By Nick Harris 15 September 2010 Read a version of this article in English Facebook istatistiklerine göre dünyanýn en çok hayran kitlesine sahip kulübü 4,5 milyon taraftarý ile Galatasaray. Kulübün Ýþ Geliþtirme Müdürü Ertuð Silay’ýn giriþimleri ve Facebook’taki sayfanýn yöneticilerinden Umut Öfkeli’nin çabalarý önemli. Sportingintelligence olarak kulübün bu baþarýsýndaki önemli pay sahiplerinden kulübün pazarlama ve […]

By Nick Harris 14 September 2010 Football is the world’s truly global game but where do passions run highest? Which clubs inspire not just the most support, per se, but the biggest share of the local (domestic) support? According to new research by sportingintelligence, the five football teams with the biggest share of their populations […]

By Nick Harris 14 September 2010 Manchester United’s official Facebook fan page has become the fastest growing of any sports team in the world, registering almost 2.4m fans within two months of being set up. The club, relatively slow to embrace Facebook as a platform for interaction with supporters compared to some of their major […]

By Nick Harris 14 September 2010 Read a version of this article in Turkish The most popular sports team in the world at the moment, according to the number of fans on official Facebook sites, is Galatasaray, with almost 4.5m fans. This is thanks in part to the long-term efforts of the club’s business development manager, […]

By Brian Sears 10 September 2010 The first Premier League match of the weekend, tomorrow lunchtime, features two of the teams ‘ever present’ in the League since it began in 1992, with Everton hosting Manchester United. Only seven sides have been ‘ever present’, that pair plus Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Aston Villa and Tottenham. Thus 42 […]

By Brian Sears 9 September 2010 After all the talk last season that Chelsea had an old team in need of freshening up, they won the title, scoring record numbers of goals in the process. So just as “you’ll win nothing with kids” turned out to be off the mark, a mature side shouldn’t be […]

By Pete Wilson 8 September 2010 A parliamentary debate on football ownership today in Westminster Hall heard praise for the Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST), which had lobbied so effectively that 632 MPs (97 per cent of the total of 650 MPs) had received letters from their United-supporting constituents in recent days. (Which must say something […]

By Nick Harris 6 September 2010 Premier League clubs made by far the most money from Uefa’s central funds from the 2009-10 Champions League according to an analysis by sportingintelligence of recently released financial figures ahead of the 2010-11 group stage starting next week. Despite getting no further than the quarter-finals, Manchester United made €45.8m […]

By Nick Harris 1 September 2010 The Premier League’s 20 clubs have spent less on transfer fees collectively this summer (around £382m) than in any summer window for four years, but England’s elite remain comfortably ahead of the Europe’s other major leagues in spending, and net spending by the Premier League clubs (about £214m) remains […]

By Nick Harris 1 September 2010 The Premier League’s official fantasy football game has registered more than two million users in more than 200 countries already this season to cement its place as most popular fantasy football (soccer) game in history, according to an analysis of users of the League’s website. The country with the […]