Football

Description

The Football Dataset

Background

Our network example describes the 22 soccer
teams which participated in the World Championship
in Paris, 1998.

Players of the national team often have contracts in other
countries. This constitutes a players market where
national teams export players to other countries.
Members of the 22 teams had contracts in altogether 35 countries.

Counting which team exports how many players to which country can be described with a valued, asymmetric graph. The graph is highly unsymmetric: some countries only export players, some countries are only importers.

References

• Dagstuhl seminar: Link Analysis and Visualization, Dagstuhl 1-6. July 2001

History

• Data collected by Lothar Krempel, October 5, 1999
• Transformed in Pajek format by V. Batagelj, February 9, 2001.