Women's Euro 2022 Network Diagrams - Group Stage

This was supposed to be ready for the first game, but 1) I thought the first game was on the 7th of July, and 2) I thought the 7th of July was today 

For the first network diagram view, I've gone back to an older style of presentation. Because the Women's Euros is smaller than the Men's (16 teams vs 24), and because there are fewer teams that join players from different nations, this view, not distributed by attraction, still works giving clear separation of teams, which you wouldn't really get if you used this on the Men's Euros.  

When labels are added, it looks like this  

Spain are the national team closest to the centre, and either Hegerberg or Barcelona are the club team closest to the centre. 

Juventus are the club team represented by the most players with 15, followed by Barcelona with 14. They had been together on 15 players before Alexia Putellas had to withdraw injured from the Spanish squad (that's what you call one heck of a player to miss). 

Following them are Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg on 13 players. 

If you want to look at the more expanded diagrams, they are here:   

You can see that the less expanded view actually makes it easier to see that Finland, Northern Ireland, Portugal and Belgium are the outlying teams. 

Looking at the communities view, it looks like this:  

Sweden and Denmark form one community, and Iceland and Norway also form one community. 

I have to admit I am surprised that there isn't just one giant Nordic block, given how inter-related the players from those teams are. 

I am also surprised that Austria and Germany are not one block, again given how many of the Austrian players play for German teams. 

It will be interesting to see how the diagrams develop.