Manchester United has been identified as the world’s most popular football club by a survey carried out by a leading market research agency, Kantar.
According to the largest global football follower survey, 19-time champions Manchester United has 659 million followers worldwide.The survey gathered 54,000 respondents from 39 countries, a release stated.
In the survey, Kantar also found that football remains the world’s most popular sport, with 1.6 billion followers globally, reinforcing the results of a recent FIFA survey which produced a similar figure.