Euro 2021: number of caps by team

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 Belgian players had 1,339 caps altogether - the highest number of caps of any team competing in the Euros in 2021.

Number of caps of footballers competing in the UEFA European Championship 2021, by team

Characteristic	Sum of caps
Belgium	1,339
Portugal	1,056
France	1,037
Sweden	972
Croatia	912
Slovakia	901
Switzerland	877
Finland	836
Germany	835
North Macedonia	806
Poland	793
Austria	781
Denmark	781
Wales	756
Netherlands	739
Italy	688
Ukraine	667
Russia	596
England	553
Turkey	551
Czechia	550
Spain	539
Hungary	539
Scotland	482

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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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