📓 Number of Players in Sports and Games

Posted by Admin Last Updated on Saturday, 01 March 2025 Under General Knowledge Sports

Here's a list of sports and the total number of players:

  • Archery: 1 player

Badminton:

  • Singles: 2 players
  • Doubles: 4 players

Baseball: 9 players

  • Basketball: 5 players per team
  • Billiards/Snooker: 1 player
  • Boxing: 1 player
  • Bungee Jumping: 1 player
  • Carrom: 2 players
  • Chess: 2 players
  • Cricket: 11 players per team
  • Cycling: varies
  • Diving: 1 player
  • Dodgeball: varies, but typically 610 players per team
  • Fencing: 1 player
  • Field Hockey: 11 players per team
  • Football (Soccer): 11 players per team
  • Golf: 1 player
  • Handball: 7 players per team
  • Ice Hockey: 6 players per team
  • Judo: 2 players
  • Kabaddi: 7 players per team
  • Kayaking: 1 player
  • Kho Kho: 9 players per team
  • Kickball: 10 players per team
  • Lacrosse: 10 players per team
  • Mixed Martial Arts: 2 players
  • Netball: 7 players per team
  • Polo: 4 players per team
  • Rugby Football: 15 players per team
  • Sailing: varies
  • Skateboarding: 1 player
  • Softball: 10 players per team
  • Swimming: 1 player

Table Tennis:

  • Singles: 2 players
  • Doubles: 4 players

Tennis:

  • Singles: 2 players
  • Doubles: 4 players
  • Tug of War: varies, but typically 58 players per team
  • Volleyball: 6 players per team
  • Water Polo: 7 players per team
  • Weightlifting: 1 player
  • Wrestling: 2 players
  • Yachting: varies

Kickball

Kickball is also known as soccer baseball in most of Canada.

 Kabaddi

Kabaddi or Ha-du-du is the national sport of Bangladesh.

 Different names of Kabaddi in India

  1. Kabaddi or Chedugudu: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
  2. Kabaddi: Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Kerala
  3. Kabadi or Sadugudu: Tamil Nadu
  4. Kauddi or Kabaddi: Punjab region
  5. Hu-tu-tu: Western India
  6. Hu-do-do: Eastern India
  7. Chadakudu: South India

 

Different names of Kabaddi in the World

  1. kabadi or ha-du-du: Bangladesh
  2. Bhavatik: Maldives
  3. Kapardi: Nepal

 Kho Kho

It is a popular tag team game invented in Maharashtra, India.

Total 15 Players per side (9 in the field + 3 extra)

Handball

 Highest governing body International Handball Federation. Headquarters located in Basel, Switzerlan

 


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