I only have male friends so I'm gonna answer this.
I have two friends who regularly watch football and cricket, no one else does as far as I'm aware. LoL esports used to be a lot more popular amongst my friends but a lot have stopped playing and watching at the same time. Now it's just the two guys I mentioned earlier who still watch league properly, a few others who sometimes watch the lck. There's also people I know off that follow league esports properly but we're not actually friends. A lot of the people I know who watch or have watched league, have actually been to watch the world championships live and would possibly go again.
And then there's me actually following a team in lol esports (and therefore watching it regularly). Need to go to worlds this year, last year I didn't manage to get the tickets cause they got sold out -.-
tldr: Esports definitely win in my group of friends.