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If you're talking professional, there are at least 100,000 professional football players in the world https://colors-newyork.com/how-many-professional-football
by iso1210 5y ago
If you're talking professional, there are at least 100,000 professional football players in the world
https://colors-newyork.com/how-many-professional-footballers-are-in-the-world https://colors-newyork.com/how-many-professional-footballers...
There's fewer than 10,000 professional Tennis players, and that's far more popular professionally than squash and other racquet sports so at a professional level you're talking more than 10 times football than tennis.
https://tenniscreative.com/how-many-people-play-tennis/ https://tenniscreative.com/how-many-people-play-tennis/
For non-professional,
Based on 2019 data, 87 million play tennis worldwide, and far fewer squash players (20-30 million)
https://squashezine.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-many-people-play-squash.html https://squashezine.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-many-people-pla...
But them together and you're less than half of the 250 million football players
- Retric 5y agoTeam sports generally support larger numbers of professionals. In part because viewers are simply watching more people at the same time, but also because teams need redundancy.
- iso1210 5y agoIf you're stepping away from organised activities, practically every kid in the world plays football, all you need is a ball, clearly that outnumbers sports that need equipment - Tennis and especially Squash.
- Retric 5y agoBy that metric Tag is probably the most popular sport. Anyway you need a ball, several people, a goal, and a large open field to play something vaguely close to soccer. So it’s popularity varies wildly by area.
- victorbond 5y agoGood start... but everyone leaves out BADMINTON, with over 200 million players. Badminton ALONE is almost as large as world football [!!!] As I said above... who knew? Thanks for commenting.