🌴 Tallest clubs: Italian side leads, Serie A on top, Spain struggles 👎 | OneFootball

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·11 de septiembre de 2025

🌴 Tallest clubs: Italian side leads, Serie A on top, Spain struggles 👎

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The CIES Football Observatory (International Centre for Sports Studies) has compiled the ranking of clubs with the highest average height in the world, and the result is surprising.


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Serie A is the "tallest" league in the world with an average height of 184.7 centimeters, followed by the Norwegian league and the Bundesliga. And the team with the greatest height in the world? It's Cagliari.


Tallest Clubs in the World: 1st Cagliari, 3rd Atalanta

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As mentioned, Serie A is the league with the tallest players in the world and indeed places two teams in the TOP 10 of this ranking:

  • Cagliari: 188.6 cm
  • Union Berlin: 188.2 cm
  • Atalanta: 188 cm
  • Ham-Kam (Norway): 187.2 cm
  • FCV Dender (Belgium): 187.1 cm
  • FK Javor (Serbia): 187 cm
  • Bryne FK (Norway): 186.9 cm
  • Stuttgart: 186.9 cm
  • Dinamo Zagreb: 186.4 cm
  • St Mirren FC (Scotland): 186.4 cm

In the TOP 20, there is also room for Lecce (13th in the world tied with the Croatians of Varazdin) and Pisa (15th worldwide).


The Other TOP 5 European Leagues

All the teams contribute to the average height of our Serie A at 184.7 centimeters, as no club falls below 181.5 cm.

Looking at the other top European leagues, the Bundesliga is in 3rd place in this world ranking, but to find the other leagues, you have to go further down:

  • Serie A: 1st in the World - 184.7 cm
  • Bundesliga: 3rd in the World - 184.2 cm
  • Premier League: 8th in the World - 183.7 cm
  • Ligue 1: 25th in the World - 182.1 cm
  • LaLiga: 28th in the World - 181.8 cm

In the top 5 European leagues, the team with the lowest average height is Levante: 178.9 cm.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.


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