AS Monaco among the youngest teams in the Big 5
According to the latest study by the Football Observatory (CIES), the Principality club fields on average one of the youngest teams in the five major European championships, the second in Ligue 1. Explanations.
The “young guns” in force! Very prominent since the start of the season, whether among the players trained at the Academy, or on the rookie side, the young players of AS Monaco are in the spotlight. Thanks to them, the Rocher club remains among the European teams with the lowest average age since the start of the season.
Less than 25 years of average age
According the latest letter from the Football Observatory (CIES), the Principality’s club has one of the youngest teams in the European Big 5. The organization specializing in the statistical analysis of football thus specifies in its study that the Red and Whites have exceeded an average age of 24.84 years since the kick-off of last season. The Monegasque starting lineup is therefore no more than 25 years old over the whole of the last financial year and the current one.
.@StadeDeReims & @AS_Monaco drive 🇫🇷 @Ligue1UberEats table of the youngest formations aligned 👼 Current leaders @PSG_inside & @OM_Official focus on the experience 🔞 Data for 1000+ teams 🌐 @CIES_Football 🤓 Weekly post 👉 https://t.co/azJLinyGrm pic.twitter.com/dXG6S0Jln6
— CIES Football Obs (@CIES_Football) September 27, 2022
7th youngest team in the Big 5
AS Monaco thus ranks second among the youngest teams in the French championship, just behind Stade de Reims (24.82). With a large majority of elements in the 22-25 age group (61.8%), or nearly two thirds of the team. On a continental scale, the training led by coach Philippe Clément is also very well ranked in the field, with a 7th place among all the clubs of the European Big 5 (England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France).
Benoît Badiashile as leader
A very good place in the European hierarchy, which is partly explained by the presence of regular starters under the age of 25, such as Benoît Badiashile (21), trained at the Academy and recently author of his 100th match in the elite, Vanderson (21 years old), Axel Disasi (24 years old), Youssouf Fofana (23 years old), Mohamed Camara (22 years old) or even Krepin Diatta (23 years old). But also by the emergence of many young people also from La Diagonale, the training center of the Red and Whites.
The Academy in force
Among which Eliot Matazo (20 years old), Soungoutou Magassa (18 years old) or Maghnes Akliouche (22 years old)! The latter also recently celebrated his first Ligue 1 tenure in Reims. An army of “young guns”, which allows the Club to be among the top Europeans in this field, represented by Valence (1), Stuttgart (2 ) or even Arsenal (4). Congratulations to our young people!
A successful first tenure this season for @Nesmaar_A 💪💎#ARDS #MadeInLaDiagonale pic.twitter.com/2kxuMThfvc
– AS Monaco 🇲🇨 (@AS_Monaco) September 18, 2022