Big-5 Weekly Post on full internationals
The Football Observatory of the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) is pleased to disclose the publication of issue number 104 of the Big-5 Weekly Post.
Premier League clubs have fielded players with national A-team caps for 75.8% of minutes since the start of the season. Burnley is the only club where full internationals played a minority of domestic league minutes.
At big-5 league level, the highest percentage of minutes played by full internationals was recorded at Milan: 99.4%. However, in many cases, Milan’s full international players are ageing. The percentage of minutes by full international footballers is over 90% in 13 clubs. Conversely, this figure is below 10% for two clubs only: Eibar (7.0%) and Paderborn (4.4%).
% of minutes by full internationals, per team
- Milan : 99.4%
- Chelsea : 98.2%
- Borussia Dortmund : 98.1%
- Bayern Munich : 96.2%
- Juventus : 95.8%
- Real Madrid: 95.5%
- Paris St-Germain: 95.3%
- Rome: 95.1%
- Manchester City: 93.8%
- Barcelona: 93.6%
- Everton: 92.3%
- Liverpool: 91.1%
- Manchester United: 90.1%
At league level, the percentage of minutes played by full internationals varies between 75.8% for the English Premier League and 38.0% for the Spanish Liga. Overall, players with national A-team caps played 55.1% of domestic league minutes.
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