{"id":1427380,"date":"2023-09-14T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1427380"},"modified":"2023-09-14T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:45:00","slug":"where-is-rugby-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/where-is-rugby-popular\/1427380\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Rugby Popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Where Is Rugby Popular?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>The 10th mens Rugby World Cup has kicked off in France and is running until October 28.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A total of 48 games will take place over seven weeks in nine venues across the country, with the final match in the Stade de France, north of Paris.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-09-13_15-53-09.jpg?itok=J5rdlpGI\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To mark the occasion,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30814\/share-of-sports-fans-who-say-they-follow-rugby\/\">Statista&#8217;s Anna Fleck<\/a> created the following chart taking a look at <strong>how the sport\u2019s fanbase compares across six of the competing nations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30814\/share-of-sports-fans-who-say-they-follow-rugby\/\" title=\"Infographic: Where is Rugby Popular? | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the latest wave of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/global-consumer-survey\/tool\">Statista&#8217;s Consumer Insights<\/a>\u00a0survey, 33 percent of sports fans in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/study\/123109\/target-audience-rugby-players-in-france\/\">France<\/a>\u00a0follow rugby competitions and\/or teams.<\/p>\n<p>This figure is fairly similar to that of Australia (34 percent), but significantly higher than in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/28160\/most-followed-sports-in-the-uk\/\">UK<\/a>\u00a0(25 percent).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the nations analyzed, rugby is most popular among South Africans, with 51 percent of respondents saying they watched it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No data was available for New Zealand and Ireland&#8230; but we suspect it was even higher.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 09\/14\/2023 &#8211; 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/where-rugby-popular\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/where-rugby-popular<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Is Rugby Popular? The 10th mens Rugby World Cup has kicked off in France and is running until October 28. A total of 48&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}