Most popular non-Olympic sports in 2025

The chart ranks the ten non-Olympic sports with the most athletes in Armenia in 2025. "Non-Olympic" is the Statistical Committee's own classification of sports.

Chess has the most athletes, 5,198, more than three times as many as sambo, the next sport, with 1,447. Karate (533) and acrobatics (379) follow.

Chess and sambo together have 6,645 of the 8,626 athletes in non-Olympic sports in 2025. Sports dances and kickboxing share seventh place with 177 each; the chart lists sports dances first, as the source table does. The ten sports together have 8,501 athletes (98.6%).