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Football

Maybe

An estimated 0.7% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Football is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 15% of 792 Sports & Outdoors niches · +10 vs the category median of 50
Market size
£1.6M/yr5.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
+39.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
46%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 108 sellers

Flapen Score

Football against its category

The dotted line is the Sports & Outdoors average. Past it, Football is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Football market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Football 5.5M times last year and spent an estimated £1.6M. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 5.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +39.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
5.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+39.9%
Conversion, latest week
2.8%
Market size, estimated
£1.6Ma year
Peak month
December2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
football3.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.09.

Listings sell for £10.09 on average, from £4.49 to £22.06. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 125K to 150K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £10.09 that is £30K to £40K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.09under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.49–£22.06
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
125K–150K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£30K–£40K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #15 within Football. It carries 1,394 reviews at 4.34 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
0.5%
Average rank
#15in Football
Average rating
4.34 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,394per listing
Listings tracked
39

04 · Newcomers

15 of last year's 18 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

18 products launched here in the last 12 months. 15 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
18
Successful launches
15Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Football products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 29, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 46% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£62K£125K£187K£250K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

108

Est. top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

46%

Top 20: 84%

Open market

2%

  • PUMA41%
  • Mitre24%
  • adidas14%
  • Hy-Pro10%
  • UEFA4%
  • NINE4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 2%)

Demand

Football search demand

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

200K150KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Football search terms shoppers use

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

  • football3.4M/yr
  • champions league football387K/yr
  • footballs237K/yr
  • size 3 football201K/yr
  • size 5 football115K/yr
  • size 4 football139K/yr
  • football size 5101K/yr
  • kids football92K/yr
  • mitre football75K/yr
  • premier league football96K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Football

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

32%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
22%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.7%of orders come back
“Absolutely rubbish quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”22% of negative 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Football questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data