Who prefers to buy young footballers the most? Slovenian top-tier club Bravo is even ranked fourth among nearly 800 clubs from 48 countries
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The Swiss Football Observatory CIES has once again delved into football numbers and compiled an interesting ranking of clubs that prefer to recruit young players on one end and older footballers on the other. At the top of the list for young players is quite predictably RB Salzburg (average age of the first team players upon signing the contract is 20.93), followed by its affiliated Brazilian club RB Bragantino (21.72), and third is Athletic Bilbao (21.90), which due to its policy of only fielding Basque players is naturally inclined towards such a personnel strategy. And fourth … Bravo! The Ljubljana-based club ranks fourth with an average age of 22.22 years.
“The study is just another proof of what we have been emphasizing for years. At Bravo, we have been and will continue to offer opportunities to young, Slovenian, talented footballers. It is nice to see a study that confirms our philosophy and ranks us at the top of providing opportunities for young talents among so many clubs in the pool,” said Bravo’s sports director Dejan Močnik upon the publication of the study, in which 800 clubs from 48 countries participated, for the club’s website.
Following Bravo on the Slovenian top-flight clubs ranking are Aluminij (23.28), Mura (23.50), Domžale (23.71), Radomlje (23.84), Rogaška (23.87), Maribor (24.16), Celje (24.31), Koper (24.71), and Olimpija (24.93). It’s worth noting that the data included in the study dates back to 2019.
At the top of the other end of the ranking is the Qatari club Al Gharafa with an average age of 30.27!
This text was automatically translated using AI.
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