2008-2009 Champions League Player Nationalities

Nationalities 2008-2009 Champions League

Does not include qualifying rounds

Nationalities 2008-2009 Champions League Table
Rk	Nation	# Players	Min	List
1	br Brazil	66	27,746	Juninho Pernambucano, Dani Alves, Zé Roberto, Jádson, Fernando, Maicon Sisenando, Alex, Derlei, Denílson, Fábio Aurélio ...
2	fr France	53	22,277	Franck Ribéry, Thierry Henry, Karim Benzema, Nicolas Anelka, Florent Malouda, Patrice Evra, Samir Nasri, Yoann Gourcuff, Jérémy Toulalan, Gaël Clichy ...
3	es Spain	48	22,243	Xavi, Cesc Fàbregas, Gerard Piqué, Andrés Iniesta, Víctor Valdés, Joan Capdevila, Álvaro Arbeloa, Raúl, Sergio Busquets, Manuel Almunia ...
4	it Italy	47	15,176	Luca Toni, Alessandro Del Piero, Giuseppe Rossi, Alberto Gilardino, Matteo Brighi, Francesco Totti, Daniele De Rossi, Simone Perrotta, Fabio Grosso, Giorgio Chiellini ...
5	ar Argentina	43	15,749	Lionel Messi, Lisandro López, Lucho González, Sergio Agüero, Maxi Rodríguez, Javier Mascherano, Martín Demichelis, Emmanuel Culio, Javier Zanetti, Gonzalo Rodríguez ...
6	pt Portugal	41	16,125	Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul Meireles, Rolando, Bruno Alves, José Bosingwa, João Moutinho, Danny, Simão Sabrosa, Miguel Veloso, Carlitos ...
7	de Germany	24	8,334	Miroslav Klose, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Michael Ballack, Mesut Özil, Philipp Lahm, Per Mertesacker, Michael Rensing, Christian Lell, Torsten Frings, Andreas Hinkel ...
8	eng England	23	9,068	Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand, Jamie Carragher, Theo Walcott, Michael Carrick, Ashley Cole, Joe Cole ...
9	nl Netherlands	23	8,776	Robin van Persie, Dirk Kuyt, Mark van Bommel, Edwin van der Sar, Danny Koevermans, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Arjen Robben, Ryan Babel, Jeffrey Leiwakabessy, Steve Olfers ...
10	ro Romania	23	7,524	Cristian Săpunaru, Adrian Mutu, Bănel Nicoliță, Dorin Goian, Gabriel Mureșan, Petre Marin, Tiberiu Ghioane, George Ogăraru, Răzvan Raț, Mirel Rădoi ...
11	ua Ukraine	18	4,909	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Stanislav Bohush, Andriy Pyatov, Oleksandr Aliyev, Artem Milevskiy, Taras Mykhalyk, Dmytro Chygrynskiy, Oleksandr Kucher, Andriy Nesmachniy, Oleksandr Hladkyy ...
12	dk Denmark	17	4,902	Jeppe Curth, Thomas Augustinussen, Thomas Enevoldsen, Michael Jakobsen, Anders Due, Kasper Bøgelund, Martin Pedersen, Nicklas Bendtner, Kasper Risgård, Daniel Agger ...
13	gr Greece	16	5,075	Vangelis Mantzios, Giorgos Karagounis, Loukas Vyntra, Dimitris Salpingidis, Nikos Spyropoulos, Giannis Goumas, Traianos Dellas, Alexandros Tziolis, Giourkas Seitaridis, Georgios Samaras ...
14	by Belarus	15	5,135	Sergey Krivets, Pavel Nyakhaychyk, Syarhey Vyeramko, Alyaksandr Yurevich, Sergey Sosnovski, Ihar Stasevich, Vitali Rodionov, Dzmitry Likhtarovich, Alexander Hleb, Gennadi Bliznyuk ...
15	tr Türkiye	14	3,116	Volkan Demirel, Gökhan Gönül, Uğur Boral, Selçuk Şahin, Colin Kazim-Richards, Emre Belözoğlu, Fatih Tekke, Yasin Çakmak, Semih Şentürk, Nihat Kahveci ...
16	ru Russia	12	4,699	Marat Izmailov, Konstantin Zyryanov, Andrey Arshavin, Aleksandr Anyukov, Vyacheslav Malafeev, Igor Denisov, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Vladimir Rzhevsky, Anri Khagush, Vitali Kazantsev ...
17	rs Serbia	11	3,252	Nemanja Vidić, Branislav Ivanović, Ivan Ergić, Dejan Stanković, Zdravko Kuzmanović, Danko Lazović, Miloš Ninković, Igor Duljaj, Predrag Ocokoljić, Duško Tošić ...
18	ch Switzerland	10	2,803	Benjamin Huggel, Reto Zanni, Johan Djourou, Eren Derdiyok, Valentin Stocker, Marco Streller, Beg Ferati, Fabian Frei, Ronny Hodel, Orhan Mustafi
19	ci Côte d'Ivoire	9	4,112	Didier Drogba, Kolo Touré, Yaya Touré, Emmanuel Eboué, Bakari Koné, Salomon Kalou, Abdul Kader Keïta, Emmanuel Koné, Boubacar Sanogo
20	uy Uruguay	9	3,926	Cristian Rodríguez, Diego Godín, Diego Forlán, Sebastián Eguren, Álvaro Pereira, Diego Lugano, Martín Cáceres, Jorge Fucile, Sebastián Viera
21	pl Poland	9	1,772	Artur Boruc, Sebastian Boenisch, Łukasz Fabiański, Tomasz Kuszczak, Jakub Wawrzyniak, Łukasz Sosin, Paweł Golański, Jerzy Dudek, Mariusz Lewandowski
22	sct Scotland	8	3,732	Darren Fletcher, Gary Caldwell, Mark Wilson, Scott Brown, Stephen McManus, Barry Robson, Shaun Maloney, Paul Hartley
23	se Sweden	8	3,696	Zlatan Ibrahimović, Markus Rosenberg, Andreas Johansson, Andreas Isaksson, Mikael Nilsson, Olof Mellberg, Behrang Safari, Kim Källström
24	hr Croatia	8	2,410	Mario Galinović, Darijo Srna, Ognjen Vukojević, Ivica Križanac, Jurica Vranješ, Dario Knežević, Eduardo da Silva, Ante Rukavina
25	co Colombia	7	2,500	Iván Córdoba, Róbinson Zapata, Edixon Perea, Dayro Moreno, Juan Toja, Fredy Guarín, Nelson Rivas
Rk	Nation	# Players	Min	List
26	cz Czech Republic	6	3,776	Petr Čech, Pavel Nedvěd, Radek Šírl, Tomáš Hübschman, Zdeněk Grygera, Tomáš Ujfaluši
27	cy Cyprus	6	2,489	Nikos Katsavakis, Vincent Laban, Andreas Constantinou, Siniša Dobrašinović, Nikos Nicolaou, Giorgos Panagi
28	ma Morocco	6	1,739	Karim Zaza, Marouane Chamakh, Badr El Kaddouri, Nordin Amrabat, Tarik Sektioui, Amin Erbati
29	mx Mexico	5	1,936	Rafael Márquez, Carlos Salcido, Guillermo Franco, Carlos Vela, Francisco Javier Rodríguez
30	ie Republic of Ireland	5	1,724	John O'Shea, Robbie Keane, Aiden McGeady, Darron Gibson, Darren O'Dea
31	ml Mali	5	1,454	Seydou Keita, Mohamed Sissoko, Mahamadou Diarra, Souleymane Diamoutene, Mamadou Samassa
32	cm Cameroon	4	2,325	Samuel Eto'o, Jean Makoun, Alexandre Song, Modeste M'bami
33	sn Senegal	4	1,592	Mamadou Niang, Souleymane Diawara, Pape Diakhaté, Lamine Gassama
34	gh Ghana	4	1,300	Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, John Mensah, Eric Addo
35	au Australia	4	1,104	Scott McDonald, Jason Culina, Scott Chipperfield, Michael Beauchamp
36	cl Chile	4	1,034	Matías Fernández, Claudio Maldonado, David Pizarro, Eduardo Rubio
37	ng Nigeria	3	1,436	John Obi Mikel, Taye Taiwo, Ayila Yussuf
38	be Belgium	3	1,078	Timmy Simons, Daniel Van Buyten, Nicolas Lombaerts
39	al Albania	3	1,070	Lorik Cana, Arjan Beqaj, Jürgen Gjasula
40	pe Peru	3	897	Claudio Pizarro, Juan Manuel Vargas, Reimond Manco
41	at Austria	3	879	Alex Manninger, Sebastian Prödl, Andreas Ivanschitz
42	me Montenegro	3	759	Mirko Vučinić, Simon Vukčević, Stevan Jovetić
43	sk Slovakia	3	626	Martin Škrtel, Tomáš Hubočan, Ivan Pecha
44	wls Wales	2	859	Ryan Giggs, Aaron Ramsey
45	fi Finland	2	740	Roman Eremenko, Petri Pasanen
46	bg Bulgaria	2	598	Dimitar Berbatov, Vladislav Mirchev
47	bf Burkina Faso	2	593	Yssouf Koné, Charles Kaboré
48	hu Hungary	2	370	Balázs Dzsudzsák, Zoltán Nagy
49	ba Bosnia and Herzegovina	2	190	Hasan Salihamidžić, Miralem Pjanić
50	ge Georgia	2	178	Malkhaz Asatiani, Klimenti Tsitaishvili
Rk	Nation	# Players	Min	List
51	mz Mozambique	1	630	Simão Mate Junior
52	tg Togo	1	612	Emmanuel Adebayor
53	no Norway	1	530	John Arne Riise
54	nir Northern Ireland	1	524	Jonny Evans
55	ec Ecuador	1	512	Édison Méndez
56	dz Algeria	1	442	Karim Ziani
57	kr Korea Republic	1	424	Park Ji-sung
58	jp Japan	1	407	Shunsuke Nakamura
59	iq Iraq	1	365	Hawar Mulla Mohammed
60	il Israel	1	361	Yossi Benayoun
61	gn Guinea	1	356	Ismaël Bangoura
62	za South Africa	1	164	Bryce Moon
63	bo Bolivia	1	162	Marcelo Martins Moreno
64	is Iceland	1	113	Eiður Guðjohnsen
65	uz Uzbekistan	1	45	Maksim Shatskikh
66	sc Seychelles	1	9	Michael Mancienne

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