Twitter: Top 100 European football clubs with the most followers (June 2019)

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With more than 53.9 million followers, FC Barcelona (LaLiga Santander) is the most popular European club on Twitter, according to data collected by News Tank Football, which offers a Top 100 of the most popular European clubs on this social network as of 01/06/2019.

To establish this Top 100, News Tank Football counts the number of followers on the main Twitter account, but also those of additional accounts in foreign languages. FC Barcelona, for example, has fewer followers on its Spanish account than Real Madrid CF, second in the ranking, but the Catalan club is ahead with a higher number of followers on its other accounts.

FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF (second with 52 million followers), who are well ahead in the European rankings, are the only two clubs in the Top 100 to have more than 25 million followers each. Among the 10 most followed clubs on Twitter, besides Barça and Real, are five Premier League clubs, one Turkish Spor Toto Süper Lig club, one Serie A TIM club and one from the Ligue 1 Conforama.

13 clubs in this Top 100 have more than 5 million followers, 36 clubs…

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