How did Australian rules football get in twice? Once as the seventh most popular team sport, and again way down with only a 1000.

With cycling, there is road cycling, track cycling, kirin, and lots of the cycling variants with the Olympics.

Because I used excel to count and didn't refine it. Australian rules football. Australian rules football . They are treated differently. :(

Cycling has those issues, yes. Trying to sort these things out is a bit of a pain. Swimming for example: Lots of swim teams. But in the US, the collegiate system groups swimming and diving together. On Wikipedia, some articles will say just national cycling team. It could come down to how the national organization organizes itself. :/

Hi. Interesting to say the least!

Bit puzzled why there are over 4x the number of aussie rules teams than cricket. But hey ho!

There are some things that, looking at, I realized I had problems with. Rugby union, when I started adding teams for it, actually came up to number four.

I don't think that there are that many Cricket teams out there. If there is, I'm not easily finding lists of them. :( I'd love to have more.

Let me see.

There are national teams in the elite competition, there are reserve teams. And there are local and provincal teams, as well as the ones for suburbs or states.

And then there's one day cricket and 20-20 (like in the Indian Premier League).

I'm at 392 on my list with about 45,000 teams.

Outside of national teams (for men and women), I have information on :

County Championship
Indian Cricket League
Indian Premier League
International Cricket Council
MTN Domestic Competitions
Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association
National Cricket League of Bangladesh
Pro Cricket
Ranji Trophy
Sahara Elite League
United States Pro Cricket League

I would believe that there are a lot more teams than 392... but I just cannot find a really comprehensive list of every cricket team around. :(