Dynamo took the second place among the clubs, the largest number of students of which compete in European leagues, but Shakhtar dropped out of the TOP-10.
The CIES football observatory once again studied the composition of all the clubs from the 31st European division to find out who trained the most football players.
A pupil of a club is considered to be a player who, at the age of 15 to 21, was registered for a given club for a total of three years..
The second place in the list is shared by Dynamo, which brought up 69 players, but Shakhtar dropped out of the TOP-10 and shares 11th place, bringing up 48 players. It should be noted that last year Kievites occupied the seventh place with 54 pupils, and the Miner was on the fifth line with 55 pupils..
Ajax continues to lead the list - in the 31st European Football League, 77 of them are playing at once.
Top 11 clubs with the highest number of pupils in European leagues (as of October 1, 2018):.
№ Club Number of pupils 1.
Ajax (Netherlands) 77 2.
Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 69 Partizan (Serbia) 69 4.
Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 66 5.
Crvena Zvezda (Serbia) 61 6.
Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) 58 7.
Real Madrid (Spain) 53 8.
Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) 52 9.
Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) 50 Hajduk Split (Croatia) 50 11.
Vojvodina (Serbia) 48 Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) 48 If we take into account only the TOP-5 European leagues, the Real Madrid still holds the first place (36 students), then Lyon (35) goes, and the top three are Barcelona (34 ).
Top 10 clubs with the largest number of pupils in the European Top 5 leagues (as of October 1, 2018):.
№ Club Number of pupils 1.
Real Madrid (Spain) 36 2.
Lyon (France) 35 3.
Barcelona (Spain) 34 4.
Athletic Bilbao (Spain) 26 5.
Manchester United (England) 24 PSG (France) 24 Rennes (France) 24 8.
Real Sociedad (Spain) 23 9.
Stuttgart (Germany) 22 10.
Atletico (Spain) 21 Bordeaux (France) 21 Monaco (France) 21 Inter (Italy) 21 Do you want to be the first to get to know the main football news? Subscribe to our Telegram channel! You can also follow our website on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter..