The Portugal forward followers increase by 48% last year.
Ronaldo was average more than $3.5m in media value per post, according to analysts Nielsen Sports.
In Manchester United team-mate Jadon Sancho the most influential English player, while Gavi breakthrough star with a 5,165% growth in followers.
But their is no African player that is on this list for the top ten or the breakthrough footballers list.
The rankings is based on Nielsen influencer measurement tool and this is how they break it down.
They check total followers, follower growth, engagement rate and average brand value per post on Instagram to give them the media value total.
Tori said that the rank that the players expected for the feature of 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Ronaldo and other footballers earnings for Instagram
Ronaldo has over 480 million followers for Instagram, while Argentina Messi has followers of 360 million people – a 38% growth in the past 12 months – that produce $2.6m of media value per post.
Paris St-Germain attacking trio of Messi, Neymar and Mbappe they are in second, third and fourth respectively behind Ronaldo, each of them is on average more than $1m per post.
Aside the top 10, Brazil Vinicius Junior got the biggest growth in following of any player. He has 90% increase, after he scored the winner of the Champions League final for Real Madrid against Liverpool.
France N’Golo Kante was the eighth on the list and he has the highest engagement rate than any other player in top 10 with his posts, at 11%.
The next biggest social media star was Spain Gavi, is followers increase by more than 5000% to 6.2 million. Is post got an engagement rate of nearly 30%.
Brazil Raphinha and Anthony second and third position for the breakthrough footballer standing with huge growth for their followers after their summer move to Barcelona and Manchester United respectively.
Meanwhile, France is one of the most influential team on social media for the 2022 World Cup, with 11.7 million followers for their official page.
They top Brazil and Portugal, that had 11.3 million and 10.3 million respectively. Notably, 86% of Portugal followers lives outside the European country.
England got the fourth position with 8.5m followers. From their players, winger Sancho is the most influential – that has 8.9 million followers, the followers increase by 21% over the past year, I had healthy engagement rate on posts at 8% .
See some young English players that breakthrough for social media, including Jack Grealish that has more than five million followers, and Aaron Ramsdale followers explode by a remarkable 920% overy past 12 months after join Arsenal.
