Manchester United most popular club in Ghana - Study

Kweku Zurek Sports News Aug - 24 - 2018 , 12:14

Record 20-time English League champions Manchester United have been found to be the most popular football team in Ghana according to a study published by English sportswear firm JD Sports.

Manchester United who have in their bulging trophy cabinet a record 13 English Premier League (EPL) titles as well as three UEFA Champions Leagues has a large fanbase in Ghana resulting from their successes chalked especially in the 1990s following the boom of the EPL and satellite television.

The fanbase of the club is represented locally by the Manchester United Supporters Union of Ghana led by Mr Manfred Kwasi Frimpong although that body is not recognised on the club's official website.

Most popular clubs in Africa;

The study by JD Sports collated search data from Google on which football clubs in the world are the most popular in the world.

"Our research collated the average monthly search volume for the club names, filtered by countries, which was then drafted into a list from highest to lowest for each area," JD sports explained in a post.

Most Searched Clubs in the World

According to the global results, Real Madrid is the most popular team in the world after placing tops in 97 countries.

Arsenal's failure to qualify for the UEFA Champions League in successive seasons did not affect their popularity on the internet with the North-London based club coming second (claiming 17 countries) and Manchester United placed third in the study after emerging tops in 16 countries.

Most Searched Football Clubs in Africa

African countries showed a clear split by region in club of interest. The southern countries swayed more toward Manchester United, whilst the north was dominated by queries for Real Madrid. Arsenal additionally did will, in the East particularly, but local clubs showed little to no interest as a whole, proving the success of top worldwide clubs was too much to compete with even on a local level.

Salah Surge

Egypt was the only country not to favour one of the aforementioned three clubs, opting instead to search for Liverpool, which comes as no surprise considering the clubs Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah.