The Saudi Professional League has attracted huge interest in recent times and ranked third for fan interaction on social media platform Twitter, behind La Liga and the English Premier League.
Surpassing the Italian, German, French leagues, tweets about the Saudi league exceeded 80 million from about 40 million accounts and had a high response rate, which demonstrates the power of the competition compared to the best globally.
For comparison, La Liga and its clubs were tweeted about 167 million times by 97 million accounts, and the English Premier League had 161 million tweets from 91 million accounts.