Twitter: 11.86 million followers in total for the 18 Bundesliga clubs (August 2017)

The 18 clubs in the 2017-18 Bundesliga have a cumulative 11.86 million followers on the social network Twitter, according to data recorded by News Tank Football on 02/08/2017. The Bundesliga -- which surpassed 10 million followers in March 2017 -- is the least followed European Top 5 league on Twitter, with 659,024 followers on average per club.

FC Bayern Munich are the most popular German club on Twitter, with 3.82 million followers, up 140,821 followers (+3.8%) compared to the beginning of July 2017. The Bundesliga is the only Top 5 league in which no club has more than 4 million followers.

RB Leipzig (2^nd place finish in the 2016-17 Bundesliga; qualified for the group stage of the 2017-18 Champions League) are the Bundesliga club which posted the best percentage growth at 7.8% (from 106,805 to 115,092) since early July 2017. Leipzig were just ahead of Borussia Mönchengladbach (+7%), which rose from 363,634 to 389,131 followers.

Twitter: the figures considered in this table are only for the main Twitter account of each club