Playing preseason games in the United States for the last six years has been beneficial to Real Madrid’s fan base numbers. The club released its latest figures at an event called “Madrid Without Borders”.
“According to our research, we can speak
The former Madrid striker added that those numbers were heavily influenced by the growth in an American fan base. The United States leads the charts when it comes to visitors to the team’s official website outside of Spain.
“Then Colombia, Mexico, Indonesia and India,” El Buitre said, who now works as Madrid’s director of institutional relationships?
The team’s recent success on the field matches their success on social media. Their own research shows that they have fans in 186 of the world’s 193 countries.
“173 million of our fans follow us [on social media],” Butragueño added. “On Facebook we have 108 million.”
According to their study, Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates have the support from 6% of the world’s population. That global reach that is evident for Mariano Lopez, director of Spanish magazine Viajar (Travel).
Real Madrid has fans in almost every country around the world
“In the Burmese jungle, in a dispensary run by
In Madrid’s latest visit to U.S. soil, 109,318 fans set an attendance record at a Manchester United vs. Real Madrid game in Michigan Stadium. The game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl in 1984 had the previous record with 101,799.
Their last game in the U.S. showed how much soccer is growing in that country
