European Top 5/social media (March 2026): 49.2 million new followers for the 96 clubs in three months

• The clubs in European Top 5 leagues registered 49.2 million new followers in December 2025, January and February 2026, bringing their total number of followers to 3.19 billion on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X.
• Real Madrid CF (LALIGA EA Sports) is the club with the most followers with 468.9 million, ahead of FC Barcelona (LALIGA EA Sports, 406.5 million) and Manchester United FC (Premier League, 224.2 million).
• Barça was the club that posted the best growth in its number of followers, with 6.8 million new followers in three months.
• In relative terms, Como 1907 (Serie A Enilive) posted the best growth (+40.4%).


The infographics below show the ranking of clubs by aggregate number of followers, then by each social network: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X.

News Tank Football have introduced two new features to its survey of the social networks of the 96 clubs in the European Top 5 from the 2025-26 season onwards:
• the number of followers clubs have on any foreign-language accounts is now taken into account, to give an even more exhaustive picture of their digital development;
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