These two clubs are in the league of their own and its been several years since they have been the two richest football club in the world. How Barcelona and Real Madrid compare when we talk about the most popular clubs in the world ?

According to recent surveys both clubs has enjoyed massive hike in popularity since 2005, they slowly overtook Manchester United not only as the richest clubs but also closed the gap in terms of general popularity around the world. We take a look at top 10 most popular clubs in the world.
What factors can be considered to scale down the popularity of clubs ? Well the very accurate one is of course the social media follower count, global tv viewership numbers, shirt sales and sponsorship deals around the world. So we did some research and as the numbers suggest Manchester United is by far the most popular/most followed club in the world.

#1. Manchester United

Social Media: 75 million followers (68m facebook, 7m twitter)
Tv Viewership: 52 per cent of the Premier League’s entire global TV audiance (premier league averages 3.5 to 4 billion global views a season)
Shirt sales: averaged 1.2 t0 1.6 million a year (last 5 years)
Sponsorship deal: Most expensive kit deal with adidas £75m a year, most lucrative sponsorship deal with Chevrolet £53m a year and countless other international deals around the world.
Although Real Madrid and Barcelona has close the gap between themselves in Manchester United in terms of popularity, United still rules the world when it comes to sheer following not only in native Britain but around the world. Manchester United is by far the most popular club in Asia and United States and according to Kantar’ survey Manchester United has around 660 million fans around the world. the figures are tentative, but if the actual numbers are anywhere near that it makes United double more popular than Real Madrid and Barcelona (but of course those figures are most probably way over the top)

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As far as social media popularity is concerned United has around 75 million followers on twitter and Facebook combine. Although United are far away from Real Madrid and Barcelona’s around 100 million followers but that is largely down to fanboys of Ronaldo and Messi following their teams. United dominated the richest club list for best part of 10 years in early 2000’s.
United sell the most shirts not only in premier league but in the world with average yearly sales of around 1.2-1.5 million, thats around 30% more than their nearest rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona in shirt sales.
Manchester United dominates premier league tv viewership around the world and according to 2013-14 statistics United represent 52% of premier league’s global tv audience.

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