The most popular sport worldwide is hands down soccer. The world cup gets more viewers worldwide than any other major broadcast, like over a hundred million for the finals. Also, soccer is played in more countries of the world than all of the other sports combined. Basketball is likely to be a distant second place to soccer.
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∙ 11y agoJudging by how much audience comes to the matches, Team Handball is the second most popular in Europe. At least in Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, close third in Sweden and Norway, in Iceland it is #1, Hungary, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Poland etc.#3 is Basketball#4 is HockeyRugby and Cricket are far far lower on the list. Whoever said Rugby must never have left "the island".
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∙ 14y agoSoccer would definitely be the most popular sport in Europe's countries. Athletics would be popular all over. Golf would be very popular. There are many other popular sports too, too many to mention. Some would be regional and some more widespread. Skiing would be popular in some countries that have a lot of snow. Different countries would have their national sports, so a sport that might be very popular in one European country, might be almost non-existent in another.
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∙ 16y agoFootball, i.e. soccer. Football has the most participants and is the most watched.
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∙ 16y agoI am certain that soccer is the most popular sport in Europe but i am not sure about the exact figures. Soccer is also the most popular sport in Africa and South America.
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∙ 12y agoSoccer.
the most popular sport in the u.k. is tennis because we are the home of Wimbledon and will always be?
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∙ 12y agofotball and football (also known as soccer).
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∙ 12y agoi dont know figure it out yourself
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The game of soccer was invented in England so it's popularity throughout Europe spread easily. I imagine the French were inspired to try and beat the British at their own national game.
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Football/ Soccer was invented in England, which is part of Europe.
95 percent of people in the United Kingdom support football. England constitutes the highest number of people in the United Kingdom who support football.
On the computer game Miss Popularity to get on to the soccer field for the second time first go to the mall and purchase all the gear needed to play soccer. Then go back to the soccer field and fill in for Sunnyboy.
Soccer is "THE" sport of Europe, so the question of who is the best is very emotion to Europeans. According to popularity polls Arsenal FC and FC Barcalona are the fans favorite. Statisically, based on wins, it would depend upon how far in history one would want to examine.
Soccer in Europe is generally thought to be played at a quicker pace than US soccer
I think the popularity of soccer is because of the LAKERS and COBY BRYAN i think !ok! ......8Y3