AFL on Facebook
What’s the most popular AFL team on Facebook? That really does depend on how you measure it.
The following table has a column for total people listing a team as an interest, total number of members of the largest fan page dedicated to a team, total number of fans of the largest page dedicated to a team and the grand total. This information was collected in the past three days.
AFL on Facebook
| Team | Interest | Page | Group | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collingwood Magpies | 59800 | 80 | 7969 | 67849 |
| West Coast Eagles | 26020 | 33501 | 5094 | 64615 |
| Carlton Blues | 58120 | 317 | 1626 | 60063 |
| Adelaide Crows | 50020 | 1579 | 5827 | 57426 |
| Fremantle Dockers | 43660 | 96 | 3625 | 47381 |
| Sydney Swans | 21260 | 18094 | 4737 | 44091 |
| Hawthorn Hawks | 21220 | 2602 | 6595 | 30417 |
| Essendon Bombers | 27920 | 248 | 1989 | 30157 |
| Richmond Tigers | 13960 | 11727 | 2782 | 28469 |
| Geelong Cats | 15760 | 5092 | 3976 | 24828 |
| Brisbane Lions | 10940 | 10556 | 2302 | 23798 |
| St. Kilda Saints | 15480 | 317 | 4281 | 20078 |
| Port Adelaide Power | 6100 | 9766 | 3157 | 19023 |
| North Melbourne Kangaroos | 9120 | 4314 | 2420 | 15854 |
| Western Bulldogs | 2740 | 4745 | 7295 | 14780 |
| Melbourne Demons | 5940 | 4057 | 4003 | 14000 |
| Gold Coast Football Club | 1200 | 1720 | 66 | 2986 |
And then I completed this and realized the biggest fan pages I had? They weren’t the official ones. Time to get the official ones, where the total fans are much bigger, and then update.
Green: Indicates official Facebook fanpage has the most fans.
Blue: Indicates a page not linked on the official page has the most fans.
Red: Indicates an official Facebook fanpage was not found to be linked to on the Club’s official site.
Black: AFL does not link to an official page for the team.
Fixed. As an American, I’m used to professional team names being City Mascot. When I search, this tends to be my default mode of searching. It can screw up results and I have to remember to search all variations to make sure this doesn’t happen. When I was just looking for biggest, I didn’t. Woe. But anyway, these results should hopefully be a bit more accurate. I went to every team’s official site that was linked on the AFL’s site. On the official site, I looked for their official Facebook fanpage accounts. Then I took that information and added it to the above table to get a more accurate picture. If an unofficial fanpage had more fans than the official one? I left the unofficial one. I’ve color coded that chart to make easy to see where I did that.