The Impact Of The EFL On The European Championships

16/07/2024 15:11 Share

The European Championships may have ended in disappointment for the England team after defeat to Spain in the final, but one huge positive from the tournament was the impact on the competition of the English Football League.

As an official partner of the EFL – and title sponsor of the Bristol Street Motors Trophy – we took the opportunity to explore how many players called up to appear in the tournament had links to the EFL, either through making appearances in the Championship, League One or League Two, or having appeared in the Bristol Street Motors Trophy under its various guises.

Of the 24 teams that qualified to take part in the Euros, an impressive 75% per cent called up a player with links to the EFL with only Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, France, Romania and the Ukraine not naming any player to have appeared in the EFL.

In total, 77 players were named in the various squads who have made an EFL appearance – just under 12.5% of the 624 players who were called up by the competing nations.

Understandably, England had the most players called up who have appeared in the EFL – with 19 players who had played a league came at some point during the careers.

Of those, Ivan Toney, Ollie Watkins, Eberechi Eze, Dean Henderson, Jordan Pickford and Aaron Ramsdale had all played at League Two level at some stage.

Beyond that, a further four players hadn’t played in the League but had appeared in the Bristol Street Motors Trophy in the shape of Bukayo Saka, Cole Palmer, Declan Rice and Kobbie Mainoo.

Scotland come in a close second, with a total of 18 players having appeared in either the EFL or the Bristol Street Motors Trophy, followed by Denmark on five.

Eventual champions Spain had both David Raya and Ayoze Perez in their tournament squad who had made EFL appearances.

A full rundown of the players who were called up for the Euros with ties to the EFL through the League or Bristol Street Motors Trophy can be found below.

Player	County	EFL	Trophy
Armando Broja	Albania	No	Yes
Andreas Weimann	Austria	Yes	Yes
Matz Sels	Belgium	Yes	No
Thomas Kaminski	Belgium	Yes	No
Wout Faes	Belgium	Yes	No
Matej Kovar	Czech Republic	Yes	Yes
Vitezslav Jaros	Czech Republic	Yes	Yes
Christian Norgaard	Denmark	Yes	No
Jannik Vestergaard	Denmark	Yes	No
Kasper Schmeichel	Denmark	Yes	Yes
Mads Hermansen	Denmark	Yes	No
Mathias Jensen	Denmark	Yes	No
Aaron Ramsdale	England	Yes	No
Adam Wharton	England	Yes	No
Anthony Gordon	England	Yes	Yes
Bukayo Saka	England	No	Yes
Cole Palmer	England	No	Yes
Conor Gallagher	England	Yes	Yes
Dean Henderson	England	Yes	Yes
Declan Rice	England	No	Yes
Eberechi Eze	England	Yes	Yes
Ezri Konsa	England	Yes	Yes
Harry Kane	England	Yes	No
Ivan Toney	England	Yes	No
Jarrod Bowen	England	Yes	No
Joe Gomez	England	Yes	No
John Stones	England	Yes	No
Jordan Pickford	England	Yes	Yes
Jude Bellingham	England	Yes	No
Kieran Trippier	England	Yes	No
Kobbie Mainoo	England	No	Yes
Kyle Walker	England	Yes	No
Lewis Dunk	England	Yes	Yes
Luke Shaw	England	Yes	No
Marc Guehi	England	Yes	Yes
Ollie Watkins	England	Yes	Yes
Giorgi Chakvetadze	Georgia	Yes	No
Adam Nagy	Hungary	Yes	No
Callum Styles	Hungary	Yes	Yes
Loic Nego	Hungary	Yes	No
Peter Gulacsi	Hungary	Yes	Yes
Ian Maatsen	Netherlands	Yes	Yes
Jeremie Frimpong	Netherlands	No	Yes
Nathan Ake	Netherlands	Yes	No
Jan Bednarek	Poland	Yes	No
Kamil Grosicki	Poland	Yes	No
Marcin Bulka	Poland	No	Yes
Wojciech Szczesny	Poland	Yes	No
Ruben Neves	Portugal	Yes	No
Andy Robertson	Scotland	Yes	No
Angus Gunn	Scotland	Yes	No
Billy Gilmour	Scotland	No	Yes
Callum McGregor	Scotland	Yes	Yes
Che Adams	Scotland	Yes	Yes
Grant Hanley	Scotland	Yes	Yes
Jack Hendry	Scotland	Yes	Yes
John McGinn	Scotland	Yes	No
Kenny McLean	Scotland	Yes	No
Lewis Morgan	Scotland	Yes	Yes
Liam Cooper	Scotland	Yes	Yes
Liam Kelly	Scotland	Yes	No
Ross McCrorie	Scotland	Yes	Yes
Ryan Christie	Scotland	Yes	No
Ryan Porteous	Scotland	Yes	No
Scott McKenna	Scotland	Yes	No
Stuart Armstrong	Scotland	Yes	No
Tommy Conway	Scotland	Yes	No
Aleksandar Mitrovic	Serbia	Yes	No
Milos Veljkovic	Serbia	Yes	No
Heinrich Ravas	Slovakia	No	Yes
Marek Rodak	Slovakia	Yes	No
Jan Mlakar	Slovenia	Yes	No
Jon Gorenc Stankovic	Slovenia	Yes	No
Timi Max Elsnik	Slovenia	Yes	Yes
Ayoze Perez	Spain	Yes	No
David Raya	Spain	Yes	Yes
Okay Yokuslu	Turkey	Yes	No
Yunus Akgun	Turkey	Yes	No