Most Expensive Footballers
England has 45% of the 166 European footballers valued over €50M, as shown in this Marimekko chart. While almost half of these high value footballers are forwards, there are only 8 full backs and 5 goalkeepers. Data are provided by CIES Football Observatory and are based on estimated transfer value as of 7 January 2020.
In the English Premier League, the 75 footballers with transfer value over include 30 forwards, 27 midfielders, 9 centre backs, 5 full backs and 4 goalkeepers. The footballer with the highest value is Manchester City's Raheem Sterling at €244M. Among the other European leagues, Spain's La Liga has 32 high value footballers led by Lionel Messi at €124M. Italy's Serie A has 26 led by Lautaro Martinez. Germany's Budesliga has 19 led by Jadon Sancho at €169M. While France's Ligue 1 has only 14, Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint Germain is the highest value European footballer at €265M.
Most Expensive European Footballers in a Marimekko Chart
How I Made this Marimekko Chart
Here is the data on footballers value in the Excel PivotTable I used to create the Marimekko chart:
Here's how I made the Marimekko chart:
- copy and paste footballers value data from CIES post to Word
- create Word table from copied text and copy and paste table into Excel
- make PivotTable from Excel table as shown above
- create Marimekko chart in PowerPoint from data range in PivotTable
- use switch bars and series button to treat rows as bars and columns as series
- sort data with widest barson left and biggest series on bottom of each column
- add column in spreadsheet with data row information on highest value player in each league
- add legend and show on bottom of chart
- adjust internal chart margins to fill chart area and reduce whitespace
- show values only in each segment
- adjust series colors
- custom order legend items to correspond with series order
- add y axis tittle, hide axis lines and tick marks
- set chart border to white
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