Germany: 45 630

France: 32 082

Italy: 26 139

England: 14 307

Spain: 10 999

Poland: 10. 37

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Sweden: 6036

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Austria: 5115

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    • Skua
      2•2 months ago

      It’s wild to me that Ireland maintains several local sports at a high level and is also world-class at rugby with a relatively small population

      • @khannieEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        Wild! Like how we punch that far above our weight in the rugby is mind blowing to me. I know NZ has a small population too but they’re all about the rugby. There are honestly feck all rugby clubs in Ireland compared to the GAA or footie but the ones that do exist play at a ridiculous level.

        edit: I was curious so went looking. It looks like there are less than 50 clubs on the whole island. Now a lot of secondary schools play at a very high level in Dublin and Limerick and wouldn’t have a club associated with them so that’s not the full picture, but still.

        There is a club in my town, but only one other that I can see in a ~25KM radius whereas there would be probably 20x that of GAA and football clubs in the same area.