Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Sports Audience in Netherlands

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Sports in Netherlands — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Sports has an estimated audience of 8,993,371 people in Netherlands.

The average Sports fan in Netherlands is 42.9 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Zuid-Holland.

The audience is concentrated in Zuid-Holland, North Holland, North Brabant.

Demographically, the Sports audience skews balanced with an average age of 42.9, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Price Sensitivity, Need for Security.

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 2026-08-12.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Sports profile in Netherlands.

Audience size
9M
in Netherlands
Gender
51.7%
48.3% male
Age
42.9
average years
Country rank
#21
Topic in Netherlands
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+0%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Sports fans

51.7% are female, 48.3% are male, average age 42.9.

Fig. 02

Gender split

51.7%
Female
48.3%
Male
Demographic split for Sports audience in Netherlands
MetricValue
Female51.7%
Male48.3%
Average age42.9
Estimated audience size8,993,371
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 42.9
average years
Age distribution of the Sports audience in Netherlands
Age bracketShare%
16-1915%
20-2916%
30-3917%
40-4922%
50+31%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.1%

of the worldwide Sports audience comes from Netherlands.

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 Netherlands average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Sports audience in Netherlands is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Sports fans by region: top regions in Netherlands
#RegionReachAffinity×
01North Holland~2.5M1.52×
02Zuid-Holland~3M1.42×
03North Brabant~1.5M1.20×
04Limburg~600K1.01×
05Flevoland~200K0.97×
06Gelderland~1M0.95×
07Utrecht~700K0.93×
08Zeeland~200K0.89×
09Overijssel~600K0.85×
10Groningen~300K0.81×
11Drenthe~200K0.79×
12Friesland~300K0.74×
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 SensitivityPREMIUM0.97×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.95×
TravellingTHRILL0.91×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Sports audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Design AffinityPREMIUM0.68×
Urban LifestyleOPEN0.72×
SustainabilityBALANCE0.75×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Netherlands 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 Netherlands. 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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