The Top 10 Most Popular Football Teams On Twitter [STATS]

With some 3.5 billion fans across the globe, football – or soccer if you’re in the U.S. – is far and away the most popular sport in the world.

That popularity has quickly bled into social media. Indeed, football’s adage that it’s “played by millions, and watched by billions” could equally be applied to Twitter, perhaps (somewhat awkwardly) rephrased as, “followed by millions, with tweets in the billions”.

But which teams are faring best? Barcelona leads the way, about a million fans ahead of its great rival, Real Madrid.