Fresh or fatigued - how rested is your Premier League team's squad?

It seems arsenic if location is much shot than ever.

Since nan Champions League last immoderate players person had 2 world games, played successful up to 7 Fifa Club World Cup matches and featured successful immoderate pre-season friendlies - each astir nan world.

That was aft a play pinch nan biggest European nine campaigns ever - and it will beryllium nan aforesaid again this time.

Plus location is an Africa Cup of Nations successful nan mediate of nan play and a 48-team World Cup successful North America astatine nan extremity of it.

So which clubs' players person featured successful nan astir matches successful nan past twelvemonth - and who should beryllium nan freshest connected paper?

And which individual players could beryllium exhausted earlier this play moreover starts?

BBC Sport, pinch nan thief of Opta, looks astatine really overmuch competitory shot existent Premier League players - including caller signings - person played since nan commencement of past summertime for nine and country, crossed an unthinkable 104 competitions.

We picked 20 outfield players for each nine who played nan astir convention games past play - and past replaced ones who person near (or played nan slightest past season) pinch caller signings.

We person looked astatine their full minutes played for nine and state since nan commencement of past summertime - 1 June 2024.

And nan results are in...

The freshest squad this play successful nan Premier League should beryllium Everton.

The players successful Everton's existent squad played an mean of conscionable 1,847 minutes of shot past play - nan balanced of astir 21 afloat games.

Only 1 subordinate - 35-year-old Senegal midfielder Idrissa Gueye - played much than 4,000 minutes (44 afloat games).

Only West Ham played less games past play than Everton among nan existent Premier League clubs, arsenic some teams were knocked retired of some home cups early.

Bournemouth's squad is nan 2nd freshest successful position of minutes played.

But fixed they made nan astir sprints successful nan apical formation past play nether Andoni Iraola's aggravated pressing style, they mightiness not consciousness arsenic rested...

Manchester City person nan slightest caller squad successful nan Premier League according to our data.

While City did exit nan Champions League early, they reached nan FA Cup last and besides took portion successful nan Club World Cup successful June and July.

Most of City's players are besides established internationals - and played an mean of 3,780 minutes successful nan past 14 months, aliases precisely 42 afloat games of football. That is double Everton's total.

And immoderate of City's summertime signings really accrued their average.

Midfielder Tijjani Reijnders, who played for Guardiola's broadside successful nan Club World Cup, has played an unthinkable 6,032 minutes for AC Milan, nan Netherlands and City since past summertime - nan balanced of 67 afloat games.

Our information recovered Arsenal person nan second-least caller squad, pinch an mean of 3,552 minutes played.

The 7 teams who played successful Europe topped nan database for astir games played, on pinch Championship play-off winners Sunderland.

Chelsea really played much games than anyone other past play - including connected their measurement to winning nan Club World Cup.

However, they rotated their squad successful nan Conference League - and went retired of some home cups astatine nan fourth-round stage, truthful their first-teamers are much rested than City's... connected insubstantial anyway.

Youth could activity successful Chelsea's favour too.

Enzo Maresca's broadside person by acold nan youngest squad successful nan Premier League.

No subordinate complete nan property of 27 played for nan Blues successful nan convention past season, and they had nan youngest squad astatine nan Club World Cup.

Their oldest summertime signing is 23-year-old Joao Pedro. So does younker mean they mightiness consciousness nan minutes successful their legs less?

By contrast, Chelsea's westbound London rivals Fulham person nan oldest playing squad successful nan apical flight.

Their mean property of 27 is nan aforesaid arsenic Chelsea's oldest player, Tosin Adarabioyo, who incidentally joined past summertime from nan Cottagers.

New Wolves signing Jhon Arias tops nan database of astir minutes played successful 2024-25.

The 27-year-old winger played a singular 6,577 minutes for Brazilian nine Fluminense and nationalist broadside Colombia - nan balanced of 73 afloat games.

Brazilian clubs play successful their nationalist convention and authorities competitions, positive cups and continental competitions.

Arias, who has joined Wolves for £15m, besides played successful nan Club World Cup this summertime pinch Fluminense, reaching nan semi-finals.

The only different Premier League players to person played much than 6,000 minutes of shot are Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes and caller City signing Reijnders.