Celebrity Index - World Cup 2022

Statista trend report on the celebrity status of soccer players and teams competing in the 2022 FIFA World Cup

Celebrity Index - World Cup 2022

Every four years, the world's best national soccer teams compete for the FIFA World Cup. Held for the first time in winter between November 20 and December 18, 2022, the tournament sees 32 international teams compete across 64 fixtures with the desire of being crowned world champions.

Other than bragging rights and national pride, one of the best aspects of the tournament is seeing each competing country's best players battle it out on the pitch. Off of the pitch, the celebrity lives of professional soccer players are just as interesting. Some players have transfer market values of more than one hundred million euros, some are amongst the most-followed people on earth on social media. Their lives are magnified and scrutinized in the press and their behavior on and off the pitch can transform them into heroes or villains in the eyes of the general public.

In celebration of this year's FIFA World Cup, Statista has published a report on the Celebrity status of soccer players and teams competing in the tournament. The publication weighs social media followers, market values, the number of global online news articles, and the sentiment value of those articles to score both teams and players with a Celebrity Index Score. Discover which team and players are crowned as the biggest celebrities in the global game as well as a host of other facts and trivia about one of the largest sporting events in the world.

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Discover which team and players competing in the 2022 FIFA World Cup have been named the biggest celebrities in world soccer. Using social media followers, current transfer market values, global online news articles, and news article sentiment values, Statista has scored and ranked every team and player competing in the 2022 World Cup by a celebrity index score. Discover who are the biggest celebrities in world soccer as well as other facts and trivia on the beautiful game.

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