Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Sports Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Sports in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Sports has an estimated audience of 34,738,064 people in Italy.

The average Sports fan in Italy is 41.8 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Lombardy.

The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Campania, Lazio.

Top brand affinities include Eyelid, City of Brussels, Brogue shoe, with strongest over-indexing on Eyelid (1.91× the country average).

Demographically, the Sports audience skews balanced with an average age of 41.8, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Price Sensitivity, Quality Awareness.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 6 brand affinities and 20 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Sports fan in Italy is balanced, around 41.8 years old, with strong Price Sensitivity tendencies and a notable affinity for Eyelid.

Category: Sports · Type: Topic · Subtype: Lifestyle cluster

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 Sports profile in Italy.

Audience size
34.7M
in Italy
Gender
49.7%
50.3% male
Age
41.8
average years
Country rank
#25
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+6%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Sports fans

49.7% are female, 50.3% are male, average age 41.8.

Fig. 02

Gender split

49.7%
Female
50.3%
Male
Demographic split for Sports audience in Italy
MetricValue
Female49.7%
Male50.3%
Average age41.8
Estimated audience size34,738,064
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 41.8
average years
Age distribution of the Sports audience in Italy
Age bracketShare%
16-1917%
20-2915%
30-3919%
40-4921%
50+27%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

4.1%

of the worldwide Sports audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Sports
CountryShare
United States20.3%
Japan8.3%
India5.0%
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 Sports audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Sports fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~800K1.84×
02Aosta Valley~100K1.38×
03Veneto~3.5M1.20×
04Lombardy~6.5M1.09×
05Sicilia~3M1.06×
06Friuli-Venezia Giulia~700K1.06×
07Puglia~2.5M1.05×
08Piedmont~2.5M1.02×
09Tuscany~2.5M1.02×
10Emilia-Romagna~3M0.98×
11Campania~4M0.97×
12Sardinia~900K0.97×
13Marche~800K0.91×
14Liguria~900K0.89×
15Lazio~3.5M0.86×
16Basilicata~300K0.84×
17Calabria~900K0.82×
18Abruzzo~600K0.78×
19Umbria~400K0.77×
20Molise~100K0.60×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Sports audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01City of BrusselsTravel & Leisure2.14×
02Brogue shoeFashion & Accessoires1.94×
03EyelidBeauty & Wellness1.91×
04CorePower YogaSports1.77×
05ShopaholicMovies & TV1.65×
06PCI ConcursosShopping1.54×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Sports 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 Sports audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Price SensitivityPREMIUM0.95×
Quality AwarenessPREMIUM0.88×
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER0.84×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Sports audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
IndividualismJOY0.51×
Community OrientationOPEN0.52×
MindfulnessBALANCE0.59×
1.00× baseline
Section 06

Frequently asked questions

01

How many fans does Sports have in Italy?

Sports has an estimated audience of 34,738,064 people in Italy, concentrated in Lombardy and Campania.

02

What is the gender split and age of Sports fans?

49.7% of Sports fans are female, 50.3% are male, with an average age of 41.8 years.

03

Which brands do Sports fans like most?

Sports fans show strongest brand affinity for Eyelid (1.91×), City of Brussels (2.14×), and Brogue shoe (1.94×) over the country average.

04

Where do Sports fans live in Italy?

Sports fans in Italy are most concentrated in Lombardy (reach ~6.5M), Campania (reach ~4M), and Lazio (reach ~3.5M). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.

05

What other brands do Sports fans also like?

Beyond Sports itself, the audience over-indexes on City of Brussels (2.14×), Brogue shoe (1.94×), Shopaholic (1.65×), and PCI Concursos (1.54×) compared to the Italy average.

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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for Sports. 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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