Asia’s Biggest Sports Team

Virat Kohli’s IPL Team RCB Tops The List of Most Popular Teams In Asia on Instagram with 64.2 million interactions and became the Asia’s Biggest Sports Team. Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr takes second place. The survey was done by Deportes and Finanzas.

TOP 5 Most Popular Asian Sports Teams on Instagram

• 1. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
• 2. Cristiano Ronaldo’s AL-Nassr FC
• 3. M. S. Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
• 4. Mumbai Indians
• 5. Persija Jakarta

A recently conducted survey has declared the popular IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), as the most popular sports team (Asia’s biggest sports team) with 64.2 million interactions and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr, as the second best with 60.9 million interactions. the third, fourth and the fifth spots have been acquired by CSK, Mumbai Indians and Persija Jakarta with 55.6M, 38.2M, 22.0M interactions, respectively. The survey was conducted by Deportes and Finanzas, and rates teams based on overall interactions.

The fan following of football all around the world is well known. However, in few regions of Asia, the popularity of football comes after cricket. there’s no doubt that football player’s like Critiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi has a huge fan base here. Cricket is like a religion in most part of the world’s largest continent.

Royal Challengers Bangalore has a huge fan base mostly due to Virat Kohli. Virat is the only player in IPL history to have played 17 seasons for the RCB franchise. However, RCB has failed to win a single IPL championship title in 16 years.

Chennai super kings created history when they became the second team after Mumbai Indians to win 5 IPL trophies.

Virat Kohli is one of Instagram’s most powerful influencers with 259 million followers. Rumours circulated that Kohli charged more than Rs. 8 crores for an Instagram post but said that report regarding his per post fee is wrong.

Asia’s Biggest Sports Teams According to Interactions

5) Persija Jakarta (22 Million)

Persija Jakarta is an Indonesian professional football team based in the Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. Nickname of the team is Macan Kemayoran which means The Kemayoran Tigers. Persija Jakarta has won two Indonesian League titles and 9 Perserikatan championship titles. Persija is the most successful football club in Indonesia.

4) Mumbai Indians (38.2 Million)

Mumbai Indians is the most successful team in the IPL, has won the championship 5 times and 2 time CLT20 winner. India’s national teams captain Rohit Sharma is the captain of Mumbai Indians. This teams popularity mostly due to Rohit Sharma and previous captain Sachin Tendulkar.

3) Chennai Super Kings (55.6 Million)

CSK is one of the best teams of IPL and has the most no of titles with Mumbai Indians 5 times. Popularity of CSK is mostly dependent on M. S. Dhoni, who is captain of team CSK. Dhoni is a former Indian captain and the most successful cricket captain in history, having won all of the major ICC trophies.

2) Al Nassr FC (60.9 Million)

Al Nassr football club is one of Saudi Arabia’s most successful clubs. Al Nassr gained a huge fan base after signing Christiano Ronaldo to a 200 Million euro per year contract in 2022. Ronaldo has gained so much popularity for this football club in just 8 months and won Arab Club Championship Cup for Al Nassr this year.

1) Royal Challengers Bangalore (64.2 Million)

Virat Kohli was former captain of RCB. Faf Du Pleses is now the captain of RCB. RCB has a huge fan base mostly due to Virat Kohli. King Kohli has the largest fan following and is the most popular cricketer in the world with 259 million Instagram followers.