AS Saint-Etienne : ASSE sixth best trainer club in the big-5 | ASSE News

25! This is the number of players trained at AS Saint-Étienne and having played in one of the 5 major European championships this year according to the latest study by the Observatoire du Football. A performance that ranks ASSE 6th among the big-5 clubs. These 25 players have played an average of 20 high-level games in 2021 and have the third lowest average age in the top 10: 24 years old.

Ranked 11th last season, ASSE joined the top 10 where only the Spaniards of Real Madrid (42) and FC Barcelona (42) as well as the French of Olympique Lyonnais (32), Stade Rennais (30) and of Paris Saint-Germain (30) have been more productive since January 1, 2021.

In the last group of 22 players summoned by Claude Puel to face Angers last Friday, 10 were from the Saint-Etienne training center.

Taking into account all the European championships, they are 33 players, still active, to have spent three seasons between their 15 and 21 years on the side of the Étrat. In addition to the current Greens, the success of Wesley Fofana (Leicester), William Saliba (Marseille), Allan Saint-Maximin (Newcastle), Kurt Zouma (West Ham), Josuha Guilavogui (Wolfsburg), Jonathan Bamba (Lille) or even Habib Maïga (Metz) is the flagship of the Saint-Etienne training.