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Modern football is very international: every season players move from one country to another and on the clubs payrolls appaer players from all over the world. This is especially so in the English Premier League, the competition with the richest clubs in the world.

This content overlay shows the origin of the first team players of the 4 biggest clubs: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.

Old Trafford showing players origins

You can see the geographical composition of the teams in 3 ways:

• click on the team emblems to see a pie chart of the players nationalities
• check out the lines connecting the team emblems to the players countries of origin. Broader lines mean more players come from that particular country. Enable and disable the clubs you want to visualize in the table of content
• click on the flag icons of the countries to see what players originate from a particular country

Origin of Liverpool FC players

Data source: Global football Database