The final update on my series on the biggest leagues in men's sport. In the future, I will move on to stats for minority sports and for the main women's leagues. A politics update will come this weekend, as usual. Hopefully, this table will go some way to answering the questions I've been getting like "What's up with Italy?" and "No seriously, what's up with Italy?"
As an explanation, the rugby league/union split doesn't take place due to the RFU accepting professionalism in the 1890s. The sport then takes over from gridiron football in North America during the 1910s and '20s due to continued British cultural hegemony and even more European immigration to the States.
Any other questions, please feel free to ask.
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