Top Ten Most Competitive Sports

The Top Ten
1 Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is played with a spherical ball. The objective is to score the ball in the other teams goal.

Football(soccer) is definitely the sport with the least fickle fans, and that is because it is the most competitive sport in the world which means fans get to see their teams exposed in at least 5 matches a year. Every fan gets to see his or her team take at least 3 damning losses a year.

It is the hardest and you have to be fit

2 Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each.
3 Football American football is a sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

Football is the best sport in the whole wide world! It is so fun.

4 Basketball Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard at each end.

It require physical contact and it requires stamina

It is very competitive and many fights do happen

I get in fights a lot

5 Swimming Swimming is an individual or team sport and activity. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with events in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.

I think swimming is a very hard sport because the athlete needs to have strength,endurance and the mental capacity to succeed. I myself am a swimmer and I know how hard but fun it really is!

Racing against others gets adrenaline pumping around your whole body. It pushes your body to its limit. It's the same feeling with running/sprinting too.

Every millisecond counts, still easy?

6 Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding.

To me I thinks its fun but hard because not everyone can hit a 90mph fastball nor stop a 200mph grounder

7 Running Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. Running is a type of gait characterized by an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground.
8 Ice Hockey Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.
9 Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.
10 Boxing Boxing is a martial art and combat sport in which two people wearing protective gloves throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring..
The Contenders
11 Competitive Dance

I seriously can't believe I haven't found dance on any list not to mention COMPETITIVE dance and not to mention competing is exactly what you do. It is not only a super hard sport but it is very competitive. You watch hundreds of teams go before you until it is your turn to take the stage. One wrong move and a point or multiple is docked. You’ve been working for multiple months not only perfecting the dance, but your technique, facials, smoothness, flexibility and so mich more. It is expecially harder if you’re competing with a team since you have to make sure you are all correctly timed. Although people have said this multiple times, I still feel that this sport is looked down towards. There are so many different styles and types of moves. It can take years just to perfect a certain move not to mention preforming them. I really recommend you go on YouTube and just watch a dance. (Expressions And Mather dance company are very good ones). When you watch these dances look at how ...more

12 Horseback Riding Horseback riding (or Equestrian) is one of the most intense sports known to man. Not only because it's physically challenging, but it takes more than athleticism. Horseback riding takes commitment, time, patience, and most importantly building a bond with your horse. If you don't have a good relationship with your horse, you're not going to have a good experience. You need to spend as much time with your horse as you can, riding and on the ground. You need to learn how to work with your horse, not against your horse. It's a team sport, a team of two. ...read more.

This sport is super competitive. for all the events for horseback riding. there is jumpers,hunters,cross country, dressage, and many more. horseback riding can be very competitive. one because it's just you and your horse most of the other sports are teams. two there can be up to 100 people in one class. and the if you get high up into riding your win money if u win the whole class. I believe that horseback riding should not be 12 it should be much higher on the list. most people done understand how much competition and competitive people can be, especially jockeys and race horses. they get fast speeds and are super close to eachother as their racing that event most people bet on what horse will win or will either come in first second or third

This sport is so competitive

13 Fencing
14 Auto Racing

Motorsport is the most competitive sport there is! It is never predictable cause a crash can happen any moment. The drivers are the most skilled out of any in the world!

15 Wrestling Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds.
16 Rugby League Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, league, rugby or football , is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

It is way more competitive then the ones listed above. DUH!

17 Gymnastics Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control.

Gymnastics is a lot more competitive than other sports because most teams are practicing literally every day all day and the competitions are really hard core so are the judges

Gymnastics is so competitive and so fun.

18 Softball

In softball women work a lot harder than men do in baseball. Men just sit around and don't move as much.

19 Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket, a set of three wooden stumps sited at each end.
20 Javelin
21 Marching Band

Marching band is a sport. A sport is defined as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of competitive nature.” Marching band is one of the most physically/mentally exhausting and competitive sports I can think of.

Marching band is in many leagues, just like any other sport. We’re in college leagues, high school leagues, and a national major league association.

We also have many physical stretches and warmups that we do before practice/show. From my personal experience, the warmups and physical activity we do during the show have made me and many others more fit.

During all of this, marchers hold up to 20-40 pound instruments while running/marching across a football field to keep time. You must also play your music correctly, which requires more physical warmups.

While you’re performing in the marching band, you always have around 5 judges watching your every move, scoring you on your performance. You have to memorize ...more

22 Golf Golf is a club and ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes from a range of 80 to 600 yards on a course in as few strokes as possible.
23 Rugby
24 Bowling

It takes a mental grind and not only are you competing against 1 other person you are competing against 100's and 100's of people AT ONE TIME.

25 Motocross
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