English Premier League Social Media ranking – July 2012

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

Manchester United has reached 26M fans on Facebook, and still top the ranking despite not having an official Twitter account. Premier League champions, Manchester City are still far behind the ‘Big Four’, while Chelsea overtook Arsenal to move into second place.

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Last updated on 29th July, 2012

RANK	TEAM		FACEBOOK	TWITTER	Total Reach
1		Manchester United	26,782,095	0	26,782,095
2		Chelsea FC	11,661,188	1,236,673	12,897,861
3		Arsenal FC	11,040,050	1,669,438	12,709,488
4		Liverpool FC	10,022,331	1,073,780	11,096,111
5		Manchester City	3,153,842	426,400	3,580,242
6		Tottenham Hotspur	1,362,883	218,616	1,581,499
7		Aston Villa	653,766	62,742	716,508
8		Newcastle United	301,545	85,487	387,032
9		West Ham	271,808	66,333	338,141
10		Everton FC	250,911	70,306	321,217
11		Fulham FC	126,597	53,247	179,844
12		QPR	105,062	42,758	147,820
13		Sunderland AFC	53,609	53,848	107,457
14		Stoke City	49,233	35,558	84,791
15		Norwich City	36,040	44,464	80,504
16		Southampton	35,008	32,357	67,365
17		West Bromwich Albion	44,642	19,976	64,618
18		Reading	39,515	23,361	62,876
19		Swansea City	47,759	14,905	62,664
20		Wigan Athletic	15,826	20,115	35,941