What is your favorite sport to watch?
Of the huge number of sports worldwide, which one is your favorite to WATCH? Watching on TV or live, it does not matter. You were only able to select one, and unfortunately the list is limited and your favorite sport may not have been listed here.
This list includes all sports that have come up in similar popular sports lists, plus a few more.
Also see the poll on your favorite sport to play, which may or may not be the same.
After 2,214 votes, the top sport to watch was football (soccer), followed by cricket. Although many of the visitors to this website are from the USA, sports that are more popular elsewhere have topped the list. The top four sports are the same for watching or playing!
| Rank | Sport | Votes | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Football / Soccer | 374 | 17% |
| 2 | Cricket | 312 | 14% |
| 3 | Basketball | 227 | 10% |
| 4 | Baseball | 208 | 9% |
| 5 | American Football | 198 | 9% |
| 6 | Ice Hockey | 135 | 6% |
| 7 | Tennis | 90 | 4% |
| 8 | Rugby Union | 72 | 3% |
| 9 | Motorsports | 67 | 3% |
| 10 | Volleyball | 55 | 2% |
| 11 | Badminton | 43 | 2% |
| 12 | Australian Rules Football | 40 | 2% |
| 13 | None of the Above | 35 | 2% |
| 14 | Swimming | 34 | 2% |
| 15 | Wrestling | 33 | 1% |
| 16 | Track & Field / Running | 32 | 1% |
| 17 | Martial Arts | 31 | 1% |
| 18 | Boxing | 30 | 1% |
| 19 | Gymnastics | 30 | 1% |
| 20 | Golf | 19 | 1% |
| 21 | Cycling | 18 | 1% |
| 22 | Rugby League | 17 | 1% |
| 23 | Table Tennis | 14 | 1% |
| 24 | Ice Skating | 13 | 1% |
| 25 | Lacrosse | 13 | 1% |
| 26 | Field Hockey | 10 | 0% |
| 27 | Horse Racing | 10 | 0% |
| 28 | Handball | 8 | 0% |
| 29 | Shooting | 6 | 0% |
| 30 | Skiing / Snowboarding | 6 | 0% |
| 31 | Surfing | 6 | 0% |
| 32 | Water Polo | 6 | 0% |
| 33 | Skateboarding | 5 | 0% |
| 34 | Netball | 4 | 0% |
| 35 | Lawn Bowling | 3 | 0% |
| 36 | Softball | 3 | 0% |
| 37 | Rowing | 2 | 0% |
| 38 | Sailing | 2 | 0% |
| 39 | Tenpin Bowling | 1 | 0% |
| 40 | Squash | 1 | 0% |
| 41 | Triathlon | 1 | 0% |
Disclaimer: These polls are not scientific, and only reflect the opinion of visitors to this website who have chosen to participate.
Related Pages
- Discussion about your favorite sports to watch and play
- Discussion about the most popular sports to watch
- Top-10s of the World's Most Popular Sports
- Why Watching Live Football is the Ultimate Fan Experience
- Also see the poll on your favorite sport to play.
- List of Sports and Fitness Polls
Any comments, suggestions, or corrections? Please let us know.
Old Comments
Commenting is closed on this page, though you can read some previous comments below which may answer some of your questions.
- Cricket is always a treat to watch and play ... the problem is there are some people (cricket hater's and fballers) who can't understand Cricket. (from Adnan, Mar 2013)
- The sport of hurling is a great game to watch (from Sean, Feb 2013) - I agree, and it is not necessarily one I would like to be playing!
- Mad about cricket (from salman, Nov 2012)
- Test cricket and T 20 are always treat to watch live, specially on fast and bouncy wickets of aus, nz, eng and sa. (from sassy harn, April 2012)
- Formula one !!! Not many people understand what it takes to be an f1 driver!!! (from Feb 2012)
- The only sport I even want to watch is hockey! (from Alice, Oct 2011)
- I love cricket (from G.michael jayalin, Aug 2011)
- Dance. Why doesn't anyone care about dance? (Aug 2011)
- Cricket is very interesting game, their T20 formate is very hot and fast game/ i hope cricket will be most popular game after some year. (from raju, July 2011)
- I am happy people watched cricket on the screen. go go cricket popularity (from bhavesh nishad, July 2011)
- I think the most popular sport to watch is probably cricket or football since on your poll what is the ten most popular sports in the world and the top two sports on there are cricket and football (from Madhav Mani, Oct 2010).
- OMG how come football is 0% i don't know you really need to get sorted out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (from Madhav Mani, Oct 2010).
