Most popular spectator sport
- Who
- Association Football
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 2006
According to The Economist, association football is the world’s most popular spectator sport. The accumulated audience (people who watched more than one game are counted each time) reached some 30 billion people for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and the estimated number of fans worldwide is 3.5 billion.
The most watched sport by attendance figures at actual games is Major League Baseball, which had a combined attendance in 2011 of over 73 million.