Sky Bet Championship: Facebook and Twitter communities of the clubs (August 2017)

The 24 clubs in the 2017-18 Sky Bet Championship season have a cumulative 12.1 million fans on the social network Facebook, according to data recorded by News Tank Football on 01/08/2017. The Sky Bet Championship is the most followed second division of the European Top 5 countries on Facebook, with an average of 502,901 fans per club.

Aston Villa FC are the Sky Bet Championship club with the most fans (2.3 million) on Facebook. Two clubs relegated from Premier League at the end of the 2016-17 season and each with more than 1 million fans, Sunderland AFC (1.7 million) and Hull City FC (1 million) ranked 2^nd and 3^rd. With +59,522 fans (+20.3%), Sheffield Wednesday FC are the club with the strongest increase on Facebook since July 2017.

On Twitter, the 24 2017-18 Sky Bet Championship clubs have a cumulative 6.4 million fans as of 01/08/2017, an increase of 3.2% compared to the previous month (+198,201 followers). As on Facebook, Aston Villa FC (1 million followers) and Sunderland AFC (746,661) are the top two in the Twitter ranking. Norwich City FC (503 586) rank third.

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