Euro 2021: number of Instagram followers by team

In celebration of the Euro 2020/21 competition, Statista published the Celebrity Index DossierPlus. The Celebrity Index - Euro 2021 ranked all competing teams and players by their celebrity status. Metrics that are used to weight this ranking include social media following, their transfer market value as well as the sentiment and number of global online news articles that mention any player competing. The Portuguese players had the highest number of Instagram followers of any team competing in the Euros in 2021 - nearly 317 million IG followers in total.

Number of Instagram (IG) followers of footballers competing in the UEFA European Championship 2021, by team (in millions)

Characteristic	Sum of followers in millions
Portugal	316.8
France	217.65
Germany	79.92
Belgium	68.96
Spain	61.79
Wales	51.75
England	51.72
Netherlands	39.39
Croatia	30.85
Italy	29.57
Poland	27.33
Turkey	13.87
Scotland	7.24
Austria	6.88
Switzerland	6.82
Denmark	6.41
Sweden	4.21
Russia	4.15
Ukraine	2.2
Slovakia	2.2
Czechia	0.99
Hungary	0.95
North Macedonia	0.87
Finland	0.59

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Release date

June 2021

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

May 3 to June 11, 2021

Supplementary notes

The Celebrity Index was scored weighting a number of metrics to create an index score. Metrics and weighting included;

Social media (51 percent) - average ratio of followers of the players to monthly users of Instagram and Twitter are considered, if available.

Market value (29 percent) - market value is the average market value of the players by team.

Online news coverage (20 percent) - Number of online articles & average sentiment score.

For a full methodology see here.

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