Survey: Barcelona is most popular club(click here)

Cologne, Germany - Barcelona remains the most popular Europen football club but English clubs have overtaken Spain for overall fan support, a survey published on Wednesday revealed. The Spanish leage leaders Barca retained first place with 44.2 million fans from domestic rivals Real Madrid (41.0) and European champions Manchester United (37.6).

The figures were given by the Sport+Markt agency which questioned 10,000 football fans in 16 countries.

The English clubs in the top 20 have now overtaken their Spanish rivals, the survey said, with 114.1 milliopn fans supporting the Premier League sides and 93.4 those from the Primera Division. Italy's Serie A ranks third with 60.9 million fans.