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There are more than 584 million active podcast listeners in the world right now, and the number continues to grow. Listeners have access to hundreds of thousands of podcasts and many of them are focused on sports.
Podcasts have become an excellent platform for fans and pundits to express their views on sports and make the community stronger. If you are looking for the best sports podcasts to listen to, try out some of the ones we have listed below.
Top Sports Podcasts from Around the World
Our list of the best sports podcasts is in no particular order, as your preference will depend greatly upon which sport is your favourite. However, we have awarded a gold medal (🥇) to the podcast in each category which we think is the best. Our selection comes from the UK, Ireland and the US and covers a broad range of sporting topics, including podcasts on golf, football, tennis, boxing, the NFL and more.
If you are looking for a new sports pod to while away the time during your commute, when going for a run or taking care of chores around the house, then we have got you covered. Read on to find out our choices for the best sporting podcasts for 2025:
Best Football Podcasts
The Football Ramble
A group of mates chatting about football. Sounds like the kind of podcast just about anyone could make, except the scores of failed attempts tell a different story. The four hosts of this podcast – Luke, Peter, Marcus and Jim – have managed to create a fun and bantz-tastic podcast which straddles that fine line between silly and serious.
The boys have been Rambling about footy since 2007, and show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Recently they have even added another member, Vish, to the core team.
🥇Tifo Football Podcast
Tifo Football on YouTube has become the go-to destination for football fans online for tactical, historical and geopolitical insights into the beautiful game. The same team brings us this podcast blending serious analysis with humour and light-hearted banter. Hosted by Joe Devine, the conversations occasionally drift off-track but that’s exactly what keeps the discussion engaging and refreshingly different.
The Rest Is Football
Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards unpack football’s biggest stories with their trademark charm. Expect honest opinions, plenty of laughs and, of course, the odd trip down memory lane. Their chemistry, experience and humour make The Rest Is Football a must-listen for football fans; three times a week.
The podcast doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it’s also full of insight and guaranteed laughs. If you’re new to football, it’s a perfect entry point to understand why so many people fall in love with the game.
Guardian Football Weekly
One of the oldest podcasts on our list, Football Weekly has been doing its stuff since 2006. Some might argue that the pod suffered when it lost original host James Richardson, but Max Rushden has won around most of the non-believers, and cynical journo Barry Glendenning has been there since the beginning.
Regular contributors like Sid Lowe and Jonathan Wilson help to provide a fully-rounded picture of the English and international football scene.
That Peter Crouch Podcast
This is one of the most popular podcasts of any description in the UK, and Peter Crouch has proved to be a natural as a podcast host.
Crouchy never seemed to take himself too seriously on the pitch – as that famous robot dance would suggest – and he takes a similarly light-hearted approach to podcasting. Co-hosts DJ Chris Stark and journalist Tom Fordyce help to keep the show on the tracks.
FPL Pod
Fantasy Premier League is wildly popular among Premier League fans, so it didn’t feel right to compile a list of the best football podcasts in 2025 without mentioning the official FPL podcast.
Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team look at the best possible FPL moves for upcoming gameweeks and drops valuable insights for millions of FPL managers around the globe. This might sound a bit too niche, but if you play FPL, this podcast is a great pick for you.
Undr The Cosh
We have all heard crushingly dull interviews with professional athletes, but Undr The Cosh manages to give us unvarnished and often hilarious football interviews every week.
The fact that two of the three presenters (Browny, Jon and Chris) are former lower-league pros means that they tend to get more authentic responses from the current and ex players they meet. This makes this pod one of the most authentic sources for all you ever wanted to know about life as a professional footballer.
Football Daily
Mark Chapman is your (main) host for this BBC podcast for those who want to keep on top of all the latest footy news. If you are familiar with the presenting style of BBC 5 Live then you will know what to expect here: comprehensive football news and views delivered in a bright and breezy tone.
Best Golf Podcasts
🥇No Laying Up
Chris Solomon is the host of this all-encompassing golf podcast, and he is joined by regular contributors as well as some famous golfing names. Golf can sometimes take itself too seriously, but there is no danger of that here, where serious and fun golf stories from around the world are given equal space.
If you only need one golf podcast to keep you up to the latest in the PGA – albeit from an American perspective – then this is the one for you.
Bunkered
There’s a distinctly Scottish twang to the Bunkered podcast, with Michael McEwan on hosting duties in the company of various scribes from the Bunkered magazine. Scotland is the home of golf, of course, but this pod doesn’t limit itself to what takes place in Northern Britain.
All the golfing issues of the day are covered here, with journos and big name golfers from around the world giving their takes on the latest news and views.
The Fried Egg Podcast
A ‘fried-egg lie’ in golf is when your ball ends up in a bunker, plugged in the centre of the little crater formed when it landed. This American podcast is less about keeping up with the weekly golf news – although this is covered – and more about taking a broader look at the game.
The pod is interested in the architecture of courses, as well as various macro interests around the sport, which makes for a nice change of pace and some thoughtful conversations.
The Rick Shiels Golf Show
Anyone who has scoured YouTube in an attempt to shave a few shots off their golf game will almost certainly have come across Rick Shiels. The podcast he presents with Producer Guy isn’t specifically about improving your game, however, and instead covers all things golf related.
Time spent in the company of these two amiable blokes makes for very easy listening.
Best Boxing Podcasts
🥇5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
Mike Costello, the silver-tonsilled voice of boxing, and Steve Bunce, the grizzled veteran of the boxing scene in the UK, started this podcast together on BBC Radio. . Together they make for the perfect podcasting partnership, and if you are a fan of British boxing you won’t want to miss out on their chats about the domestic and international game, peppered with interviews from the biggest names in pugilism.
Bunce is the only host of the podcast now, however, after Costello ended his 45-year long stint with BBC to join DAZN. It did lose some of its charm, but Bunce has still kept the show quite fun to listen to.
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
Teddy Atlas had a successful career as a boxing trainer, but it’s at boxing commentary where he truly shined. After working years with major broadcasters, Atlas started his own podcast to share his raw take on the sport.
This is a highly recommended podcast if you are interested in the tactical aspect of boxing, and also want to know about other combat sports. Even UFC president Dana White and UFC star Dustin Poirier have joined his show as guests in the past.
Best Tennis Podcasts
No Challenges Remaining
Ben Rothenberg and Courtney Nguyen are your hosts for this Stateside podcast on pro tennis. The podcast follows the WTA and ATP tours, giving updates from the major event, while also featuring tangential episodes on more general issues related to the sport.
The Tennis Podcast
The Tennis Podcast provides a British perspective on the sport, featuring BBC radio presenter David Law and Prime TV presenter Catherine Whitaker, plus long-time ‘intern’ Matt Roberts. Their podcast is very similar in content to the afore-mentioned No Challenges Remaining, except that The Tennis Podcast comes from this side of the pond.
The Mini Break by Cracked Racquets
Alex Gruskin puts you up to speed everyday with the biggest storylines in the world of tennis. Looking for a podcast to stay up-to-date about everything tennis? This should be a perfect choice for you then.
Gruskin is very enthusiastic about the sport and his enthusiasm can be contagious. But it’s not just deep analysis and plain news, Gruskin keeps things interesting with great humour. Should be a great listen for anyone who loves the game.
Served by Andy Roddick
You have seen him play, but now you get to experience the game through Andy Roddick’s eyes. The former World No.1 has great knowledge of the sport and he mixes it up with his equally brilliant sense of humour to create a perfect package for tennis lovers.
Besides his own analysis, Roddick steals the show with thoughtful and in-depth interviews of his guests.
🥇 Monday Match Analysis by Gill Gross
Gill Gross is obsessed with the tactical nuances of the game, which makes his “Monday Match Analysis” a must-listen for tennis fans looking to make better sense of the game. Gross provides match previews, draw analysis, post-match analysis and a lot more.
It’s more ATP-centric, however. He does talk WTA sometimes, but the ATP coverage is more comprehensive. Perhaps, we will get more WTA content from him in the future, but regardless, this is an excellent show for tennis analysis.
Best Cricket Podcasts
Stick to Cricket with The Overlap Cricket
The Overlap enjoyed great success with its laidback football podcast and then it decided to expand the formula to cricket. Phil Tufnell, Sir Alastair Cook, David Lloyd, and Michael Vaughan have cosy chats with some of the biggest names in world cricket. The likes of Wasim Akram, Brian Lara, and Freddie Flintoff have already dropped by the show.
🥇Tailenders
Presented by BBC DJ Greg James, cricketer James Anderson and musician Felix White, this is a freewheeling pod that takes cricket as its starting point and goes from there. This show has developed an almost cultish following, as the loyal army of ‘Tailenders’ from around the globe will attest.
