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Tag: CIES Football Observatory

Barca starlet Lamal tops Martinelli and Saka in player ranking

November 3 – FC Barcelona youngster Yamine Lamal has been ranked as the best dribbler in the Big 5 European leagues in the under-23 category, according to new data from the CIES Football Observatory.

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Performance

Man City’s Rodri tops ranking of world’s best passers

October 19 – Manchester City star Rodri heads a ranking of the 100 ‘best distributors’ in world football, according to the latest data from the CIES Football Observatory.

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Performance

Ranking puts Burnley top of the Premier League youth charts, Toulouse head Big 5 leagues

October 12 – Burnley are fielding the youngest average aged team in the Premier League while Fulham are fielding the oldest. In Europe’s Big 5 leagues Toulouse top the age ranking. 

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Performance

Bayern, Barca, PSG, Napoli and Man City top ‘most dominant’ ranking

September 29 – The CIES Football Observatory, using Wyscout data, has released a report ranking European clubs by their ‘dominance’. Not surprisingly,  Barcelona, Bayern, Napoli, PSG and Man City are ranked as the ‘most dominant’ teams in their respective leagues.

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Performance

Data finds majority of matches in major leagues now run longer than 100 minutes

September 21 – A substantial 52.4% of matches now last more than 100 minutes. This statistic fluctuates significantly among various leagues, peaking in the Middle East and plummeting in Finland.

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Finance

Global leaders: Man Utd top highest value squad ranking, four clubs beat €1bn mark

September 14 – Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City have been revealed as having the most expensive squads in world football, rounding out an exclusive billion-euro club with PSG, according to the latest report by the CIES football observatory. 

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Finance

Man Utd top ranking of decade of club transfer spending, Benfica lead way as player traders

money flying

September 7 – Portugal’s Benfica top a ranking of 100 clubs transfer balances over the past decade with a net positive return of +€764million in trading since 2013.

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Finance

Benfica’s defensive starlet Antonio Silva tops ranking of young players by value

CIES logo

September 1 – Benfica’s 2003-born Antonio Silva tops a ranking of young player valuations, according to a new report from the CIES Football Observatory which ranks the top 100 players born 2002 or later.

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Performance

Revolving doors. More than 1 in 2 coaches fired worldwide in 2022/23 season

Red card

May 26 – A stunning 56.9% of clubs worldwide replaced their coaches over the season currently ending. Of 850 teams analysed, 484 changed personnel.

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Performance

Brazil breaks ranking record of exported players. France rank second, England fourth

May 5 – Brazil, a mass exporter of footballers, has broken records according to the CIES Football Observatory, with more than 1,289 players now plying their trade overseas.

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Finance

Haaland vs Vinicius: World’s highest valued players face off in football’s biggest club comp

May 16 – Manchester City’s Erling Haaland and Real Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior head a worldwide evaluation of player transfer values at €200 million.

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Performance

Egyptian Premier League tops ranking of most penalties awarded; English refs wait before they whistle

April 21 – Egyptian referees leading a ranking of leagues worldwide of the highest frequency of penalties awarded.

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Performance

Dortmund head ranking of Big 5 U20 players getting game time, Arsenal are only EPL team in top 20

April 14 – A ranking by the CIES Football Observatory of the percentage of minutes played by footballers who had not yet turned 20 in domestic league matches found Denmark’s Nordsjælland top with an astonishing 37% of minutes played.

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Finance

European clubs lead global ranking of most valuable U-23 players outside Big 5 Euro leagues

April 6 – Benfica centre-forward Gonçalo Ramos (€70 million) and centre back António Silva (€66 million) top a ranking of the highest value players under the age of 23 and playing for clubs outside the Big 5 European leagues.

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Performance

Buy-to-loan? Arsenal top ranking of clubs with most players out on loan

Making subs

March 21 – Almost 10% of players in clubs across 75 leagues worldwide are on loan. Arsenal top the ranking of those clubs with most players on loan – 25.

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