Thursday, June 5, 2008

Club Breakdown for Euro 2008 Squads




This is a breakdown of the nations where the Euro 2008 players played their club soccer this past season. The numbers show how many players play in each nation's league and the red listing is the home league for each country.




Group A


Czech Republic
Germany (5), England (4), Italy (4), Belgium(3), Denmark (2), Czech Republic (2), Russia (1), France (1), Spain (1)

Portugal
Portugal (12), Spain (5), England (4), Germany (2)

Switzerland
Switzerland (7), Germany (6), France (4), England (3), Italy (2), Austria (1)

Turkey
Turkey (16), England (2), Spain (1), Russia (1), Greece (1), France (1), Germany (1)


Group B

Austria
Austria (15), Italy (2), Russia (1), England (1), Portugal (1), Norway (1), Germany (1), Greece (1)

Croatia
Germany (6), Croatia (3), France (3), Italy (3), Russia (2), England (2), Austria (1), Ukraine (1), Greece (1), Netherlands (1)

Germany
Germany (19), England (2), Spain (2)

Poland
Poland (9), England (3), Germany (2), Greece (2), Scotland (1), Russia (1), Romania (1), Austria (1), Spain (1), Belgium (1), Ukraine (1)

Group C

France
France (10), England (6), Spain (3), Italy (2), Germany (2)

Italy
Italy (18), Spain (3), France (1), Germany (1)

Netherlands
Netherlands (9), England (7), Germany (3), Spain (3), Scotland (1)

Romania

Romania (12), Italy (3), France (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), Bulgaria (1), Germany (1), Russia (1), Scotland (1)

Group D

Greece
Greece (14), Germany (4), Spain (2), England (2), Portugal (1)

Russia
Russia (22), Germany (1)

Spain
Spain (18), England (5)

Sweden
Sweden (6), England (5), France (4), Greece (1), Norway (1), Turkey (1), Italy (1), Switzerland (1), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Romania (1)


Most Represented Clubs for Each Nation:
Number represents number of players from each club

8 - Turkey - Galatasaray
7 - France - Lyon
6 - Greece - Panathinaikos
6 - Russia - Zenit St. Petersburg
5 - Austria - Rapid Wien and Red Bull Salzburg
5 - Germany - Bayern Munich
5 - Portugal - FC Porto
5 - Romania - Steaua Bucureşti
4 - Italy - Juventus and Roma
4 - Spain - Liverpool and Valencia
3 - Czech Republic - Anderlecht and Nuremberg
3 - Netherlands - Ajax, Real Madrid, Hamburger SV and Feyenoord
3 - Poland - Wisła Kraków
3 - Switzerland - FC Basel
2 - Croatia - Dinamo Zagreb and Borussia Dortmund
2 - Sweden - Elfsborg

Nations with 16 or more Players from their Home League:
Turkey, Russia, Spain, Italy, and Germany

Nations with 7 or less players from their Home League:
Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden, and Switzerland

The most represented clubs in the tournament are Lyon (11), Bayern Munich (9), Galatasaray (9), Barcelona (8), Chelsea (8), Panathinaikos (8), and Real Madrid (8).

Interestingly, the only Sweden players who play on the same club are Elfsborg's Johan Wiland and Anders Svensson. The other 21 players come from different clubs in 11 different nations. Sweden coach Lars Lagerbäck must have a tough job getting his players on the same page.

Poland's Marek Saganowski and Czech Republic's Rudolf Skácel, both players for Southampton in England, are the only two players called into Euro 2008 squads not playing in the top division in their club's respective country. [edit] Oliver Neuville also played with 2.Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach last season, thanks bvborussia.

The German Bundesliga is the most represented league in the tournament with 55 players. Every team in the tournament except Spain has at least one player from the Bundesliga.

Obviously, the German, English, Spanish, and Italian leagues are well represented, but I found it interesting that 6 different nations have players from the Russian league and 5 different nations have players from the Greek League.

Amazingly, Russia's squad has 22 out of 23 players who play in the Russian Premier League, with striker Ivan Saenko of Germany's 1. FC Nuremberg being the only player playing outside of Russia.



More Euro 2008 Posts:
Foreign-born Players on Euro 2008 squads
Former 'Team of the Tournament' Players returning to Euro 2008
Premiership Players on Euro 2008 squads
La Liga Players on Euro 2008 squads
Serie A Players on Euro 2008 squads
Bundesliga Players on Euro 2008 squads

4 comments:

  1. Sorry,but you have made a small mistake...
    Concerning the Netherlands you must also Hamburger SV (Van der Vaart,Mathijsen,deJong)
    But thanks for the information!

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  2. Another mistake:
    Oliver Neuville is playing in second division (next year Bundesliga) at Borussia Mönchengladbach and is for this reason the third player which plays in a second division team.
    Also Marko Marin(Mönchengladbach) and Patrick Helmes(1.FC Köln-cologne) were very close to make it in the german squad...

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  3. Thanks bvborussia,

    You're right, I missed that there are 3 Hamburg players on the Netherlands. I'll have to add them.

    Honestly, I forgot that Mönchengladbach was in the second division last season. I should have remembered, being an American fan I followed them because of Kasey Keller.

    Anyways, thanks for the corrections and thanks for reading.

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  4. Another subtle correction - Rudi Skacel has been on loan from Southampton to Hertha Berlin (and so has been playing in a top division) since January 31 - precisely because he felt he wouldn't be selected for Euro 08 if he wasn't playing in a top division.

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