Euro 2021: players featured most in online news

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. Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo had the highest number of features in online news articles worldwide, with over 43.7 thousand mentions.

Total number of global online news articles featuring football players competing in the UEFA European Championship 2021

Characteristic	Number of articles
Cristiano Ronaldo	43,733
Marcus Rashford	28,157
Robert Lewandowski	22,535
Bruno Fernandes	18,481
Karim Benzema	16,628
Antoine Griezmann	16,519
Harry Kane	14,578
Timo Werner	14,207
Paul Pogba	12,063
Romelu Lukaku	11,594
Jadon Sancho	11,506
Eden Hazard	11,478
Gareth Bale	10,879
Jordan Henderson	10,240
Harry Maguire	10,081
Kai Havertz	9,751
Raheem Sterling	9,714
Kevin De Bruyne	9,283
Kylian Mbappé	9,084
Adama Traore	8,179

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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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