Countries (29)
A country has a page here when there is enough sourceable material for one. These pages describe a country’s sporting landscape; they are not national histories, and they do not rank countries against each other.
Americas (10)
ArgentinaFootball fills the stadiums and the ratings — 283,000 spectators a matchday in the 2026 Apertura — while in p…
BrazilFive men's football World Cups, 170 Summer Olympic medals through Paris 2024 and a first Winter medal in 2026…
CanadaA federal state whose statutory national sports are ice hockey in winter and lacrosse in summer, and whose to…
ColombiaFootball fills the Liga BetPlay, cycling out of the Andean departments has produced Grand Tour winners, and t…
CubaA state sports system now set out in Ley 179 of 2025, an Olympic record Olympedia puts at 244 medals with no …
JamaicaOlympedia credits Jamaica with 94 Olympic medals, 93 of them in athletics — but the country also fields a Com…
MexicoFootball leads by league attendance and television audience, with boxing and baseball behind it. Mexico has h…
The BahamasAn archipelago whose every Olympic medal has come in athletics or sailing, whose sport is run under two statu…
The United StatesThe top professional competitions are closed franchise leagues with no promotion or relegation and entry draf…
VenezuelaBaseball, not football, sets the Venezuelan sporting calendar: MLB counted 60 Venezuelan-born players on 2026…
Europe (8)
FranceSport in France runs on a statutory delegation: in each discipline one approved federation receives a délégat…
GermanySport in Germany runs through registered clubs: 29.3 million memberships in 85,916 Vereine at 1 January 2025,…
ItalyHow sport is organised in Italy: CONI's statutory position, Serie A and the other national leagues, the Olymp…
NorwayOlympedia records 408 Winter Olympic medals for Norway through 2022, 148 of them gold and more than any other…
RussiaA federal sports system built on state accreditation, a Soviet-era reserve-sport pathway and three domestic l…
SpainSport in Spain runs under the Ley 39/2022 del Deporte, in force since 1 January 2023. Olympedia credits Spain…
The NetherlandsOne organisation that is both the national Olympic committee and the sports confederation, an Olympic record …
The United KingdomOne state, one Olympic team called Great Britain, four separate national football teams and three separate ru…
Africa (4)
Cape VerdeA ten-island Atlantic archipelago of well under a million people that reached the round of 32 on its World Cu…
EgyptEgypt competes in African, Mediterranean and world competition, and a record in one frame is not a record in …
KenyaKenya's Olympic record, as Olympedia records it, runs to 124 medals in two sports. The page also covers the F…
South AfricaRugby union, association football and cricket carry the country's standing professional league structures; th…
Asia (5)
ChinaChina competes as CHN, first appeared at the Olympic Games in 1932 and has won medals at every Summer Games s…
IndiaOlympedia credits India with 41 Olympic medals, 13 of them in field hockey. Sport is now regulated by the Nat…
IsraelA Western Asian country whose Olympic committee is listed among the European Olympic Committees and whose clu…
JapanBaseball and football both draw mass audiences here — NPB took 27,040,286 spectators in 2025 and the J.League…
South Korea409 Olympic medals in Olympedia's count, a baseball league that drew 12,312,519 spectators in 2025, and a Mil…
Oceania (2)