Individual perception of exclusion in selected sports

The chart documents the share of sports-interested respondents in Germany (February 2023) who feel excluded from specific sports they would like to participate in. Two dimensions are shown: a general perception of exclusion across all sports, and sport-by-sport breakdowns for 21 individual disciplines.

15,6% of respondents report a general sense of exclusion from at least one sport. At the discipline level, soccer records the highest individual value at 5,4%, followed by swimming at 3,7% and volleyball at 3,1%. Tennis and boxing rank fourth and fifth at 2,9% and 2,7% respectively. The middle range — from badminton through cycling — clusters between 1,8% and 2,4%. At the lower end, field hockey reaches 0,8% and American football 0,7%. The gap between soccer (5,4%) and the second-ranked discipline swimming (3,7%) is larger than the gap between swimming and the tenth-ranked discipline skiing at 2,2%.