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Top 5: Most popular sports
What do people bet on most often? We reveal the most popular sports among bettors!
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Top 5: Most popular sports
The favorites of the betting fans
There are hundreds of sports that excite millions of people day after day. At our sports betting provider MERKUR BETS, you can place your bets on more than 70 of them.
Five of these sports stand out from the rest. Can you guess which ones they are?
The 5 most popular sports
Football (Soccer)
The world’s most popular sport also takes the number 1 spot with us. No surprise there, right?
Especially popular: Premier League, Bundesliga, and La Liga.
Basketball
American basketball in particular attracts the crowds. And after football, basketball is often the sport where bets are placed.
Especially popular: the NBA.
Tennis
Hard court, clay, or grass: tennis is extremely popular on our platforms. Unlike the other sports on the podium, here it all comes down to a single player instead of an entire team.
Especially popular: Wimbledon, French Open, Australian Open, US Open.
Ice Hockey
In our fourth place, things get tough. For many, probably the biggest surprise on this top list. Sports bettors sure like ice, ice, baby.
Especially popular: NHL and DEL.
Handball
One of the most popular sports in Germany also makes it into our ranking. Where the “strongest handball league in the world” is at home, the sport itself can’t be missing.
Especially popular: HBL.
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