Several of the football codes are the most popular team sports in the world.[10]Globally, association football is played by over 250 million players in over 200 nations,[134] and has the highest television audience in sport,[135] making it the most popular in the world,[136]American football, with 1.1 million high school football players and nearly 70,000 college football players, is the most popular sport in the United States,[137][138] with the annual Super Bowl game accounting for nine of the top ten of the most watched broadcasts in U.S. television history.[139] Australian rules football has the highest spectator attendance of all sports in Australia.[140][141]Similarly, Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland in terms of match attendance,[142] and the All-Ireland Football Final is the most watched event of that nation's sporting year.[143]
