Facts and Key Figures Player Release Analysis UEFA EURO 2012TM POLAND & UKRAINE 8 June - 1 July ECA Research - June 2012 Player Release Analysis UEFA Euro 2012TM Table of Contents 1 Foreword 2 Highlights 3 Introduction 4 Confederations representation 5 Most represented national championships 7 Club analysis – Top 10 Overview 8 European club analysis – Overview per National Association 10 ECA Members Clubs represented 11 Appendix 1: Club analysis – Full list of National Team squads 17 Appendix 2: Comparison with statistics of UEFA Euro 2008TM 20 Appendix 3: Full list of National Team squads ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS EURO 2012 POLAND & UKRAINE Foreword The UEFA Euro 2012™ is the most important international football competition in Europe. It is organised by the Union Européenne de Football Association (UEFA) and the first edition was held in 1960. The 14th edition is hosted in Poland and Ukraine from the 8th of June to the 1st of July 2012. For the UEFA Euro 2012™, all clubs have to release their players for the tournament according to the FIFA regulations: in accordance with Annexe 1 to the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, “if a player is called up, he must be released to play in the final competition organised by FIFA or a confederation and held in a period fixed/set in the calendar. In this event, the period of release shall be 14 days.” Following fruitful talks held in spring 2012 between the European Club Association (ECA) and UEFA, which ended in the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding in March 2012, the UEFA Executive Committee has decided to allocate an amount of €100 million from the benefits of the the UEFA Euro 2012TM to clubs (compared to €43’466’390 for Euro 2008). A part of this €100 million will be distributed amongst those clubs who released players for the UEFA Euro 2012™. Moreover, any club whose player(s) appeared on the match sheet of a UEFA Euro 2012™ qualification game will receive a fixed amount. The exact figures will be officialised during the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on the 30th of June 2012. The purpose of this research is to show the overall situation of players released by European clubs with a focus on ECA Members. The research is based on the official UEFA Squad Lists published on the 29th of May 2012 (with ulterior replacements due to injury before the start of the tournament). ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS EURO 2012 POLAND & UKRAINE 1 Highlights • 134 clubs in total released one or more players to the UEFA Euro 2012™. 132 of these clubs are European clubs from UEFA Member Associations. • 99% of the UEFA Euro 2012™ players (366 players from a total of 368) are playing in one of the European national championships. • FC Bayern München released the highest number of players for the UEFA EURO 2012TM: 12. • 58.2% of the UEFA Euro 2012™ players (214 players) come from clubs playing in Germany, England, Italy, Spain or France. • 22 English clubs released 79 players in total. • All the English players are playing in their own national championship, followed by Russia and Ukraine (21 out of 23 players). • 83 ECA Member Clubs from 22 different UEFA Members Associations have at least one player playing in the UEFA Euro 2012™. • None of the Irish players play in the Irish national championship. ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS UEFA EURO 2012TM POLAND & UKRAINE 2 Introduction UEFA Euro 2012™ The UEFA Euro 2012TM finals are held in Poland and Ukraine in eight venues (played in Gdansk, Pozna´n, Warsaw, Wrocław (Poland), Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, L’viv (Ukraine) between the 8th of June and the 1st of July. Nine Member Associations have won the trophy, with Germany having won it three times. France, Italy, Spain hold two titles and Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Soviet Union each won one title. The European premier football tournament lines up 16 countries, which emerged from a qualification process that began in September 2010. The 2012 participants form four groups of four teams. Group A Group B Group C Group D Poland Netherlands Spain Ukraine Russia Germany Italy England Greece Denmark Croatia Sweden Czech Republic Portugal Rep. of Ireland France This research is based on a comprehensive UEFA Euro 2012™ players’ analysis and outlines in which country, national championship and club the players were registered in the past season. ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS UEFA EURO 2012TM POLAND & UKRAINE 3 Confederations representation The table below shows in which confederation the 368 UEFA Euro 2012™ players are currently registered. 366 players are competing in one of the European national championships (UEFA Member Associations) and 2 players are playing outside Europe. Confederation 1 Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA) 366 players 2 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) 1 player Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) 1 player ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS UEFA EURO 2012TM POLAND & UKRAINE 4 Most represented national championships The 368 players participating in the UEFA Euro 2012™ are registered with clubs from 24 different national championships. 22 are European national championships (UEFA), 1 is from the Asian Confederation (AFC), 1 is from the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association (CONCACAF). National championship per confederation (in decreasing order) Europe (UEFA): England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, Denmark, Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Scotland, Sweden, Cyprus, Israel, Switzerland, Romania ASIA (AFC): Saudi Arabia (Al-Hilal FC) Northern America (CONCACAF): USA (LA Galaxy) National championship Players 1 England 79 2 Germany 46 3 Spain 33 4 Italy 31 5 Russia 29 6 Ukraine 28 7 France 25 8 Greece 17 9 Netherlands 16 10 Portugal 12 11 Turkey 9 12 Denmark 8 Czech Republic 8 14 Poland 6 15 Croatia 5 16 Scotland 4 ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS UEFA EURO 2012TM POLAND & UKRAINE 5 National championship Players 17 Belgium 3 Sweden 3 19 Cyprus 1 Israel 1 Switzerland 1 Romania 1 / Other Conferderations 2 One player out of five is playing in an English league (21.5%). 214 players (58.2%) are playing in one of the “Big 5” national championships (including Second division), being Germany, England, Italy, Spain or France. Despite not being represented by their national team at the UEFA Euro 2012™, Cyprus, Belgium, Israel, Romania, Scotland, Switzerland and Turkey, have at least one player from their national championship participating in the UEFA Euro 2012™ Poland/Ukraine. Cyprus 0,27% Israel 0,27% Sweden 0,82% Switzerland 0,27% Croatia 1,09% Romania 0,27% Scotland 1,09% Other Confederations 0,54% Belgium 0,82% Poland 1,63% Czech Republic 1,90% Denmark 2,17% Turkey 2,45% England 21,5% Portugal 3,26% Netherlands 4,35% Greece 4,62% Germany 13,04% France 6,79% Ukraine 7,34% Spain 8,70% Russia 8,15% Italy 8,42% ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS UEFA EURO 2012TM POLAND & UKRAINE 6 Club analysis - Top 10 Overview Most represented clubs 134 clubs in total are involved in releasing players, 132 of which are European clubs. FC Bayern München released 12 players, the highest number of players for the UEFA Euro 2012™ followed by Real Madrid CF with 11 players and FC Dynamo Kyiv with 10 players. All the English players are playing in an English league, followed by Russia and Ukraine where 21 players are playing in their own league. The table below outlines which clubs are releasing most players: Players Club Name Names Holger Badstuber, Jérôme Boateng, Mario Gomez, Toni Kroos, Philipp Lahm, Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Bastian Schweinsteiger (GER), 12 FC Bayern München, Germany Danijel Pranji´c (CRO), Franck Ribéry (FRA), Arjen Robben (NED), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (UKR) Raúl Albiol, Xabi Alonso, Álvaro Arbeloa, Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos 11 Real Madrid CF, Spain (SPA), Karim Benzema (FRA), Sami Khedira, Mesut Özil (GER), Fábio Coentrão, Pepe, Cristiano Ronaldo (POR) Olexandr Aliyev, Denys Garmash, Oleh Gusev, Yev hen Khacheridi, 10 FC Dynamo Kyiv, Ukraine Maxym Koval, Taras Mikhalik, Artem Milevskiy, Andriy Yarmolenko, Andriy Shevchenko (UKR), Ognjen Vukojevic´ (CRO) Glen Johnson, Stewart Downing, Steven Gerrard, Andy Carroll, 9 Liverpool FC, England Martin Kelly and Jordan Henderson (ENG), Daniel Agger (DEN), Pepe Reina (ESP), Dirk Kuyt (NED) Joe Hart, Joleon Lescott, James Milner (ENG), Gaël Clichy, Samir Nasri 8 Manchester City FC, England (FRA), Mario Balotelli (ITA), Nigel de Jong (NED), David Silva (SPA) Mario Götze, Íkay Gündog˘an, Mats Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer (GER), 8 BVB Dortmund, Germany Ivan Perišic´ (CRO), Jakub Błaszczykowski, Robert Lewandowski, Łukasz Piszczek (POL) Aleksandr Anyukov, Andrey Arshavin, Igor Denisov, Aleksandr Kerzhakov, 8 FC Zenit St. Petersburg, Russia Vyacheslav Malafeev, Roman Shirokov, Konstantin Zyryanov (RUS) Bruno Alves (POR) Sergio Busquets, Cesc Fàbregas, Xavi Hernández, Andrés Iniesta, 8 FC Barcelona, Spain Gerard Piqué, Pedro Rodríguez, Víctor Valdés (SPA), Ibrahim Afellay (NED) Olexandr Kucher, Andriy Pyatov, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Yevhen Seleznyov, 8 FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine Vyacheslav Shevchuk (UKR), Eduardo, Darijo Srna (CRO), Tomáš Hübschman (CZE) 7 Five teams ECA PLAYER RELEASE ANALYSIS UEFA EURO 2012TM POLAND & UKRAINE 7 European club analysis Overview per National Association 366 players out of a total of 368 play in one of the 22 European national championships. 132 European clubs are involved in releasing players to the UEFA Euro 2012™ 1 Club (number of players) UEFA Country