While
not the strongest per UEFA rankings, English Premier League is claimed to bethe most popular league globally. Studies done by Twitter has discovered which
football clubs in English Premier League have the biggest spread of globalsupport and where their fans are located around the world. Twitter’s research
is based on the official Twitter accounts for each team, using their followers
as an indicator. The top five clubs include:
Number 5: Manchester City
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| Manchester City is one of the top five most popular club in England |
Manchester
City, the football club that is based in Manchester, England, has once finishing
in relegation to the third tier of English football in 1998. After it has
regained Premier league status, Abu Dhabi United Group purchased the club and
it has ever since become one of the wealthiest club in the world. They won the
Premier league title in 2012 for the first time for 44 years and they won the
second time in 2014. Upon their victory, the number of supporters has grown
exponentially. Today, they are one of the top five most popular club with about
2.76 million followers in Twitter.
Number 4: Liverpool
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| Liverpool has never been relegated from Premier League |
Since
the beginning of the Premier League in 1992, Liverpool has never been relegated
from Premier League. Though Liverpool is yet to win a Premier League title
since its inception in 1992, the club have won more European trophies than any
other English team with Five European Cups. Following a poor start to the
2015/2016 season, manager Brendon Rodgers has been sacked and replaced by
Jurgen Klopp in October 2015. Regardless of the poor performance, the Reds have
the most fans of any Premier League club in 13 countries, including their home
soil UK and Australia, with 4.29 million followers.
Number 3: Chelsea
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| Chelsea won the EPL title last season |
Chelsea
have the most fans of any Premier League club in 81 different countries,
including Russia, Brazil and Mexico. Russia, is the home to the club ownerRoman Abramovich, which could tell why Chelsea have a stronghold in this
region. Other than Russia, the Blues are the most followed club by a number of
countries in Europe, Central America, South America, the Middle East and Asia.
With 6.18 million followers, Chelsea is the third most popular club amongst
other English Premier League Clubs.
Number 2: Manchester United
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| Manchester United won the most leagues titles |
Manchester United make it to the list of clubs that have not
been relegated from Premier League together with their rivalry club Arsenal,
Chelsea, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Everton, Tottenham and Chelsea. United have
won 20 league titles, 11 FA cups, 4 League Cups and a record of 20 FA Community
Shields that makes them the most successful club in Premier League. During
their golden age under Sir Alex Ferguson, they won 38 silverwares between 1986
and 2013. Based on the studies, Red Devils have 6.28 million followers and have
most fans in 23 different countries, including China and India, the two most
populated nations.
Number
1: Arsenal
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| Arsenal is one of the most successful clubs in English Football |
Arsenal
has one of the highest incomes and largest fanbases in the world. The club is
one of the most successful clubs in English Football. Under the guidance of ArseneWenger, the club’s longest serving manager, Arsenal have successfully won 6 FA
cups, 3 Premier League title, 6 FA Community Shield and the record breaking of
a league season undefeated – which amount to 49 league games. The Gunners enjoy
popularities in 55 different countries, including the USA, Canada, North
Africa. Besides, Gunners also leading the way in France, Germany, Poland and
Ukraine. Arsenal are crowned the most popular English club around the globe
with 6.47 million twitter followers.
