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Top 100 Sports in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest sports in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 387 sports tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Cricket, Soccer and Basketball lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 62M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 2.7M, and the largest, Cricket, reaches around 32M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each sport, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
76 Bowling 790k 27.8 22.3% Sport
77 Ice skating 786k 28.5 21.3% Sport
78 Freestyle swimming 762k 30.6 27.7% Sport
79 Taekwondo 759k 28.3 14.6% Sport
80 Cross country running 758k 29.7 24.9% Sport
81 Backcountry skiing 724k 26.0 31.2% Sport
82 Freestyle Motocross 724k 25.5 18.2% Sport
83 Kickboxing 714k 27.8 26.7% Sport
84 Skateboarding 709k 28.0 23.4% Sport
85 Japanese martial arts 709k 31.1 24.6% Sport
86 Paragliding 680k 29.4 21.1% Sport
87 Acrobatics 678k 29.5 42.6% Sport
88 Angling 675k 31.1 17.2% Sport
89 Indoor ports 665k 31.1 15.8% Sport
90 Rafting 648k 31.9 17.0% Sport
91 10K run 643k 30.4 25.0% Sport
92 Racquetball 589k 36.5 23.8% Sport
93 Kart racing 563k 28.9 21.7% Sport
94 Mountaineering 560k 31.6 19.1% Sport
95 10,000 metres 530k 30.9 26.4% Sport
96 B-boying 512k 26.7 33.8% Sport
97 Rallying 499k 26.6 12.8% Sport
98 Windsurfing 486k 28.4 26.8% Sport
99 Women's soccer 477k 31.4 25.2% Sport
100 Recreational diving 474k 32.0 33.7% Sport

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each sport by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest sport in India?

Cricket currently leads with an estimated audience of 32M people in India.

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