah but that's what i mean they're laid over the whole saturday unlike football that has an early kick off and then rams the games together. Think you'd be better off comparing match of the day ratings or something.

I wasn't really counting England since it's in a pretty dire state there (sadly). But even so, what sport besides soccer can claim this? Genuinely. Even basketball only has america on that level and it's not even the number 1 sport in America. Completely drawfed by NFL and MLB thrashes its ratings, too.

F1 will have huge attendances just because of the nature of the sport. It's a one time thing per year in each country and people go for the event more than anything. The opening race in Melbourne usually attracts close to 400k people over its weekend, but the F1 also started the season a week later so it didn't coincide with AFL's opening round and lose half its crowd.
But yeah it's basically a niche sport all over the world. Combined it'd get good tv ratings but there's no country where it'd really be a top sport imo.

>Aussie V8 supercars, I would assume, is not as big as AFL, cricket, or rugby... although maybe I'm wrong, I'm just guessing there.
I thought this for the longest time, but pretty much every race will average around 300k on Foxtel (pay tv) since it was moved off FTA. Same as the AFL and NRL games that are foxtel exclusive.
It gets a lot of media coverage here, too, but I've never met someone who watches it. I genuinely don't know who watches it even.

How many games run at the same time? here we'll have two at a time with a third usually starting towards the end of the first two.
Also I'm sure big teams in the Bundesliga would have prime time games, and even still the biggest only averages 1 mil tv audience.

I really don't see how rugby doesn't have a bigger following. It's continuous like football, has a variety of tactical styles to keep games interesting and has meme big hits and skill plays to get the barstool watcher interested. It has all the elements of a great sport, but it's never taken off with the masses

In the prem? Anywhere from 5 to all 10.
Also results in bizarre broadcasting rights. Split between bt sky and a few for amazon.

It was kept amatuer for years. Payments restricted until 1995 lmao

Just wasn't introduced to the world the same way soccer was. But despite that it's growing pretty much all over the place. Every world cup has basically increased its draw around the world by a significant margin. This is a pretty good read if you're curious
rugbyworldcup.com/news/161402

Okay, that's fucked. yeah. What about other leagues, though. Bundesliga, La Liga etc. These got pathetic tv ratings which is what brought this all up.
Also why do they not have Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday night prime time games with the big teams like leagues here and America have? Those games get massive tv audiences and basically print money.

I know, I'm a massive rugby nause and I've played since 2005. I was just saying m8

>meme scores like 45 - 27
>complicated rules

Not like footy
1-0 simple as

soccer has complicated rules, too. both sports are easy to understand the gist of by just watching a bit.

>can score by kicking goal which is easier than scoring by crossing the tryline, so it's worth less
Makes perfect sense really m8

They do have a few sunday games but once the season gets going the schedule gets so rammed you can't really fuck with days. FA cup, league cup and the top 7 are playing in Europe. Dunno why some days have early/late kickoffs and some don't though.

From a bit of googling the Bundes pretty consistently has 5-6 cocurrent matches on Saturday with odd games on Fridays and Sundays.

Honestly m8 football is as a massive sport. I'm not German but if viewing figures are low there's probably some paywall fuckery.

Trying to get perspective, if a player gets injured will it make national headlines on every media outlet? Here if someone misses a pre-game training session it will be the news headline on every station, over major global or domestic events. If you go in public you will always hear someone talking about aussie rules. If you go to the store on a game day the person behind the counter will in 90% of occasions ask you your thoughts on the game etc. We have public holidays for big sporting events too.
Even on just pay tv here, AFL gets similar ratings to bundesliga games. For reference, the same games are on FTA and people only watch on Foxtel because it's got no adverts.

i remember once when nat fyfe was injured before the western derby the prime time news here ran a 20 minute special interviewing him.

During the world cup and european championships and any competetive qualifying for them yes to everything except public holidays. It's absolutely dominant.
For the domestic game only if the prem was running close at the end of season or a an english side was deep into the champions league. You certainly here about the day to day prem and FA cup but it's not smothering.
Worth pointing out that the domestic game runs deep. Noone near me is going to give a massive shit about a mid season liverpool game but i was doing computer lessons for the old folk and got into a 20 minute convo with an old dear who use to follow our local league 2 side round the country. I can literally lean out my window and see the pitch where a club somewhere around 10th on the pyramid plays. The football league is really spread out but not thinly. It's just everywhere.

This the highest effort i have put into a post on spee. :/

Basao

Interesting. Our regular season is 23 rounds and no matter when in the round you'll see everything I've mentioned. You literally cannot escape aussie rules here and if you dont follow it youre genuinely viewed as odd. Goes for men and women of any age group

just leave Melbourne la

Live in perth. Genuinely think footy is bigger here than melbourne these days. Also if you went to sydney or brisbane itd be the same jusy with nrl instead, which is shit

>This the highest effort i have put into a post on spee
It's good, do it more often, I can imagine you peering out your window and seeing that 10th tier pitch on an angle.

It's too much of a rich man's sport, most state schools don't play it, it's seen as a posh wanker sport. Like cricket. This might not be the same in other Commonwealth countries but it is the case in Britain.

Thats the thing, cricket is not popular in many countries, just a few (anglosphere) and it so happens one of them is massive and sucks at everything else.

Not in wales

Still furious kek

Still? What?

Cricket is not even that popular in the UK as evidenced by UK posters so I dont see the point most of you are trying to make.

As we head to the bump limit i would like to personally thank Holland's continuing refusal to accept reality for getting this unlikely thread past the 200's.

Ah yeah true. I guess I mean England then.

That still makes it a very popular sport on a global scale, because yes, lots of people (mainly Indians I guess, sure) take an interest in it.

Cricket is still probably one of the most popular sports in the UK, especially in the summer of course. Actually maybe it's the most popular British summer sport. But then at other times of the year other sports take over.

Or at least the most popular summer team sport, because tennis is quite popular too, although probably not any more popular than cricket I guess.

it's the same here, and even then it's only two states that actually have that opinion on it the others probably don't even know the sport exists

Good thread tho

give me a quick rundown on what regions of Australia play what sports.

There's a map around somewhere. It's basically north of the Murrambidgee is rugby and south is aussie rules. But it's not an exact boundary, there are enclaves and exclaves and all that shit.

>I understand the people trying claim the relevance of baseball and basketball. They're wrong but i understand them.
I know baseball has pretty much zero presence in Western Europe so it probably seems totally irrelevant to you, but baseball is a strong international sport by every metric, popular in 10+ countries with a total pop of 700 million, more than one followed professional in the world, and a healthy international talent pool (3 different countries have won the first 4 World Baseball Classic events, and about 8 different countries would all be a threat to win it. It's not like basketball where the US just shellacs everyone).

>one followed professional
*professional league

That's interesting, I always thought / assumed that AFL would be popular everywhere, like the NFL is popular everywhere in America. Sports interest in America seems to be defined more by race than it is by location.

And obviously if you think of football in Britain, interest is not regional. So for AFL interest to be regional is surprising to me.

Golf, Tennis

French and can confirm that nobody give a shit about basketball here, It's Soccer and a bit Rugby, oh and probably a bit handball