Spain shouts goal. Soccer has once again been the most practiced sport in Spain in 2025followed by running and paddle tennis, as can be seen from III Barometer of Sports Habits in Spainprepared by SPSG Consulting and to which Palco23 has had access.
Specifically, 22.6% of those surveyed opted for the beautiful sportcompared to 22% who practiced running or 18.2% who picked up a racket to practice paddle tennis, a discipline that has risen three positions in the consulting firm’s ranking. Swimming, with a penetration rate of 17.6%, and walking, walking or hiking, an option for 15.4% of Spaniards, close the top cinco.
He fitness, tennis and basketballin sixth, seventh and eighth position, respectively, maintain their position on the SPSG Consulting list regarding the second edition of the Barometer. In these cases, practitioners range between 9.6% and 11% of the more than 1,200 respondents.
He most notable growth is led by boxingwhich has risen four positions, with a practice rate of 2.8%. On the contrary, The biggest drop has occurred in climbing and mountaineeringwith a retreat of three positions. Furthermore, they enter the top twenty disciplines such as strength training (16), martial arts, judo and karate (18) and skiing (20).
By gender, Soccer continues to be played more by men (34.2%) than by women (8.2%) and it is the favorite option of young people between 18 years and 29 years (38.1%), followed by the group between 30 years and 39 years (30.6%).
The gap is narrowing runningwith 23.6% of male practitioners and 20.1% female, with almost 30% of practitioners between 40 years and 49 years old and less than 20% between 30 years and 39 years old. It also happens in paddle tenniswith men accounting for 19.1% and women 17.1%.
In swimming, however, this trend is reversed: Women (17.8%) practice it more than men (17.5%), being the discipline chosen by the oldest: almost 27% are between 60 and 75 years old. Also in hiking, with 20.4% being women and 11.4% being men. In this case, the largest age group also wins, with 40.2% of practitioners.
Soccer is both the most practiced and most followed sport in Spain
The report also analyzes the sports disciplines most followed among the Spanish population and one of the conclusions is that “there are a series of sports activities (swimming, runningwalking or hiking, paddle tennis, etc.), which are highly practiced while, substantially, their respective “icon” sports are less followed (swimming, athletics).”
and points to the celebration of Olympic Games or World and European Championshipsmoments in which this premise is not met, “especially when Spanish athletes obtain medals and positive sporting results.” That is, its regular monitoring by the population “has a clear seasonal vector.”
In this case, the three most followed disciplines in the country are soccer, with 81%; tennis, with 39%, and basketball, with 38%. They are followed by Formula 1, with a rate of 16%; cycling, with 12%, and athletics and MotoGP, with 9% in both cases.
