# Low popularity of Manchester United on Facebook **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 26, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040 "2010-07-26T13:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/1 "2010-07-26T13:37:45Z")
I was just wandering through Facebook and I was looking up some professional sports teams’ pages and I noticed something about the numbers of how many people “liked” certain pages – Dallas Cowboys – 873,470 New York Yankees – 1,753,861 Boston Celtics – 1,220,453 Liverpool F.C. - 1,874,928 Chelsea F.C. – 1,186,043 Manchester United – 97,041 I thought Manchester United was the most popular professional sports team in the world. Why might their “like” figure be so low? ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/2 "2010-07-26T13:47:48Z")
Because North America is overrepresented in the Facebook population, which is notoriously unconcerned with soccer. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/3 "2010-07-26T15:04:42Z")
So Liverpool and Chelsea are North American institutions now? Chelsea has about 12 times the numbers of Manchester United and Liverpool has about 20 times. Maybe Man. U. supporters aren’t internet savvy. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/4 "2010-07-26T15:09:04Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Maybe Man. U. supporters aren’t internet savvy. _ **Struggles to resist urge to say something derogatory about northerners** _ The figures do seem odd. Perhaps they were a bit late getting their Facebook page started? ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/5 "2010-07-26T15:11:28Z")
I don’t know why the figures on FB are so low, but Man. United are reputed to have at least 70 million fans worldwide, so I doubt they are too concerned. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/6 "2010-07-26T15:21:13Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > > [@acsenray](#): > > > > Maybe Man. U. supporters aren’t internet savvy. > > _ **Struggles to resist urge to say something derogatory about northerners** _ > > The figures do seem odd. Perhaps they were a bit late getting their Facebook page started? Northerners? I thought most Man Utd fans were Southerners! ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/7 "2010-07-26T15:21:55Z")
Aah, think I might have worked it out - there a multiple pages for Man U: Manchester United Type: Sports team 1,135,466 people like this. Manchester United F.C. Type: Page 97,099 people like this. Manchester United Type: Sports team 422,753 people like this. Manchester United Supporters Club, **Scandinavian Branch** Type: Sports/athletics 48,978 people like this. Plus a whole bunch of others ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/8 "2010-07-26T15:23:07Z")
Ah, okay. That makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-popularity-of-manchester-united-on-facebook/548040/9 "2010-07-27T04:23:52Z")
I also think I saw on the Nike Soccer page that ManU just started their official, actually run by the team page recently. As in after the WC.