The number of foreigners in European clubs

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The Professional Football Players Observatory, in partnership with the CIES (Centre International d'Étude du Sport), conducted a demographic study related to European players. One of the biggest highlights of the study is to analyze the number of players abroad to perform in 30 major European football leagues. In the study are considered foreign players who grew up in their country of origin and who were hired by a club of different country.

Broadly speaking, the 11,015 players who are part of flocks of clubs from 30 European major leagues, 3923 are foreigners. Of the 456 clubs, 158 are in their squad at least 11 foreign players and overall the European clubs have an average of 8.6 foreign players. Of the countries that import more players stand out to England with 59% and Portugal with 53%, while with regard to clubs, Arsenal is the team with more foreign players 91%, followed by Internazionale of Milan with 85%.

At a time when Joseph Blatter fight against excessive foreign clubs and against the mass naturalization of players, the task seems huge, given the numbers presented in this report.

% Of Foreign and European countries in the clubs
	Clubs	Country	%			Countries	%
1	Arsenal FC	ING	91.7%		1	England	59.1%
2	Internazionale	ITA	85.2%		2	Portugal	53.7%
	Liverpool FC	ING	85.2%		3	Belgium	51.9%
4	KSC Lokeren	BEL	80.0%		4	Germany	51.7%
5	FC Salzburg	AUS	77.8%		5	Greece	51.2%
6	FC Energie Cottbus	ALE	75.0%		6	Russia	50.2%
7	Chelsea FC	ING	74.1%		7	Switzerland	47.7%
8	KAA Gent	BEL	73.9%		8	Scotland	42.4%
9	CFR Cluj	ROM	73.1%		9	Italy	40.6%
	Heart of Midlothian	ESC	73.1%		10	Turkey	39.0%
11	CF Belenenses	POR	72.0%		11	Spain	37.2%
12	Aris Saloniki	GRE	70.4%		12	Netherlands	36.7%
	SL Benfica	POR	70.4%		13	Norway	36.3%
14	Standard Liège	BEL	70.0%		14	Ukraine	36.0%
15	Atletico Madrid	ESP	69.6%		15	Austria	34.8%
	Naval 1 º Maio	POR	69.6%		16	Romania	34.2%
17	Sevilla FC	ESP	69.2%		17	Denmark	33.9%
18	FC Koln	ALE	68.0%		18	France	32.2%
	FC Sion	SUI	68.0%		19	Slovakia	28.0%
	RAEC Mons	BEL	68.0%		20	Sweden	26.0%
21	Asteras Tripolis FC	GRE	66.7%		21	Bulgaria	25.7%
	Hertha BSC Berlin	ALE	66.7%		22	Hungary	25.5%
	Manchester United	ING	66.7%		23	Ireland	23.0%
	SC Braga	POR	66.7%		24	Finland	21.1%
	Sunderland AFC	ING	66.7%		25	Slovenia	20.5%
26	FC Porto	POR	65.4%		26	Poland	20.2%
	Panthrakikos FC	GRE	65.4%		27	Iceland	17.6%
	P. AEK Timisoara	ROM	65.4%		28	Croatia	16.7%
	West Bromwich Albion	ING	65.4%		29	Czech Rep.	16.0%
30	FK Moskva Khimki	RUS	64.3%		30	Serbia	14.9%
31	CD Nacional	POR	64.0%
	Fulham FC	ING	64.0%
33	FK Vihren Sandanski	BUL	63.6%
	RSC Anderlecht	BEL	63.6%
	Vitoria Setubal	POR	63.6%
36	Real Madrid	ESP	62.5%
	Villarreal CF	ESP	62.5%
38	Manchester City	ING	62.1%
	Portmouth FC	ING	62.1%
40	Luch Vladivostok	RUS	61.5%
	Newcastle United	ING	61.5%

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