Who among us does not love football, the most popular sport in the world. Many of us follow it without knowing a few statistics. In this article we will show you a lot of data and statistics about football.
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| Source: www.freepik.com |
General Football Data
The International Football Federation is FIFA, founded in 1904.
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FIFA member confederations |
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confederation |
Location |
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CAF |
Africa |
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CONCACAF |
North America |
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CONMEBOL |
South America |
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AFC |
Asia and Australia |
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UEFA |
Europe |
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OFC |
Oceania |
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World Football Statistics (in 2006) |
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Number of Clubs |
301 000 |
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Practicing players |
264 552 000 |
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Licensed players |
38 287 000 |
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Professional players |
113 000 |
World Cup
The first edition of the World Cup football, was in 1930 in Uruguay and among all the world countries, Brazil is the only country that attended all the finals of the World Cup. There are only eight nations that have won the FIFA World Cup, and this countries are as followed:
The growing love of football is confirmed by the 2018 World Cup in Russia where it was noticed that:
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World Cup statistics 2014-2018 |
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Nombre |
Remarque |
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People who
watched at least 3 minutes of the 2018 World Cup. |
3,04 billion |
Increase of 10.9% compared to 2014. |
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People
who watched at least 30 minutes of the 2018 World Cup. |
2,49 billion |
An
increase from the 2014 total (1.95 billion). |
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People
who watched the 2018 world cup final. |
1,12 billion |
An
increase over the number of people who watched the 2014 final (1.013
billion). |
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The
people who kept informed of the competition 2018. |
3,576 billion |
Almost
half of the world's population. |
This table shows the weight of Football in the world, and in the economy where we find that the big brands invest in this sport which leads us to talk about the economy of Football:
The following figure shows the budget of the 5 first European championships of 1st division in (2006-2007):
And the richest clubs in the world are as followed:
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The
richest clubs in the world |
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Club |
budget |
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FC
Barcelona |
840,8 M
€ |
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Real
Madrid |
757,3 M
€ |
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Manchester
United |
711,5 M
€ |
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Bayern
Munich |
660,1 M
€ |
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Paris
Saint-Germain |
635,9 M
€ |
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Manchester
City |
610,6 M
€ |
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Liverpool
FC |
604,7 M
€ |
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Tottenham
Hotspur |
521,1 M
€ |
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Chelsea
FC |
513,1 M
€ |
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Juventus |
459,7 M
€ |
Despite all these budgets, but the various European football championships are suffering from debt:
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The
debts of the European football championships |
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Football championship |
Debt |
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England |
4
billion euros including 3.7 billion for Division 1 |
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Spain |
3.5 billion euros |
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France |
150 million for Division 1 |
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Germany |
500 million
for the 1st and 2nd division |
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