Average age of players competing in Euro 2021, by team

Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 28, 2023
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. The Turkish team is the youngest of all teams competing in the Euros in 2021, with an average age of 24.96 years, or 24 years, 11 months, and 17 days.

Average age of footballers competing in the UEFA European Championship 2021, by team (in years)

CharacteristicAverage age in years
Turkey 24.96
England 25.27
Wales 25.65
Ukraine 26.4
Spain 26.51
Switzerland 27.01
Poland 27.08
Netherlands 27.3
Scotland 27.34
Czechia 27.41
Germany 27.57
North Macedonia 27.64
Denmark 27.74
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June 2021

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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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