Skip to content

Basketball

Fail

The top 5 products take 87% of clicks, so Basketball is a Fail.

Flapen Score
39
39 / 100
Ranks 46 of 57 Sporting Goods niches · −10 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$152K/yr142K searches / yr
90-day growth
+2.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
87%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 34 sellers

Flapen Score

Basketball against its category

The dotted line is the Sporting Goods average. Past it, Basketball is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

39Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Basketball market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Saudi Arabia searched for Basketball 142K times last year and spent an estimated $152K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Flapen scores it 39 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 142K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Saudi Arabia for this niche's terms. An estimated 1.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +2.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $152K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
142K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+2.7%
Conversion, latest week
1.1%
Market size, estimated
$152Ka year
Peak month
November1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
basketball57K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $99.54.

Listings sell for $99.54 on average, from $26.30 to $210.51. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At $99.54 that is $10K to $25K a year per listing.

Average price
$99.54inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$26.30–$210.51
Amazon Saudi Arabia median price
$69.41across 1,863 niches
Units sold a year
2K–2K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$25K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon Saudi Arabia median 1.8%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

60% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 14.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #12 within Sporting Goods. It carries 1,142 reviews at 4.10 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
60%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
14.9%
Average rank
#12in Sporting Goods
Average rating
4.10 starsAmazon Saudi Arabia average 4.21 stars
Average reviews
1,142per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Basketball products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Sign in to see the products

The products selling in this niche are for signed-in readers. Every market figure above stays open to everyone.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 87% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

34

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 160%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 3%)

Demand

Basketball search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

4K3KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Basketball search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • basketball57K/yr
  • كرة سلة45K/yr
  • basketball ball10K/yr
  • كرة سلة للاطفال6K/yr
  • كرة سله6K/yr
  • basket ball5K/yr
  • كره سله6K/yr
  • كرة سلة للكبار5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Basketball

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

100%of positive reviews mention “الجودة الشاملة”
1.9%of orders come back
“Good quality”
A buyer, on “الجودة الشاملة”100% of positive reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

11 topics

NegativePositive

Keep looking

Related niches

Niches in the same category that score near this one. Research these next.

Best Flapen score

The highest-scoring niches we track right now, across every category.

All tracked niches

FAQ

Common Basketball questions

Answered from the same tracked data.