The Top 10 Most Popular #Football Teams On Twitter

Football – or soccer if you’re in North America – has some 3.5 billion fans across the globe, making it 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, with the top clubs (and athletes) each boasting millions of fans (and tweets). But which teams are faring best?

Real Madrid holds on to the top spot as the most-followed football club on Twitter, now more than three hundred thousand fans above former number one FC Barcelona.

Arsenal