Stats: Average age of football teams at the FIFA World Cup 2014

2014 FIFA World Cup teams

The FIFA World Cup 2014 is just around the corner and something which will be very interesting to be noted is the average age of all the 32 teams participating in this World Cup.

While Argentina has the oldest age, Belgium has the youngest aged players in the squad. Argentina alone has three players in Hugo Campagnaro of Inter Milan, Maxi Rodriguez of Newell’s Old Boys and Martin Demechellis of Manchester City who are all aged 33 while there are total of eight players in the Argentina Squad who are in their thirties.

If Argentina has good number of oldies in their squads, Belgium will walk into the World Cup 2014 with youngest squad at their disposal. Divock Origi of Lille and Adnan Januzaj of Manchester United are both aged nineteen and are the youngest players in the squad. Other notable names include Everton’s Romelo Lukaku who is only twenty-one and Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois who is aged twenty two. Apart from that there are total of ten players in the Belgium Squad who are under the age of twenty five and below.

The oldest player to take part in the 2014 World Cup is Columbia’s Faryd Mondragon who is 42 years old and the youngest players to take part are Cameroon’s Fabrice Olinga and England’s Luke Shaw who are both only 18 years old.

Below is the table which shows the average age of all the teams participating in this year’s FIFA World Cup.

Team	Average Age(yy-ddd)	Team	Average Age(yy-ddd)
Argentina	28-336	Mexico	27-094
Honduras	28-208	Japan	27-084
Uruguay	28-200	Croatia	27-066
Portugal	28-193	France	27-032
Iran	28-179	Bosnia-Herzegovina	27-020
Greece	28-179	Cameroon	26-226
Brazil	28-131	Algeria	26-222
Spain	28-091	England	26-207
Chile	27-363	Netherlands	26-170
Russia	27-357	Australia	26-132
Italy	27-329	Germany	26-114
Columbia	27-318	Korea Republic	26-071
Ivory Coast	27-303	Switzerland	26-024
USA	27-296	Nigeria	25-297
Ecuador	27-285	Ghana	25-244
Costa Rica	27-221	Belgium	25-241