Most Popular Sports Worldwide

Name the sports with most fans worldwide Source: www.topendsport.com
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Rank
Fans
Sport
1
3.5 Billion
Football
2
2.5 Billion
Cricket
3
2 Billion
Hockey
4
1 Billion
Tennis
5
900 Million
Volleyball
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Fans
Sport
6
850 Million
Table Tennis
7
500 Million
Baseball
8
450 Million
Golf
9
400 Million
Basketball
10
400 Million
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4 Comments
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Level 56
Dec 13, 2016
Is that field hockey or ice hockey? Needs to be spelt out.
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Level 77
Dec 13, 2016
Ice hockey is just hockey. Field hockey would need to be spelled out.
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Level 72
Apr 25, 2017
These numbers seem exaggerated, especially hockey. Outside of Canada, the US, some parts of Europe, (mostly Scandinavia and Russia), hockey is irrelevant.
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Level 87
Jun 14, 2017
Found the actual link to the source: http://www.topendsports.com/world/lists/popular-sport/fans.htm

Is field hockey, which is just called hockey in the countries where it's played.