“I’ve never met anybody who says they don’t like the World Cup. If you’re a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.” – Landon Donovan

A month-long the biggest tournament of football, The FIFA World Cup 2018, concluded in Russia a few weeks back. 32 teams participated in the event and France emerged as the World Cup winner this time beating Croatia in the Final by 4-2.

We used our social media management software, myRosys, to analyze social media conversations around this #FifaWorldCup18 tournament to determine the user sentiments. Here are our findings:

1. Word Cloud– It shows the prominent keywords used on various social media platforms related to this event between 14th June 2018 to 15th July 2018. Clearly, The event Winner name “France” and “World Cup” were used most prominently on the social media platforms.

1. Sentiment Analysis –Analysis of the posts shows a neutral sentiment of users, whereas word sentiment analysis shows a positive sentiment.

1. Top Liked Posts –Posts on Instagram got a large number of likes and engagement by the users.

4. Top Retweeted posts:  Top retweeted posts show users’ love and enthusiasm for this event, their country’s players, and their country’s team.

This FIFA World Cup completed on a very high note and expectations from the next World Cup, which will be held in Qatar in 2022, has dramatically increased.