article_snippet: Manchester United are the biggest club in England when Manchester United comes to crowds - both now and historically - and the joint biggest along with Liverpool when Manchester United comes to ‘star players’ in their line-ups, all-time.
article_snippet: Crowds and stars have been considered as part of a Sportsmail study to explore which English clubs are the ‘biggest’; 58 different teams of the current 92 in the top four divisions have been included in Study, having played in England’s top division for at least a season.
article_snippet: The aim of this was to gauge not just one season but reflect former ‘greatness’ for clubs now enduring leaner times but who were authentic giants at some point.
article_snippet: HERE to see Sportsmail's definitive list of the BIGGEST clubs in England .
article_snippet: our counted the number of players from each club who have played for England, all-time, ranking the clubs by total.
article_snippet: This then ranked the clubs by the number of players provided to the 2014 World Cup
article_snippet: To measure the amount of ‘star’ players at each club, both all-time and more recently, our study used two objective criteria - the number of players capped by England at each club, ever, and the number of players called up by players countries for the most recent the 2014 World Cup.
article_snippet: But using proxies of England players over time and the 2014 World Cup players last summer allowed hard data to compare all the clubs on a like-for-like basis.
highlights_snippet: Sportsmail's HOW BIG IS YOUR CLUB?