LaLiga Santander: 48.19 million total Twitter followers for the 20 Spanish clubs (November 2016)

The 20 clubs in the 2016-17 LaLiga Santander championship have a cumulative 48.19 million followers on the social network Twitter, according to data compiled by News Tank Football on 02/11/2016. This result makes LaLiga Santander the most popular Top 5 League on Twitter, with an average of 2.4 million followers per club.

Real Madrid CF are the most followed Spanish club, with 21 million followers, up 268,000 (+1.3%) compared with October 2016. Real Madrid are the most followed club in Europe on its primary Twitter account. FC Barcelona (2^nd, 18.84 million) and Atletico Madrid (3^rd, 2.53 million) complete the podium. These three most followed clubs in Spain have a cumulative 42.37 million followers, or 87.91% of the total of all 20 LaLiga Santander clubs.

The promoted clubs CD Leganés (+16.9%) and Deportivo Alavés (+16.5%) recorded the highest percentage growth on Twitter (in percentages) of all the clubs in the Top 5 leagues in October 2016.

The figures included only count the primary Twitter account of each club

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