Royal Challengers Bangalore( RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are the two cricket teams that have more domination than the football clubs. RCB is eighth on the list with 820 million engagements during the January 1-December 31 period, the CSK team is on the ninth list with 752 million engagements.
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Manchester United is No.1 sports team in the world with 2.6 billion. The second team is FC Barcelona followed by Real Madrid, Paris Saint Germain and Chelsea FC. These are the top five most popular teams on social media.
Top 10 most popular sports teams on social media; RCB and CSK in the top 10 list
Samuel Luckhurst, the Chief writer for the Manchester Evening News tweeted regarding the most engaged sports club in the world last year along with the caption, “United, United top of the league – of total engagement on social media. Maybe no more need for the sentiment graphs.”
During the first phase of IPL 2021, in April, RCB was the franchise having the most engagement on social media for that month. Virat Kohli’s team had an engagement 265 million times with the fans. Second, on the list was FC Barcelona with 244 million engagements. MS Dhoni’s team CSK had 205 million social media engagements in April.
MS Dhoni-led CSK had 205 million social media engagements in April.
Performance on YouTube
RCB and CSK were the only two IPL teams that were the most popular on YouTube in 2021 interaction-wise.
RCB franchise was on the seventh list with a total of 165 million interactions on YouTube while CSK was in the 10th position with 141 million interactions.
On the video-sharing platform, FC Barcelona garnered the highest number of interactions which is 353 million. Manchester United was in the second position with 306 million interactions followed by Liverpool FC, Chelsea FC and Paris Saint Germain.
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