Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

S Subway logo Subway

Iceflower tracks 2,163 Subway stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 913 tracked UK sandwich & sub shops by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -0.5% over the last year.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked stores
2,163
Regions
12
Category
Sandwich & Sub Shops
Category rank
#1

Growth

Subway against its category

The biggest tracked UK sandwich & sub shops by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Subway's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Subway logo Subway -0.5%
2 U Upper Crust +1.5%
3 L Loaf -34.5%
4 C Continental Spices -
5 E Eat 17 logo Eat 17 -1.2%
6 B Bagel Factory logo Bagel Factory -21.6%
7 D Deliveroo for Work logo Deliveroo for Work -63.6%
8 T The Black Pig -
9 M Medina Foods Market -
10 E Elliott's Upper Crust Catering Services -0.3%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 105.4 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

2,163 tracked Subway locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • North West 305
  • South East 245
  • London 229
  • West Midlands 221
  • Scotland 211
  • East of England 188
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 165
  • South West 161
  • East Midlands 151
  • Wales 99
  • Northern Ireland 96
  • North East 92

Customer overlap

Who shops at Subway

Tracked chains Subway customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

M McDonald's logo McDonald's 100
G Greggs logo Greggs 53
K KFC logo KFC 47
T Tesco logo Tesco 43
S Starbucks logo Starbucks 39
S SPAR logo SPAR 26
C Centra logo Centra 25
B B&M logo B&M 21
A ALDI logo ALDI 19

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