Facebook: 52 million likes in total for the 20 Ligue 1 Conforama clubs (March 2018)

The 20 clubs involved in the 2017-18 Ligue 1 Conforama season have a cumulative total of over 52 million likes on the social network Facebook, according to data collected by News Tank Football on 01/03/2018. The Ligue 1 Conforama is the least popular of the European Top 5 leagues on Facebook, with an average of just over 2.6 million likes per club.

RC Strasbourg Alsace was the Ligue 1 Conforama club that posted the best percentage growth (+3.1%) compared to on 01/02/2018, ahead of Olympique Lyonnais (+2.2%).

Paris Saint-Germain, the first French club to break the 30 million mark in July 2017, recorded an increase of 554,848 likes in February 2018 (+1.7%). PSG alone comprises 64.7% of the total likes of the Ligue 1 Conforama clubs: no other club in the Top 5 dominates its league in this way on Facebook.

Four of the 20 Conforama Ligue 1 clubs (AS Monaco, Girondins de Bordeaux, Stade Rennais and Angers SCO) saw their number of likes decrease in February 2018 (see below). This drop could be explained by a "cleanup" operated by Facebook, which removes the "likes" given by "bots…