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Chelsea couldn't even sell all their tickets for the Champions League final.

Chelsea only started winning the big trophys in 2005 due to their Oil money, take that out of the Equation and they'd be bang average!!!

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comment by 2-4-5 Trioxin (U22016)
posted 7 hours, 38 minutes ago
Chelsea only started winning the big trophys in 2005 due to their Oil money, take that out of the Equation and they'd be bang average!!!
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I'd just stick to being a casual football fan

comment by Samir (U2630)
One of the easier (albeit not necessarily accurate) ways to gauge size of fanbase is social media.

On Twitter, Arsenal have 17.5m followers. Chelsea have 17.1m followers. So we are slightly ahead on that front.

On Facebook, Chelsea have 49m followers, Arsenal have 38m followers. So they're quite comfortably ahead on that front.

On Instagram, Chelsea have 27.4m followers, Arsenal have 19.4 followers. Again, quite comfortably ahead of us.

On TikTok, Chelsea have 3.3m followers, Arsenal have 1m followers. So they're ahead of us there too.

Perhaps in the UK, we have a larger fanbase, but globally? They've eclipsed us.
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I think this just shows that Chelsea have a younger fan base, linked to when they started winning things. I'm not on any of those platforms.

Arsenal have 2898 pages of articles on JA606.
Chelsea have 1732 articles.

comment by NPE ★★ (U22521)
posted 8 hours, 37 minutes ago
comment by 2-4-5 Trioxin (U22016)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
Chelsea only started winning the big trophys in 2005 due to their Oil money, take that out of the Equation and they'd be bang average!!!
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I must have imagined those trophies under Vialli and Gullit then…
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I said Big Trophys not the odd cups here and there!!!

*Chelsea have 1732 pages

comment by SirCastic (U8772)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by Samir (U2630)
One of the easier (albeit not necessarily accurate) ways to gauge size of fanbase is social media.

On Twitter, Arsenal have 17.5m followers. Chelsea have 17.1m followers. So we are slightly ahead on that front.

On Facebook, Chelsea have 49m followers, Arsenal have 38m followers. So they're quite comfortably ahead on that front.

On Instagram, Chelsea have 27.4m followers, Arsenal have 19.4 followers. Again, quite comfortably ahead of us.

On TikTok, Chelsea have 3.3m followers, Arsenal have 1m followers. So they're ahead of us there too.

Perhaps in the UK, we have a larger fanbase, but globally? They've eclipsed us.
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I think this just shows that Chelsea have a younger fan base, linked to when they started winning things. I'm not on any of those platforms.

Arsenal have 2898 pages of articles on JA606.
Chelsea have 1732 articles.
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Absolutely, and I do accept this.

But ultimately, in the digitised world we live in now where social media is indisputably becoming more prominent, we can't ignore that their larger fanbase can and likely has been reflected in their rise on social media platforms.

As I said, if they haven't overtaken us yet globally, it's only a matter of time before they do.

comment by NPE ★★ (U22521)
posted 19 hours, 40 minutes ago
comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 7 minutes ago
Their fan base is smaller
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Baku final they outnumbered us about 5 to 1...
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So? A one off game. Doesn’t hold much merit when talking about global fan bases