These are the most popular teams at the Rugby World Cup…

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The All Blacks are the most popular rugby union team at the Rugby World Cup, according to a study that ranked the teams’ popularity based off their combined social media followings.
. With a combined social media following of more than 4.3million, England are the second most popular team at the Rugby World Cup.
. South Africa, France and Ireland rounded off the top five.

New Zealand are the most popular rugby union team at this year’s Rugby World Cup, a new study has found.

The study, conducted by New Zealand Online Casino Experts NZCasinoClub, combined social media followings from Instagram, X, Facebook and YouTube to reveal which team is the most popular at this year’s Rugby World Cup. The teams were then ranked from most popular to least popular based off their combined total number of followers and subscribers.

The most popular teams at this year’s Rugby World Cup

Nation	Instagram followers	X followers	Facebook followers	YouTube subscribers	Total	Rank
New Zealand	2,200,000	1,000,000	4,700,000	582,000	8,482,000	1
England	1,200,000	1,100,000	1,800,000	201,000	4,301,000	2
South Africa	933,000	859,700	1,500,000	43,900	3,336,000	3
France	1,000,000	833,200	884,000	135,000	2,852,200	4
Ireland	756,000	851,900	656,000	62,300	2,326,200	5
Wales	422,000	534,200	588,000	31,600	1,575,800	6
Australia	453,000	258,800	743,000	104,000	1,558,800	7
Scotland	362,000	430,400	362,000	54,200	1,208,600	8
Fiji	272,000	136,900	491,000	0	899,900	9
Argentina	283,000	330,300	215,000	21,300	849,600	10
Italy	231,000	166,900	300,000	25,500	723,400	11
Japan	132,000	66,900	195,000	84,200	478,100	12
Georgia	67,300	39,500	313,000	8,720	428,520	13
Samoa	82,100	31,100	175,000	1,500	289,700	14
Uruguay	40,000	52,800	22,000	4,260	119,060	15
Portugal	60,200	8,153	46,000	0	114,353	16
Chile	50,600	22,200	40,000	631	113,431	17
Romania	21,100	13,400	70,000	5,860	110,360	18
Tonga	34,800	2,853	64,000	0	101,653	19
Namibia	9,968	2,129	24,000	0	36,097	20

New Zealand are the most popular team at this year’s Rugby World Cup. With more than 8.4million (8,482,000) followers and subscribers across all platforms, the All Blacks have nearly double the online following of the second most popular side, England. More than half of their followers also come from Facebook (4,700,000).

With a combined social media following of more than 4.3million (4,301,000), England are the second most popular team at this year’s Rugby World Cup. Stephen Borthwick’s side are also the most popular team on X, with 1,100,000 of their followers coming from the platform.

Current Rugby World Cup holders South Africa ranked in third with a combined social media following of 3,336,000. 1.5million of those followers are from Facebook.

Meanwhile, this year’s host nation, France, ranked in fourth with a combined social media following of 2,852,000. Les Bleus also have the third highest number of subscribers to their YouTube channel (135,000) behind only New Zealand and England.

Tournament favourites Ireland are the fifth most popular team at this year’s Rugby World Cup (2,326,200). More than 850,000 (851,900) of their followers are on X.

With more than 1.5million (1,575,800) followers and subscribers across all platforms, Wales ranked in sixth. The Red Dragons also have 588,000 followers on Facebook.

Australia, who have had a disappointing World Cup by their standards, are the seventh most popular team out in France. However, the Wallabies do have the fourth highest number of subscribers on YouTube (104,000).

Scotland are the eighth most popular team at this year’s Rugby World Cup (1,208,600). Gregor Townsend’s side are the final nation to have more than 1million followers and subscribers across all platforms.

Fiji (899,900) and Argentina (849,600) ranked in ninth and tenth respectively.

On the other side of the scale, Italy (723,400), Japan (478,100), Georgia (428,520), Samoa (289,700), Uruguay (119,060), Portugal (114,353), Chile (113,431), Romania (110,360), Tonga (101,653) and Namibia (36,097) made up the ten least followed sides at the tournament.

Adam Parker from NZCasinoClub commented on the findings: “As the Rugby World Cup is one of the world’s most prestigious and competitive sporting events, it is encouraging to see that there is an evident global audience. The study shows that supporters are now tuning in to follow the progress of some of the lesser known rugby union nations, which ultimately bodes well for the sport’s future and continued progress.”

Source: https://www.nzcasinoclub.com/.