Euro 2021: most famous players

In celebration of the Euro 2020/21 competition, Statista published the Celebrity Index report. The Celebrity Index - Euro 2021 ranked all competing teams and players by their celebrity status. Metrics that are used to weight this ranking include social media following, their transfer market value as well as the sentiment and number of global online news articles that mention any player competing. According to the Celebrity Index scores, the biggest celebrity player in the world was Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.

Celebrity Index scores of highest scoring players competing in the UEFA European Championship 2021

Characteristic	Index score (0-100)
Cristiano Ronaldo	100
Kylian Mbappé	52.24
Harry Kane	39.15
Marcus Rashford	38.9
Bruno Fernandes	34.19
Kevin De Bruyne	33.89
Raheem Sterling	33.23
Jadon Sancho	32.66
Robert Lewandowski	32.09
Trent Alexander-Arnold	31.71
Antoine Griezmann	31.52
Romelu Lukaku	31.44
Paul Pogba	31.23
Joshua Kimmich	27.65
Karim Benzema	26.44
Timo Werner	26.11
Raphael Varane	25.74
Thibaut Courtois	25.56
Kai Havertz	25.32
Gareth Bale	25.22

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Release date

June 2021

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

May 3 to June 11, 2021

Supplementary notes

The Celebrity Index was scored weighting a number of metrics to create an index score. Metrics and weighting included;

Social media (51 percent) - average ratio of followers of the players to monthly users of Instagram and Twitter are considered, if available.

Market value (29 percent) - market value is the average market value of the players by team.

Online news coverage (20 percent) - Number of online articles & average sentiment score.

For a full methodology see here.

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