With the new season kicking off today, we thought it would be interesting to see which clubs have the biggest following on social media.
As non football fans we took the team list from the Barclcays Premier site and checked on each official team site for links to their Facebook and Twitter pages. Most teams had a Facebook presence, less with Twitter presence.
The teams that used sites built from the Club Player Network had a distinct lack of links to Facebook or Twitter. We wanted to get the official channels, not the thousands of fan pages and accounts so we have some blanks. Maybe you could let us know the ones we missed?
Facebook Fans
Note – this indexes the pasges we found. If you can help us find the correct official fan pages, we will add them in.
From this list we can see Man Utd are way out ahead with 18 million Facebook fans, a clear 8 million than Liverpool in second place.
- Manchester United: 18,109,129 fans
- Arsenal: 7,217,583
- Chelsea: 6,860,227
- Liverpool: 6,768,391
- Manchester City: 901,025
- Tottenham Hotspur: 758,486
- Aston Villa: 225,412
- Newcastle United: 181,274
- Everton: 171,900
- Fulham: 40,992
- Stoke City: 31,977
- Sunderland: 27,547
Twitter Followers
- Arsenal: 812,603 followers
- Liverpool: 409,782
- Chelsea: 318,603
- Manchester City: 85,044
- Tottenham Hotspur: 76,482
- Newcastle United: 29,953
- Sunderland: 18,915
- Fulham: 18,544
Here is what we have. If you can add to it, please leave us a comment and we will add in the details.
Using BirdSong we will track the teams every week and update the details on here. Will a win or a loss impact the growth or shrinking of the social fan base?
