December 14 – In the top five European leagues, the Premier League has the lowest representation of domestic managers at 27%, a report by RunRepeat highlights.
It is often said that English managers don’t get enough chances in the Premier League with a more pronounced influx of foreign managers in recent seasons. The study has now confirmed that adage.
RunRepeat’s research covered the Premier League from 2010 to 2020 – counting every game as two games managed: one for the home coach and one for away – and found that just 27% of managers in the top flight were domestic, which is the lowest representation of domestic coaches in the top five European leagues. Scottish and Spanish coaches had a share of 10% each in the last decade. A total of 29 English managers worked 46 different jobs, said the study.
In total, 877 different managerial spells and 18,260 leagues games in the top five European football countries during 2010-20 were analysed.
RunRepeat’s head of football Vyom Chaudhary also highlighted that the Serie A is at the opposite end of the spectrum with Italian managers managing 87% of all league games. The Italian topflight also recruited managers from the fewest number of nations, only 12, whereas the Premier League recruited from the highest number of nations, 22.
In Spain’s La Liga, 73% of coaches were domestic, with 12% coming from Argentina in the past decade. In the Bundesliga, just under 70% of coaches were German and in Ligue 1 79% of coaches were French.
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