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Guess, predictions and/or ideas to the future of the famous sport.

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'''[[Future of Football|Portal page]], of this Scenario.'''

==2015 Season by league==
The table represents typical seasons for some leagues by month. Blank or white denotes off-season and pre-season months and solid colors mark the rest of the year. Leagues in the same sport use the same color.
*"'''Q'''" denotes pre-competition qualifiers
*"'''S'''" denotes the start of the regular-season.
*"'''P'''" denotes playoff(s)/postseason/knockout stages.
*"'''F'''" denotes Final(s).

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! League !! Sport !! Countries/Regions !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Jan !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Feb !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Mar !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Apr !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| May !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Jun !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Jul !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Aug !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Sep !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Oct !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Nov !!width="4.5%" class="unsortable"| Dec
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<ref group=nb name="European Tour season">The current scheduling, in which the season starts in mid-December of the previous calendar year, took effect in [[2010 European Tour|2010]]. The 2010 season ended in late November, and the [[2011 European Tour|2011 season]] will end in early December.</ref>
| [[Golf]] || [[File:Flag of Europe.svg|25px]] <ref group=nb name="European Tour geography">The bulk of the tour's sole-sanctioned events are in Europe, with some in the [[Persian Gulf]] countries. It co-sanctions many other events with other tours in Asia, Africa, and Australia. Along with the PGA Tour, the European Tour co-sanctions the [[men's major golf championships|major championships]] and the [[World Golf Championships]]; one of the majors is held in the UK, one of the WGC events is held in China, and the rest of these events are in the US.</ref>
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| [[Cricket]] || [[File:Flag of India.svg|25px]]<ref group=nb name=IPL>The [[2009 Indian Premier League|2009 season]] was played in South Africa because of security issues related to the [[Indian general election, 2009|Indian general elections]] scheduled for the same time as the league.</ref>
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| [[Ice hockey]] || [[File:Flag of Belarus.svg|25px]] [[File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg|25px]] [[File:Flag of Latvia.svg|25px]] [[File:Flag of Russia.svg|25px]] <ref group="nb" name="khl">There are 21 teams in Russia and one each in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Latvia. A team from Ukraine is scheduled to join in the 2011–12 season.</ref>
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| [[Golf]] || [[File:Flag of the United States.svg|25px]] <ref group=nb name=LPGA>Most LPGA events are held in the US, but it also sole-sanctions official money events in Thailand, Singapore, Mexico, China, Canada, Malaysia, and Taiwan, as well as an unofficial event in Brazil. It co-sanctions two European tournaments, including [[Women's British Open|one]] of its [[women's major golf championships|majors]], with the [[Ladies European Tour]], and also co-sanctions events with the [[LPGA of Korea Tour|Korean LPGA]] and [[LPGA of Japan Tour|Japan LPGA]] in those countries.</ref>
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| [[Rugby union]] || {{flagicon|IRE|rugby union}} {{flagicon|SCO}} {{flagicon|WAL}} {{flagicon|ITA}}<ref group=nb name=Magners>Italy joined beginning in the [[2010–11 Magners League|2010–11 season]].</ref>
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| [[Motor racing]] || {{flagicon|USA}} {{flagicon|CAN}} {{flagicon|MEX}}<ref group=nb name=NASCAR>The top-level [[Sprint Cup Series]] and third-level [[Camping World Truck Series]] race only in the US. The second-level [[Nationwide Series]] has one race in Canada, and previously had a race in Mexico. NASCAR also operates four developmental series—two regional series in the US, and national series in Canada and Mexico.</ref>
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<ref group=nb name=Chase>NASCAR uses a playoff-style system only in the Sprint Cup Series. The bulk of the Cup Series season is used to determine the 12 drivers who qualify to contend for the season title in a 10-race finale known as the [[Chase for the Sprint Cup]]. In all other NASCAR series, the season is contested as a unified whole, with all races counting equally toward determining the series champion.</ref>
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| [[American football]] || {{flagicon|USA}}<ref group=nb name=NFL>The [[Buffalo Bills]] play [[Bills Toronto Series|one annual regular-season home game]] [[National Football League in Toronto|in Toronto]], and the NFL currently takes one other regular-season game [[NFL International Series|outside the US]] (London in 2007 through 2010).</ref>
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<ref group=nb name=NCAAF>The top-level [[Division I (NCAA)#Football Bowl Subdivision|Division I FBS]] does not use a playoff, instead using a series of [[bowl game]]s beginning in December and culminating in the [[Bowl Championship Series]] in early January. All other NCAA divisions determine their champions on the field in a playoff tournament that starts in November. The playoffs in Divisions [[NCAA Division II National Football Championship|II]] and [[NCAA Division III National Football Championship|III]] end in December. Since the 2010 season, the [[Division I (NCAA)#Football Championship Subdivision|Division I FCS]] [[NCAA Division I Football Championship|playoffs]] end in January.</ref>
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| [[Golf]] || {{flagicon|USA}}<ref group=nb name=PGA>Almost all of the PGA Tour's sole-sanctioned events are in the US proper, but the tour also has events in Mexico, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Along with the European Tour, the PGA Tour co-sanctions the [[men's major golf championships|major championships]] and the [[World Golf Championships]]; one of the majors is held in the UK, one of the WGC events is held in China, and the rest of these events are in the US.</ref>
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| [[Basketball]]  || {{flagicon|PHI}}
|style="background: #a94800"| '''P'''
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| [[Association football]] || {{flagicon|ENG}}
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|[[Association football]]||{{flagicon|ARG}}
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![[Primera División de México|Primera División (Mexico)]]
| [[Association football]] || {{flagicon|MEX}}
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| [[Association football]] || {{flagicon|ITA}}
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|-
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| [[Cricket]] ||  {{flagicon|AUS}}
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| [[Rugby league]] || {{flagicon|ENG}} {{flagicon|FRA}} {{flagicon|WAL}}
| &nbsp;
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| [[Rugby union]] ||  {{flagicon|AUS}} {{flagicon|NZL}} {{flagicon|RSA}}
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<ref group=nb name=RWC1>The playoffs, or "finals" as they are officially called, begin in late June in [[Rugby World Cup]] years.</ref>
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| [[Rugby union]] || {{flagicon|FRA}}
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| [[Basketball]] || {{flagicon|EUR}}
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| [[Association football]] || {{flagicon|EUR}}
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![[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]]
| [[Basketball]] || {{flagicon|USA}}
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&nbsp;'''F'''<ref group="nb" name="oly">During Summer Olympic Years</ref>
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![[World Rally Championship|WRC]]
| [[Motor racing]] || Worldwide
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<references group="nb" />

===Summary===
{|class=wikitable
|-
!Sport !! Duration
|-
|American football || August to December, playoffs from January to early February. College [[bowl games]] from December to January. [[Indoor football]], past professional leagues such as the [[United States Football League|USFL]] and [[XFL]], and some amateur leagues play in the February to August season.
|-
|Association football || Usually August to May in the Northern Hemisphere, and February to November in the Southern Hemisphere. Exceptions are generally for one of two reasons:

* In some northern countries with severe winter weather (such as Norway and Sweden), the season is contested within a calendar year (roughly March to November) to avoid the worst weather.
* In some countries where association football competes with one or more football codes that are more popular locally (e.g., Major League Soccer and the A-League), the season is arranged so as to minimize the time that it is in conflict with the more popular code(s). This arrangement also eases scheduling concerns regarding venues used for multiple football codes.
|-
|Australian rules football || March to September
|-
|Baseball || April to early October, with postseason extending up to early November.
|-
|Basketball || In most countries, late October to mid-April, with playoffs extending up to mid-June. The three major exceptions to this rule are:

* The U.S. college basketball season begins in mid-November. The regular season ends in the first days of March, followed by conference tournaments and then national championship tournaments that run into early April.
* The Philippine Basketball Association divides its season into "conferences"—not the North American concept of subgroupings within a larger competition, but rather separate competitions involving the same set of teams, similar to association football's [[Apertura and Clausura]] in Latin America. The season was divided into three conferences from 1975 to 2003. It then transitioned to a two-conference season in 2004, and also changed to a season spanning two calendar years, with the transition completed in the 2004–05 season. The PBA returned to a three-conference season effective in 2010–11. The season starts with the Philippine Cup, restricted to Filipino players, followed by two other tournaments in which teams can field one non-Filipino, the Commissioner's and Governors Cups.
* The WNBA season is scheduled during the offseason of its parent league, the NBA. When the league was launched, all of its teams were owned by NBA teams and generally played in the same arenas as their NBA counterparts; however, this has changed over time. The scheduling also allows many WNBA players to participate in overseas leagues, primarily in Europe and Australia, during the traditional basketball season.
|-
|Canadian football || July to November
|-
|Cricket || Year-round. Domestic seasons typically held in the driest period of the year—summer in temperate climates, dry season in tropical climates.
|-
|Golf || Year-round
|-
|Ice hockey || Early October to mid-April, with playoffs extending up to early June.
|-
|Motor racing || Year-round, but generally concentrated from March to October.
|-
|Rugby league || Late February to October in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
|-
|Rugby union || September to late May, sometimes the first weekend in June, in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, Super Rugby (beginning in 2011) starts in February and ends in early July in [[Rugby World Cup|World Cup]] years and mid-August in other years. Domestic competitions in [[ITM Cup|New Zealand]] and [[Currie Cup|South Africa]] will then overlap slightly with the Super season, starting in July and ending in October or November.
|-
|Tennis || Year-round
|}

==International matches==
base [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attendance#International_matches wikipedia Attendance: International matches]
Table set in 1 of january of 2020.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Tournament||Sport||Region||Year||Games||Total attendance||Average attendance||Source
|-
|[[Boxing Day Test]]||[[Cricket]]||Worldwide||[[2006–07 Ashes series|2006]]||1 (3 Days)||244351||81450||[[2006–07 Ashes series]]
|-
| [[Six Nations Championship]] || [[Rugby union]] || [[Europe]] || [[2010 Six Nations Championship|2010]] || 15 || 1055268 || 70351 || [[2010 Six Nations Championship]]
|-
| [[Cook Cup]] || [[Rugby union]] || [[Australia England]] || [[2010 Cook Cup|2010]] || 3 || 161620 || 53873 || [[2010 Cook Cup]]
|-
| [[FIFA World Cup]] || [[Association Football]] || Worldwide || [[2010]] || 64 || 3178856 || 49670 || [[2010 FIFA World Cup]]
|-
| [[Tri Nations (rugby union)|Rugby Union Tri Nations]] || [[Rugby union]] || [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[South Africa]] || [[2010 Tri Nations Series|2010]] || 9 || 399907 || 49111 ||References in [[2010 Tri Nations Series|2010 main article]]
|-
|[[Rugby World Cup]]||[[Rugby union]]||Worldwide||[[2007 Rugby World Cup|2007]]||48|| 2274037 || 47376 || [[2007 Rugby World Cup]]
|-
| [[Copa América]] || [[Association football]] || [[South America]] || [[2007 Copa América|2007]] || 26 || 1050230 || 40393 ||[[2007 Copa América]]
|-
| [[FIFA Women's World Cup|FIFA Women's World Cup finals]] || [[Association football]] || Worldwide || [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup|2007]] || 32<sup>2</sup> || 1190971 || 37218 ||<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/womensworldcup/china2007/overview.html |title=Germany set the record straight |publisher=FIFA |date=2007-09-30 |accessdate=2008-11-21}}</ref>
|-
| [[UEFA Euro 2016|Euro 2016]] || [[Association football]] || [[Europe]] || [[2016 European Football Championship|2016]] || 52 || 1888016 || 36308|| [[UEFA Euro 2016 statistics]] [http://www1.uefa.com/ UEFA Euro 2016 Official Site]
|-
| [[CONCACAF Gold Cup]] || [[Association football]] || [[North America]] || [[2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup|2009]] || 25 || 860046 || 34402 ||[[2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup]]
|-
|[[ANZAC Test]]||[[Rugby league]]||[[Australia]], [[New Zealand]]||[[ANZAC Test|2010]]||1||29442 || 29442 ||<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_ANZAC_Test</ref>
|-
|[[AFC Asian Cup]]||[[Association football]]||[[Asia]]||[[2007 AFC Asian Cup|2007]]||32||724222 || 22632 ||[[2007 AFC Asian Cup]]
|-
|[[World Baseball Classic]] <sup>3</sup> || [[Baseball]] || Worldwide || [[2009 World Baseball Classic|2009]] || 39 || 801408 || 20549 ||<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://web.worldbaseballclassic.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090323&content_id=4056138&vkey=wbc&team=jpn |title=Ichiro lifts Japan to Classic glory |author=Bloom, Barry M., ''[[MLB.com]]'' |publisher=''WorldBaseballClassic.com'' |date=2009-03-24 |accessdate=2009-03-24}}</ref>
|-
|[[Rugby League Four Nations]]||[[Rugby league]]|| Worldwide ||[[2010 Rugby League Four Nations|2010]]||7|| 137506 || 19644 ||[[2010 Rugby League Four Nations]]
|-
| [[Africa Cup of Nations]] || [[Association football]] || [[Africa]] || [[2010 Africa Cup of Nations|2010]] || 29 || 543500 || 18741 ||[[2010 Africa Cup of Nations]]
|-
| [[Rugby League World Cup]] || [[Rugby league]] || Worldwide || [[2008 Rugby League World Cup|2008]] || 18 || 293965 || 16331||[[2008 Rugby League World Cup]]
|-
|[[World Cup of Hockey]] <sup>3</sup>||[[Ice hockey]]||Worldwide||[[2004 World Cup of Hockey|2004]]||19|| 303630 || 15981 ||[[2004 World Cup of Hockey (match stats)]]
|-
|[[World Junior Ice Hockey Championships]]||[[Ice hockey]]||Worldwide||[[2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships|2009]]||31|| 453282 || 14622 ||[http://www.iihf.com/channels0809/wm20/news/news-singleview-club-continental-cup/hash/e5c9c3a4ba/article/attendance-record-soars/2362.html IIHF]
|-
|[[Cricket World Cup]]||[[Cricket]]||Worldwide||[[2007 Cricket World Cup|2007]]||51|| 672000 || 13176 ||[[2007 Cricket World Cup]]
|-
|[[Ice Hockey World Championships]]||[[Ice hockey]]||Worldwide||[[2008 IIHF World Championship|2008]]||54||477040 || 8834 ||[http://www.iihf.com/channels/iihf-world-championship/news/news-singleview-world-championship/article/fasel-well-be-back.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=552&cHash=24bc092513 IIHF]
|-
| [[Rugby League European Cup|European Cup]] || [[Rugby league]] || Europe || [[2010 European Cup|2010]] || 6 || 36376 || 6063 ||[[2010 European Cup]]
|-
|[[FIFA Futsal World Cup]]||[[Futsal]]||Worldwide||[[2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup|2008]]||56|| 292161 || 5217 ||[[2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup|Wikipedia page]]
|}

* <sup>2</sup>Although 32 games were played in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, tickets were sold only for 21 matchdays. The final schedule, which was affected slightly by [[Typhoon Wipha]], saw 22 matches scheduled as doubleheaders—16 during pool play, all four quarterfinals, and the third-place game and final in a single session. However, FIFA took attendance separately for each individual match, and the calculation here reflects this practice.
* <sup>3</sup>World Baseball Classic and World Cup of Hockey are hosted in different regions of the world to boost attendance; as opposed to being hosted in one region like other international tournaments.

== Notes ==
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