Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

S Subway logo Subway

Iceflower tracks 2,037 Subway stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 257 tracked UK sandwich shops chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -7.2% 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
2,037
Regions
12
Category
Sandwich Shop
Category rank
#1

Growth

Subway against its category

The biggest tracked UK sandwich shops chains 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 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Subway logo Subway -7.2%
2 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger -
3 L Loaf +10.5%
4 U Upper Crust -19.5%
5 G Good News -13.0%
6 E Elliott's Upper Crust Catering Services -4.1%
7 F Fatso's -
8 W Whitley Bait +13.7%
9 B Birley Sandwiches -20.3%
10 O Ormesby Deli -51.6%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 90.4 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

2,037 tracked Subway locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • North West 290
  • South East 229
  • West Midlands 213
  • London 209
  • Scotland 200
  • East of England 178
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 159
  • South West 155
  • East Midlands 138
  • Northern Ireland 93
  • Wales 88
  • North East 84
  • Other 1

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 54
K KFC logo KFC 45
T Tesco logo Tesco 40
S Starbucks logo Starbucks 37
S SPAR 24
C Centra logo Centra 23
A ALDI logo ALDI 21
B B&M 19

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