Sports include not only physical competitiveness but also provide entertainment both to the players and audience. Similar to different culture and traditions, different countries share different sports too. We all know that United Kingdom is a well recognized and urbanized country, here are the top 10 most played sports in the United Kingdom.
1. Football
Football is one of the most popular games in the U.K. Following the traditional league system, this consists of more than hundred teams. On the other hand, the famous premier league consisting most elite 20 teams chosen from all over U.K. Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal are the U.K. most prominent teams of this league.
2. Cricket
Cricket is the national game of the U.K. Cricket in fact first embedded in UK, and now it extends to numbers of countries in all over the world. More than 20 cricket club can be found in the UK and also thousands of cricket teams in the country. The oldest cricket championship in the world is the first class country championship of UK and many teams play in this first class championship every year.
3. Rugby
In early times, only the elite class people played Rugby but it improved its popularity through time that it was played by many people in the U.K. too. Like football, rugby is also sponsored by the Government of U.K. and is handled by the Rugby Football League, generally known as RFL. This game is now known and played all over the country. Yorkshire, North West England and Cumbria are some of the places where the sport is well-liked.
4. Badminton
In the year 1893, The Badminton Association of England was established. Badminton is also known as the most popular for racket games. Badminton was reflected on as a long heritage in U.K. the association grew progressively and now it is identified as Badminton England. This founding member of the international badminton federation is also accountable for giving support 41 countries of England.
5. Tennis
Wimbledon, also known as the most popular Tennis tournament originated in the U.K. Around 1877, the first tennis club originated at a small club in the south of London. Wimbledon is one of the four grand slams which includes of the Australian Open tennis tournament, the US Open tennis tournament, the French Open tennis tournament and Wimbledon tennis tournament. Even though this sport is considered individual, it landed 2nd into the most popular sports in the country. Not only attracting sports lovers and critics from everywhere, but also gathers tourists every year.
6. Swimming
Young people in the country are very fond and fanatical of this sport. They train and exercise many swimming tricks. If you pay a visit to U.K. you will definitely witness a different kind of swimming that includes acrobatic stunts in pools. British Olympic Association and British Paralympics’ Association organize different international swimming competition in Great Britain every year.
7. Athletics
England has the most numbers of athletes than any other country. The large squad of U.K. athletes, which consist of world and Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington and world champion Keri-Anne Payne. Not many years ago U.K Sport support services, determined to provide athletes the edge and more support at London.
8. British Rowing
The leading body in England for the sport of rowing inside the country is the Amateur Rowing Association (ARA) of U.K. This Rowing Association is also liable for the development and organization of international rowing teams on behalf of Great Britain.
Welsh Amateur Rowing Association (WARA) and the Scottish Rowing (SARA) supervise governance in their particular countries, they sort out their own teams for the Home International Regatta and key in to the GB team organization.
Four famous Rowing Clubs of U.K.
- Thames Rowing Club
- Kingston Rowing Club
- Bedford Rowing Club
- London Rowing Club
9. Ice Hokey UK
The national governing body of the sport of ice hockey in the UK is IHUK or the Ice Hockey UK is. The Ice Hockey UK is allied to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). IHUK is also the globally renowned umbrella body in the United Kingdom. IHUK was in fact created to change the British Ice Hockey Association. Except of supervision and arrangement of different tournaments, this organization is in addition responsible for the good order of the sport in the UK. The well-known Ice Hockey team is the Great Britain men’s national ice hockey team which is also generally acknowledged as Team GB.
10. Netball Super league
In 1999, The netball Super league was founded. The Netball Super league is the elite netball competition in U.K. Scotland and Wales. Due to a major television deal signed in 2006, Netball Super league competitions are often shown on sports broadcaster Sky Sports designating rights to the netball Super league tournaments were protected by Fiat Automobiles. The netball Super league takes in players from England, Wales, Fiji, Scotland and New Zealand.