Barcelona (50.3 million)
Real Madrid (45.9 million)
Manchester United (32.8 million)
Arsenal (22.9 million)

"the main loser over the past five seasons, with 11 per cent less supporters, is Real Madrid.”

Rats...sinking ship...etc

 

Zenit and Spartak Moscow ahead of clubs such as Valencia, Inter and Roma for example?

 

St. Petersburg has over 4 million people in the inner city alone, not counting the entire metro area, and Zenit's the city's only club. Spartak is the most popular club in Russia, a country of over 140 million.

 

Theres over 150 million ethnic Russians and/or Russian citizens in Europe mate.

 

That's rather an achivemnet considering there's just about 140 million Russians in world...

 

And wasn´t Fenerbahce among them?

These rankings change a lot from one year to other...

 

So this a measure of glory supporters per club then?

 

Barcelona and Chelsea the big winners. roud:

Hartmut Zastrow, Executive Director, SPORT+MARKT said the survey results showed the following:

“Along with Chelsea FC, FC Barcelona is the big winner amongst the top European clubs. Despite still having an unusually high fan potential, the main loser over the past five seasons, with 11 per cent less supporters, is Real Madrid.”

“The fact that Chelsea FC has increased its fan base by over five times, clearly shows what a fast-moving market football is. One can achieve a lot in a short amount of time.”

 

the main loser over the past five seasons, with 11 per cent less supporters, is Real Madrid.”

goodbye David Beckham, Ronaldo, Zidane and Figo

rocket science.

 

haha...no Inter

 

How is the measured? For example, I see a lot of :ass:nal and Man U fans around here but I doubt they are counted.

 

Who cares about puny Europe :stuckup:

http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?L=en&N=19219

 

Truesay, dat..:thmbup:

 

Suprised to see Arsenal so high i must admit

 

My impression is that maybe Hong Kong and the southern Chinese area are EPL bandwagons, but definitely not for the rest of the country. That list is in 2005. Not sure how Calciopoli affected it.

Also, Serie A entered the Asia market in force way earlier than the EPL did.

 

yeah, i think its more like old supporters vs new supporters..or old vs new gloryhunters :dielaugh:

in my country, old football fans relate themselves more with juve, madrid, milan, barca, Man united, lazio and the likes...
and the new fans, whereas, support either man united, arsenal, liverrpool, chelsea...or recently...man city:wth:

 

“The fact that Chelsea FC has increased its fan base by over five times, clearly shows what a fast-moving market football is. One can achieve a lot in a short amount of time.”

LOL, talk about mass gloryhunting...

 

Who do u support nindra?

 

He supports Napoli, or maybe it's because I'm imagining that because "Nepal" sounds a lot like "Napoli"

 

He supports Napoli, or maybe it's because I'm imagining that because "Nepal" sounds a lot like "Napoli"

No, I don't. But i will tell you that my team is one of those big teams of 90s and i initially started to support them due to their star players....aka gloryhunter....
(but damn!...hasn't it back fired:wth

 

Either Parma or Samp then, probably the former..

 

you don't think lazio was one of them?

 

Oh yeah.

Lazio are more late 90s, though.

 

Could also be Fiorentina - Batistuta, Rui Costa... some pretty good stars back then.

 

yeah but Fiorentina is still a team of european format... Parma is the biggest let down in the serie A

 

no doubt parma had the biggest downfall in recent history...not only in italy, but in whole europe....

leeds united and real sociedad too were pretty formidable during their heydays......

 

Russia's population alone is 140M and there are many millions of ethnic Russians in other Eastern European countries, and with sufficient numbers in western europe.

 

Russia's population involves about 160 different ethnic groups, ethnical russians ca 115 million, the rest of teh 25 are around teh world.

 

Yeah but I said Im including Russian citizens, not just ethnically Russians.

 

Yea, support for a Russian team isn't an exclusive ethnic Russian thing.