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Which Team Has the Best Fans in the CFL?

Which team has the best fans in the CFL is always up for debate, but a few teams consistently stand out for their passionate and dedicated supporters. So I did a very scientific study, and by scientific, I mean looking at social media Followers and Likes along with 2024 Season Attendance. Some of the results were staggering.

Before we get to the numbers, let's be totally honest, the CFL in general has the best fans in the world and I am glad to be part of it along with all of you.

Reddit Followers

Let's start with the number of Reddit Followers for each team. This number is a bit tricky as I don't believe each team has an "Official" or "Verified" Reddit account. So I took the accounts with the most Followers. The thing that stands out here to me is if you add up all the team's Followers, it doesn't even come close to the number of Followers of the CFL account. So that tells me that a lot of people follow the CFL, but either don't follow their favorite team, or don't have a favorite team.

CFL Reddit Followers

Instagram Followers

Next we have each team's Instagram Followers. Here we see the opposite of what we saw on Reddit. The team numbers combined more than double the number of Followers of the CFL account. So we have a lot of team support, but not enough league support.

CFL Instagram Followers

Facebook Likes & Followers

Facebook gets a little interesting. Facebook pages have Likes and Followers. Basically, when you "Like" a Facebook page, you also "Follow" that page automatically. You could also just Follow a Facebook page. So you get updates on the page, but don't show up as somebody that Likes the page, maybe because you are too embarrassed. You could also Unfollow a page after you Like the page. Then you show up as Liking the page, but don't get any updates or posts in your feed, maybe because you are a wannabe fan or a vanity fan. We don't judge here at Shotgun Sports Network, we just provide the numbers. You take those numbers and think what you want.

CFL Facebook Likes
CFL Facebook Followers

TikTok Followers & Likes

TikTok, which may or may not be banned by the time you are reading this, focuses on "Followers" and total video "Likes". A couple things that stand out here. First of all, as a Calgary Stampeders fan, the number of Followers is disgusting. Second, all four teams that represent their respective province and represent all of Western Canada don't even add up to the number of Followers the Toronto Argos have.

CFL TikTok Followers
CFL TikTok Likes

Twitter Followers

Sorry Elon, but I will never call it "X". It will always be Twitter to me, just like the team in Edmonton will always be the Eskimos to me. Here we finally see the Saskatchewan Roughriders on top, (if we don't count the CFL account). Yah yah, "Merch Sales this" and "Rider fans are everywhere that".

CFL Twitter Followers

2024 Season Attendance

The last scientific metric I took into consideration is Total Attendance & Average Attendance from the 2024 season. Obviously not a great metric to judge from because of so many factors like market size, stadium size, and whether or not the Oilers or Maple Leafs play in the same market. None-the-less, here are the numbers.

CFL Total Attendance
CFL Average Attendance

Conclusion

Ok, so now we have all the numbers, how do we decide which team has the best fans in the CFL? Well, what I did was take the above numbers from each social media platform and attendance numbers, then rank each team from 1-9 for each of them (1 being the best and 9 being the worst). Then I took each team's average number ad that was their final rank.

So without further ado, here are the final rankings, again from my top-notch scientific research.

9. Ottawa Redblacks - Average Rank 7.78

8. Calgary Stampeders - Average Rank 6.11

7. Hamilton Tiger-Cats - Average Rank 5.33

6. Edmonton Elks - Average Rank 5.11

5. Toronto Argonauts - Average Rank 5.00

4. Montreal Alouettes - Average Rank 4.67

3. B.C. Lions - Average Rank 4.33

2. Winnipeg Blue Bombers - Average Rank 3.44

1. Saskatchewan Roughriders - Average Rank 3.22

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