Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Premier League: Tallest and Shortest Players - 2010/2011

The tallest and shortest players currently in the English Premier League (10/11 season).

Tallest Field Players
6'7½" - 202cm - Nikola Zigic (Birmingham City)
6'6"    - 198cm - Peter Crouch (Tottenham)
6'6"    - 198cm - Zat Knight (Bolton)
6'4½" - 194cm - Marouane Fellaini (Everton)
6'4½" - 194cm - Brede Hangeland (Fulham)
6'4½" - 194cm - Chris Smalling (Manchester United)
6'4"    - 193cm - John Carew (Aston Villa)
6'4"    - 193cm - James Collins (Aston Villa)
6'4"    - 193cm - Franco Di Santo (Wigan Athletic)
6'4"    - 193cm - Sylvain Distin (Everton)
6'4"    - 193cm - Greg Halford (Wolves)
6'4"    - 193cm - Sotirios Kyrgiakos (Liverpool)
6'4"    - 193cm - Jonas Olsson (West Bromwich Albion)
6'4"    - 193cm - Christopher Samba (Blackburn)
6'4"    - 193cm - Mamady Sidibe (Stoke City)
6'4"    - 193cm - Michael Turner (Sunderland)
6'4"    - 193cm - Jelle Van Damme (Wolves)
6'4"    - 193cm - Mike Williamson (Newcastle United)

Tallest Goalkeepers
6'5½" - 197cm - Edwin Van der Sar (Manchester United)
6'5½" - 197cm - Pascal Zuberbuhler (Fulham)
6'5"    - 196cm - Asmir Begovic (Stoke City)
6'5"    - 196cm - Petr Cech (Chelsea)
6'5"    - 196cm - Wayne Hennessey (Wolves)
6'5"    - 196cm - Thomas Sorensen (Stoke City)
6'5"    - 196cm - Wojciech Szczesny (Arsenal)
6'4½" - 194cm - Ali Al Habsi (Wigan Athletic)
6'4½" - 194cm - Adam Bogdan (Bolton)
6'4½" - 194cm - Mark Schwarzer (Fulham)


Shortest Players
5'5"    - 165cm - Aaron Lennon (Tottenham)
5'5½" - 166cm - Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City)
5'6"    - 168cm - Steed Malbranque (Sunderland)
5'6"    - 168cm - Daniel Pacheco (Liverpool)
5'6"    - 168cm - Paul Scholes (Manchester United)
5'6"    - 168cm - Jay Spearing (Liverpool)
5'6"    - 168cm - Carlos Tevez (Manchester City)
5'6½" - 169cm - Jermain Defoe (Tottenham)
5'7"    - 170cm - Leighton Baines (Everton)
5'7"    - 170cm - Barry Bannan (Aston Villa)
5'7"    - 170cm - Matthew Jarvis (Wolves)
5'7"    - 170cm - Alan Judge (Blackburn)
5'7"    - 170cm - Martin Olsson (Blackburn)
5'7"    - 170cm - Kevin Phillips (Birmingham)
5'7"    - 170cm - Andy Reid (Sunderland)
5'7"    - 170cm - Wayne Routledge (Newcastle)
5'7"    - 170cm - Freddie Sears (West Ham United)
5'7"    - 170cm - David Silva (Manchester City)
5'7"    - 170cm - David Vaughan (Blackpool)
5'7"    - 170cm - Jack Wilshere (Arsenal)


Stats compiled from premierleague.com

23 comments:

  1. oh you should do shortest keepers as well. :)

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  2. There are quite a few keepers at 6'1" and 6'2" but I'm feeling too lazy right now to list them all :).

    These 4 are the shortest keepers I could find in the Premier League.

    6'0" - 183cm - Mark Bunn (Blackburn)
    6'0" - 183cm - Shay Given (Manchester City)
    6'0" - 183cm - Trevor Carson (Sunderland)
    6'0" - 183cm - Scott Carson (West Bromwich Albion)

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  3. I think you have Seamus Coleman of Everton confused for someone else? He is no taller than 5'9, no question.

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  4. Yep, Coleman's inclusion as one of the tallest players caught my eye as well.

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  5. I thought "Wow, I didn't know he was that tall" when I made the list and didn't really give it a second thought. He is definitely listed as 193cm at the official Premier League site (and Yahoo Eurosport as well) so I'm not claiming the mistake :)

    I think 178cm (5'10") is the correct height for Coleman though so I'll remove him from the list.

    Thanks Guys

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  6. I'd like to see a pic of Lennon and Crouch side by side!

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    1. http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1440&bih=756&tbm=isch&tbnid=PGyZL7OOzKHbbM:&imgrefurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8328100/Pictures-of-the-day-16-February-2011.html%3Fimage%3D12&docid=GOan53glG3ndXM&imgurl=http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01827/tottenham-crouch-l_1827354i.jpg&w=620&h=620&ei=BHgMUIb6EYbJ0QWomZDbCg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=461&vpy=132&dur=5844&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=107&ty=229&sig=114688908592413056085&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=130&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:79

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    2. http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/tobgzJMYOb8/World+Tallest+Man+Meets+World+Shortest+Man/hGsuJnWXDMF/Sultan+Kosen

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    3. If we count Fellaini's hair, he's about 6'9" :-)

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  7. Nicklas Bendtner is supposed to be amongst the tallest players in the EPL at 6ft 5in (1.95m), i think he's the fourth on that list.....

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  8. I made this list using the info from the official Premier League stats page where Bendtner is listed as 6ft 3.5in (1.92m).

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  9. oooh, so Wilshere is taller than Lennon. Finding it hard to believe :)

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  10. Bendtner's not that tall. Know Szczesny's taller

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  11. Pantilimon,the Goalkeeper at Man City is 6'-8'',so that would put him at the top of the list of tallest Goalkeepers...

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  12. Lennon is barely 5'4" and he is taller than Shawn Wright Phiilips who must be 5"3". Arshavin is about 5" 4" he shorter than Wilshere. The shortest is Albert Crusat of WIgan who appears (based on comparisons to others about 5"1" if that.

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  13. Ryan Shawcross is 6'5" and Crouch is 6'7"

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  14. what about albert crusat at wigan who is 5'5" (I thought he was the mascot)

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  15. Adebayor and andy caroll are probably both 1.91 meters,

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  16. Oh boy tevez short o...

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  17. wher`s walcott is he too short dat u cant fit him into?

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  18. wheres joe hart

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  19. how many centimetres is 5'3? just wondering cos a young scouted player on a fifa career mode is that?

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  20. defoe taller than tevez? serious?

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