Which league produces the best quality footballers per captia?

Right now and/or historically?

Hard to argue against the Netherlands as #1, Portugal (10 Million) and Uruguay (3 Million) are worth a mention too.

Assuming a similar population size as currently (or at least similarly sized in relation to other countries) then Hungary (10 million) during the 50's & maybe 60's plus to a lesser extent the 30's and 40's, and Scotland (5 million) during the 60's/70's/80's would be pretty high up I should think.

Neither nation would currently be a contender though and nor on an historical average basis (they've had other fallow periods too in terms of producing many world-class players).

I agree that Holland stands out as the obvious choice, but whether that is down mostly to training/popularity of football/talent of individuals is hard to say. They had a few world-class players before the 70's like Faas Wilkes, Coen Moulijn etc but it's probably since the 70's that they stand out in terms of the quality and success of the International side compared to the population size.

In the 80's it could've been Denmark (5 million) and 90's Croatia (4 million).

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I think Holland, Portugal, Uruguay as posted by schwuppe would look like a good estimate of the top 3 currently. Out of the top nations I suppose Argentina has been producing a lot of top players over the last decade or so (overall perhaps too as they're population is a bit less than the other main countries).

Spain is another valid choice currently due to the number of top players they're producing and the success of the International team - more than ever before. Of course, schwuppe might've meant Portugal and Uruguay historically as well as currently and they'd be good choices on that basis too (Uruguay from the 20's to the 50's more than now even probably).

I suppose Croatia are still doing pretty well now according to population size too.

The Netherlands hands down.

The obvious choices are Croatia, Portugal, Holland and Uruguay, but historically speaking, I am going with Uruguay. Holland has 5 times more people than Uruguay and Portugal 3 times more. Uruguay has won the World Cup twice and reached the Final four of rthe World Cup 5 times. They won more Copa America than any other South American countries. In recent years, Holland and Portugal could

Depends on the definition of "Best quality of talent". This could be interpreted as "the best of the best who win it all", or "all top division footballers", or something in between. Please clarify.

The Netherlands has a population of "only" ~17 million, but according to FIFA's "Big Count" of 2006, they are the country with the 8th largest amount of registered players, 1.1 million. Uruguay,population ~3 million, barely made the top 100 at 41.8k registered players. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/bigcount/registeredplayers.html

What's the worst among football playing countries?

Sure Russia/Soviet Union produced some great players, but if you look at their population, how popular football is and success in other sports their quality is kind of disappointing.

Portugal is overrated, they had a great generation during the late nineties to mid-00's, but their level has since faded. Other than C Ronaldo and Nani, they have noone worth wasting some ink.

Historically, Uruguay, Holland, Hungary, Sweden, Paraguay and the former unified Yugoslavia have produced many excellent players despite being small countries. Recently, Ghana, Honduras and Ecuador are a few small nations producing some interesting players.

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India is tied for 158th in the FIFA Rankings with 1,210,193,422 people according to Wikipedia.

Argentina with a population of 40 million produces a far higher number of top players per head than Holland with 17 million.Uruguay with its 3,5 million is the only serious competitor.

Yes, this is true. Argentina comes close to matching Brazil, with 4.5x the population.

How can anyone vote against Uruguay?

Population of 3 million and 4 times world champion.

I'd say the US has to be at the bottom. We are pretty terrible at developing players. I'd agree with India but how many people in that country really play soccer/football??

It's got to be Uruguay. If you want to talk depth/good players, they have some 15-20 players just in La Liga alone. There are obviously not 200 Argentines or 100 Dutch, so....

If you want to talk about top-notch players, recent international tournaments back-up Uruguay too.

The argument is really, who is #2?

The bottom 3 would be India, China, and Indonesia.

In a review of nations producing the most quantity of great players. Brazil & Argentina had no rivals since 50s.

If we had into consideration, per capita ratio. Uruguay comes to mind (maybe over Brazil). Since Uruguay exports quality players since pre-war era.

So it looks like.per capita
1 Uruguay,
2 Argentina
3 Holland
So the futbol of the Rio de la Plata remains as it has for a century now the best

Portugal is overrated but you are considering Ghana, Honduras and Ecuador? Really?

In terms of population Portugal has ~11M, Ghana has ~24M, Honduras ~8M and Ecuador has ~15M.