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)
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.