Basque country’s Athletic Club top global ranking of home-grown players
May 2 – Spain’s Athletic Club head a world ranking of clubs with the greatest reliance on home-grown players.
The report by the CIES Football Observatory, analyses the ‘territorial anchorage’ of playing squads of almost 1,000 teams in 58 leagues globally.
LaLiga’s Athletic Club rank top due to their rule of only signing players from the Basque region, meaning they have 100% national players, with 62% of them being club-trained, too.
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