Club Support on Facebook

**culloty82** · 19/12/2011, 7:26 AM

Got lost in the ether last night after the site crashed, but here are the stats for each senior club's most popular Facebook page - feel free to correct me if I've undercounted anyone.

1. Shamrock Rovers 21,214
2. Galway United 6,311
3. Sligo Rovers 6,300
4. Cork City 5,971
5. Bohemian FC 4,001
6. Derry City 3,958
7. Finn Harps 3,333
8. Dundalk FC 2,889
9. St. Patrick's Athletic 2,758
10. Waterford United 1,604
11. Drogheda United 1,437
12. FC Carlow 1,425
13. Shelbourne 1,329
14. Limerick FC 1,323
15. Bray Wanderers 1,329
16. Wexford Youths 1,118
17. Tralee Dynamos 964
18. Galway United Supporters' Trust 668
19. Mervue United 628
20. Athlone Town 435
21. Salthill Devon 407
22. Monaghan United 394
23. Longford Town 310
24. Cobh Ramblers 197
25. Fanad United 96
26. UCD FC 92

**Sam_Heggy** · 19/12/2011, 8:34 AM

Harps have a few pages but the 2 most popular are: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001939661152 with 3333 fans.

and the official page http://www.facebook.com/groups/244304709451/ 2268 followers.

**cornflakes** · 19/12/2011, 9:04 AM

Carlow have a new page, they have 1425 followers on this one

**Macy** · 19/12/2011, 9:20 AM

Not sure what their numbers are, but the official Longford one is recent enough (tail end of the season), and there's several unofficial ones that were there in the meantime.

**Mr Maroon** · 19/12/2011, 10:45 AM

I never realised we had the second highest.

**Lim till i die** · 19/12/2011, 12:28 PM

Limerick have about eleven thousand different pages on the go.

There's definitely one with the maximum 5000 "Likes" (or something, I don't do Facebook)

Tis all about as relevant as a forum discussion anyway.

**adamd164** · 19/12/2011, 12:51 PM

This settles everything so - Galway qualify for the Europa League, UCD are relegated to the Leinster Senior League and Carlow beat Shels in extra time. Why bother with the season now?

**Charlie Darwin** · 19/12/2011, 12:52 PM

Looking good, UCD.

**David BOHie** · 19/12/2011, 1:12 PM

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...C/297690502228

UCD have over 1,000 here

**foxx92** · 19/12/2011, 1:45 PM

Bray should be ahead of Limerick

**ahmcd** · 19/12/2011, 2:43 PM

Bray Wanderers have 4,250.
Also, on your list, Bray should be 13th, not 15th, but they should really be 5th.

http://www.facebook.com/?sk=nf#!/BrayWanderersFC

**KevB76** · 19/12/2011, 7:43 PM

This is the Limerick FC "friends" page, with 4986 friends.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.p...00001737532055

The one on your list is the "like" page

**ger121** · 20/12/2011, 1:00 AM

If only some of them would come to matches on a Weekly basis, we'd all be doing much better.

**Terry** · 20/12/2011, 2:04 AM

sligo really love rounding numbers

**askmehoop** · 20/12/2011, 1:00 PM

the only one close to the mark i.e fans who attend games, is UCD.

**Dunny** · 20/12/2011, 2:46 PM

Yes, while 21,214 fans attend Shams games..

**culloty82** · 20/12/2011, 3:12 PM

In fairness, I never claimed that the number of likes had any bearing on club attendances, only when social media is a vital part of online marketing, just thought it might be useful to show which clubs were higher or lower relative to their on-field standing.