Facebook: Top 100 European clubs with the most fans (February 2018)

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With more than 106.6 million fans, Real Madrid CF (LaLiga Santander) is the most-liked European club on Facebook, according to data compiled by News Tank Football which established the Top 100 most popular European clubs on this social network as of 02/01/2018.

With 2.36 million additional fans in January 2018, Manchester City FC (8th, Premier League) was the club that recorded the best growth in absolute value in the Top 100, ahead of FC Internazionale Milano (+530,152 subscribers) and Paris Saint-Germain (+428,871). The club with the highest percentage increase in fans was FC Girondins de Bordeaux (Ligue 1 Conforama): +15.3%, or +134,509 fans.

The Premier League is the most represented league in the top 20 (seven clubs), followed by the Serie A TIM (four). LaLiga Santander (three clubs) is in third place, tied with the Süper Lig, with the Turkish league being the only league outside of the Top 5 countries in Europe to be represented in the top 20. The Bundesliga has two representatives in the top 20, and the Ligue 1 Conforama just one (Paris Saint-Germain).

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