While many surveys do come out asking about the most hated English Premier League clubs, there are not that many who state which the most loved football clubs currently in England is. While Forbes and other rating groups still tries to get the official number to categorize the most hated and loved groups, we found a simple way to find this out, by simply knowing their Facebook and Twitter followers number.
While this would not get us any closer to finding out who is the most hated English Football Club it will give us an idea about the most popular football clubs out of the lot. Here are top 5 Most Popular English Football Clubs on Twitter & Facebook
Twitter:
- Arsenal FC - 6.11m followers on Twitter –April 2009
Arsenal FC or the Gunners as they are popularly known as has over 6.11 million followers on Twitter and thus are leading the Twitter popularity list against their next biggest Challengers Chelsea FC with over million more followers.
- Chelsea FC – 5.9m followers on Twitter – March 2009
The Blues might be the most hated Football Club in England, but that does not diminish their popularity in any way, with over 5.9 million followers on Twitter Chelsea FC are the second most popular team on Twitter.
- Manchester United – 5.7m followers on Twitter – April 2012
Though they might be the third most popular football club on Twitter, Manchester United were the last football club to join the micro-blogging site Twitter and are not far from catching up to their London counterpart Chelsea FC and are just 20k followers behind them.
- Liverpool FC- 4.62m followers on Twitter – January 2009
With 4.62 million followers Liverpool FC are more than a million followers away from Manchester United on Twitter popularity, but the Anfield based club is yet more than 2 million followers ahead of another Manchester team, Manchester City FC.
- Manchester City FC – 2.59m followers on Twitter – April 2008
Compared to rest of the popular teams on Twitter list, Manchester City FC is a new team and is still finding their ground in England’s popularity table, but that still doesn’t stop them to give the top lot a fight back be it on field or Twitter. They have more than 2.59 million followers in Twitter.
Popularity on Facebook:
- Manchester United – 65 million Likes on Facebook
While Old Trafford based team might be the third most followed team, on Facebook Manchester United FC dominate the popularity chart far ahead of any other football club with 65 million Likes.
- Chelsea FC – 43 million Likes on Facebook
While Manchester United might have taken over them in Facebook popularity list, English Premier League 2014-15 champions still sit pretty on the Facebook popularity table with second spot with over 43 million likes on the popular social media site Facebook.
- Arsenal FC – 33 million Likes on Facebook
The most popular team on Twitter Arsenal FC surprisingly have lost their spot of Twitter on Facebook and have fallen two places to third ranking with 33 million Likes that is 10 million Likes below Chelsea FC and 8 million likes more than Liverpool FC.
- Liverpool FC- 25 million Likes on Facebook
Liverpool might not be in top three lists of the popularity list of Facebook and Twitter, but Anfield based club still hold their charm in every popularity list even though if it’s at fourth place with 25 million Likes on Facebook.
- Manchester City FC –19 million Likes on Facebook
Just like on Twitter, Manchester City FC is gaining popularity on Facebook as well, they currently are fifth place on Facebook as well with 19 million Likes.
* Stats last taken on 2nd August 2015
