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>I tried googling more directly for global popularity/famousness, but couldn't find any hard data. Instagram. Arsenal (#38 from your list) has 21.9m followers

• TulliusCicero 5y ago
  Hmm, that's a good point. Interesting that the profitability and team value is so different.
• astura 5y ago
  WWE (professional wrestling) has 26.2m followers on Instagram. But it's almost certainly not more popular than soccer.
  • smcl 5y ago
    Yeah it's more popular than Arsenal Football Club ... but that's one club. There are twenty in the English Premier League. And that's a single (albeit huge) league within the English league system, which is one of about four countries in Europe alone who you could probably say the same about.
    • caddemon 5y ago
      Is it more popular than Arsenal though? I think the problem here is that following a league versus following a team are different actions. I am well aware of the Dallas Cowboys and watch quite a few of their games, but I would never follow their official social media accounts, because I fucking hate them. I suppose it depends how we define popularity, but the original question was about being well-known.
      • smcl 5y ago
        Yeah this is just a discussion based on the assumption that instagram accurately reflects popularity/renown, it's entirely possible that is not actually true
      • astura 5y ago
        Probably not more popular than either Dallas Cowboys or Arsenal. At the very least WWE is not 6x as popular as the Dallas Cowboys.