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r/soccer

The back page of the internet.. The football subreddit. For news, results, and discussion about the beautiful game. Founded 2008 · 8.8M members

8.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 76.1K upvotes, which works out to 9 per 1,000 members.

9peak upvotes per 1,000 members
8.8Mmembers
76.1Kbest post
11.3Kmost comments
1.6Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 29% 11%
Link 54% Video 29% Text 11% Image 6% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

:n_goal: Goal Clip 523 :n_paper: News 225 :n_official: Official Source 135 :n_media: Media 107 :n_ball: Match Thread 107 :n_media: Match Clip 82 :n_transfer: Transfer News 77 :n_stats: Stats 60 :n_quotes: Quotes 56 Media 44

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Leicester City Are Premier League Champions

↑ 76.1K 💬 10.1K link 2016

Petition to rename the subreddit to r/football

↑ 71.4K 💬 896 text 2022

Alassane Plea (Gladbach) scores a volley with his standing foot while faking a shot with his other foot

↑ 62.1K 💬 987 video 2020

Italy [1]-0 Finland - Donkey Kong 1’

↑ 60.6K 💬 1.3K video 2020

Kroos goal vs Sweden [2]-1 Free kick

↑ 59.8K 💬 5.6K link 2018

[FC Barcelona] Messi will not renew with FC Barcelona

↑ 59.1K 💬 8.8K link 2021

Messi trying to get Cucurella a red card after he touched his mouth

↑ 56K 💬 5.6K video 2026

Juventus 0-2 Real Madrid - Cristiano Ronaldo 64' (Champions League - Quarter-finals)

↑ 52K 💬 4K video 2018

Argentina have won their third World Cup title at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar!

↑ 50.4K 💬 9.3K link 2022

Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘beautiful game,’ has died

↑ 49.9K 💬 3.1K link 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/soccer, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/soccer?
r/soccer ("The back page of the internet.") describes itself this way: The football subreddit. For news, results, and discussion about the beautiful game. It was founded in 2008 and has 8.8M members.
How many members does r/soccer have?
r/soccer has about 8.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.6K of its posts; the biggest reached 76.1K upvotes, which is 9 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/soccer?
"Leicester City Are Premier League Champions" reached 76.1K upvotes and 10.1K comments in 2016, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/soccer.
What subreddits are similar to r/soccer?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/law, r/Satisfyingasfuck, r/shitposting.
What kind of posts do best on r/soccer?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are link posts and 29% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/soccer?
Across 1.6K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (40K avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (20.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 15:00 UTC (16.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/soccer?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/soccer has 43.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/soccer, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.