Euro 2021: average age of players 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 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)

Characteristic	Average 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
Italy	27.77
Croatia	27.83
France	27.86
Austria	27.86
Russia	27.89
Portugal	27.93
Hungary	28.07
Finland	28.1
Slovakia	28.2
Belgium	29.16
Sweden	29.17

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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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