Major U.S. sports leagues sponsorship revenue 2022

Sponsorship revenue for the major sports leagues in the United States reaches into the millions of U.S. dollars every year. In the 2022 season, sponsorship revenue in the National Football League (NFL) stood at 1.88 billion U.S. dollars. The largest sponsorship category within the league was technology, followed by betting, lottery and gaming. Attendance at National Football League games The National Football League is the highest division of professional American Football in the United States. With 32 teams competing annually with the hopes of advancing to and winning the Super Bowl championship game, the league attracts millions of fans from across the country each year. Comparing the average per game attendance of the four major sports league in North America, the NFL attracted close to 70 thousand fans per game on average, ranking it higher than Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League in the 2022/23 season. Overall, the Dallas Cowboys welcomed the most attendees in the NFL on average in 2022. Fantasy sports in the U.S. One way for fans to engage with their favorite professional athletes is through fantasy sports, which involves the creation of a virtual team that tracks the performance of players and enables users to accumulate points after each game week. In 2022, the fantasy sports industry in the United States was worth an estimated 9.48 billion U.S. dollars. According to an August 2022 survey, ESPN’s platform ESPN Fantasy Sports was the most popular to use amongst fantasy football players in the United States. The survey also revealed some of the most important features of fantasy football platforms for users from the United States, with platform simplicity being very important for almost two thirds of respondents.

美国主要体育联赛的赞助收入每年均达数亿美元之巨。在2022赛季，美国国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）的赞助收入高达18.8亿美元。该联盟内最大的赞助类别为科技，其次是博彩、彩票及游戏。国家橄榄球联盟赛事的观众出席情况国家橄榄球联盟是美国职业美式足球的最高级别联赛。每年有32支球队角逐，以期晋级并赢得超级碗冠军赛事。该联赛每年吸引了来自全国数百万球迷的关注。在比较北美四大体育联盟的场均观众出席人数时，NFL在2022/23赛季平均每场比赛吸引了近7万名观众，在观众人数方面高于美国职业棒球大联盟、美国国家篮球协会和美国国家冰球联盟。总体而言，达拉斯牛仔队在2022年场均吸引了最多的观众。美国幻想体育产业幻想体育是球迷与喜爱的职业运动员互动的一种方式，它涉及创建一个虚拟团队，追踪球员的表现，并在每个比赛周结束后为用户累积积分。2022年，美国幻想体育产业的价值估计为94.8亿美元。根据2022年8月的一项调查，ESPN的幻想体育平台ESPN Fantasy Sports在美国幻想足球玩家中最为流行。调查还揭示了美国用户对于幻想足球平台的一些最重要的功能，其中平台简洁性对于近三分之二受访者来说至关重要。