Real Madrid and Barcelona are the world’s most popular sports teams measured by social media followers, with each of the Spanish giants approaching 100million Facebook and Twitter fans combined. Madrid’s galaxy of stars including Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez have helped them to attract almost 82m ‘fans’ on the world’s most popular social network, Facebook, plus almost 15m Twitter followers for a combined following of 96.75m across the two dominant social platforms. Barcelona’s array of talent including Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez have helped to garner them slightly more Facebook fans than Real but a few fewer Twitter followers, hence second place overall.
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Real Madrid are the world's most popular sports team on social media
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2014 Champions League winners have almost 100million fans on Facebook and Twitter combined
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Barcelona are in second with 96.93m fans across both social media sites
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Luis Suarez, Neymar and Lionel Messi have helped boost the club's popularity
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Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal complete the top five
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LA Lakers are the only non-football side to feature in the top 10
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The England national team are in 30th position
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