Alpine players top Germany’s premier league
More Swiss footballers now play in the Bundesliga than ever before.
Would you have known? The largest group of foreign Bundesliga players comes from Switzerland: 17 footballers, including national player Xherdan Shaqiri (above). Foreigners make up 47% of the players in Germany’s top soccer league. After the Swiss, the most players come from Brazil (16), Austria (15), Poland (13), Turkey (13) and Japan (11).