Talk:List of hybrid sports

Soccer + AFL
When I was a kid there was a sport that combined Aussie rules and Soccer that the school competed in versus a few other schools, aparently it was "a thing". The basics of it was when the ball was below the waist, it was soccer, when the ball was above, it was AFL, and I honestly cant remember if it used soccer nets or AFL style goals. This was back in the 1980s, and I have no idea at all what it was called. Anyone remember it, and if it was a legit played sport, or just the fantasy of a few Phys-ed teachers at some schools figuring out ways to integrate the european immigrants into the local sports traditions? 49.255.218.102 (talk) 08:43, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

original soccervolleyball
Please go to soccervolleyball.com to see this sport

RU and RL
Since there is no hybridized rules is this really a hybrid? I mean here in Ireland we some time see one half soccer and one half gaelic football but each half is played in the parent codes rules.

For RU and RL is their any example of games being played for example with line outs but only 5 tackles? 86.42.79.146 (talk) 18:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes! As described in this | article of a game between St Augustine's College and Keebra Park State High Schools. Van Dieman (talk) 05:05, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Definition of Hybrid Sport needed.
I think we need a clear definition of what constitutes a hybrid sport.

Only a small number of the sports listed in this article could truly be described as hybrid: That is there has been a genuine blending of the rules of otherwise differentiated sports so that in competition between them no one rule set has an advantage. Sports such as International Rules Football, Composite Rules Shinty-Hurling, Austus and Universal Football.

Or a blending of the rules to invent new sports, such as Samoa Rules and Kronum.

Other games, such as Korfball, listed in this article, whilst superficially resembling the sports attributed to their creation, when reading their histories it can be seen that they are evolutionary offshoots of existing sports.

Whilst others, such as Pollocrosse, Football Tennis and Footvolley would seem to be independent inventions, which might or might not have drawn inspiration from the sports they most closely resemble.

Given the criteria that seems currently to exist for inclusion in this list sports such as Sepak Takraw; Indoor, Inline and Roller Hockey; Canoe Polo; Indoor (Association and American) Football; and Horseball: Even Racketball; Baseball and Bowling (Ten Pin), should be considered for inclusion if a long established history and popularity is discounted.

As to Chess Boxing: Just how does one describe it? It's hardly a hybrid in the generally accepted meaning of the word.

Van Dieman (talk) 05:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Top 10 popular
I removed the following section from the article, because it did not have a source:

10* Bossaball

9* Chess boxing

8* Disc golf

7* Footgolf

6* Footvolley

5* Polocrosse

4* Slamball

3* Spikeball

2* Teqball

1* Waterpolo

I found a source for "Top 10 Most Popular Hybrid Sports", but I have no idea about its reliability and it does not match the list from the article. I did not know how to continue from here, but did not want to leave the unsourced list in the article. Nuretok (talk) 20:34, 24 January 2023 (UTC)