New Big-5 Weekly Post on player turnover - n°58
The 58th edition of the CIES Football Observatory Big-5 Weekly Post presents the data on the percentage of minutes played by the 11 most fielded players per club since the start of the 2013/14 season. It shows that the best performing clubs rely relatively more on a core group of players.
While the percentage of minutes played by the 11 most fielded footballers of clubs currently on the podium in their respective league is 77.6%, this figure is only 71.9% for clubs in the relegation zone. Our analysis thus suggests that bad results encourage coaches to change more frequently their line-ups. Rather than improving results, this strategy tends often to aggravate the situation.
At club level, the lowest player turnover levels were measured at Borussia Mönchengladbach (88.6% minutes played by the 11 most fielded players), Atlético Madrid (86.1%) and Lille (84.3%). At the opposite end of the table are Catania (61.6%), Valencia (64.0%) and Real Betis (64.5%).
Next Tuesday, the 59th issue of the Big-5 Weekly Post will present exclusive data from the 2014 edition of the CIES Football Observatory Demographic Study.
For more information please contact us at football.observatory@cies.ch
