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Football writing from the team behind FootyFox. Squad data, transfers, and the occasional guide to the game.
What a promoted Premier League squad actually looks like
Coventry, Ipswich and Hull came up with squads that are older, smaller and far more British than the seventeen clubs already there. Between them they have registered three players aged 20 or under. Chelsea have thirteen.
Read the article →How many nationalities play in the Champions League?
Seventy-five nations fill the confirmed Champions League pool. France reaches the most clubs, Germany packs the most players into the fewest, and 26 countries have exactly one man in the whole competition.
Read the article →Spain 1-0 Argentina: how the 2026 World Cup final was won by attrition
Spain outshot Argentina 20 to 3 and still needed 106 minutes to score. The 2026 final was a study in what happens when total control meets total resistance, and what it cost both sides.
Read the article →How the summer transfer window actually works
Registration deadlines, tapping up, medicals, and why deals explode in the final 48 hours. A plain-language guide to football's silly season, from fees to free transfers.
Read the article →Average age by position: why goalkeepers outlast everyone
We measured every player in our Champions League, Premier League and La Liga squad data. Goalkeepers average nearly four years older than forwards, and almost half of them are over 30.
Read the article →Which countries produce the most goalkeepers and forwards?
90 nationalities, 1,780 squad entries, one pattern: Belgium and Germany stockpile goalkeepers, the Ivory Coast ships strikers, Italy and Uruguay build back lines. What our squad data says about football's production lines.
Read the article →The most common shirt numbers in the Champions League
We counted every shirt number across 775 Champions League squad players. The numbers that give a position away for free, the ones that tell you nothing, and why La Liga stops at 55.
Read the article →How to guess a footballer from 5 clues
The five feedback signals in FootyFox aren't decoration, they're data. Here's how to read age, country, position, club and shirt number like a scout, and cut a guess pool down fast.
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