historic data on European football (soccer) clubs' playing squads
Data on European football clubs’ playing squads, seasons 2004/05 through 2020/21 (as found on
Transfermarkt).
Squads can be found in the data
directory, in .csv format. There’s a sub-directory for each year/season (e.g. 2018/19 season is in data/2018
) containing data for each of these leagues:
Common variables:
player_name
(player name)position
(preferred position)date_of_birth
(date of birth)age
(age, at time of scrape)nationality
(primary nationality)club_name
(club of player)league_name
(league of player)season
(season, interpolated from year
)year
(year)All source code for producing this dataset can be found in the src
directory.
All data was scraped from
Transfermarkt, in accordance with
their terms of use.