The advantage the WC has is the fact it only comes around once every 4 years so it has that extra spice if it was a yearly tournament it may well lose its novelty factor even though the Champions league final has huge audiences it's not talked about in the same way as the World Cup final is in terms of hype and build up and the WC is more likely to have those who don't follow the game on any other occasion watching than the CL does
of course champions league is amazing , but what makes wc the best is that it is played every 4 years , all countries take part on it , if fifa consider it to be played every 2 years , it would be the biggest mistake ever made
You are delusional. Football is not seasonal. It's the beautiful game. The beautiful game which has universal following not like cricket or basketball. Make those other sports 4 years rotation, they will soon be extinct.
As much as I wanted Morocco in the final. France vs Argentina is a great final, especially what both teams playing for, this ain't your usual WC win, this win will be historically important in the grand scheme of football history.
Wdym ''usual WC win''? Every final is important in the grand scheme of football history. I'd argue the Finals of 1954, 1970, 1974, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2010 and 2014 had equally as much, if not more on the line than this upcoming final.
Unless your country doesn't have a team or your team was banned for starting a war, the World Cup is the only title that can be truly referred to as a World Title as it includes the whole world from the start of qualifying to the end with the Final.
Wonder why the US was never banned they started so mant ways over the 20 years lol speaking as an american we start wars like crazy but then again we eun the world and make the rules. No one can ban us we're gods!!!!
Just about all the competitions listed here (except for the Super Bowl) include the whole world from qualifying to the end with a final. However, much like other sports like cricket, there is really only a small handful of teams that have any mathematical chance of ever winning the final, so to that extent neither sport can truly be considered a world title on this particular metric.
football will remain the biggest sports because it is easily accessible to everyone, it is fairly easy to understand than any other sports. this what distinguishes it from other sports which made this sports loved by everyone.
Cuz you need to wear military grade armor to play American Football.You need overpriced iron sticks to play golf. You need to have PhD from Harvard to understand Basketball and you only a ball and somewhat decent field to play football.
@@mfatihbilhaq4977 You need to have PhD from Harvard to understand Basketball This is incredibly wrong. The strategy in basketball is very similar to soccer. You only need a ball and a hoop to play basketball
That's not it. As you stated, it is the only tournament that reunites the best soccer ahtletes from their respective countries from all around the World every four years. The cultural significance can only be comparable to the Olympics. In this last tournament alone, you got Arab People and qatari peopple rooting for Argentina, you got japanese people rooting for Brazil, you also got mexicans rooting for France and so on. Such odd fanatic behavior can only be seen in a tournament of such popularity and cultural influence, which has tons of lore and history, global history, and that's just one of many stories you will definitely encounter. Also just to note, Qatar has little history with soccer, even so they worked hard to get to host this event cause they tough that was the best way to introduce Qatar to the world.
Thanks for another encyclopaedic take on football, as always. Being born and raised in Bangladesh, and a hardcore Argentina fan, it was wonderful to see Argentinians acknowledge its fandom here this time around. Would love to hear your take on "The biggest single-nation fans of national football teams outside of their respective nations", however paraphrased your title may be.
@@MerrillDragonAge LMAO NO IT WONT If Bangladesh and Argentina played a match in Dhaka all the fans would be wearing Blue and White those guys are literally crazy for a country that doesn’t even know Bangladesh exists.
Most definitely yes, and it's not even close. Neither the superbowl nor the most important event in the Olympics (whatever that is) can compare to the World Cup final.
As a Brentford fan, I would say that, after failing constantly in Championship playoff finals, and then finally winning one, the playoff final is the greatest game of all. No bias there. Edit just to clarify this was a joke...
Yes but for example, barely any Americans are gonna be like “ooo I wonder who will win the Championship playoff”. Here the champions league is the most popular. In order to be the largest it has to be everywhere But if we go off prize money, yeah you’re right
The World Cup Final is the world's biggest sporting event in terms of number of people excited about it. Nothing else really comes close. One major reason for this is that it only takes place every four years. Another is that nearly every nation on earth enters a team to attempt to win the thing.
Only the Summer Olympics can come close to it where many nations compete in different sports every 4 years, but yeah, the World Cup final will always be the biggest event in the World.
@@jp8146 Based on nations qualifying Olympics is bigger but on viewership FIFA World Cup is the only thing surpassing the Olympics. Viewership wise it's: 1. FIFA World Cup 2. The Olympics 3. Euro Cup 4. Cricket WC final (mostly cuz of India) 5. UEFA Champions League Super Bowl isn't even top 5 and outside USA nobody really cares about it either
Another indication is the amount of mind space the football World Cup occupies and how it captures the imagination of the people. All of the events mentioned other than the football World Cup is easy to miss.....an average person in my country could live a lifetime and still not know of the existence of the super bowl, tour de France, or the champions qualifiers let alone who participate or won these. But everyone has some idea about the progress of the football World Cup and is likely to atleast know who is playing the finals.
Exactly. I mean every single person from my tiny village from rural Romania, knows and watches the world cup (despite not qualifying ourselves since 98) and maybe 1 or 2 has heard of the super bowl, and that is from movies or tv shows.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plusit's in crisis, qualified...why ? Now dont deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone know no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway. ok Apu, tank u come again.
May not even be the biggest but I've seen people go to unimaginable depths to watch the final, depths not seen in other sports (tournaments). Hell, a town in my country successfully managed to delay a power outage to the following day all because the final fell within the outage period. Had the request been for any other reason, I'm pretty sure it'd have been refused outright. The fact the finals involve Messi and Mbappe, I imagine we're gonna see some wild stories come out of this day.
@@davidohaegbulam9988 Can you imagine if the delay was scheduled for after 120 minutes of the game start thinking that would be enough only for the whole town to miss the penalties definition?
May not be the biggest event? Are you ignorant? Seriously watch what you say before saying it. Of course the World Cup is the biggest event in any sport ever and by light years! How dare you even question that?
The viewing figures of World Cup finals vs Champions League finals say yes it is. Over two billion people will be watching today. The fact that an entire country becoming officially the best in the world being a much bigger deal than a club being the best is another reason. World Cup only comes round every four years, Champions League finals are played every single season.
For the players, World Cup is not about money, but prestige. They are already paid millions by their clubs, so they don’t have to worry about their salary. This tournament is about the pride of representing your country in front of the entire world. The goal is not to get paid, but to be the World Champions of the most popular sport on Earth.
The super bowl here in America is watched by around 120 million in america and about 150 million people around the world on TV - a little over 1/3 of the country (but virtually everyone has super bowl parties and gatherings even if they arent just watching. but the world cup is watched by literally over a billion people. the super bowl just makes more because we have way more commercial breaks in our football Also on edit - Alfie, you really should check out how awful the American coverage of the world cup has been. yesterday the studio hosts dressed up as qataris and ran propaganda pieces with qatar sponsored influencers. we have been bombarded with pro qatar tourist ads for 4 weeks. its very different than the BBC lol
Also nfl stadiums tend to be bigger than all but the biggest soccer stadiums. The nfls minimum capacity for stadiums is 60,000 for example, but even the World Cup sets it at 40,000.
@@barry4649 the champions league is a much better comp to the super bowl. the best comp for the world cup is something like the olympics. but i dont think the champions league is much bigger than the super bowl
I hate how people tend to use money as a measure of how important something is. As a supporter of an outside the top 5 league team, i much prefer my team to win titles to being in the top 20 most valuable teams. Of course money is important but just because a team (and for example an event) is more financially successfull doesnt meant they are the most important. And btw my team has won the ucl and the europa league so they arent exactly some minnows.
Your handball has nothing on the World Cup bro. Don’t even compare that shit ass game football is to put be played with the ball in the foot American handball or touch ass has nothing on football. That’s why it hasn’t caught on anywhere else in the world just fuck in America.
no video is needed, there is no argument, football is life and the most popular and exciting sport on the planet full of history, joys, sadness, tragedies, celebrations everything is football
Fact 1: Football is the biggest sport there is and ever will be , Fact2: world cup is the biggest tournament no doubt Fact 3: fact 1 and fact 2 are 100% accurate
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Even anecdotally, the fact that my family WhatsApp group was about as busy as it's ever been during the World Cup final, tells me the appeal of the tournament. 50% of the group don't even care about football, but the interest amongst almost everyone was intense. Pretty much everyone watching the game across several different timezones - none of whom are Argentine nor French. Just 77 people glued to the drama unfolding.
There is absolutely no way the audience for the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final was as low as 135 million people. India alone probably had double that amount of concurrent viewers, and global viewership probably wasn't too far off what was quoted - maybe 350 to 400 million viewers, considering that there's significant Indian population worldwide. Maybe the figure should be dropped slightly due to multiple people watching one TV screen, but the amount of people who watched the event live is probably close to what was quoted.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway. ok Apu, tank u come again.
The Super Bowl is watched by 150 million people worldwide annually. The Champions League final is watched by 600 million, don’t even compare that to the World Cup final 😂
@@robierahg17 that last line tells me you’re under the age of 10, and the actual figures are 380 million for the UCL final, and 208 million for the Super Bowl, you must’ve only checked viewership in America or something 😂
I would like to see the relation between Ayrton Senna's tragic death on May 1st, 1994, and the impact on Brazil's football team that won the World Cup later that Summer.
Think a major factor in the world cup never being called the 'football world cup' is FIFA insisting it's referred to as the "FIFA world cup" by the media and their increasingly prominent branding (e.g. FIFA being in a larger font than 'world cup' on official signs). A contributor to the situation is perhaps the role that the FIFA football series has had increasing awareness of the FIFA brand since its inception. I'd be interested to see a comparison with how things were in the 80s and earlier in terms of marketing and branding of the world cup.
Well most people generally drop the FIFA aspect and just state it as the world cup. I rarely see anyone outside of TV announcers call it a "FIFA" world cup, and even then they just state it as world cup, or copa mundial in Hispanic countries.
@@blackearl7891 Fair point but I'd say that's potentially not always true in countries where there's a world cup in another sport (e.g. cricket, rugby, ice hockey) that rivals the football one in popularity
FIFA is the international governing body of association football, so of course they're gonna add their name to the biggest event they held. It's no different than UEFA Champions League or NBA Finals.
It’s interesting since you mentioned F1. As a fan or at least these days a fairly jaded one the Champions League analogy rings true where more and more events are being added in order to maximise revenue and dilute the sport is very much true in F1 too. Also the chasing of Billionaire Despots in F1 would make even FIFA blush (well possibly not..)
In Australia, stadiums were almost full at 6AM in the morning (Yes, 6AM) to watch a football match (not the final) on TV screens! I have never seen scenes like that for any sport in Australia or around the World. Thousands more were in city centres watching World Cup games on TV screens at silly hours.
That doesn't give the correct impression however. Football is a minority sport in Australia, notwithstanding what you say. Yes, there were thousands gathered together to watch the Australian team at 6am in the morning, and even 1.7m watching on tv, but that still means that 95% of the country weren't watching. The TV audience for the final was 1m, about 4% of the population.
@@daleviker5884 oh why do you bother? It’s the ONLY sport to bring out the fans in huge numbers with the passion it deserves. I bet no other sport can achieve close to these audience figures at 2AM when the final was aired. Let alone have tens of thousands attend live sites at 6AM in the morning! It’s a lot more popular that you think.
@@josephj6521 Football is no more or less popular in Australia than what I indicated. You won't see AFL or NRL fans gathering to watch their sport at 2am in the morning because the games are played locally in the day or evening. Duh. Fans of mainstream sports in Australia always wish the Socceroos well, and a small segment of the population will watch the World Cup, but now that it's over, the sport goes back to being a minority interest that only makes the news when there's a riot.
@@daleviker5884 have you ever seen tens of thousands watch the Rugby or Rugby League “world cups” live from the UK at 4am? No. Of course not. They’re not as popular as the media make them out to be.
I don't do sports, don't watch any sports except some football matches in the pasts, and some highlights now and then. Even in this world cup I only watches highlights. But I still wanted to know latest update. It felts like missing something without knowing speculations, result, and commentaries for this event.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway. ok Apu, tank u come again.
Americans will tell you the Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event on earth yet this year's Super Bowl had a lower attendance than the 2019 Checkatrade Trophy final between 2 League 1 clubs.
Simple argument - it is so easy (from an African perspective). Number 1: You can be piss poor and still play. You don't even need a proper football, in South Africa we took several plastic bags, bundled them together and wrapped them in an orange bag - that's how you make a football. Number 2: Still piss poor. put 2 bricks and that is how you create a goal Number 3: You can be from 5 foot 2 to all the way to 6 foot 8, nobody cares as long as you put in effort. Number 4: You only need boots (in Africa you can play bare footed even) and shin pads (here you can use cardboard for shin pads) Number 5: You don't need grass, you can play on concrete, sand, a desert and even on a beach. Those are some but there are more. Sad to see FIFA and UEFA make our sport more money driven (it sucks).
you are so right , but i dont think that the 1 reason is the most important , because there are a lot of sport that can be played if you are poor , but yes football can be played wit rocks , bags... as you said people from all type can play it , messi is the best and cristiano, haaland is 1.95 messi 1.70, but people confuses this with not having to be fit to play football
Personally in terms of calibre, only the Olympics and the WC are worthy of topping the list. Olympics cause there's more investment from every country participating and historically nearly every culture has a contest of sports domestically but WC can take it cause its the most popular sport in most countries
it‘s not about price money per se, but about getting into the prem, which is just flooded with absurd amounts of means and money, so that even small teams, who don‘t have any prospect of doing well during the season, get a huge chunk. That‘s how Forrest can spend so much without fearing financial ruin despite just having achieved promotion. Even if they go down again the revenue they are able to generate while in the prem will be easily sufficient to compensate the spending.
I think the ratings for the World Cup this time around is going to be *GIGANTIC* . With good reason: the final showcased Lionel Messi, a legendary player approaching the sunset of a long, historic career and Kylian Mbappé, the next rising international superstar of the sport. And the final was actually an exciting game showcasing both players, something that was almost never seen at the final level.
Fifa is corrupt though its amazing people are blind and still watch the games knowing damn well the corruption is still very high even after they jaile dlots of fifa board members.
"The biggest" I define biggest by amount of people involved in it. The viewers are always the largest group involved in sporting events so they define the size of it. World Cup is the biggest even and it will never change.
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Got to say the Olympics has lost its luster. Barely anyone gave a rats' backside about Rio 2016 or Tokyo 2020. I suppose the men's 100m final is the showpiece event, but except Usain Bolt, most medal winners get forgotten in about 15 minutes' time. It's more of a collection of world championship play-offs and finals for a medley of sports that don't get regular mainstream coverage (swimming, athletics, field hockey)
@@marculinrise9914 Jacob Lamont Mitchell (half-Italian, half-black American), but the Olympics has lost its prestige. Anyway that's probably the only time he'll win gold, but next Usain Bolt will probably become a household name
All these other sports are too EXPENSIVE for MOST OF THE WORLD. 😢 Football ⚽️ will FOREVER be the best Sports on earth with the most eyeballs on it. All you need is a ball (bottle, crumpled paper, anything that can roll and a goal post (sticks or anything that can mark a spot) and that’s that. Football also has the Most participants there are more footballers on earth than basketball era, cricketers, formula one drivers etc There are more participating nations in football ⚽️ than any other sport. For the 2022 World Cup every single country participated in the qualifiers including NORTH KOREA, ISRAEL, CHINA, RUSSIA, ZIMBABWE, SOMALIA, IRAQ and many more It is for this reason the next fifa worldcup will be Expanded to accommodate more nations.
@@sanketgedam5603 Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway. ok Apu, tank u come again.
@@syas13 its simple brother, lack of grass root development, corruption inside aiff and lack of govt support for football in india with lack of exposure for indian players in outside leagues like j leagues etc which are much more competitive than isl or i league.
The Super Bowl will never hold a candle to the World Cup Final. You can have Super Bowl and the World Cup Final at the same time, and the World Cup will win the viewership and social media battle. The Super Bowl could feature ‘Brady vs Rodgers’, and World Cup Final ‘Messi vs Ronaldo’. Guess what. The Super Bowl can easily become irrelevant.
Football has more followers because it was a European sport and when Europe colonized the world it spread football with it. Europe colonized Africa, Asia and South America, so the fact that football is popular in much of the world just reflects world history. It's the same reason that cricket is popular in India and Pakistan. America hasn't colonized other continents, so you wouldn't expect American football to have spread around the world.
I’m not sure if this counts or not but actually the most viewed sporting event in America every year isn’t actually the Super Bowl it’s actually wrestlemania and has been for a very long time just not sure if that counts
There's no doubt that the World Cup is the biggest sport event, although I do appreciate a lot of what the Olympics brings to the table. I'd rather have countries that don't necessarily play football first and foremost keep their own path, and have a stage where they can show off other sports where they can show their stripes. But I'll chose not to pick and chose, and enjoy both
One more thing: has anyone looked up the viewing figures for the UEFA European Championship final and knockout stages? I know it's only UEFA Nations (plus Turkey and Central Asian countries) permitted to compete, but it is surely a close 2nd in terms of prestige to the FIFA World Cup? Love to see you do a video on this Alfie if you're struggling for video ideas in the next 18 months 👍
I consider the 100 m. dash at the Olympics to be the best (if not biggest) event in sport, because it is the most competetive sport in the world. After all, almost everyone has had a chance to run a dash, but only one person can be crowned as the fastest human being.
In terms of the Commonwealth countries which love cricket, Canada has very little interest in that sport, but watching the Super Bowl is very popular. Canada also has an American football league called the Canadian Football League. But interest in soccer does seem to be growing in that country!
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The biggest sports events are imho in no particular order are; FIFA World cup NFL Super Bowl Copa America final FA Cup Cricket World Cup The Ashes (cricket) UEFA Champions League final The Winter and summer Olympics AFCON Asian Cup
Mbappe is good but MESSI is the goat. Not only he won everything you can win as a football player but at age 35, he played every minute of every game, including 2 extensions!
@@waitbalthy6342 whoaa, slow down bud.. Modric's great, but I don't think that he's better than Xavi, Iniesta, Ronaldinho, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes, Pirlo, and Vieira just to name a few.
I know exactly the circumstances where I have been during every WC final since 1990. Can't say that for anything else in sports. Except specific cl finals or the Messi vs arsenal 4-0...
I dont know if this comment will get noticed.. but i really wish HITC would cover the story of the most heated football rivalry in South East Asia.. Malaysia vs Indonesia
the thing makes it heated is becuz indonesia. the country that has many uneducated people. look at the country's history as many people killed by football club rivalries.
I would like to know the importance of Brazil's audience in the World Cup. We are the most populous of football-loving countries, and national team games are de facto holidays here.
It’s one of those questions that I think doesn’t need an answer. It’s the same with all “what/who is the greatest” questions. They’re all largely opinion based and answers can change by different definitions of what “greatest” or “biggest” means. A fun hypothetical question where it’s interesting to hear people’s opinions and reasons, but ultimately not that important
i think its not subjective, they are talking about what sport is most followed, another thing would be , what is the best sport? well , in usa football wouldnt be even the 5 , in my culture , spain , we live football as a religion, the other sport are basically not 10 percent as important , in india cricket i see is a religion , and i have not heard of it in 25 years , world is different
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway. ok Apu, tank u come again.
I was raised in the US and watched every major team sport growing up (basketball, American Football, baseball, hockey, association football). Sports are subjective so the "biggest event" is based on where you grew up and what you personally watch. There are tons of people who are single-sport fans who try to compare different sports and talk about sports they don't even watch. They tend to be the loudest people in these types of conversations. To be honest, I don't consider people who only watch one sport to be "true" sports fans. If you only watch futbol then you are ONLY a futbol fan and have no knowledge to talk about basketball, American football etc or if you only watch basketball then you have no knowledge to talk about cricket, futbol etc. Only multi-sport fans truly appreciate sports, it's the folks who watch one sport year round who talk the most trash because of their limited world view and prospective.
i consider myself as a truly sport fan i watch tennis football basketball and athletics , but he is just saying that football world cup is the most viewed event , and there is no lies about that, besides i am gonna give an opinion, just an opinion : i have played football tennis and done athletic all my life and there is no comparison with football , i know in some countries you see fotball as a secondary sport and i respect that, no ones has to like it , i treat football as a religion and maybe my neighbour does not give a shit about it but isee in football some things the other sport dont have
WC is once in a lifetime for a lot of players. It's THE tournament to win. Your entire country is either good enough to qualify or it's not. There is no next year we'll get it.
Don’t know if I’m being harsh. But I’m starting to get a bit bored of these videos. At first I thought Alfie’s long video essays were very entertaining and full on interesting points and arguments. But recently I’ve found that they are waaay longer than they need to be and 80% of the content in the video is just pointless rambling on about literally nothing before the point of the video is made ..
If only FIFA can invite big artists to perform few hours before kickoff. It would be comparable to annual Super Bowl Just kidding, FIFA World Cup Final is always bigger than UEFA Champions League Final, let alone Super Bowl
@@blackearl7891 us football fans dont give a shit about artist , much less if she is an american girl who call it soccer , i just like some musician playing or singing champiosn league anthem like andrea bocelli
@@carloshoces7602 I know. I was laughing my ass off cause cabello was crying that they weren't paying attention to her. FIFA is desperately trying to recreate the superbowl
I still don't understand why the Super Bowl is compared to the World Cup or the Olympics. No one will sit and watch if the Super Bowl ever gets the Browns vs Lions, or Jaguars vs Commanders. lol
To me if I was a player I’d want to win every trophy I physically could but the World Cup is the pinnacle. It’s the spectacle that I, a Rugby fan, always get pulled back to.
Of course the WC is the biggest - Every year people care less and less about Olympics - Only Americans care about NFL - Most of people who watch tennis are people who grew up in wealth - Golf is even more for wealthy people Football is the sport of the mass Doesn't matter how you grew up, doesn't matter where you came from The world loves it, this is how countries all over the world compete against each other Even during the war, the soldiers take a break to watch the match So the WC is by far the main event in the planet
@@robierahg17 It's not soccer, it's football 😂 Even in the few countries which football isn't the favourite, it's the second favourite Except USA, people in there have a heart made of steel 😁 So when you count the number of football fans worldwide, there is no sport which gets even close to that, the distance from the second place is massive
@@thkiwi1 Doesnt really matter the name (also, "soccer" originaly came from the British themselves lol), but theres no doubt football IS the biggest sport in the world
@Visitor7474 Maybe in your country it's like this, in other countries it's not Tennis for example, it's interesting only when top 10 players are playing Golf is always boring, doesn't matter how good the player is Football is different from other sports, because in countries where people love football, they keep watching the competition even after their team gets eliminated When the local team is out, people choose another one to cheer for This is the magic of football, no other sport have that
@Visitor you cannot deny football is the most watched sport in the world , we can argue about other things. i love tennis and football, but i have seen many arguments trying to make football weak and nothing further from the reality, you may like cricket , tennis ... but football is more followed , in my country we talk about football tennis f1 basketball but you will not see one person talking about cricket or hockey , it does not mean it is not famous
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100% the biggest sport and the final of the best tournament that comes around once every 4 years
Yes by far and Liverpool the greatest team.
@@ssjr3604 Real Madrid the greatest
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The advantage the WC has is the fact it only comes around once every 4 years so it has that extra spice if it was a yearly tournament it may well lose its novelty factor even though the Champions league final has huge audiences it's not talked about in the same way as the World Cup final is in terms of hype and build up and the WC is more likely to have those who don't follow the game on any other occasion watching than the CL does
of course champions league is amazing , but what makes wc the best is that it is played every 4 years , all countries take part on it , if fifa consider it to be played every 2 years , it would be the biggest mistake ever made
You are delusional. Football is not seasonal. It's the beautiful game. The beautiful game which has universal following not like cricket or basketball. Make those other sports 4 years rotation, they will soon be extinct.
Less is more.
The UCL final is STILL the most watched sport event if there is no WC final. This makes your argument fall apart.
@@davidvalencia129 are you replying to me ?
As much as I wanted Morocco in the final. France vs Argentina is a great final, especially what both teams playing for, this ain't your usual WC win, this win will be historically important in the grand scheme of football history.
Nobody won in morocco to win nobody. I honestly wonder how much they paid Portugal to lose.
@@zorzizero tf are you even saying
@@zorzizero everyone was rooting for the underdogs morroco put ur bias aside wherever it comes from
@@zorzizero Dude, you dont actually think Marocco paid of Portugal, right?
Wdym ''usual WC win''? Every final is important in the grand scheme of football history. I'd argue the Finals of 1954, 1970, 1974, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2010 and 2014 had equally as much, if not more on the line than this upcoming final.
Unless your country doesn't have a team or your team was banned for starting a war, the World Cup is the only title that can be truly referred to as a World Title as it includes the whole world from the start of qualifying to the end with the Final.
Wonder why the US was never banned they started so mant ways over the 20 years lol speaking as an american we start wars like crazy but then again we eun the world and make the rules. No one can ban us we're gods!!!!
Not necessarily. The second definition of World is "a region or group of countries." Meaning any tournament champion can be labeled "World Champions."
You are absolutely right about that my friend
@@OfficialKotaco context though...
Just about all the competitions listed here (except for the Super Bowl) include the whole world from qualifying to the end with a final. However, much like other sports like cricket, there is really only a small handful of teams that have any mathematical chance of ever winning the final, so to that extent neither sport can truly be considered a world title on this particular metric.
football will remain the biggest sports because it is easily accessible to everyone, it is fairly easy to understand than any other sports. this what distinguishes it from other sports which made this sports loved by everyone.
Exactly
Cuz you need to wear military grade armor to play American Football.You need overpriced iron sticks to play golf. You need to have PhD from Harvard to understand Basketball and you only a ball and somewhat decent field to play football.
@@mfatihbilhaq4977 You need to have PhD from Harvard to understand Basketball
This is incredibly wrong. The strategy in basketball is very similar to soccer. You only need a ball and a hoop to play basketball
And you can be only 5 feet seven inches and 160 pounds and be the best player in the world. You don't need to be big or tall.
@@williamcross210 bruh it's freaking joke
I'm not even Argentinian and I'm shitting it. Can't think of many if any sports that can replicate those emotions.
Count your blessings that you’re not Argentinian trust me
@@zorzizero Cant imagine it. I haven't slept for 48 hours and can't eat without literally shitting immediately.
welcome 2 the club
@@aryamanmani4025 you must be a lot healthier now then I hope😂
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 Football is something else.
It happens once every 4 years. When it happens, it gets loads of attention. So yes.
try do it for superbowl... no one will remember you even exist.
So are the Olympics.
The world cup is bigger most people outside America don't care for the super bowl.
@@Nipiniponipi because the superbowl is for Americans they do not give a shit if anyone else watches
That's not it. As you stated, it is the only tournament that reunites the best soccer ahtletes from their respective countries from all around the World every four years. The cultural significance can only be comparable to the Olympics. In this last tournament alone, you got Arab People and qatari peopple rooting for Argentina, you got japanese people rooting for Brazil, you also got mexicans rooting for France and so on. Such odd fanatic behavior can only be seen in a tournament of such popularity and cultural influence, which has tons of lore and history, global history, and that's just one of many stories you will definitely encounter.
Also just to note, Qatar has little history with soccer, even so they worked hard to get to host this event cause they tough that was the best way to introduce Qatar to the world.
Thanks for another encyclopaedic take on football, as always. Being born and raised in Bangladesh, and a hardcore Argentina fan, it was wonderful to see Argentinians acknowledge its fandom here this time around.
Would love to hear your take on "The biggest single-nation fans of national football teams outside of their respective nations", however paraphrased your title may be.
Number of Argentina fans would be halved if India and Bangladesh national teams could qualify for the WC.
Rn there are more Argentine flags in Bangladesh than Bangladeshi flags
Argentina- Brazil rivelry is much more tense in Bangladesh than in South America atleast when it comes to football
@@MerrillDragonAge Even if we did many would still hope Argentina win it. The connection we have with them starts with our elders and Maradona.
@@MerrillDragonAge LMAO NO IT WONT
If Bangladesh and Argentina played a match in Dhaka all the fans would be wearing Blue and White those guys are literally crazy for a country that doesn’t even know Bangladesh exists.
Most definitely yes, and it's not even close. Neither the superbowl nor the most important event in the Olympics (whatever that is) can compare to the World Cup final.
As a Brentford fan, I would say that, after failing constantly in Championship playoff finals, and then finally winning one, the playoff final is the greatest game of all. No bias there.
Edit just to clarify this was a joke...
Of course...
As a Derby fan, no.
The stakes are INCREDIBLY high. You're basically ensuring your clubs financial security (if you play your cards right)
Yes 🙌
Yes but for example, barely any Americans are gonna be like “ooo I wonder who will win the Championship playoff”. Here the champions league is the most popular. In order to be the largest it has to be everywhere
But if we go off prize money, yeah you’re right
The World Cup Final is the world's biggest sporting event in terms of number of people excited about it. Nothing else really comes close.
One major reason for this is that it only takes place every four years. Another is that nearly every nation on earth enters a team to attempt to win the thing.
Only the Summer Olympics can come close to it where many nations compete in different sports every 4 years, but yeah, the World Cup final will always be the biggest event in the World.
@@aminr4281 Olympics is a bigger event
@@jp8146 Summer Olympics is not bigger the World Cup Final.
@@aminr4281 It is the olympics is way bigger than the world cup finals.
@@jp8146 Based on nations qualifying Olympics is bigger but on viewership FIFA World Cup is the only thing surpassing the Olympics. Viewership wise it's:
1. FIFA World Cup
2. The Olympics
3. Euro Cup
4. Cricket WC final (mostly cuz of India)
5. UEFA Champions League
Super Bowl isn't even top 5 and outside USA nobody really cares about it either
Another indication is the amount of mind space the football World Cup occupies and how it captures the imagination of the people. All of the events mentioned other than the football World Cup is easy to miss.....an average person in my country could live a lifetime and still not know of the existence of the super bowl, tour de France, or the champions qualifiers let alone who participate or won these. But everyone has some idea about the progress of the football World Cup and is likely to atleast know who is playing the finals.
Exactly. I mean every single person from my tiny village from rural Romania, knows and watches the world cup (despite not qualifying ourselves since 98) and maybe 1 or 2 has heard of the super bowl, and that is from movies or tv shows.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plusit's in crisis, qualified...why ? Now dont deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone know no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
May not even be the biggest but I've seen people go to unimaginable depths to watch the final, depths not seen in other sports (tournaments). Hell, a town in my country successfully managed to delay a power outage to the following day all because the final fell within the outage period. Had the request been for any other reason, I'm pretty sure it'd have been refused outright. The fact the finals involve Messi and Mbappe, I imagine we're gonna see some wild stories come out of this day.
and it did
@@davidohaegbulam9988 Can you imagine if the delay was scheduled for after 120 minutes of the game start thinking that would be enough only for the whole town to miss the penalties definition?
May not be the biggest event? Are you ignorant? Seriously watch what you say before saying it. Of course the World Cup is the biggest event in any sport ever and by light years! How dare you even question that?
The viewing figures of World Cup finals vs Champions League finals say yes it is. Over two billion people will be watching today.
The fact that an entire country becoming officially the best in the world being a much bigger deal than a club being the best is another reason. World Cup only comes round every four years, Champions League finals are played every single season.
5 billion was the figure...
I think the fact that the players put such importance on the tournament despite not getting as much pay makes it bigger.
it is not about money , american football can win 1000000 millions but they will not be more famous than real footballers
For the players, World Cup is not about money, but prestige. They are already paid millions by their clubs, so they don’t have to worry about their salary. This tournament is about the pride of representing your country in front of the entire world. The goal is not to get paid, but to be the World Champions of the most popular sport on Earth.
@@davidmorales886 which I think definitely makes it the bigger game.
Olympics is the only thing that comes close , biggest by a country mile
The super bowl here in America is watched by around 120 million in america and about 150 million people around the world on TV - a little over 1/3 of the country (but virtually everyone has super bowl parties and gatherings even if they arent just watching. but the world cup is watched by literally over a billion people. the super bowl just makes more because we have way more commercial breaks in our football
Also on edit - Alfie, you really should check out how awful the American coverage of the world cup has been. yesterday the studio hosts dressed up as qataris and ran propaganda pieces with qatar sponsored influencers. we have been bombarded with pro qatar tourist ads for 4 weeks. its very different than the BBC lol
Also nfl stadiums tend to be bigger than all but the biggest soccer stadiums. The nfls minimum capacity for stadiums is 60,000 for example, but even the World Cup sets it at 40,000.
The Champions League final is watched by 600 million annually so even that is way bigger than the Super Bowl
@@barry4649 the champions league is a much better comp to the super bowl. the best comp for the world cup is something like the olympics. but i dont think the champions league is much bigger than the super bowl
I hate how people tend to use money as a measure of how important something is.
As a supporter of an outside the top 5 league team, i much prefer my team to win titles to being in the top 20 most valuable teams. Of course money is important but just because a team (and for example an event) is more financially successfull doesnt meant they are the most important.
And btw my team has won the ucl and the europa league so they arent exactly some minnows.
Your handball has nothing on the World Cup bro. Don’t even compare that shit ass game football is to put be played with the ball in the foot American handball or touch ass has nothing on football. That’s why it hasn’t caught on anywhere else in the world just fuck in America.
You can't include the Superbowl, it's a domestic event! 🤣
when the first time i heard the name, i thought it was like a superbowl salad or smthg
@@R3in_Ch Me too. Everytime when I read or hear it, it takes 1 second to realize this is handegg and not some chef´s dish.
Is this even a question, when I lived in Jamaica, even non footballers watched the world cup
no video is needed, there is no argument, football is life and the most popular and exciting sport on the planet full of history, joys, sadness, tragedies, celebrations everything is football
Football is the most watched sport in the world so you could just imagine how huge football world cup final is.
Fact 1: Football is the biggest sport there is and ever will be ,
Fact2: world cup is the biggest tournament no doubt
Fact 3: fact 1 and fact 2 are 100% accurate
I think Messi will score from a free kick second half
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A Pakistan vs India cricket world cup match is the only thing close in viewership but the FIFA World Cup Final is still bigger.
Cricket is so dead though
@@James-vy5jg you are not familiar with the game
Bit dead but I admit it also
@@bipraprakash1683 I'm Australian, I'm familiar.
@@James-vy5jg Australians maybe are most successful but they are more familiar with their Australian football then cricket
@@bipraprakash1683 in Victoria yeah, I'm in new south Wales. We don't care about Australian football here
Even anecdotally, the fact that my family WhatsApp group was about as busy as it's ever been during the World Cup final, tells me the appeal of the tournament. 50% of the group don't even care about football, but the interest amongst almost everyone was intense. Pretty much everyone watching the game across several different timezones - none of whom are Argentine nor French. Just 77 people glued to the drama unfolding.
There is absolutely no way the audience for the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final was as low as 135 million people. India alone probably had double that amount of concurrent viewers, and global viewership probably wasn't too far off what was quoted - maybe 350 to 400 million viewers, considering that there's significant Indian population worldwide. Maybe the figure should be dropped slightly due to multiple people watching one TV screen, but the amount of people who watched the event live is probably close to what was quoted.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
@@syas13 it is poorer than south america. Look at the per capita income not the GDP.
The Super Bowl is watched by 150 million people worldwide annually. The Champions League final is watched by 600 million, don’t even compare that to the World Cup final 😂
Gaelic football is better than NFL in my books
@@robierahg17 that last line tells me you’re under the age of 10, and the actual figures are 380 million for the UCL final, and 208 million for the Super Bowl, you must’ve only checked viewership in America or something 😂
@@robierahg17 and the World Cup is watched by over a billion people.
@@robierahg17 dear , last champions league finals(2018,2019...) are viewed by 600 millions people , ou can search it
@@robierahg17 Lol. You just check only the American data.
I would like to see the relation between Ayrton Senna's tragic death on May 1st, 1994, and the impact on Brazil's football team that won the World Cup later that Summer.
Think a major factor in the world cup never being called the 'football world cup' is FIFA insisting it's referred to as the "FIFA world cup" by the media and their increasingly prominent branding (e.g. FIFA being in a larger font than 'world cup' on official signs). A contributor to the situation is perhaps the role that the FIFA football series has had increasing awareness of the FIFA brand since its inception. I'd be interested to see a comparison with how things were in the 80s and earlier in terms of marketing and branding of the world cup.
Well most people generally drop the FIFA aspect and just state it as the world cup. I rarely see anyone outside of TV announcers call it a "FIFA" world cup, and even then they just state it as world cup, or copa mundial in Hispanic countries.
@@blackearl7891 Fair point but I'd say that's potentially not always true in countries where there's a world cup in another sport (e.g. cricket, rugby, ice hockey) that rivals the football one in popularity
FIFA is the international governing body of association football, so of course they're gonna add their name to the biggest event they held. It's no different than UEFA Champions League or NBA Finals.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Yes
It’s interesting since you mentioned F1. As a fan or at least these days a fairly jaded one the Champions League analogy rings true where more and more events are being added in order to maximise revenue and dilute the sport is very much true in F1 too. Also the chasing of Billionaire Despots in F1 would make even FIFA blush (well possibly not..)
In Australia, stadiums were almost full at 6AM in the morning (Yes, 6AM) to watch a football match (not the final) on TV screens! I have never seen scenes like that for any sport in Australia or around the World. Thousands more were in city centres watching World Cup games on TV screens at silly hours.
Australia scare the s*hit out of argentina at last minute, is was not fun, see you next world cup.
That doesn't give the correct impression however. Football is a minority sport in Australia, notwithstanding what you say. Yes, there were thousands gathered together to watch the Australian team at 6am in the morning, and even 1.7m watching on tv, but that still means that 95% of the country weren't watching. The TV audience for the final was 1m, about 4% of the population.
@@daleviker5884 oh why do you bother? It’s the ONLY sport to bring out the fans in huge numbers with the passion it deserves. I bet no other sport can achieve close to these audience figures at 2AM when the final was aired. Let alone have tens of thousands attend live sites at 6AM in the morning! It’s a lot more popular that you think.
@@josephj6521 Football is no more or less popular in Australia than what I indicated. You won't see AFL or NRL fans gathering to watch their sport at 2am in the morning because the games are played locally in the day or evening. Duh. Fans of mainstream sports in Australia always wish the Socceroos well, and a small segment of the population will watch the World Cup, but now that it's over, the sport goes back to being a minority interest that only makes the news when there's a riot.
@@daleviker5884 have you ever seen tens of thousands watch the Rugby or Rugby League “world cups” live from the UK at 4am? No. Of course not. They’re not as popular as the media make them out to be.
I don't do sports, don't watch any sports except some football matches in the pasts, and some highlights now and then. Even in this world cup I only watches highlights. But I still wanted to know latest update. It felts like missing something without knowing speculations, result, and commentaries for this event.
An India vs Pakistan Cricket World Cup final would have to be hypothetical, as India have become specialists at bottling knockout games
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
@@syas13 population size doesn't correlate with sporting success. If that was the case, China would win everything.
The world cup final coming around once every 4 years makes it legendary
Americans will tell you the Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event on earth yet this year's Super Bowl had a lower attendance than the 2019 Checkatrade Trophy final between 2 League 1 clubs.
Simple argument - it is so easy (from an African perspective).
Number 1: You can be piss poor and still play. You don't even need a proper football, in South Africa we took several plastic bags, bundled them together and wrapped them in an orange bag - that's how you make a football.
Number 2: Still piss poor. put 2 bricks and that is how you create a goal
Number 3: You can be from 5 foot 2 to all the way to 6 foot 8, nobody cares as long as you put in effort.
Number 4: You only need boots (in Africa you can play bare footed even) and shin pads (here you can use cardboard for shin pads)
Number 5: You don't need grass, you can play on concrete, sand, a desert and even on a beach.
Those are some but there are more. Sad to see FIFA and UEFA make our sport more money driven (it sucks).
you are so right , but i dont think that the 1 reason is the most important , because there are a lot of sport that can be played if you are poor , but yes football can be played wit rocks , bags... as you said people from all type can play it , messi is the best and cristiano, haaland is 1.95 messi 1.70, but people confuses this with not having to be fit to play football
Personally in terms of calibre, only the Olympics and the WC are worthy of topping the list. Olympics cause there's more investment from every country participating and historically nearly every culture has a contest of sports domestically but WC can take it cause its the most popular sport in most countries
Wow lol... I had NO IDEA the Championship play-off final was that lucrative!! 😮😮😳😳
it‘s not about price money per se, but about getting into the prem, which is just flooded with absurd amounts of means and money, so that even small teams, who don‘t have any prospect of doing well during the season, get a huge chunk.
That‘s how Forrest can spend so much without fearing financial ruin despite just having achieved promotion. Even if they go down again the revenue they are able to generate while in the prem will be easily sufficient to compensate the spending.
I think the ratings for the World Cup this time around is going to be *GIGANTIC* . With good reason: the final showcased Lionel Messi, a legendary player approaching the sunset of a long, historic career and Kylian Mbappé, the next rising international superstar of the sport. And the final was actually an exciting game showcasing both players, something that was almost never seen at the final level.
Rigged fifa games lol
Fifa is corrupt though its amazing people are blind and still watch the games knowing damn well the corruption is still very high even after they jaile dlots of fifa board members.
Thats why i cant even watch it. Just so corrupt
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"The biggest"
I define biggest by amount of people involved in it. The viewers are always the largest group involved in sporting events so they define the size of it.
World Cup is the biggest even and it will never change.
The reason fifa is expanding the world cup is to give more countries from outside Europe a better chance to qualify, eg China
Yes it’s held once every 4 years. It’s the biggest stage in the world.
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Absolutely, the World Cup is the only sporting event watched all over the world, football truly is the world game 👏👏👏⚽️🌎
Got to say the Olympics has lost its luster. Barely anyone gave a rats' backside about Rio 2016 or Tokyo 2020. I suppose the men's 100m final is the showpiece event, but except Usain Bolt, most medal winners get forgotten in about 15 minutes' time. It's more of a collection of world championship play-offs and finals for a medley of sports that don't get regular mainstream coverage (swimming, athletics, field hockey)
Who won the last men’s 100m final
@@marculinrise9914 Jacob Lamont Mitchell (half-Italian, half-black American), but the Olympics has lost its prestige. Anyway that's probably the only time he'll win gold, but next Usain Bolt will probably become a household name
I loved the way you presented facts and logic for determining how Fifa WC final is the biggest sporting event in the world.
@@syas13 what are you on about?
The fact that World Cup final only happens once every 4 years adds to the importance and exclusivity of it.
Another very interesting video all around.
just love that you have our Solomon Islands national team shown in your very informative video,good job.
Easily yes. More people watch this match than any other sporting event.
Super Bowl might have more money but less people watch it globally.
19:24 I remember that in the States I said that I’d like to go to the World Cup and the response was “World Cup of what”
lol at these Americans who believe the Super Bowl is bigger. Wake up. USA is the only country that loves it.
It is by such a distance, its not even worth debating lol
Cricket World Cup has over a billion people
@@SportsReplays if you watched the video, you’d know that’s simply not true
@@SportsReplays cricket is viewed by billion people? i have not ever heard about it , i know about basket , tennis f1 but not cricket
@@carloshoces7602 Popular in India. Don't they teach you in school.
After watching the 2022 World Cup, I doubt any other sporting event currently surpasses it.
5 billion viewers for The Final:)
All these other sports are too EXPENSIVE for MOST OF THE WORLD. 😢 Football ⚽️ will FOREVER be the best Sports on earth with the most eyeballs on it.
All you need is a ball (bottle, crumpled paper, anything that can roll and a goal post (sticks or anything that can mark a spot) and that’s that.
Football also has the Most participants there are more footballers on earth than basketball era, cricketers, formula one drivers etc
There are more participating nations in football ⚽️ than any other sport. For the 2022 World Cup every single country participated in the qualifiers including NORTH KOREA, ISRAEL, CHINA, RUSSIA, ZIMBABWE, SOMALIA, IRAQ and many more
It is for this reason the next fifa worldcup will be Expanded to accommodate more nations.
I am thankful that you included the season Chelsea won the champions league. We are in the gutters now but its was great.
We will rise again 😭💙
@@sanketgedam5603 Quite soon, in fact.
Idk if I’d say in the gutters more were rebuilding
@@sanketgedam5603 Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
@@syas13 its simple brother, lack of grass root development, corruption inside aiff and lack of govt support for football in india with lack of exposure for indian players in outside leagues like j leagues etc which are much more competitive than isl or i league.
The China vs Brazil in 2002 group stages was probably the biggest viewed world cup group stage match ever
It’s Argentina vs Mexico 2022
I’d include the Rugby World Cup and Champions league as some of the biggest events.
The Super Bowl will never hold a candle to the World Cup Final.
You can have Super Bowl and the World Cup Final at the same time, and the World Cup will win the viewership and social media battle.
The Super Bowl could feature ‘Brady vs Rodgers’, and World Cup Final ‘Messi vs Ronaldo’. Guess what. The Super Bowl can easily become irrelevant.
Football has more followers because it was a European sport and when Europe colonized the world it spread football with it. Europe colonized Africa, Asia and South America, so the fact that football is popular in much of the world just reflects world history. It's the same reason that cricket is popular in India and Pakistan. America hasn't colonized other continents, so you wouldn't expect American football to have spread around the world.
Best game I've seen since the '96 Newcastle/Liverpool match!
It's not about the Money, it's about the prestige of it.
I’m not sure if this counts or not but actually the most viewed sporting event in America every year isn’t actually the Super Bowl it’s actually wrestlemania and has been for a very long time just not sure if that counts
Wrestling is a scripted sport
So are Half the world cups ever held
Well wrestling is not really a sport, so I'd say no, it doesn't count.
Yeah, but that's Sports-Entertainment. It's the biggest staged production in the world for sure, but it's closer to TV shows than sports.
@@yudhabagaskara98 doesn’t matter
I really enjoyed the f1 chat, hitc f1 maybe?
There's no doubt that the World Cup is the biggest sport event, although I do appreciate a lot of what the Olympics brings to the table. I'd rather have countries that don't necessarily play football first and foremost keep their own path, and have a stage where they can show off other sports where they can show their stripes. But I'll chose not to pick and chose, and enjoy both
NOTHING BIGGER !!!!! NOTHING BETTER !!!!! NOTHING TO COMPARE WITH !!!!! EVER !!!! FOREVER AND EVER ....."THE World Cup OF """"FOOTBALL""""
One more thing: has anyone looked up the viewing figures for the UEFA European Championship final and knockout stages? I know it's only UEFA Nations (plus Turkey and Central Asian countries) permitted to compete, but it is surely a close 2nd in terms of prestige to the FIFA World Cup? Love to see you do a video on this Alfie if you're struggling for video ideas in the next 18 months 👍
I consider the 100 m. dash at the Olympics to be the best (if not biggest) event in sport, because it is the most competetive sport in the world. After all, almost everyone has had a chance to run a dash, but only one person can be crowned as the fastest human being.
Yeah but it's over in 10 seconds... not that filling.
Genetics and doping play a role in who wins
In terms of the Commonwealth countries which love cricket, Canada has very little interest in that sport, but watching the Super Bowl is very popular. Canada also has an American football league called the Canadian Football League. But interest in soccer does seem to be growing in that country!
Hell yeah, it’s every 4 years. And the whole world watches and celebrates
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Yeah by far the world cup final is the worlds most important sporting event.
The biggest sports events are imho in no particular order are;
FIFA World cup
NFL Super Bowl
Copa America final
FA Cup
Cricket World Cup
The Ashes (cricket)
UEFA Champions League final
The Winter and summer Olympics
AFCON
Asian Cup
Mbappe with a hat trick in the WC final. Living legend 🐐
Mbappe is good but MESSI is the goat. Not only he won everything you can win as a football player but at age 35, he played every minute of every game, including 2 extensions!
@@pm1660 Goated completed .
@@riyadhahammed9737 Indeed
1. World Cup Final
2. Euro Final
3. Champions League Final
Make a video on where luka modric ranks among all time great midfielders
Very simple. Number two behind Zidane, the goat.
@@waitbalthy6342 whoaa, slow down bud.. Modric's great, but I don't think that he's better than Xavi, Iniesta, Ronaldinho, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes, Pirlo, and Vieira just to name a few.
@@idosabamemanuel5163 at that level it’s really hard too set them apart. I’m glad we can at least agree that Zizou is on top 😁
@@waitbalthy6342 I'm tempted to say Maradona's the best, but he occasionally played as second striker too.
Can't wait for the video about the new Club World Cup format.
Love both football and cricket! It’s great to have two world cups in the same year! Both bringing in billions of viewership!
No compare to FIFA world cup .
i respect people from india the people like sport . but brother cricket its very popular in india without india no body who is cricket ...
I know exactly the circumstances where I have been during every WC final since 1990. Can't say that for anything else in sports. Except specific cl finals or the Messi vs arsenal 4-0...
-Is the World Cup final the biggest sport event?
-Yes
Need a vid on what's going on in the A-League ASAP
I dont know if this comment will get noticed.. but i really wish HITC would cover the story of the most heated football rivalry in South East Asia.. Malaysia vs Indonesia
Hope Alfie can see this comment
the thing makes it heated is becuz indonesia. the country that has many uneducated people. look at the country's history as many people killed by football club rivalries.
I would like to know the importance of Brazil's audience in the World Cup.
We are the most populous of football-loving countries, and national team games are de facto holidays here.
Leo Pepsi... bigger then all NFL and US
It’s one of those questions that I think doesn’t need an answer. It’s the same with all “what/who is the greatest” questions. They’re all largely opinion based and answers can change by different definitions of what “greatest” or “biggest” means. A fun hypothetical question where it’s interesting to hear people’s opinions and reasons, but ultimately not that important
i think its not subjective, they are talking about what sport is most followed, another thing would be , what is the best sport? well , in usa football wouldnt be even the 5 , in my culture , spain , we live football as a religion, the other sport are basically not 10 percent as important , in india cricket i see is a religion , and i have not heard of it in 25 years , world is different
I'll save you 21 minutes of life: Yes.
I would put the rugby World Cup in there two … they had 1.5 billion viewers in the last World Cup final they always get massive viewership
Messi's finally done it
He's won it all.
Why india didnt ever qualify? It has 18% of the world population plus 500 plus million immigrants spread around the world? It's not as poor as South America and has *DEMOCRACY* ? Even Iran without the democracy and without the huge population plus it's in crisis 24/7, qualified...why ? Now don't deflect the topic by mentioning other sports or some CEO(since Indians always deflect the topic by mentioning this , when everyone knows no Indian CEO plays for FIFA) shit. Countries with *RICH CEOs* like Germany, France, USA, KSA qualified too...anyway.
ok Apu, tank u come again.
YES!!!!! don’t even need to watch the video to know this. I will watch it after the WC FINAL
I was raised in the US and watched every major team sport growing up (basketball, American Football, baseball, hockey, association football).
Sports are subjective so the "biggest event" is based on where you grew up and what you personally watch. There are tons of people who are single-sport fans who try to compare different sports and talk about sports they don't even watch. They tend to be the loudest people in these types of conversations.
To be honest, I don't consider people who only watch one sport to be "true" sports fans. If you only watch futbol then you are ONLY a futbol fan and have no knowledge to talk about basketball, American football etc or if you only watch basketball then you have no knowledge to talk about cricket, futbol etc.
Only multi-sport fans truly appreciate sports, it's the folks who watch one sport year round who talk the most trash because of their limited world view and prospective.
I think no one who watchs only football considers themselves to be a sports fan, I've only seen it with gridiron football and baseball fans do it.
i consider myself as a truly sport fan i watch tennis football basketball and athletics , but he is just saying that football world cup is the most viewed event , and there is no lies about that, besides i am gonna give an opinion, just an opinion : i have played football tennis and done athletic all my life and there is no comparison with football , i know in some countries you see fotball as a secondary sport and i respect that, no ones has to like it , i treat football as a religion and maybe my neighbour does not give a shit about it but isee in football some things the other sport dont have
1:22 omg you got me good with that one 😂
2:35 DUDE YOU’RE GONNA KILL ME! 😂
World Cup because it is global...😊😊
WC is once in a lifetime for a lot of players. It's THE tournament to win. Your entire country is either good enough to qualify or it's not. There is no next year we'll get it.
Don’t know if I’m being harsh. But I’m starting to get a bit bored of these videos. At first I thought Alfie’s long video essays were very entertaining and full on interesting points and arguments.
But recently I’ve found that they are waaay longer than they need to be and 80% of the content in the video is just pointless rambling on about literally nothing before the point of the video is made ..
That's pretty true actually
Bro, a random group stage game is bigger than any other sport biggest game.....
If only FIFA can invite big artists to perform few hours before kickoff. It would be comparable to annual Super Bowl
Just kidding, FIFA World Cup Final is always bigger than UEFA Champions League Final, let alone Super Bowl
Lmfao, they tried that last year, and the singer was mad fans didn't give a shit.
@@blackearl7891 us football fans dont give a shit about artist , much less if she is an american girl who call it soccer , i just like some musician playing or singing champiosn league anthem like andrea bocelli
@@carloshoces7602 I know. I was laughing my ass off cause cabello was crying that they weren't paying attention to her. FIFA is desperately trying to recreate the superbowl
@@blackearl7891 yes jajaj it's horrible , do you like any performance in football finals or opening ceremony in particular ?
@@carloshoces7602 nah, I'm just there for the sport.
I still don't understand why the Super Bowl is compared to the World Cup or the Olympics. No one will sit and watch if the Super Bowl ever gets the Browns vs Lions, or Jaguars vs Commanders. lol
Ill save you 21 minutes… yes
To me if I was a player I’d want to win every trophy I physically could but the World Cup is the pinnacle. It’s the spectacle that I, a Rugby fan, always get pulled back to.
Instagram followers in M :
C.Ronaldo (footballer) - 520
Leo Messi (futbolista) - 406
Tom Brady (handegg player) - 13 😂
Of course the WC is the biggest
- Every year people care less and less about Olympics
- Only Americans care about NFL
- Most of people who watch tennis are people who grew up in wealth
- Golf is even more for wealthy people
Football is the sport of the mass
Doesn't matter how you grew up, doesn't matter where you came from
The world loves it, this is how countries all over the world compete against each other
Even during the war, the soldiers take a break to watch the match
So the WC is by far the main event in the planet
@@robierahg17 It's not soccer, it's football 😂
Even in the few countries which football isn't the favourite, it's the second favourite
Except USA, people in there have a heart made of steel 😁
So when you count the number of football fans worldwide, there is no sport which gets even close to that, the distance from the second place is massive
@@thkiwi1 Doesnt really matter the name (also, "soccer" originaly came from the British themselves lol), but theres no doubt football IS the biggest sport in the world
@Visitor7474 Maybe in your country it's like this, in other countries it's not
Tennis for example, it's interesting only when top 10 players are playing
Golf is always boring, doesn't matter how good the player is
Football is different from other sports, because in countries where people love football, they keep watching the competition even after their team gets eliminated
When the local team is out, people choose another one to cheer for
This is the magic of football, no other sport have that
@Visitor you cannot deny football is the most watched sport in the world , we can argue about other things. i love tennis and football, but i have seen many arguments trying to make football weak and nothing further from the reality, you may like cricket , tennis ... but football is more followed , in my country we talk about football tennis f1 basketball but you will not see one person talking about cricket or hockey , it does not mean it is not famous