Which Premier League club is the most talked about on Facebook?

With the brand new introduction of the ‘whos talking about this’ function on all Facebook Pages as from last night, I thought that I’d put together a Premier League table (before anyone else does!).

It is interesting without delivering many shocks.  The bigger clubs with large followings get the most engagement…nothing new there.  The gaps between some of the clubs, or lack of them in some cases, is more eye opening and you can see that Norwich City do a great job with a small fan base.

The hope from Facebook is that this will encourage those who administer the pages to deliver content which is more sharable and have comment comment, like, etc rather than just spam with poorly thought out posts.

To benchmark Man Utd‘s feat, their main rivals in size on Facebook are Barcelona who’s engagement score is 561,727 and Real Madrid  with 815,437 (by far the best score).

Here is the league as it stands today (stats correct as of Friday 7th Oct 2011).  Love to hear your thoughts…

 

    Club   Who’s Talking About This   Fan Count
1   Manchester United   630,133   19,775,283
2   Arsenal   181,294   7,690,063
3   Chelsea   155,661   7,339,036
4   Liverpool   116,880   7,184,251
5   Tottenham Hotspur   49,046   819,904
6   Manchester City   46,543   1,089,755
7   Aston Villa   12,016   255,760
8   Everton   9,272   182,650
9   Newcastle   4,437   191,894
10   Fulham   4,235   49,863
11   QPR   2,607   26,715
12   Norwich City   1,479   11,203
13   Sunderland   1,430   29,732
14   Stoke City   1,290   36,021
15   Blackburn Rovers   986   23,498
16   Wolverhampton Wanderers   768   23,337
17   West Bromwich Albion   739   10,313
18   Swansea City   556   21,201
19   Wigan Athletic   205   4,749
20   Bolton Wanderers   n/a   n/a



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