Ligue 1: AS Monaco surpass 1m Facebook fans

AS Monaco (Ligue 1) surpassed 1m Facebook fans on 05/07/2014; this is a 40-fold increase over their 25,000 fans on 11/05/2013, the day the club was promoted to Ligue 1.

The official page was liked by 50,000 fans on 09/07/2013 when the Colombians Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez were signed by AS Monaco. The page reached 500,000 likes during the AS Monaco - Paris SG fixture (1-1, 24^th Ligue 1 matchday on 09/02/2014). The Facebook page reached 1m fans on 05/07/2014, one week after training for the 2014-15 season resumed (on 30/06/2014).

"This is additional proof of the AS Monaco's supporters' interest," Bruno Skropeta, communications director for AS Monaco, told News Tank on 07/07/2014. "Our goal is to get closer to fans all over the world; for this reason we have a social network strategy in place to offer more exclusive content and contests, and to work with international agencies with expertise in certain territories."

To celebrate their first million Facebook fans, AS Monaco have launched a contest that invites fans to take photos of themselves wearing the club's colours. Some of…