The most popular sports played in Hyderabad[1] are cricket and association football.[2] At the professional level, the city has hosted national and international sporting events.
The city had produced highest number of Olympian footballers in India. Field hockey and cricket are popular among the current generation and apart from modern sports the Indian traditional wrestling (known as Kushti or Pehlwani) is popular among all group of people in Hyderabad.
- ^ "7 famous sports stars from Hyderabad that were not born in the City of Nizams". The Hans India.
- ^ Kapadia, Novy (2001). "Triumphs and disaster: the story of Indian football, 1889–2000" (PDF). Soccer and Society. 2 (2): 19. doi:10.1080/714004851. S2CID 145561706. Retrieved 3 April 2012.