Report: The Clubs with the most youth academy products at Euro 2020
With the knockout stages of Euro 2020 set to get underway this evening, BettingOdds.com have analysed which youth academies across the world have produced the most players currently involved in squads at the tournament.
The results have found that Premier League sides Manchester City (8) and Chelsea (5) are amongst the sides with the highest number of youth academy products still currently in the competition, but it’s Ajax, a club renowned for the quality of their youth system, that have the most with 12.
Championship side Swansea City have six youth academy players in the Welsh camp as they prepare to take on Denmark in the round of 16.
The study is broken down into two sections:
- Youth academies with the most players participating in Euro 2020 (Knockout stages only)
- Youth academies that have had the most participants at Euro 2020 (Group stages and knockout stages)
Club’s youth academies with the most players participating in Euro 2020 (Knockout stages only):
Ajax (Holland) - 12 (Daley Blind, Davy Klaassen, Donyell Malen, Joël Veltman, Jurriën Timber, Maarten Stekelenburg, Marco Bizot, Matthijs de Ligt, Quincy Promes, Ryan Gravenberch, Thomas Vermaelen, Toby Alderweireld)
Manchester City (England) - 8 (David Brooks, Dedryck Boyata, Jadon Sancho, Kasper Schmeichel, Kieran Trippier, Matthew Smith, Phil Foden, Wayne Hennessey)
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) - 7 (Andrej Kramarić, Dejan Lovren, Josip Brekalo, Joško Gvardiol, Luka Modrić, Mateo Kovačić, Šime Vrsaljko)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) - 7 (Heorhiy Sudakov, Anatoliy Trubin, Mykola Matviyenko, Oleksandr Karavayev, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Oleksandr Zubkov, Ruslan Malinovskyi)
Genk (Belgium) - 6 (Dennis Praet, Kevin De Bruyne, Leandro Trossard, Thibaut Courtois, Timothy Castagne, Yannick Carrasco)
Sporting CP (Portugal) - 6 (Cristiano Ronaldo, João Moutinho, José Fonte, Nuno Mendes, Rui Patrício, William Carvalho)
Swansea (Wales) - 6 (Ben Cabango, Ben Davies, Connor Roberts, Joe Allen, Joe Rodon, Rhys Norrington-Davies)
Anderlecht (Belgium) - 5 (Dries Mertens, Jérémy Doku, Leander Dendoncker, Romelu Lukaku, Youri Tielemans)
Barcelona (Spain) - 5 (Adama Traoré, Dani Olmo, Eric García, Jordi Alba, Thiago)
Basel (Switzerland) -5 (Breel Embolo, Eray Cömert, Granit Xhaka, Xherdan Shaqiri, Yann Sommer)
Bayern Munich (Germany) - 5 (Alessandro Schöpf, Emre Can, Marco Friedl, Mats Hummels, Thomas Müller)
Benfica (Portugal) - 5 (Bernardo Silva, Gonçalo Guedes, João Félix, Renato Sanches, Rúben Dias)
Chelsea (England) - 5 (Andreas Christensen, Jamal Musiala, Mason Mount, Nathan Aké, Reece James)
Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) - 5 (Illya Zabarnyi, Roman Yaremchuk, Viktor Tsyhankov, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Yevhenii Makarenko)
Hajduk Split (Croatia) - 5 (Domagoj Bradarić, Ivan Perišić, Lovre Kalinić, Mario Pašalić, Nikola Vlašić)
Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) - 5 (Alexander Schlager, Konrad Laimer, Martin Hinteregger, Valentino Lazaro, Xaver Schlager)
Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) - 5 (Adam Hložek, Jakub Brabec, Jakub Pešek, Patrik Schick, Pavel Kadeřábek)
Club’s youth academies that have had the most participants at Euro 2020 (Group stages and knockout stages):
Ajax (Holland) - 12 (Daley Blind, Davy Klaassen, Donyell Malen, Joël Veltman, Jurriën Timber, Maarten Stekelenburg, Marco Bizot, Matthijs de Ligt, Quincy Promes, Ryan Gravenberch, Thomas Vermaelen, Toby Alderweireld)
Manchester City (England) - 10 (David Brooks, Dedryck Boyata, Jadon Sancho, Kasper Schmeichel, Kieran Trippier, Matthew Smith, Phil Foden, Róbert Mak, Vladimír Weiss, Wayne Hennessey)
MŠK Žilina (Slovakia) - 8 (Dávid Hancko, Denis Vavro, Dušan Kuciak, Martin Dúbravka, Milan Škriniar, Peter Pekarík, Róbert Boženík, Tomáš Hubočan)
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) - 7 (Andrej Kramarić, Dejan Lovren, Josip Brekalo, Joško Gvardiol, Luka Modrić, Mateo Kovačić, Šime Vrsaljko)
HJK Helsinki (Finland) - 7 (Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Fredrik Jensen, Joona Toivio, Nikolai Alho, Robin Lod, Joel Pohjanpalo, Lassi Lappalainen)
FK Rabotnički (North Macedonia) - 7 (Damjan Shishkovski, Daniel Avramovskim, Elif Elmas, Gjoko Zajkov, Krste Velkoski, Milan Ristovski, Risto Jankov)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) - 7 (Heorhiy Sudakov, Anatoliy Trubin, Mykola Matviyenko, Oleksandr Karavayev, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Oleksandr Zubkov, Ruslan Malinovskyi)
Celtic (Scotland) - 6 (Callum McGregor, David Marshall, Declan Gallagher, Jack Hendry, James Forrest, Kieran Tierney)
Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) - 6 (Illya Zabarnyi, Magomed Ozdoyev, Roman Yaremchuk, Viktor Tsyhankov, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Yevhenii Makarenko)
Genk (Belgium) - 6 (Dennis Praet, Kevin De Bruyne, Leandro Trossard, Thibaut Courtois, Timothy Castagne, Yannick Carrasco)
Manchester United (England) - 6 (Dean Henderson, Dylan Levitt, Marcus Rashford, Paul Pogba, Sam Johnstone, Scott McTominay)
Sporting CP (Portugal) - 6 (Cristiano Ronaldo, João Moutinho, José Fonte, Nuno Mendes, Rui Patrício, William Carvalho)
Swansea (Wales) - 6 (Ben Cabango, Ben Davies, Connor Roberts, Joe Allen, Joe Rodon, Rhys Norrington-Davies)
Anderlecht (Belgium) - 5 (Dries Mertens, Jérémy Doku, Leander Dendoncker, Romelu Lukaku, Youri Tielemans)
Barcelona (Spain) - 5 (Adama Traoré, Dani Olmo, Eric García, Jordi Alba, Thiago)
Basel (Switzerland) -5 (Breel Embolo, Eray Cömert, Granit Xhaka, Xherdan Shaqiri, Yann Sommer)
Bayern Munich (Germany) - 5 (Alessandro Schöpf, Emre Can, Marco Friedl, Mats Hummels, Thomas Müller)
Benfica (Portugal) - 5 (Bernardo Silva, Gonçalo Guedes, João Félix, Renato Sanches, Rúben Dias)
Chelsea (England) - 5 (Andreas Christensen, Jamal Musiala, Mason Mount, Nathan Aké, Reece James)
Hajduk Split (Croatia) - 5 (Domagoj Bradarić, Ivan Perišić, Lovre Kalinić, Mario Pašalić, Nikola Vlašić)
Lech Poznań (Poland) - 5 (Karol Linetty, Dawid Kownacki, Jakub Moder, Kamil Jóźwiak, Tymoteusz Puchacz)
Rangers (Scotland) - 5 (Billy Gilmour, Grant Hanley, Greg Taylor, John Fleck, Nathan Patterson)
Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) - 5 (Alexander Schlager, Konrad Laimer, Martin Hinteregger, Valentino Lazaro, Xaver Schlager)
Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) - 5 (Adam Hložek, Jakub Brabec, Jakub Pešek, Patrik Schick, Pavel Kadeřábek)
