squads

Data on European football clubs' playing squads, seasons 2004/05 through 2020/21 (as found on Transfermarkt).

Data

Squads can be found in the data directory, in .csv format. There's a sub-directory for each year/season (e.g. 2018/19 season is in data/2018) containing data for each of these leagues:

• English Premier League
• English Championship
• French Ligue 1
• German 1.Bundesliga
• Italian Serie A
• Spanish La Liga
• Portugese Liga NOS
• Dutch Eredivisie
• Russian Premier Liga

Common variables:

• player_name (player name)
• position (preferred position)
• date_of_birth (date of birth)
• age (age, at time of scrape)
• nationality (primary nationality)
• club_name (club of player)
• league_name (league of player)
• season (season, interpolated from year)
• year (year)

Code

All source code for producing this dataset can be found in the src directory.

Usage

• Relative age effect viz by @ewen_

Sources

All data was scraped from Transfermarkt, in accordance with their terms of use.