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historic data on European football (soccer) clubs' playing squads

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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

Sources

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

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