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The country one lives, the national sport, or the most popular sport influences the type of game one would bet on. In the country where I come from, football is the most popular sport. It is, therefore, easy to see young people betting on football matches. It is widely discussed and people more knowledgeable about it than any other sports. Even though we have other sports like basketball, table tennis, and boxing young folks prefer to bet on football than on other games. Have you noticed this? Have you ever deviated from this norm?

Below is a table showing some countries, and their national sports.

|	Country	|	National Sport	|	Other Important Sports	|
|	India	|	Cricket, Ruby	|	badminton, kabaddi	|
|	Australia	|	Cricket	|	Australian Rules Football (AFL), Rugby, Horse Racing, Netball	|
|	Canada	|	Ice hockey, and Lacrosse	|	Football, Golf, basketball, and baseball	|
|	France	|	Football	|	Tennis, motorsport, and cycling	|
|	Germany	|	Football	|	Tennis, motorsport	|
|	United States	|	American Football	|	Basketball and baseball	|
|	Scotland	|	Golf	|	Tennis, Rugby	|
|	Mexico	|	Charreria- similar to Rodeo	|	Association football and Boxing	|
|	Cuba	|	Baseball	|	Boxing, Volleyball, Basketball	|

Source: https://byjus.com/govt-exams/countries-and-their-national-games-list/

I have not seen such an overview to be honest, but it can be very useful in principle. It is true that not everyone in those countries likes to bet a lot on those matches that are mentioned in the schedule. Maybe it will help people who are interested in sports statistics. I think football is still the most popular sport to bet on worldwide. By the way, I had expected and also thought that Ice Hockey would be a well-known sport in America and maybe even be in 2nd place behind basketball?

What is Ruby though? I have never heard of that sport or game. It wasnt in the list of your source either(byjus). Football has very high viewership in India as well and in most of asian countries. That's one of the reasons why there are early kick offs in European leagues. To facilitate Asian viewership. Since, the market is that huge.

In my country (Mozambique) the most dominant sport is soccer, although I have all sports and I have won several cups in other sports and I have never won anything relevant in soccer the government of my country and people like soccer more, it is even strange that most people from my country like soccer more although soccer we just lost a lot every time we played against teams from other countries and other sports we managed to beat other countries. I've asked myself why this happens and I can't find the answer


It's also the first time I've seen such a thing and from what I see there will be few people who will comment and mention their country and which sport is more dominant in their country, that's because in this forum more than 50% want to be anonymous

I believed this is the norm though, I mean young boys growing up watching their national sports on tv and admiring athletes and dream that one day they can play it representing their countries in international games. So they follow the sports by heart, and when the time they realized that they can't make it, then maybe they will go into gambling as they know the sports very much and gamble.

No I never deviated from this norm. Growing up here in the Philippines we love basketball. We even have our own thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5169983.0

Also you can find a basketball court in every street and we treat our local basketball stars as some sort of movie stars. So obviously, at a young age we are engaged in this sports and later we learn how to bet. We have our own betting called "ending game" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5134723.0  ;D.

Unfortunately here in our country, the Philippines, our national sports is not even the most talked-about sport here. We are being influenced too much by basketball since then although we are only dominating South East Asia in this sport. I don't know why we still love playing basketball despite the height disadvantages in global competition.

Boxing, billiards, and volleyball are also some of the sports that are mostly being patronized here. In boxing, there's no doubt we can compete with the most popular and big names unlike in basketball. The same goes for the sports of Billiards.

Young people can’t have a bet on football but of course they can watch the game and admire the players, dreaming that one day they can be a good player too. This is a norm, and since you are watching the national sport of your country tendency our, you can be exposed to that sports and you might slowly loving it as well. My country has a unique national sports, it’s not that popular but still we value it.

You nailed the reality in PH sports. :D

The government is not even focusing on improving the sports where we are truly good. Basketball is overhyped here and I admit I'm one of those crazy people who love sports. I'm too focused on basketball that I didn't realize that Sepak Takraw is not the National sport of the country now for over a decade now. Damn, I'm ashamed lol. The National Sports here is Arnis since 2009. Believe me, some of the PH users here don't also know that lol.

Basketball and billiards are really my favorite sports here and in fact, I can say I'm good at that sports during my prime. :)

Is there a reason why you picked those countries? There are a lot more from the article.

The list looks out of date by the way. Each country have more than two or three "other popular sports"

American Football without those thick body "armors" is the simplest way I could put it hehe. The rules are a bit different but just google them.

I assume you are from India? It's not a well-known sport in most of Asia but your country seems to know it since it has about 20,000 players according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rugby_union_playing_countries

I believe some of this younger generation are also betting on football.
In this age, they have a lot of choices now where to place their bets.
I am thinking with crypto bookies that don't require kyc, for sure, some of these kids already found a way into this.
Because remember, the crypto market as well as crypto gambling is getting popular.
Just look for example, drake promoting stake, do you really believe some of his younger followers won't check out this site?

Without any doubts the most common sport here in our country, Brazil, is soccer. Therefore, soccer bets are getting really popular now with ads of online betting platforms on television. I also have the impression the desire for sports betting is overcoming the interest for traditional casino games among the younger generations. Actually, it's nothing new, as since the school's times students were used to bet among themselves on soccer results, but now things are becoming more professional and serious because people have easy access to betting virtual sites with odds and the assurance they aren't going to be scammed.

Yes, and the explanation for this is quite simple... it is much easier to bet on a sport where you know the players, the teams and the championships, this greatly increases your chances of winning a bet.
Where I come from, football is also the most practiced sport and the one with the largest number of gamblers.
Here we even bet among friends on who will be the winner of the next national tournament.

One thing that can be noticed well is that everyone is involved in live games through the sites they are on, they are involved in betting on all the games.  These are just some of the goal setting shareware that you can use.

All I have noticed among gamblers in my country is that football is very common, even than others type of gambling like casinos, even people I know betting outside of their home through an agent which is also common in my country, people prefer to bet football through an agent, the second type of bet common through an agent are virtual matches like vitual EPL and virtual UCL seasons which are still football related and easy to play. I am not talking about national league because I do not think that is common in my country, but gamblers still prefer to go for betting related to football matches and other sport.

Although my country is not stated or covered in this study, but I find it very interesting. It is interesting because I have always thought that soccer is the is the most dominating sports in almost all the countries of the world except in the US, India and few others. In my country soccer is everything and the major sports bet platform. I have never heard or seen any gambler staking on any sports apart from football. And the European league is the most popular. That why betting companies in my country make more money during this the European football league season.   

I guess that's Rugby? I'm not sure if it's just a typo or the name of the sports is actually Ruby.
Rugby is basically the same as the american football minus all the padding and all sorts of head and body protection, I'm not sure if they're actually wearing a mouth guard lol.
It's like a free for all running wresting lol. This sport is like for the toughest guy.

For the PH I have never seen an instance of gambling with our national sport. Heck, if I were to be asked what sport would be where people most bet on, it wouldn't even be basketball or the like, I'd go for cockfighting (which was recently banned, so it might be changed really but the norm is like that here imo). Famous sports as others have said would be basketball though.

I've been in love with billiards recently after I watched clips of the Magician (Efren) lately. Man, I'm still dumbfounded how this hasn't really been in the media like basketball or the like. I know the sports isn't for everyone but man, at least give it some coverage that's worth his reputation at least.

Yea it's probably Rugby. Oddly enough I looked at OP's source and Rugby wasn't even in India's national sport (Correct me if I'm wrong though). India had this instead

Its probably basketball that is the most popular around the world. You can ask every kid you see today, most of them would want to be on NBA. But his right, I don't play football but I'm also betting on football matches relying on the odds and some speculations of users.

Mexican national sport is one of the most interesting and the most macho of all. Same with Canada, ice skating alone is already fun but they made a lot more by adding a sport with a goal.

Indeed. Lack of government support. I was also hooked on basketball in PH when I was young and that was my sport growing up.
I played Sepak Takraw during my high school days but it ended there. Called "Sipa" when playing outside using a bolt washer combined with a plastic wrapper (supposed to be a wooden ball) which is known to kids during the 90s, I don't see kids playing that nowadays.
The last issue that I had seen in the news was about the weight lifting sport that was also not supported well after Hidilyn Diaz won the gold in Tokyo 2020.
Boxing though is where I think we are really good at. They should put more funds in that industry.

It is not about doubt, football is the most common sport in the world. You can check this three different sites, I just searched using google search engine:

Note: I am not advising you to use google search engine because of scam ads

https://www.pledgesports.org/2017/06/top-10-most-played-sports
https://www.pledgesports.org/2020/03/the-top-10-most-popular-sports-in-the-world-2020
https://www.realbuzz.com/articles-interests/sports-activities/article/top-10-most-popular-participation-sports-in-the-world/#:~:text=Tennis,a%20ranking%20by%20Topend%20Sports.

If I search more, I will see more about football being the number 1.

It's really strange I don't see ITALY with National Sport "Soccer" (Football) in this list.
It's something easy :) . I think this sport is able to collect likewise 90% of total income / mainstream attention.
Other important sports (related to betting/tv shows) are: F1 Racing, Motor racing (Moto GP).
 

I didn't have to google to find out that football is the most widespread sport in the world. Of course, basketball is also very popular. In my opinion, cricket, due to the fact that it is the most popular sport in the country with the most people in the world (India), is also watched by a huge number of people.
However, it is about which sport the most people bet on and in this competition, football is the first place, and then for a long long nothing..

Of course it follows that people would be betting on the sports that they know best, and the sports that they know best are definitely the sports that are the country's most popular. So for a country where football is the most popular, people would be betting on football matches.

I am not deviating from this tendency, although I also want to appreciate other sports that are not very popular in my country. The more sports there are in a country, the better.

I too do not have to Google search it, I know exactly that football is the most recognized sport in the world, it has been what we did argued during my secondary schools days, that was the reason I googled search it to just show how football is the commonest.

Even in my area, if talking about sport, relating it to betting, people prefer to go for football than any other ones. Even if talking about watching sport, the only viewing centers in my country are for only football, that is why the time when playing top soccers leagues do come with shouts in many streets after a club score.

Every country has definitely its own field of specialization like the one that football is what your country is known of. Here in my country, there are a lot sports that people enjoyed but i often see young folks manage to play good in basketball. That is why if these people will play on gambling, they would likely to play on sports betting as they have an edge in basketball.

In Japan, AFAIK, Sumo Wrestling is like the national sport but as you've said OP there are some other sports that they like, and based on what I've researched, it is baseball that's next to its popularity. And as for betting, they've got their own places to gamble and they're only for the licensed operators to bet with. But maybe there are crypto folks there that also have access to the crypto online casinos to bet on the other sports that they like to bet on.

If you're a sports bettor and bet on other sports once in a while then you might've seen the other popular leagues that are based in certain countries like in the USA there's the NFL and NBA for example while in India there's the IPL. Even though there are different national sports from different countries the only ones that appear in most sportsbooks are the popular ones so sometimes the markets and experience are tough if you plan to bet on the lesser popular leagues that are held in your country.

I don't get the point of your forum thread, OP. You are posting a bunch of obvious facts and expect us to discuss them?
Yes, sports like European football, tennis and basketball are pretty much global, while other sports like cricket, rugby, ice hockey, American football  and baseball are pretty much tied to one country or a bunch of countries(mostly Anglo-saxon countries like USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India). And so what? The people are free to bet on their favorite sport. Its doesn't matter if their favorite sport is global or regional. Soccer is the most popular global sport and most people bet on soccer. Soccer is also my favorite sport. I used to care about boxing, tennis, volleyball and basketball(when I was young), but now I care only about soccer.

National sports in PH keeps changing, It was sipa before and now change to arnis even though the majority of people didn't have idea about it and whose deciding for it.

The government is not prioritizing our sports industry so what's more for promoting our own and give a dedicated national tournament for it and televised for the public awareness. Cockfighting should be the national sports since most Filipino loves it while the government gets a huge pile of money from its tax.  :D

It's normal for people to bet on the games that they like, though people love sports but not most of them will gamble on sports. Bookies will just provide what people would want to bet on, that's why football gains more bets because it's the most popular in the world, and while more and more people learn to gamble, their market will just continue to grow and be more profitable.

It's easy to learn the sports but not so easy to learn how to gamble, especially if we are talking of responsible gambling.

Italy is on the full list if you click the source link. Is just some other soccer playing nations are excluded.

Meanwhile, soccer is the king of sports worldwide as we know and this is why nations are "short down" during the world cup, it looks like a collective responsibility for every country to make the world a better place during the world cup, this is symbolic as most important leagues round off to allow players participate to help their motherland take a bite at the game. And I would be thinking if US was known with basketball.

This is nice but maybe there is a more detailed information about other countries, actually in Philippines I remember that our national sports is Sepak Takraw which is really an entertaining game and a little bit hard but double checking it in the internet it is replaced by Arnis, I actually didn't know that but most of the Filipinos really do love basket ball more than the football.

Though tbf, the change to arnis seems to have given more traction to it? I've seen some local tournaments of arnis before in my college in the past few years afaik. I guess that's one step to it but I don't think it's going to reach the levels of basketball or the like honestly with how much the government isn't really doing anything about it. Most of the people that support it's development are enthusiasts and they can only do so much imo.
Can't deny that. I can't really see how it's so amusing though tbh.

what's even sadder is that there's even not enough competition being held for it. I don't know in other areas, but when I am in high school our arnis club rarely had competitions to attend unlike our taekwondo club, basketball, badminton, volleyball, etc... our school doesn't even have a proper coach for our arnis club at the time(I hope it improved after all these years).

Our government lacks support for sports in our country so potential athletes also lack financial needs for professional training which is necessary for our country to compete in international competitions. That's also the reason why there are no specific national sports in our country. Our sports culture has been colonized by other countries. I hope the new administration would notice this problem because, to be honest, we have lots of potential and competitive teams and athletes.

When it comes to betting yes, they will bet on the same sport because they want to secure the win, you know they are more familiar with it. The rules, the team that plays, etc. There are users that temporarily place a bet on other sports if the main sport that they usually bet on is not yet available.

This is not a bad idea but it is actually beneficial since it increases your gambling/sport knowledge but if it's not about betting like they will just play a normal sport in real life then it is also possible that they can try other sports because playing the same sports for a long time can also be boring and like I said earlier there some advantages with it.

Right, I'm also curious about who's deciding these things and consider Arnis as a national sport. I've searched and it shows that it was declared way back in 2009. I don't even know why it's the national sport when it's really rare to see and know people that knows it. Arnis is a kind of sport that is too old.

The government only supports the national team who faces other teams in other countries like Olympics or SEA games. But the sad part about there is the government won't give some budget to these teams to at least make them comfortable as they are representing the Philippines. The team is responsible for their own budgeting and likely wait for some sponsors.

It depends on a country you are in. It's not for US citizens as most young guys will fall in love with Basketball or American Football (NFL) which is way different from the normal football in European and Asian countries.
As for me, I like basketball more even though that is not the prime choice in our country. But it's a choice that I made back when I was a kid and up until now I am more in love with it following the players movement for a higher chance to win a bet. I never got the liking with football, I don't understand why.

From the total list of sports listed, I may still understand football, volleyball, table tennis, golf, basketball, and boxing. As for the rest, I don't really understand the rules or the scoring of each of the points that are earned. Exactly not entirely and it's easier just by looking at the points board.

That's the struggle of athletes in the Philippines. They work hard but the government doesn't support them. They have to work on their own to sustain their needs and some of them are using their own money but the ironic part is when they bring home the medals or crowns, the government honors them and makes it sounds like they have supported their journey. They reward them only when they won.

I feel like traditional athletic sports are in a decline.

With younger generations shifting towards an emphasis on video games and esports.

Sports like boxing used to be massive. Boxing gyms used to be crowded with people. Now they're empty. I get the feeling sports stars like Michael Jordan and Tom Brady aren't as famous or revered as they used to be. The olympics no longer has big dollar endorsement deals they have in previous decades.

Whatever national sports are on OP's list. I suspect in the near future they will change.

In the united states recently the NFL has had trouble securing health insurance for concussions and brain injuries. Politicians have proposed removing some of the tax exemptions which sports like the NFL, NBA and MLB enjoy.

I think change is in the air with traditional sports are losing ground. But maybe there is more to this that I am missing.

Wrong for India. /We got no national sports/
It was believed that Hockey is the National sports but India does not have a national sports even though the tournaments of cricket are enjoyed all over India and people hype too much I have never seen Rugby being played on the fields, all you are going to see are kids playing kabaddi or Cricket.
Indians do love Football as well, Badminton and hockey ofcourse, but considering the sports like kho-kho which is traditional this is also something that you are going to see everywhere but for betting, it's either cricket or football or hockey or kabaddi mainly.

As long as I know the world of sports, there are some that are quite foreign, such as the sport of Charreria from Mexico. Trying to find information at a glance, it turns out that it is only the name but the game is indeed related to horses. Where I've seen some video footage that uses technical techniques to be able to catch a horse by swinging a rope. No wonder because Mexico is famous for the symbol of the cowboy.

In my country, Football and volleyball are national sports, but the list of sports that are important sports is extensive.

that's surprising, knowing how big India is and with the number of traditional sports with rich culture and history behind them, I always thought it would be one of them. just curious, do you know the reason why India hasn't picked a National sport?

we do have a specific National sport in our country, Arnis has been named as our National sport since 2009. what I do hope is that our Government put an effort into spreading awareness about it.

Exactly! That's why we don't even know who will represent our country in that specific sports/field because the government itself doesn't support them either financially, emotionally, or informationally. We will suddenly know their names and their stories if they got a gold medal but if they don't, sadly, they will remain a stranger to the government and to us.

This surprises me a lot, I thought that the Philippines was a country that totally supports its athletes, however their performance in sports is very good, of a high level, this means that all efforts to represent their country have to go on their own? Does this also apply to boxers? The Filipinos are for me boxing masters, they have a really admirable development in that sport, but when the players arrive with the medals, the government recognizes them and gives them the required help? that is to say, they pay them what they spent and apart from that they don't reward them? at least with money, house, or car? because it is the least they can do to raise their country.