Friday, May 23, 2014

2014 World Cup provisional squads statistics

You might remember the 2010 edition. This year I wasn't so sure about doing this, but I've been asked by a secondary school math teacher to provide a helping hand for the statistics module about to start. How could I refuse? :)

Caps, goals, ages are as of 16 May 2014. Same goes for players' clubs - based on FIFA's official list.

346 clubs have in the provisional list ( thank you PDFSplit! and Online OCR).

England are again the most represented league base, with 130 players plying their trade in one of the English leagues. Next are Germany and Italy (both 102), Spain (80) and France (63).


Top 5 of countries not qualified to the World Cup:

1. Turkey (28)
2. Ukraine (10)
3. China PR and Norway (both with 7)
5. Scotland (6)

Top 25

1 England 130
2 Germany 102
2 Italy 102
4 Spain 80
5 France 63
6 Russia 43
7 Mexico 37
8 Netherlands 28
8 Turkey 28
10 Portugal 27
11 USA 26
12 Japan 25
13 Iran 20
14 Greece 19
15 Belgium 17
15 Brazil 17
17 Honduras 14
18 Costa Rica 13
18 Ecuador 13
18 Switzerland 13
21 Argentina 10
21 Australia 10
21 Chile 10
21 Ukraine 10
25 Croatia 9
25 Korea Republic 9

By club:

18 - FC Bayern Muenchen
16 - Manchester United FC
14 - FC Barcelona
13 - Juventus FC, Real Madrid CF, SSC Napoli
12 - Atletico Madrid, Liverpool FC, Manchester City FC
11 - Chelsea FC, Paris Saint-Germain FC
10 - Arsenal FC, FC Internazionale, FC Porto
9 - AC Milan, FC Schalke 04, FC Zenit St. Petersburg
8 - Borussia Dortmund, Club America, CSKA Moscow, Everton FC, FC Dynamo Moscow
7 - AS Roma, FC Basel, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Olympiacos Piraeus FC, SL Benfica, Southampton FC, SS Lazio, VfL Wolfsburg

Top 10 oldest players

MONDRAGON Faryd Colombia Deportivo Cali 42.90212
SCOTTI Andres Uruguay Club Nacional de Football 38.42026
YEPES Mario Colombia Atalanta Bergamo 38.33745
KARAGOUNIS Georgios Greece Fulham FC 37.19504
VALLADARES Noel Honduras CD Olimpia 37.03624
BUFFON Gianluigi Italy Juventus FC 36.29636
VAN BUYTEN Daniel Belgium FC Bayern Muenchen 36.26898
DROGBA Didier Cote d'Ivoire Galatasaray SK 36.18137
KLOSE Miroslav Germany SS Lazio 35.93496
LAMPARD Frank England Chelsea FC 35.90484

Top 10 youngest players


OLINGA Fabrice Cameroon SV Zulte Waregem 18.00893
MEYER Max Germany FC Schalke 04 18.65845
SHAW Luke England Southampton FC 18.84463
BAGNACK Macky Cameroon FC Barcelona 18.94045
GREEN Julian USA FC Bayern Muenchen 18.94319
NARVAEZ Jhon Ecuador CS Emelec 18.94593
GRUEZO Carlos Ecuador VfB Stuttgart 19.07461
ORIGI Divock Belgium Lille OSC 19.16222
PASALIC Mario Croatia HNK Hajduk Split 19.26352
GORETZKA Leon Germany FC Schalke 04 19.27173

Top 10 most capped players

DONOVAN Landon USA Los Angeles Galaxy 154
CASILLAS Iker Spain Real Madrid CF 153
ENDO Yasuhito Japan Gamba Osaka 141
BUFFON Gianluigi Italy Juventus FC 139
NEKONAM Javad Iran Kuwait SC 136
KARAGOUNIS Georgios Greece Fulham FC 132
KLOSE Miroslav Germany SS Lazio 131
XAVI Spain FC Barcelona 130
MARQUEZ Rafael Mexico Club Leon 120
VALLADARES Noel Honduras CD Olimpia 119

Top 10 goalscorers

KLOSE Miroslav Germany SS Lazio 68
DROGBA Didier Cote d'Ivoire Galatasaray SK 61
DONOVAN Landon USA Los Angeles Galaxy 57
VILLA David Spain Atletico Madrid 56
ETOO Samuel Cameroon Chelsea FC 54
CRISTIANO RONALDO Portugal Real Madrid CF 49
PODOLSKI Lukas Germany Arsenal FC 46
VAN PERSIE Robin Netherlands Manchester United FC 41
SUAREZ Luis Uruguay Liverpool FC 39
OKAZAKI Shinji Japan FSV Mainz 05 38

Wayne Rooney (England) and Asamoah Gyan (Ghana) also have 38 goals to their name, but have more caps than Okazaki.

Average squad age

Uruguay 28.9164
Colombia 28.3800
Greece 28.3096
Argentina 28.2843
Chile 28.2620
Brazil 28.1205
Russia 27.9341
Italy 27.9169
USA 27.8903
Costa Rica 27.7487
Cote d'Ivoire 27.6497
Iran 27.6454
Japan 27.5925
Portugal 27.5750
Spain 27.5668
Mexico 27.5167
Honduras 27.4420
Ecuador 27.1128
Algeria 26.8701
France 26.8161
Bosnia and Herzegovina 26.7824
Croatia 26.6068
England 26.4258
Cameroon 26.2539
Australia 26.0392
Belgium 25.8275
Switzerland 25.7380
Korea Republic 25.6065
Netherlands 25.5564
Germany 25.5064
Nigeria 25.4855
Ghana 25.0551

Local players vs. foreign players

In 2010, England were the only team with 100% local players. This time they have 2 foreign based players. Russia, with only one (Reading FC's Pavel Pogrebnyak) - top the list.

Spain's local based percentage dropped from 86.67 in 2010 to 56.67. Same for Japan.

Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana have only 2 local based players (out of 30).

Team - Local based - Total players - Percentage

Russia 29 30 96.67
England 28 30 93.33
Italy 27 30 90
Germany 23 30 76.67
Mexico 22 30 73.33
Iran 20 30 66.67
Japan 17 30 56.67
Spain 17 30 56.67
Netherlands 16 30 53.33
Greece 14 30 46.67
USA 14 30 46.67
Honduras 14 30 46.67
France 14 30 46.67
Ecuador 13 30 43.33
Costa Rica 12 30 40
Portugal 12 30 40
Chile 10 30 33.33
Australia 10 30 33.33
Switzerland 8 30 26.67
Korea Republic 8 30 26.67
Brazil 7 30 23.33
Belgium 7 30 23.33
Argentina 5 30 16.67
Algeria 5 30 16.67
Croatia 5 30 16.67
Nigeria 5 30 16.67
Colombia 3 30 10
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 30 10
Cameroon 3 30 10
Uruguay 2 28 7.14
Cote d'Ivoire 2 30 6.67
Ghana 2 30 6.67

Average caps

Spain 48.27
Uruguay 43.86
Honduras 36.07
USA 35.83
Japan 35.33
Germany 34.70
Croatia 33.57
Cote d'Ivoire 32.63
Mexico 31.53
Greece 31.10
Costa Rica 31.03
Chile 29.87
Portugal 29.70
Colombia 29.60
Italy 28.80
Ecuador 28.63
Russia 27.47
Belgium 26.70
Switzerland 26.03
Argentina 26.00
Nigeria 25.10
Netherlands 24.37
England 23.97
Brazil 23.97
Iran 23.83
Cameroon 23.20
Ghana 23.00
Korea Republic 20.70
Bosnia and Herzegovina 20.57
France 18.43
Australia 16.87
Algeria 15.17

Average goals

Spain 7.87
Germany 7.47
Netherlands 6.13
USA 5.70
Uruguay 5.36
Cote d'Ivoire 5.03
Portugal 4.80
Croatia 4.43
Mexico 4.43
England 4.37
Japan 4.00
Argentina 4.00
Ghana 3.70
Costa Rica 3.57
Chile 3.57
Brazil 3.57
Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.57
Cameroon 3.53
Korea Republic 3.07
Honduras 2.97
Iran 2.97
Greece 2.90
Ecuador 2.90
Australia 2.80
Colombia 2.77
Russia 2.73
Nigeria 2.67
Italy 2.57
Belgium 2.40
Switzerland 2.27
France 1.90
Algeria 1.57


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