Share of club minutes played by exports in the top-9 leagues, by country of origin, 2025/26

Summary · Question 7 of 14

Norwegian exports played a median 37 % of their club's minutes (90 % bootstrap interval 27–48 %, n = 52), 9th of 9 by the median; 8 of the other countries’ intervals overlap it.

How to read it: one row per country, sorted; the dot is the median share of his club’s minutes that a country’s exported player keeps, the thin line the range across its exports. Norwegian exports are the green row. Further right means exports who play a larger share of their club’s minutes.

Country-by-country figures

SVK Slovakia n = 17 · 90 % bootstrap interval 38 %–81 %

76 %

HUN Hungary n = 15 · 90 % bootstrap interval 39 %–68 %

57 %

CZE Czechia n = 26 · 90 % bootstrap interval 22 %–66 %

50 %

SUI Switzerland n = 54 · 90 % bootstrap interval 38 %–58 %

48 %

CRO Croatia n = 47 · 90 % bootstrap interval 31 %–57 %

46 %

DEN Denmark n = 75 · 90 % bootstrap interval 41 %–55 %

46 %

AUT Austria n = 44 · 90 % bootstrap interval 35 %–55 %

43 %

POL Poland n = 45 · 90 % bootstrap interval 27 %–54 %

41 %

NOR Norway n = 52 · 90 % bootstrap interval 27 %–48 %

37 %

How we know

As an analytics question In numbers: median share of a club's 2025/26 minutes kept by players abroad, by country of origin.

What we did We worked out what share of each club's playing time the player actually got, took the median over each country's exports and resampled the players to put an interval on that median.

Sources Median share of club minutes (player minutes ÷ club matches × 90) for players with the country's nationality at a top-9 club, one row per player; 90 % percentile-bootstrap interval, 2 000 resamples of players, seed 42.

What this means

Once in a top-9 league, Norwegian exports play a median 37 % of their club’s minutes. Several countries have few exports, so the intervals are wide and the ranking of medians is loose. The measure describes playing time, not performance, and says nothing about the players who did not move.

What this does not show

Performance per minute, the strength of a club within its league beyond a goals-scored proxy, and exports outside the nine leagues.

Data snapshot: FBref tables fetched 14 September 2026, snapshot commit ef7dbd4 · code: src/pathways.py · status: exploratory, not pre-registered · all limitations