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This is a list of professional sports leagues by revenue.Individual sports are not included. The "Season" column refers to the sports league season for which financial data is available and referenced, which is usually not the most recently completed season of competition.
Association football, more commonly known as "football" or "soccer" is the most popular sport at 3.5 billion fans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Significant association football attendance records listed below include those with over 100,000 attendance.
The World Cup has been held every four years since; [87] by 2019, it had expanded to 24 national teams, and 1.12 billion viewers watched the competition. [88] Four years later, FIFA targeted the 32-team 2023 Women's World Cup at an audience of 2 billion, [89] while about 1.4 million tickets were sold, setting a Women's World Cup record. [90]
In the United States, college sports are very popular and at least one significant ice hockey league retains an amateur requirement. In Ireland, the All-Ireland senior championships in Gaelic football and hurling , both operated by the Gaelic Athletic Association , which continues to prohibit professionalism, each draw over 80,000 to fill Croke ...
The MLS, despite being a relatively new league on the world stage, was well-represented in the top 20 as five teams were ranked ahead of Austin FC. The MLS clubs included in the top 20 were as ...
Association football is the world's most popular sport and is worth US$600 billion worldwide. [1] By the end of the 20th century it was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries.
As of 2017, the most popular soccer event on television in the U.S. was the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final. It was the most watched soccer match in American history with nearly 26.7 million combined viewers, [169] [170] more than the 2015 NBA Finals and Stanley Cup. [171]
In 2019–20, PSV Eindhoven drew an average home attendance of 33,625. The table below lists domestic professional sports leagues from around the world by total attendances for the last completed season for which data is available.