Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Basketball Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Basketball in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Basketball has an estimated audience of 18,519,744 people in Italy.

The average Basketball fan in Italy is 39.9 years old, more male, and lives primarily in Lombardy.

The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Lazio, Campania.

Top brand affinities include Pallacanestro Cantù, with strongest over-indexing on Pallacanestro Cantù (1.62× the country average).

Demographically, the Basketball audience skews more male with an average age of 39.9, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Social Media Usage, Need for Security.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 1 brand affinities and 20 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Basketball fan in Italy is more male, around 39.9 years old, with strong Social Media Usage tendencies and a notable affinity for Pallacanestro Cantù.

Category: Sports · Type: Topic · Subtype: Sport

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Basketball profile in Italy.

Audience size
18.5M
in Italy
Gender
40.7%
59.3% male
Age
39.9
average years
Country rank
#150
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+1%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Basketball fans

40.7% are female, 59.3% are male, average age 39.9.

Fig. 02

Gender split

40.7%
Female
59.3%
Male
Demographic split for Basketball audience in Italy
MetricValue
Female40.7%
Male59.3%
Average age39.9
Estimated audience size18,519,744
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 39.9
average years
Age distribution of the Basketball audience in Italy
Age bracketShare%
16-1919%
20-2917%
30-3920%
40-4921%
50+22%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

4.5%

of the worldwide Basketball audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Basketball
CountryShare
United States24.3%
Japan5.1%
Italy4.5%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Italy average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Basketball audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Basketball fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~800K3.17×
02Veneto~1.5M1.18×
03Tuscany~1.5M1.17×
04Lombardy~4M1.15×
05Friuli-Venezia Giulia~400K1.11×
06Lazio~2M0.99×
07Liguria~500K0.97×
08Emilia-Romagna~1.5M0.96×
09Aosta Valley~40K0.94×
10Campania~2M0.92×
11Puglia~1M0.91×
12Sardinia~500K0.91×
13Sicilia~1.5M0.90×
14Molise~80K0.88×
15Basilicata~100K0.86×
16Piedmont~1M0.85×
17Marche~400K0.85×
18Umbria~300K0.84×
19Calabria~400K0.77×
20Abruzzo~300K0.75×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Basketball audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Basketball audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Pallacanestro CantùSports1.62×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Basketball audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Basketball audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Social Media UsageJOY0.89×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.89×
CreativityOPEN0.88×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Basketball audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
IndividualismJOY0.72×
Risk AppetiteTHRILL0.72×
IndulgenceJOY0.75×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for Basketball. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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