Worldwide Football Clubs Social Media ranking

Football Marketing releases its first worldwide social media ranking. The chart presented below show the number of Twitter “followers” and Facebook “likes” for each football club. The teams are ranked by their combined number of fans across the two sites. We only tracked the sites / account identified as “official”. Many teams have a lot of unofficial Facebook and Twitter accounts but only “official sites” were monitored.

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Last updated on 30 April, 2011

RANK	TEAM		FACEBOOK	TWITTER	TOTAL	MONTH +/-
1		FC Barcelona	13,864,136	721,498	14,585,634	0
2		Real Madrid	12,732,601	1,577,677	14,310,278	0
3		Manchester United	12,831,602	0	12,831,602	0
4		Arsenal	5,560,373	602,833	6,163,206	0
5		Liverpool	5,432,179	263,197	5,695,376	0
6		Galatasaray	5,262,284	111,810	5,374,094	0
7		Chelsea	5,113,407	187,719	5,301,126	0
8		Fenerbahce	3,875,266	40,124	3,915,390	0
9		AC Milan	3,639,487	68,045	3,707,532	0
10		Besiktas	2,581,850	15,592	2,597,442	0
11		Boca Junior	1,830,447	51,739	1,882,186	0
12		Bayern Munich	1,271,648	0	1,271,648	0
13		Chivas	972,786	264,805	1,237,591	0
14		Olympique de Marseille	1,146,376	49,231	1,195,607	0
15		Corinthians	522,891	354,986	877,877	0
16		Flamengo	454,398	264,914	719,312	0
17		Tottenham Hotspur	591,974	53,600	645,574	0
18		Manchester City	580,311	57,830	638,141	0
19		Club America	467,681	76,114	543,795	0
20		Paris SG	530,609	1,226	531,835	0
21		Sao Paulo FC	212,014	280,330	492,344	0
22		Benfica	471,611	11,998	483,609	0
23		SSC Napoli	435,589	0	435,589	0
24		Palmeiras	172,494	236,897	409,391	0
25		Cruz Azul	346,947	46,593	393,540	0
26		Borussia Dortmund	366,268	3,686	369,954	0
27		FC Porto	348,452	12,568	361,020	0
28		AS Roma	356,688	0	356,688	0
29		Internazionale	328,149	12,139	340,288	0
30		River Plate	287,601	27,159	314,760	0

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