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Football Fields of Europe - Based on Data from OpenStreetMaps
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Germany: 45 630
France: 32 082
Italy: 26 139
England: 14 307
Spain: 10 999
Poland: 10. 37
The Netherlands: 7690
Sweden: 6036
Belgium: 5633
Austria: 5115
Ukraine: 4716
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Vatican City: 0
ITT: mountains, and places where there are not mountains. and eastern europe, which presumably has less mountains and more depression.
Ireland also a bit of an outlier where the dominant sport isn't soccer.
Video of some hurling for those who've never seen it.
One of Gaelic football.
It's wild to me that Ireland maintains several local sports at a high level and is also world-class at rugby with a relatively small population
Wild! Like how we punch that far above our weight in the rugby is mind blowing to me. I know NZ has a small population too but they're all about the rugby. There are honestly feck all rugby clubs in Ireland compared to the GAA or footie but the ones that do exist play at a ridiculous level.
edit: I was curious so went looking. It looks like there are less than 50 clubs on the whole island. Now a lot of secondary schools play at a very high level in Dublin and Limerick and wouldn't have a club associated with them so that's not the full picture, but still.
There is a club in my town, but only one other that I can see in a ~25KM radius whereas there would be probably 20x that of GAA and football clubs in the same area.