{"id":655988,"date":"2026-08-22T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655988"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:45:00","slug":"spain-the-uk-lead-in-football-fandom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=655988","title":{"rendered":"Spain & The UK Lead In Football Fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain & The UK Lead In Football Fandom<\/span><\/p>\n

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As Europe\u2019s major football leagues return<\/strong> from their summer\/World Cup break, fans in Spain and the UK are especially eager to get the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

In both countries, 78 percent of self-identified sports fans say they follow football teams or competitions – more than in Italy, Germany or France.<\/p>\n

Indeed, as Statista’s Felix Richter details below,<\/a>\u00a0the appeal football extends well beyond dedicated sports audiences. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Infographic:<\/a><\/p>\n

You will find more infographics at Statista<\/a><\/p>\n

Data from\u00a0Statista Consumer Insights<\/a>\u00a0shows that 46 percent of all respondents in Spain and 42 percent in the UK follow football, compared with 37 percent in Germany and 32 percent in France.<\/p>\n

The United States remains an outlier among the countries surveyed, with only 11 percent of all respondents following the sport. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if the\u00a0World Cup<\/a>\u00a0can make a meaningful difference in raising that number, so stay tuned for next year’s edition of the survey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 08\/22\/2026 – 08:45<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spain & The UK Lead In Football Fandom As Europe\u2019s major football leagues return from their summer\/World Cup break, fans in Spain and the UK are especially eager to get the ball rolling. In both countries, 78 percent of self-identified sports fans say they follow football teams or competitions – more than in Italy, Germany… Continue reading Spain & The UK Lead In Football Fandom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/655973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}