Facebook: 244.69 million fans in total for the 20 Premier League clubs (July 2017)

The 20 clubs in the 2017-18 Premier League season have a cumulative 244.69 million fans on the social network Facebook, according to data compiled by News Tank Football on 01/07/2017. This total makes the Premier League the most popular European league on Facebook, with 12.23 million fans on average per club.

Manchester United FC are the most followed English club with 73.68 million fans, an increase of 172,993 (+0.2%) in June 2017. At the same time Huddersfield Town AFC were the 2017-18 Premier League club to register the highest percentage growth on Facebook (+6.8%). But Huddersfield are the least followed club on Facebook with 105,529 fans, behind Brighton & Hove Albion FC, 19^th with 196,270 fans (+4.7%).

Chelsea FC, the reigning English champions, are the second most followed Premier League club with 48 million fans. Fourteen English league clubs have more than one million fans, a record in the Top 5 leagues. Stoke City FC (1,338,171 to 1,302,953) and Southampton FC (1,713,789 to 1,662,313) are the two Premier League clubs to have posted a decline in their number of fans on…