Major League Soccer Social Media ranking – December 2011

Football Marketing Major League Soccer social media ranking. The chart presented below show the number of Twitter “followers” and Facebook “likes” for each MLS 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.

MLS Cup winners 2011, LA Galaxy, have acquired an unprecedent number of new fans on Facebook and overtook NY Red Bulls and Seattle Sounders to top the ranking. New franchise Impact Montreal have been added to the MLS social media league.

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Last updated on 11 December, 2011

RANK	TEAM		FACEBOOK	TWITTER	TOTAL	MONTH +/-
1 (+2)		Los Angeles Galaxy	275,079	71,953	347,032	+ 76,332
2 (-1)		Seattle Sounders FC	233,292	33,258	266,550	+ 5,739
2 (-1)		New York Red Bulls	132,762	29,130	161,892	+ 6,713
4		Philadelphia Union	88,236	22,616	110,852	+ 4,248
5 (+1)		Chicago Fire	81,281	20,370	101,651	+ 4,232
6 (+2)		Portland Timbers	74,068	20,528	94,596	+ 3,785
7 (-2)		Real Salt Lake	81,119	12,470	93,589	+ 1,789
8 (-1)		D.C. United	56,190	36,086	92,276	+ 2,185
9		New England Revolution	58,612	14,867	73,479	+ 2,444
10 (+1)		Sporting Kansas City	48,220	21,932	70,152	+ 3,492
11 (-1)		Toronto FC	53,849	15,450	69,299	+ 2,208
12		Houston Dynamo	44,832	17,830	62,662	+ 3,401
13		FC Dallas	37,419	11,641	49,060	+ 2,226
14 (+1)		Vancouver Whitecaps FC	24,601	17,380	41,981	+ 1,785
15 (-1)		Columbus Crew	22,278	17,471	39,749	+ 1,221
16		San Jose Earthquakes	28,612	8,214	36,826	+ 1,275
17 (New)		Montreal Impact	27,298	6,575	33,873	+ 1,992
18 (-1)		Chivas USA	17,330	14,936	32,266	+ 1,560
19 (-1)		Colorado Rapids	19,182	9,641	28,823	+ 1,113