Oddly in Australia, the most played team ball sport is soccer (football). http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6123-australian-sports-participation-rates-among-ch

Oddly in Australia, the most played team ball sport is soccer (football). http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6123-australian-sports-participation-rates-among-children-and-adults-december-2014-201503182151 http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6123-australian-sports-par... But the Australian soccer (football) league isn't that big. I lived in the US though and found that there weren't nearly as many local teams for basketball and soccer as there are in Australia. In the US it seemed High School football was a bigger deal than school sport in Australia. In Australia it is more organised with local clubs. Also in the US the colleges run other sport where as in Australia there is just local clubs running that kind of sport and pro-clubs for the highest levels. The lack of clubs with thousands of juniors may diminish having clubs for seniors too.