Cristiano Ronaldo

We do not list a Facebook figure because we could not read one we could verify, so the "over 1 billion" total is Wikipedia's.

Ronaldo ki fan following kitni hai?

Ronaldo ki fan following 1 billion (100 crore) se zyada hai, Wikipedia ke anusaar. Instagram par lagbhag 679 million (67.9 crore), X par 114,493,424 aur YouTube par 83.5 million subscribers hain.

Cristiano Ronaldo followers by share

• Instagram: about 77% of the 877 million we counted.
• X: about 13%.
• YouTube: about 10%.

Instagram is where the fan base lives. The YouTube channel only started on 8 July 2024, so it is the youngest of the three.

Ronaldo has about 679 million Instagram followers, as of September 2026 in Wikipedia's list of the most-followed accounts. Only Instagram's own account, with about 686 million, is bigger. Among people, nobody has more.

Is Ronaldo the most followed person on Instagram?

Yes. Cristiano Ronaldo is the most followed person on Instagram. Lionel Messi is next among footballers with about 517 million, and Selena Gomez has about 403 million.

Ronaldo has 114,493,424 followers on X (formerly Twitter), read from his @Cristiano profile on 31 October 2026. That is far more than the 73,437,036 of Virat Kohli, the most-followed cricketer.

Ronaldo's YouTube channel, UR · Cristiano, had 83.5 million subscribers on 31 October 2026, according to Social Blade. It was created on 8 July 2024, has 151 videos and 1,667,731,812 total views. For comparison, PewDiePie took years to pass 100 million.

All four rows come from the Wikipedia list of the most-followed Instagram accounts. See also Lionel Messi's similar creators and creators like Ronaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on 5 February 1985 in Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira. He is a forward who captains both Al-Nassr in the Saudi Pro League and the Portugal national team. His nickname, CR7, joins his initials with his shirt number.

Quick facts

Club career timeline

1. Sporting CP, where he started.
2. Manchester United from 2003: three Premier League titles and the 2007–08 Champions League.
3. Real Madrid from 2009, in a €94 million deal, then the most expensive transfer in history.
4. Juventus from 2018: two Serie A titles.
5. A brief return to Manchester United.
6. Al-Nassr from 2023, Saudi Pro League top scorer in 2024 and 2025 and league champion in 2026.

International record

Ronaldo made his Portugal debut in 2003 at 18. He led Portugal to victory at Euro 2016 and in the UEFA Nations League in 2019 and 2025. He holds the records for most international appearances (234), most men's international goals (146) and most international victories (141).

Records and awards

• Five Ballons d'Or.
• Five UEFA Champions League titles.
• 35 trophies in total.
• Over 980 official senior goals, the most in the history of the sport.
• Over 1,300 professional appearances, the most by an outfield player.
• Named in Time's 100 most influential people in 2014.

Family

Ronaldo's partner since 2016 is Georgina Rodríguez, whom he met while she was working at a Gucci store in Madrid. Their daughter was born on 12 November 2017.

Ronaldo's fashion line trades under the CR7 name. With the Scandinavian manufacturer JBS Textile Group and the New York designer Richard Chai, he co-designed a range of underwear and socks released in November 2013. In July 2014 he expanded the CR7 fashion brand with premium shirts and shoes. He has also launched fragrances, including one called Legacy, and has endorsement deals that cover clothing, soft drinks and video games. Many of his Instagram posts promote these products, which is one reason brands value his fan following so highly.

People also ask how many followers Cristiano Ronaldo has on TikTok. We could not read a TikTok count we could verify on 31 October 2026, so we leave it out of the total rather than guess. The same goes for Facebook. If you need those numbers, check the profiles directly and note the date.

Hoeveel subscribers heeft Ronaldo?

Ronaldo heeft 83,5 miljoen subscribers op YouTube (31 oktober 2026, Social Blade). That Dutch question, "how many subscribers does Ronaldo have", gets the same answer as the English one: the Cristiano Ronaldo YouTube subscriber count was 83.5 million on that date.

How many followers does Cristiano Ronaldo have in total?

Counting the three platforms we could verify, about 877 million. Counting every platform, Wikipedia puts it at over 1 billion. Either way, no other athlete comes close.

There are three reasons. First, football is the most watched sport in the world, and Ronaldo has played at the top level in England, Spain, Italy and Saudi Arabia, which gives him fans in each of those markets. Second, he posts across every major platform, and his late move onto YouTube in 2024 brought tens of millions of subscribers within months. Third, brands pay to reach his audience, which keeps him posting; Sportico ranked him the third highest-paid athlete of all time in April 2026.

If you are a brand thinking about sports creators, our influencer marketing guide explains how to read follower numbers. Accounts like Ronaldo's are a different scale from most creators in our creator directory.

• We use Instagram figures from Wikipedia's monthly list, because Instagram blocks automated reads.
• We read X follower counts directly from the profile on the date shown.
• We take YouTube subscriber counts from Social Blade, which rounds to three figures.
• We add the platforms we can verify and say so; we do not guess numbers we cannot read.

Follower counts change every day, so treat each figure as true on its date.