Which Premier League Teams Have the Most Fans in 2025?

How do the fan bases of EPL teams compare across the world?

Based on worldwide search traffic data recorded at Hyperset Group, Manchester United have the highest share of total fan interest across all EPL teams, recording 28.9% of all EPL team searches across the world. Manchester City now record the second highest with 21.6%, Liverpool are 3rd with 14.2% and Arsenal 4th a 13.6% share.

While a handful of teams take up a large proportion of the total fan interest, the distribution across the EPL is more evenly distributed than leagues such as the MLS team fanshare in 2025.

The total share distribution across the EPL are shown in the following pie chart:

What % of EPL team fanbases come from the UK?

Manchester City have the highest share of non-UK fan interest at just 3% of their total search interest across the world coming from the UK. In second place is Manchester United with 9%, however as demonstrated above, they enjoy a higher total volume of domestic and non domestic support.

In third place is Chelsea, with just 14% of people searching for the team name coming from the UK. Riding high on the list in 4th is West Ham with 17% of their total searches coming from the UK, although their total volume of searches is significantly less than the top 3 and other teams such as Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham.

Which Premier League teams gain the highest share of their support from the USA?

The EPL team with the highest share of searches coming from the USA is Tottenham Hotspur, with 17% of their total searches around the world coming from the US. A key factor in this is likely to be the stadium which is the first fully compliant NFL stadium outside of the US which stages regular NFL games and raises the profile of the club in The States.

Wolverhampton Wanderers record the second biggest search share from the USA. Reasons for this include an e-sports team and also a history of involvement in US Soccer back in the 70’s to the present day. brighton and Arsenal also index high, with 9% and 8% shares respectively.

Which Premier League teams gain the highest share of their support from Brazil?

Brentford record the highest share of their overall searches from Brazil with 10%. Manchester City, West Ham and Fulham record the second highest share with 9% each. Machester City provide an anomaly however, as they are the only team in the EPL who record a higher share of interest from Brazil than they do in the UK. Their success in the last 10 years, as well as a history of Brazilians in the team during this time such as Elano and Robinho, may have helped drive this interest.

Which Premier League teams gain the highest share of their support from India?

Manchester United have the highest overall volume of fans across the world out of any EPL team, this is boosted by countries such as India where they have the highest share (9%) of Indian interest out of their global support and also the highest outright volume. Manchester City enjoy the second biggest (8%) Indian share of their total support with Chelsea coming in thier with 5% and Arsenal and Liverpool next with 4% of their total team searches coming from India.

Aside from these clubs, Indian interest makes up around 2% of other EPL teasm global searches, indicating that support from this part of the world tends to be more concentrated to the biggest and most successful teams than other territories.

Which Premier League teams gain the highest share of their support from Nigeria?

Nigeria, like India, sees a clear gap in team interest share between the biggest clubs and the rest of the league. Chelsea record the highest share of their total search interest from Nigeria, with 9%. Manchester United record 8% for this figure and enjoy the overal highest volume of searches in the country. Manchester City and Arsenal both record 5% for this figure, with the rest of the league averaging around 2% of their total interest coming from Nigeria.

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