Premier League soccer is so relentlessly bodily within the fashionable recreation that it waits for no passengers, with groups more and more focussing on youthful exuberance over wily expertise.Â
Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis might all be battling on the head of the Premier League proper now, whereas Sheffield United, Bournemouth and Burnley at the moment occupy the relegation spots, however is there a correlation between the typical age of a line-up within the Premier League and their place within the desk?Â
Properly, the boffins at CIES Football Observatory have cleverly crunched the numbers, rating every of the 20 sides within the Premier League based mostly on their common age, from youngest to oldest.
| Place | Workforce | Common age |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Burnley | 24.57 yrs |
| 2. | Chelsea | 24.95 |
| 3. | Arsenal | 24.96 |
| 4. | Tottenham Hotspur | 25.12 |
| 5. | Bournemouth | 25.72 |
| 6. | Brentford | 26.22 |
| 7. | Nottingham Forest | 26.53 |
| 8. | Manchester Metropolis | 26.55 |
| 9. | Wolves | 26.85 |
| 10. | Sheffield United | 26.85 |
| 11. | Aston Villa | 26.96 |
| 12. | Luton City | 27.04 |
| 13. | Manchester United | 27.08 |
| 14. | Brighton & Hove Albion | 27.16 |
| 15. | Liverpool | 27.17 |
| 16. | Crystal Palace | 27.52 |
| 17. | Everton | 27.54 |
| 18. | Newcastle United | 27.76 |
| 19. | West Ham United | 28.80 |
| 20. | Fulham | 29.28 |
Clearly, there’s no discernible correlation over the place a workforce at the moment sits within the desk and the typical age of their lineup.
That is epitomised by the truth that Burnley, Arsenal and Chelsea – groups which might be at the moment 18th, 2nd and eleventh within the Premier League desk – have all put out the youngest sides up to now this marketing campaign.
That mentioned, nevertheless, Arsenal’s younger gamers when in comparison with Burnley’s are much more skilled in Premier League soccer. Massive components of Vincent Kompany’s squad are of their debut phrases within the high flight of English soccer, whereas the Arsenal squad, aside from Jurrien Timber, does not characteristic a single participant to have by no means performed within the Premier League earlier than 2023/24.Â
Certainly, the likes of Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and William Saliba all convey Arsenal’s common age down, regardless of their huge expertise on the elite degree of the sport.Â
With out the 39-year-old Thiago Silva amongst their ranks, Chelsea may conceivably have comfortably the youngest aspect within the league. One way or the other, Raheem Sterling, 28, is the squad’s subsequent oldest participant after Silva.Â
In the meantime, Fulham, West Ham and Newcastle are all proving that an older squad does not essentially equal poor efficiency. In spite of everything, Fulham, in twelfth, are the bottom of the three within the Premier League, whereas the Hammers and Magpies are seventh and eighth, respectively.Â
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