Facebook: 250.2 million fans in total for the 20 Premier League clubs (September 2017)

The 20 clubs in the 2017-18 Premier League season have a cumulative 250.27 million fans on the social network Facebook, according to data recorded by News Tank Football on 01/09/2017. This total makes the Premier League the most popular European Top 5 league on Facebook, with nearly 10.9 million fans on average per club.

Manchester United is the most followed English club with more than 74 million fans. It gained 194,377 new fans (+0.3%) in August 2017, while Huddersfield Town AFC was the Premier League club with the best percentage growth in the last month (+10.6%). Nevertheless, the promoted club still ranks last in number of fans in September, with 100,000 less than fellow promoted side Brighton & Hove Albion FC (19^th).

Chelsea FC, the reigning Premier League champions, is the second most-followed Premier League club with 48 million fans. Fourteen clubs in the English first division have more than one million fans, the high mark in the Top 5 leagues. Leicester City FC is the only club in the Premier League to register a drop in its number of fans in August 2017 (-8,015 fans).