I would like you to tell me which is the least popular sport that exists in your country in terms of fans or general viewership ?
who is considered the least popular sport in your country ?
SportsI thought it was mostly a commonwealth sport?
Mostly, but they do play a bit in the Netherlands, Ireland, Oman, UAE and a few other non-commonwealth countries.
I think this may be to do with close links to, respectively, South Africa, UK, South Asia & South Asia.
Oman and UAE used to be British protectorates though. I believe Afghanistan is the only full ICC member never to have been part of the Empire (the Netherlands are only an associate member). Cricket was popularised there by refugees returning from Pakistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
Ah ok, good to know. Your history is better than mine!
Cricket? Is it this sport where you use hammer to play half golf, half baseball?
Not sure if you’re joking or not - but if you aren’t, you’re thinking of croquet.
Cricket is a bat and ball game played in South Asia, parts of the UK, parts of the Caribbean, Australias and some parts of Africa and a few other places. It’s currently the second most watched sports in the world.
Wait, there is croquet and cricket? And both are sports? In Poland a croquet is a dish.
lol yeah croquet’s a sort of niche posh person’s game you play at a castle or somewhere like that. Very different from cricket.
Check out the Indian Premier League for a an idea about cricket. There’s a few different versions of the sport but the IPL plays the shortest version. Games normally take about 3 or 4 hours. It’s a great sport.
I wouldn't know about it if it's the least popular
Anyone that does not have any fans. Honestly this question is impossible to answer.
I thought that Spain was really easy given that bull fighting is very controversial.
Very controversial indeed, but not the less popular. It has more fans that, let's say, curling or cricket.
Well, that’s probably a sport barely anyone ever heard of. But a while ago there was apparently a major cricket tournament. Apparently our Dutch team have a pretty decent team. So many Redditers from cricket minded countries flooded Dutch subreddits asking how we think about our team. They soon found out the cricket association have only a few thousand members, many of whom are expats or otherwise related to a country where cricket is popular.
since there are dozens of sports that either completely don't exist or a niche thing in Poland i will stick with few that are somehow big around the globe:
american football & rugby
cricket
waterpolo
golf
baseball
horse racing
hockey
For Ireland here's few that are popular in Poland but not in Ireland:
ski jumping
volleyball
handball
Winter sports basically don't exist in Ireland. We do have our version of handball though.
One of my favorite all time hockey enforcers is Polish. Krzysztof Oliwa. That guy was like a yeti on skates.
Rugby is reasonably popular in Poland. The women’s 7’s team got a European silver medal last year.
Olympic handball is also pretty popular in Ireland. Most schools play it.
not really - finding people who ever played, watched or know the rules is super hard. You won't see it in TV, nor mentioned on sports news.
Women team games especially got close to non coverage (with only exception being volleyball, which is big)
Handball is generally only known about in the UK because of the Olympics.
To give an idea of how rare it is. My stepson wanted to join a club at a local sports centre, so his mother decided to join as well so they had something to do together.
After 2 weeks she was asked if she wanted join the more experienced group, but to be aware she would need to be flexible as that would almost guarantee her a place in England Olympic squad.
i had similar experience but with fencing in Ireland.
went to a club once with an epee and asked about tournaments. Since I was on similar level in all 3 weapons i asked if i could start/train in multiple weapons. Coach grinned and told me that if my sabre and foil are on similar level to my epee i will likely be in top3 Ireland (just for comparison in Poland I was just a decent amateur, but far behind "pros" and active veterans)
Very similar indeed.
I don't think I'd fair as well. I briefly joined a fencing club as a kid. I gave up after being disarmed, twice.
The instructors weren't too happy with foils being pinged randomly around the hall (the wrist straps had perished), so if I hadn't already realised it wasn't the sport for me, they would probably have had a quiet word with my parents anyway.
Is speedway popular in Ireland? It's pretty popular in Poland as well. I think we have one of the best leagues in the world, if not the best one.
I wish hockey was more popular in Poland... really enjoy it
nope, and i wouldn't say it's popular in Poland either - it's a niche sport that is popular in literally handful of towns and completely doesn't exist in rest of the country
Almost all the people I know enjoy speedway. Maybe my own bubble.
Probably cricket it's completely unknown in Italy even though it is the second most popular sport in the world.
Don’t think Buzkashi has quite caught on up here in Sweden yet
The Deutsche Skibob-Verband is the smallest member of the DOSB with 298 members in 2023. So of the organised sports, it's skibob
In terms of the number of people that actively participate in the sport, it must be Formula 1 racing.
The number of participants has halved since last year, and the only active player also only does it part-time, as he enjoys to do a lot of online-racing as well. He seems quite capable, though.
Probably that goat sport that the Afghans are so fond of.
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ironic you say that as when I was last in London a week ago I saw an advert for the international MLB game being held in London this summer. You're right that its not played here but it seems the yanks are trying to whip up interest again (I know they hosted a game or two last year).
We used to do softball at school in summer.
All the ones that aren't played and that nobody (including me) has heard of
if we talk about the most famous sports, for example cricket in Italy
In Poland curling is a meme of extremelly boring and unwatchable sport
Does horse riding count ?I'd say that .
Honestly other than soccer ,basketball , tennis ,all sports are equally unpopular .
Hmm, ironically Oina is not popular at all despite being invented here and considered our "national sport "
I mean there should be peoples playing baseball or american football somewhere in france, will never be on TV tho
I don't know. I've never heard anyone talk about it.
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Probably a sport I've never heard of. Do we need to compare to sports that are popular elsewhere? Cricket is very popular globally but unheard of in Belgium. Does that count?