Study
The most followed footballers
The footballers with the biggest social audiences — ranked by total following, not fame.
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Cristiano Ronaldo712.5M - 2
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Lionel Messi506.7M - 3
Neymar8.8M - 4
Sergio Agüero4.3M - 5
Soufiane Touzani1.7M - 6
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Rio Ferdinand1.6M - 7
Noah Beck1.5M - 8
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Kylian Mbappé1.5M - 9
Ben Foster1.4M - 10
Marcelo Vieira1.2M - 11
Luis García Postigo1.1M - 12
Marco Luque1.1M - 13
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Yevgeny Savin1.0M - 14
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David Icke997K - 15
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Mido923K - 16RAReda Abdel Aal909K
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Lee Chun-soo779K - 18
Park Joo-ho721K - 19
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Thomas Müller716K - 20
Ahn Jung-hwan649K - 21
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Romário643K - 22
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Sergio Ramos638K - 23
Karim Benzema585K - 24
Mohamed Aboutrika565K - 25
Iker Casillas515K
Ranked by total sourced social following — the largest audience on record per person, drawn mainly from YouTube where we source reliably.
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